Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 17:27:16 01/02/04
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On January 02, 2004 at 20:11:29, Peter Berger wrote: >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 I agree. Additionally, one might add that there is a tradeoff between playing games and doing post-mortem analyses. Some sort of balance is needed. If it takes forever to analyze your game, you could have played ten more in the same time. After you discover the nature of your errors and see how to avoid them in the future, further analyses may have diminishing returns. Leave that for the masters. Bob D.
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