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Subject: Re: What programmes a CC player should not buy :-)

Author: Gabor Szots

Date: 01:36:04 01/12/06

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On January 12, 2006 at 04:16:34, Alex Shalamanov wrote:

>Fritz 9, Junior 9, Zappa (if there's ever going to be a commercial release),
>Fruit, Hiarcs 10. They may be all right for the sake of testing or playing with
>but using them as an analysis tool is not a big deal.
>If you ask me, the best ones for a CC player are Rybka (even betas are much
>better than the aforementioned commercial ones) and Shredder 9UCI. These
>understand complex positional games much better than the CB-based products.
>Rybka is only lacking some endgame knowledge, but it's only a matter of time
>when it can have it. The best of all is to use them both searching in parallel
>under one GUI like Shredder GUI.
>
>Best wishes,
>Alexander

How can you tell? I can't, because I am too weak. But if I were strong enough to
tell, I wouldn't need either one of them at all.

There is a position in the positional part of WM-Test (No75) which has only been
solved by Fritz (many versions). This is of course only one example but it is
showing in the opposite direction.

Gábor

• Re: What programmes a CC player should not buy :-) Alex Shalamanov 02:12:34 01/12/06
  • Re: What programmes a CC player should not buy :-) Uri Blass 03:10:20 01/12/06
    • Re: What programmes a CC player should not buy :-) Alex Shalamanov 04:15:45 01/12/06
      • Re: What programmes a CC player should not buy :-) Andrew Walker 17:35:37 01/12/06
    • Re: Q. for Uri (OT) Rick Hagen 03:59:54 01/12/06
      • Re: Q. for Uri (OT) Uri Blass 04:07:24 01/12/06

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