Author: Maurizio De Leo
Date: 09:33:19 10/14/05
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I followed the game on FICS with Arena and Fruit 2.1. Completely free and you can have the engine of your choice analyze the current position. As soon as a new move is relayed the engine switches to analyze the new position, altough you can go back and continue analyzing the previous one. You can also use two engine at the same time for analyzing, and even the "multivariation" mode. At any time you can click on the analysis and use a "variation board" to follow what the engine is thinking. Really a great setup. My only small complain is that when the engine starts analyzing the new position, if you want to go back to the previous one, you lose all the analysis. Maybe it would be better to ask to the user when to change the analyzed position. Maurizio 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.
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