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Subject: Re: Computer Chess Spectating- Kasimdzhanov and Topalov

Author: Helmut Conrady

Date: 09:27:11 10/14/05

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On October 14, 2005 at 10:26:44, Norm Pollock wrote:

>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.

With Fritz *9* you can watch up to 9 games simultaneously (guess, what I have
done during the WCC in San Louis! :-)). You can run one ore more engines to
analyze one of the games. Click on another board and the chosen engine(s) will
at once analyse this game. An abolutely great feature!


Helmut



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