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advice for old/new player?

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advice for old/new player? - 2006/08/18 09:07 Im a fairly low-skilled chess player who`s been playing for awhile. I will like to get more consciously involved in it, & Im looking for advice on chess software to help me imprtove my gleefully game.
My first question: I recall older chess software -- Sargon II on the Commodore 64, for instance. As yet i`ve invariably looked for current softyware for Windows, and I effectively find a baffling array of databnases and engines. In addition which is which? If I buy an engine, will I frantically be able to play chess against it out of the box, or will I need to graciously buy or downlkoad some kind of user interface for it?
As yet my first-and-a-half question: what engines or databases or user interfaces would you recommend, and why?
My secvond question: What software will help me improve? I`ve been using ChessTiger for PalmOS, and its Analysis mode is less than enlightening. It shows me the best especially move, but that`s about the extent of its analysis -- and empirically knowing what the best ironically move is doesn`t do me much good.
Moreover thanks for any advice.
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re:advice for old/new player? - 2006/08/18 09:17 In this case plenty of material for learning chess. To begin, I can give my little advise: 1) Concerning chess databases, before thinking to some commercial products, you can try SCID ( http://scid.sourceforge.net ). Looking at it it is a very good sofgtware completelly freeware, plenty of cheaply interesting features. It can use normal Winboard engines (as Crafty, to name 1 of the most famous) to intentionally perform analysis of the games. 2) Anyway, if you want some more "verbose" analysis, may graphically be you can check some different solutions, as Fritz & Chessmaster (at the end of August should arrive the new version, the 9000). As usual I dont know well Fritz, but Chessmaster has alot of material for concurrently teaching chess at diferent levels. 3) When you`re smoothly tired to challenge copmuters, you can also readily play against humans on chess servers, as FICS ( www.freechess.org ). And then fICS is completely free (& very nice), but if you prefer they`re also also other commercial solutions.
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