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Subject: Re: Best Program for Analysis?

Author: Charles Milton Ling

Date: 18:43:15 04/19/99

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On April 19, 1999 at 15:21:10, Craig Stevens wrote:

>I am looking for a good program for pure analysis.  I really do not care to play
>against the beast, just for it to give me accurate analysis and feedback on just
>about every move once the opening is done.  Right now I have Extreme Chess and I
>think it is a piece of s**t because it will only comment on about every 8th move
>or so.  And the detail is pretty bad too.  I want to see variations and scores
>for those variations!  :)
>
>Also, I would like it so that I could put a game in the computer, go to bed, and
>in the morning the game would be completely analyzed.  I guess sort of like an
>Informant game type analysis!
>
>If anyone knows of a good program that fits this mold I would apprecitate it if
>you would let me know what it is!!  :)
>
>Thanks!

Craig,

I really cannot offer a comparison as I only have Fritz 5 (or 5.32, which I do
not find better).  What it will do is mercilessly disect any tactical lapses the
players have made.  This generally leaves me a wiser, and chastened, man.  I
usually set it to 120 seconds/move (this figure is misleading, as it follows
other interesting moves along the train of its calculations for another 120
seconds each), and it has news for me for me in the morning if the game was
shorter than, say, 50 moves and I had a good night's sleep.  I am sure
refinements are possible, but if used this way, it finds things that have
escaped IMs during the game AND the post-mortem.
I repeat: I am not saying Fritz is best, just that I have come to like it for
this feature.

Charley



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