Author: Tim OLena
Date: 14:22:32 08/17/03
I am roughly 1500 USCF and I am looking for a good sparring partner, a good game analyst, and a trainer/coach would not hurt. I have Chessmaster 6000 and enjoy playing the various personalities which span the spectrum of ratings as while presenting different styles of play. However, I find CM6000 an annoying analyst to work with. For one thing, it wants to flip the board every time I want to analyze for the other side. So: I still use Socrates 3.0 even though it is a DOS based program. It is a reliable sparring partner and game analyst, and takes only 4 seconds to provide 2400 level play. It is simple and user friendly when used as tool for studying a game. But I'm sure it is behind the times in addition to the fact that it won't run (directly) on a win98 machine. For coaching and training, I am using Chess Mentor 2.0 without any additional modules and find it quite satisfactory. But I have to wonder what else is out there... I am tempted to buy Fritz 7.0 at 24.95. It looks like a bargain.
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