Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:41:43 05/02/05
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On May 02, 2005 at 17:22:49, Alan Grotier wrote: >> >>My recommendations for Commercial Stuff: >>1. Shredder UCI is probably the strongest program in the world >>2. ChessMaster is inexpensive and full-featured >>3. ChessAssistant is the best chess database >>4. Bookup is nice for opening study >>5. The Lokasoft stuff is easy to install and use with online purchase and has >>some "new" chess engines not found elsewhere. >> >>But, as always, IMO-YMMV. > > Dan, > Hello thanks for the input.Yes shredder is the strongest. > But,apparently the analysis feature is NOT the best. I only look for the pm and the expected response to the pm. So for me, Shredder is best. > My point being,it will crush anybody but try to learn why.. > Only the first line move seems to be O.K. Oddities late in the pv are not unusual for any chess program. Some are probably better than others. At any rate, looking beyond the actual search depth is a sure cause for disaster with many chess engines and is not to be trusted. The ChessMaster "verbal analysis" -- I forget exactly what it's called -- offers the most human understandable analysis (for me at least). > Interesting you access CA as the best database. 1. ChessBase dies with 2+ GB databases (or I have had that experience) 2. I do lots of EPD analysis. Chessbase cannot write out EPD records 3. Speed and size (CA is faster and compresses better). 4. I like the Chess Assistant team (I know some of them from emails). I don't really have any interaction with the ChessBase team except that my feature requests are not acted upon. I like some things about ChessBase (e.g. the Elo calculation feature is nice). > I am interested to know why? Most prefer Chessbase..N'est-ce pas? I do not know what most prefer. Sort of like the famous quote: 'I don't know about art, but I know what I like.' > Alan
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