Author: Melvin S. Schwartz
Date: 09:36:23 02/27/00
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On February 26, 2000 at 18:01:31, Pete Galati wrote: >On February 26, 2000 at 14:53:52, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote: > >>I am interested in what others think is the best program to analyze their games >>against other humans. It would be helpful if you could explain the reason for >>your choice. >> >>All opinions will be appreciated. Those that do not respond will be forgiven, >>though not held in the highest esteem. :-) >> >>Regards, >>Mel > >I like annotating games with Crafty because for me it's the easiest way to be >very specific about how I want the game annotated. Downsides to this? It's not >a gui proceedure, more like a dos command line type of thing, for example, type >annotate in Crafty, and it will display how to go about the ccommand: > >Crafty v17.8 > >White(1): annotate >usage: annotate <file> <color> <moves> <margin> <time> [nmoves] >White(1): > >So if I entered: annotate mygame.pgn w 10 .75 120" What Crafty would do would >be to annotate the file "mygame.pgn", only the white side of the board (w), it >would start it's annotations at move 10, to a margin of 3/4 pawn difference >between the best move Crafty calculated and the move made in the game, and it >would calculate each move for 120 seconds (2 minutes of course). > >To me, this is better than doing it with an interfaced program. Here's a game I >annotated that way http://members.xoom.com/avochess/lostgame.htm Someone on >usenet pointed out that Crafty missed a mate, could be, I'm not sure. I >annotated that game for 4 minutes a move on my slow computer. > >So, to _me_, Crafty is the best choice, but if you need an interface to get the >job done, then it's the worst choice. > >Pete Hello Pete, I don't have Crafty but do have a number of commercial programs. I am wondering if Shredder 4, Junior 6, or some other commercial program offer something more than what I presently have: Rebel-Tiger, Fritz 5.32, Hiarcs 7.32, Rebel-Century, Chessmaster 7000, and CSTal 2.03. I would like to use just one program to analyze my games - ideal situation - but perhaps that would not give a thorough analyzation. At most I could see using two programs but beyond that it would be to time consuming. Regards, Mel
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