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Subject: Re: computer aided chess

Author: Pallav Nawani

Date: 17:48:00 01/06/05

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On January 06, 2005 at 19:13:17, James Kukula wrote:

>
>
>I've been dreaming for years about ways that a computer chess program could
>provide a person with a short list of the best three or four moves, and explain
>the strengths and weaknesses of each. Then the person gets to make the final
>choice. Seems like that could be lots of fun, both for beginners and for
>experts. I expect by now something like this probably already exists????
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Thanks,
>Jim

Computer assisted chess is practised by many these days, though I cannot point
you to any website as I have no interest in it (and hence don't know of any
useful link).

A computer chess program can indeed present a person with a short list of best 3
or 4 moves, but they are unable to explain the strengths and weakness of each. A
program can assign a score to the best 3-4 moves, which will show you what the
program thinks how good the move is, but nothing more. Chess engines which can
use the UCI protocol (Lots of freeware engines and pretty much every commercial
engine) have a feature called multi pv, which is exactly what you're asking for.

Best Regards,
Pallav



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