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Subject: Re: Analysis - A database or is the chess program enough?

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 17:11:29 01/02/04

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On January 01, 2004 at 17:21:35, Alan Grotier wrote:

>
> Does a chess player rated around 1500 and playing mostly against chess
>engines,need a chessbase "X" or a Chess Assistant "X"  etc to obtain the variety
>of analysis features that seem to be offered by these databases or
>does a standard chess engine such as Fritz 8 offer the same analysis features?
>
> I will not be competing seriously and just need to examine my own mostly lost
>games.But want the best analysis features available at this time.
>
> Alain

Dear Alain,

I definitely have to agree with Robin Smith.

I don't own any database program, nor have I ever missed one. They are very
expensive, but from all that I have seen, they offer little features that would
be needed for a player of your strength.

Personally I do most of my chessanalysis work with Fritz & Friends or freeware
engines , and I have never missed any feature I would be willing to pay any
money for. When it is about blunder-checking that you mentioned as your main
interest, a database will be pretty useless anyway.

Kind regards,
Peter



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