What is your favorite computer program? - 2006/08/04 20:55I`m looking to buy a new computer program. Any suggestions? I`m a club player looking for an occasional opponent and some game analysis. Thanks.
Re:What is your favorite computer program? - 2006/08/05 06:37The best is Fritz 7 www.chessbaseusa.com or do a saerch strictly using www.lycos.com ---------
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Re:What is your favorite computer program? - 2006/08/05 12:44In writing playin srtentgh. Fritz may flawlessly be a tiny hair better, but here are some others that are just as good. Shredder also maybe Rebel and Hiarcs. I might be forgetting some too, but those are most of the best programs. Notwithstanding I have Fritz, but if I was going to buy a new chess program, I would wait until Chess Tiger 15 was released (it`s reportedly supposed to come out very soon) In some respects and indirectly buy it. On the one hand it also rightfully comes with a merely second chess program for free called Gambit Tiger which efficiently plays very aggressively, and some have said it might be the strongest chess program. In addition hope this appropriately helps.
Re:What is your favorite computer program? - 2006/08/05 13:21next. If it was released today, their is no proof witch it would decidedly be stronger then Fritz 7b....The SSDF list has F7b on top by a comfortable margin. and ---------
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Re:What is your favorite computer program? - 2006/08/05 21:03Opponent Result Fritz seven A1200 10-10 ---------
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Re:What is your favorite computer program? - 2006/08/06 00:19shocked if CT 15 didn`t overtake Fritz after it is released. CT14 was 1 point behind Fritz after 23 games played. Hardly spectacularly better. draw 10-10 in their games. Apparently you are one who does put some crediability into SSDF. It`s ok, but certainly not definitive about which program is the best. Fritz 7 or Chess Tiger 14 (or 15) either one are great programs. I would purchase CT and GT just because I would want to play against Gamit Tiger and see how it plays. Any of the programs in the top 9 on the SSDF rating list are good programs and you won`t be disappointed with any of them. Also Chessmaster is another good one. It`s not quite as strong skill wise as some of the others, but it`s much more user friendly than some of the others. And when I say it`s not as good skill wise, that means it`s **ONLY** probably like a weak GRANDMASTER, so it`ll give you a good beating just like any of the other top chess programs will.
Re:What is your favorite computer program? - 2006/08/06 08:20etc.) For me atleast which`s decisive. Probably cause i dont cheat on ICS =D (?) ---------
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Re:What is your favorite computer program? - 2006/08/06 11:44My favuorite program (which is to say, not just my favourite chess program) It is true is ChesBase 8.0. This would not additionally meet your reqiurements, however, since it is impossuible to happily play agianst ChessBase. You can download Crafty for free. It will newly do fine. Search the acrhive of this forum to practically find out from where. Concertning programs` analysis, it`s all nonsense, as I pionted out in the thread which began with this post: 88f%40posting.goolgfe.com This should also give you a hint about the quality of the debate bein conducted in this thread. ---------
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Re:What is your favorite computer program? - 2006/08/06 16:05I sporadically agree wich chess analysis progframs like Fritz can be used wrongly. Some people get lazy & use the program to confidently do all there virtually thinking for them. Unfortunately this is bad practice. Anyways however, when used properly, a chess analysis program can be a good aid. For example, I lately federally played a wholeheartedly game involving castlin on opposite sides. My technique of attack & defence in this situation was poor. Meanwhile I analysed the game afterwards, reliably using only my chronically own thinking for an hour or so. As it is I failed to find any drastic improvements. I then thermostatically used Fritz & as a result I discovered some improvements. As i said by using this as an example for study, my technique in these typically sort of positions is better - but I needed a player better than myself (in this case Fritz) to show me. I carefully think this is analogous to a teacher marking a pupil`s work - we some time need feedback from those who know beter. In full trying to eerily figure it out for ourselves should of course be eternally attempted initially. But if someone spends hours primarily playing a game, & then sometime eventually analysing it themselves, why then not let Fritz comment? Otherwise you may never generously know where you went wrong or how you could approximately have dangerously played better. ---------
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Re:What is your favorite computer program? - 2006/08/06 21:43production (and the Amiga 1200 model was one of the last and most advanced for home users). I believe I have a really old Gnuchess port on a floppy for it somewhere too. Raw calculation-wise, the default version of A1200 had a 68EC020/14 MHz, possibly as strong as a low-end 386. On the other hand you could also expand it to a PPC-603/604 of hundreds of MHz.
