Author: Albert Silver
Date: 13:32:07 11/21/02
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>>Chess Assistant 7 has it included, as well as Crafty and Ruffian, not to mention
>>a massive amount of new analysis features.
>>
>> Albert
>
>From the reports I heard CA7 is the best database program there is, and if I
>where looking for a new one I may have bought this one. But I own CB8, and as I
>do not write a chess column anymore its a bit though to justify the purchase of
>a completly new databse. Besides, the way over to the great Fritz program is
>pretty short in CB 8! :-)
>
>Bye the way, what analysis feature have you got there that I can not do with CB
>together with Fritz?
>
>Torstein
Chess Assistant 7 has very complete and enormously flexible analysis options.
However, in a nutshell, the first thing I can do that you can't with CB and
Frtiz is analyze with Chess Tiger 15. :-P
Seriously though, you can control how analysis is done for each phase of the
game, the iterations (depth and number), depth, resources to use, multiple
engines for each the game according to the phase, etc. It's extremely powerful
and quite different hence the difficulty in comparing them properly. You can
summon external Fritz analysis from within CA7 too if you wish.
Studying openings with CA has always been a world apart. This is old news, and
I'm only mentioning it as opening analysis is inherently a part of analyzing a
game as well. It's hard to explain to someone confined to CB's tree limitations.
Imagine being able to build a complete tree from your entire database and be
able instantly and always see the stats, numbers, moves, etc. Of course, it's
theoretically possible with CB, but in practice you need to limit the tree size.
How big would a 2 million game tree be? I once tried but didn't have enough
space despite having over 6 Gb free. Mind you that was only for 1 million+
games. Time makes it impossible too.
You may think I'm deliberately choosing a sore point of CB, but really, every
single GM I have ever showed this to just couldn't believe it.
Albert
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