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Subject: Re: Full Game Analysis

Author: Vine Smith

Date: 05:53:17 08/22/03

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On August 22, 2003 at 02:01:26, Andy Prap wrote:

>Some commercial programs as Fritz 8 make a Full (Game)Analysis. Do you know any
>free downloadable chess program that makes also some kind of full game analysis
>using a free engine, e.g crafty, yace, etc?

Crafty and Yace are the only two freely available programs that I know of which
can do this in the same way as the Chessbase game analysis function. Both can be
instructed to analyze a PGN game or a file of PGN games from the command line,
and you can set various options, such as the margin of evaluation difference
between the move played and the move the program comes up with before analysis
will actually be written. Crafty's game analysis options seem a little more
developed than Yace's, as Crafty has had this option longer (I think full game
analysis is new in Yace as of the latest version, Yace Paderborn).
Under the freely available Scid database, any Winboard engine that has analysis
mode can be used to annotate a game, but then, you just get the program's
suggested continuation and evaluation at each move, there is no margin option,
and thus no way to do a quick blunder check, for instance. Probably the Arena
interface mentioned by Dann Corbit also works this way.

Regards,
Vine Smith



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