Author: Ricardo Sant Ana
Date: 04:03:56 05/09/99
Hello I am one who uses chess programs for study purpose and practice for chess tournaments, and since I got good results with it , I would like to give my opinion about these new chess programs, but first some basic views: 1) When you are training for a Tournament, you should find an opp which bring into the board plans, strategies and manouvers because that what you will find in tournaments, and THAT´s what masters do that you don´t (by the way, I believe this is means you will say after the game " I loose the game and I don´t know where I went wrong " . 2) Of course you should have to train tactical skills, because if you don´t you will loose a game with a big BLUNDER ! A friend of mine could not win good games, because he miss lost of tactical simple moves. Well, since I believe it´s more important to develop the strategy, manouvre and plan skills, of course I believe you should buy an intelligent chess program: and you will be able to train tactical and combination with it too.... these programs are not really bad in tactical skills, but the are just a little slow (but who cares, when training, if a program will find the right combination in 1 second or 4 seconds ??) So, what I mean is: an intelligent chess program will give you oportunity to train manouvres , plan and stragey skills and tactical skills too. So this is a list of the best chess programs (in my own opinion) that could meet the requirements for training: (the order is alphabetical order) Chess System Tal (Win or DOS version) Hiarcs 7 (or even Hiarcs 6) Rebel 10 So, if you want to help me and add to this list others, fell free to do it Thanks in advance Ricardo Sant´Ana
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