Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 22:58:39 09/06/05
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On September 06, 2005 at 22:14:55, Dann Corbit wrote: >1. Chessmaster has the "Human description of analysis" that is nicely done The high point for me with Chessmaster is that you play in an enviroment very much like in a chessclub, when you get stronger there are always clubmembers to challange you. When I first tried it it felt very much like playing on ICC. This is the only program I know that have manage to make a game out of chess. >2. SCID has a very nice "opening report" generator >3. Arena has an excellent tournament manager and engine configuration >4. Winboard has the best online connection manager (what nitwit could not >figure it out?) For testing (my) engine either online or in matches from startposition or even from a position in the middle of the game, this is my prefered gui. >5. ChessBase has a good Elo recalculation feature >6. ChessAssistant can READ AND WRITE EPD records and you can run all sorts of >engines inside of it (MCS, ChessAssistant, Winboard, UCI and others) Didn't you take a look at running testsets in it, try the complex test, it's the best out there. I use it as may main database utility, but thats not what you ask for. >7. ChessGenius (my least favorite interface) has floating windows where every >piece can be moved around and sized how you want it separately. I have this only on the mobile phone (even two samples). It playes very nice even at the esiest levels and have a nice gui. > >More? > >What are your favorite features of chess GUIs that are fairly unique to one or >two GUIs and that ought to be found in all of them? ChessPartner It have scripting ability so you can create the chess-tool you miss with it. Also it have an builtin chess server so you can set up matches on your network very easy. Shredder Only program I know of with online access to endgame tables. XX Playing deleyed chess, Easy start from thematic positions, Evaluate moves in book and even try to find bad moves, Opening training feature. Currently I try to use this, mainly because I'm the only beta tester :). Odd Gunnar
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