Author: Shaun Graham
Date: 21:35:13 09/29/98
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On September 29, 1998 at 19:03:42, Bernie Chan wrote: >What computer chess program does the club consider to be the best available >today ? Where can these programs be purchased ? > >B. Chan Fritz 5 is the best overall program: Reasons include: 1.Contains the best database features of a program, this is in part because chessbase makes the best database program. 2.Strength it is #1 on the SSDF Rating list. Highest rating ever recieved by a program on the list. 3.Multiple Engines-including Hiarcs 6, Doctor, and Junior 4.6, this gives considerable variety in playing styles. ( Rebel also has multiple engines, however the only other engines available are simply earlier versions of Rebel). Unfortunately, at this point it seems very questionable at the least and perhaps even unlikely that any other engines will be written for the current version of Fritz 5. Regardless the available engines is an exceptionally great good feature. 5.BEST ANNOTATION features, Fritz can analyze games with plain language as opposed to simple score evaluations alone. 6.Has endgame database capability, so as to allow fritz to play some endgames perfectly. 7. Aesthetic appeal, it runs in win95-98 and has multiple boards and a very high qaulity 3d feature(perhaps and IMHO the best 3d available) Nicest GUI available in most people oppinion i'm sure. 8. Price i believe it runs from about 80 to 100 dollars, for a tournament player it's an excellent value. If you don't want to spend a lot of money then Chessmaster 6000 or 5500 is the way to go, many nice features(the voice annotated games by waitzkin are pretty enjoyable). Running on a P233mmx or better chessmaster is relatively equal to or better than any of the top ten SSDF rated programs. .
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