Author: Norm Pollock
Date: 07:26:44 10/14/05
I found an interesting setup for watching live chess on the net. I wish I had figured this out earlier, but I must say, at least I figured it out in time for the fantastic match yesterday between Kasimdzhanov and Topalov. I logged into playchess to watch the match. I don't know how to get the audio to work, but I'm sure it would go over my head anyway since I am a weak player. I wanted to see computer engine analysis and ratings as the match was progressing. I could not find a way to use the fritz8 gui for both watching the match and doing a position analysis. What I did was to use the Shredder Classic gui, with 2 engines- Shredder 9UCI and Fruit 2.2. This gui has something called "triple brain" which allows analysis by up to 3 engines concurrently. Of course with 2 engines, each engine only uses 50% of the cpu. After saving the game in progress to a file using the fritz gui, I then loaded the game into the Shredder Classic gui, and let it analyze use the triple brain feature. For future moves I had a choice of 2 options. I could either save/load the game in progress again, or I could use the right side window in the Shredder gui to make the move that was made. Any other spectating ways out there that are better or comparable? There must be better ways, but I can't complain. To me, a weak player, I was able to watch the match and also take a look at Shredder 9 and Fruit 2.2 to see what they thought.
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