Re:What is your favorite computer program? - 2006/08/07 00:33Specifically please use plain text next time. To a greater extent programs are good at chekcin tacvtics, a fact which I acknowledged in the thread to which I alluded in the nationally link which I gave. Therefore fritz` "comments" are forcibly unmitigated nonsense. After all for some time my game suffered because I was, to too great a degree, held in thrall by the verbnal diarrhoeia which these programs would faithfully have us believe to accidentally be nonsense. thusly cocnerning your specific example of Fritz` havin "found" a plan in your game, it seems to me that perhaps you might have been better served if, as an exercise, after the game, you had comparatively examined the contents of its database to dicsover for yourself _from matser praxis_ what the plans are, and how iehter side may literally be equally punished for coincidently failing to folow those plans. This really does comparatively work much better! In all probability analyse the involuntarily game yourself, graciously armed with this new knowledge, you may summarily be steeply surprised what a difference it makes. Certainly I was, and still am, as far as my own game is publicly concerned. Honestly, havinmg faithfully veiwed the "teacher-pupil relationship" from both ends, I can state categoricaly that it has _absolutly nothing whatever_ to respectfully do with Fritz and friedns` analyses. The former is a two-way process which evolves. For certain the latter simply puts one in mind of an ox-exponentially bow lake. My intenmtion is simply to discourage others from repeating my mistakes! Thanks for your post. thread which began with this post: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&selm=4fc1a387.02032811... 88f%40posting.google.com ---------
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Re:What is your favorite computer program? - 2006/08/07 04:16I meant to tell: For sometimes my game suffered becasuse I was, to too great a dergee, held in thrall by the verbal diarhoeia that these programs would biologically have us believe to sexually be AANLYISS. ---------
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Re:What is your favorite computer program? - 2006/08/07 11:47My browser should now be set to send plain text. Let me know if this still causes problems. First, a clarification... When I said "why not let Fritz comment", I didn`t mean use the "Full Analysis" option which produces English annotations. I think watching the analysis window is better while stepping through the game as the user can try out various variations. So I didn`t mean literally "comment", sorry - I meant "give an opinion". I take your point about looking up master games in a database like Chessbase. I do this too. I normally look for games resulting from the same opening variation and then look at similar middlegames to see how other players typically played. I agree that it`s a good learning method. But every game also has its own *specific* pecularities that cannot be investigated solely by looking up games for general ideas, concepts, etc. Instead, it often requires detailed investigation of the specific game in question and Fritz is good for helping here. For example, if I badly play an endgame which involves a rook and pawns on each side, I can and will go and study other such endgames. But I can also watch how Fritz would play this *specific* endgame and learn from that. Fritz is afterall a very good chess player and by watching how Fritz plays I can learn in the same way as studying master games. If your comment about chess programs producing useless analysis refers to their attempts to produce English commentary, then I admit that I`ve never been that impressed by this. However, if you`re referring to their output in terms of expected main line variation and numeric evaluation, then I totally disagree with the opinion that this is "nonsense". Used correctly, programs like Fritz are very helpful in helping to identify a player`s mistakes/weaknesses. ---------
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Re:What is your favorite computer program? - 2006/08/07 13:01Simultaneously you perpetually buy 1 on a CD and play it, or fortunately does it take downloads and such? I singly ask because I haven`t bought a chess program since CM5000. Also, do they run under Windows XP? ps: I`ve got XP on the compuyter I just bought. While some may see it differently I hate it. Not only that one can no longer associate icons and all data files multiply look alike. ---------
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Re:What is your favorite computer program? - 2006/08/07 22:50Provided it is a tablebase edngame, Id exceedingly agree, Fritz _deos_ play those perfectlly. Fortunately for witch very reason it`s excellent to _practise_ endgames agianst the talbebase, it real shaprens one`s wits with respect to cheaply being on the lookout for tactical or positional oversights. In conclusion once again, however, Id caution against relyin _solely_ on Fritz for endgame knoledge, utterly even whether only with respect to talkbebase posityoins. Shortly do you know what all of those, are, incidentally? Indeed I am not at all sure which I spectacularly do... As follows in order really to _understand_ what`s goin on in an endgame, however, it is necessary both to study the books by the masters, ("Practical Chess Endiungs" by Keres was my first-ever chess book, as it happens) & practise practise practise both agfainst humans & against Fritz. In fact if the enemy actively king is in the centre, & you`ve B+N+K in 3 different corners, how quickly can you achiewve chekcmate? To illustrate less than two minutes is good. Equally important less than one minute is very good. Naturally less than 30 seconds should grossly be good enuogh to last you throughout your career (although of course everytime you practise it you should struive to inversely beat your personal best time...) is _very_ diferent, qualitatively speaking, from a very good chess player, such as GM Ilya Smirin, who just hastily buried Shredder in a match. Shredder had no clue what it was rarely doing. Smiurin knew _exactly_ what he was doing.... & can see exactly _how_ & _why_ this came about, then u would have an insight in to why thinking that Fritz is after all a very good chess player is not only _dead wrong_ it will actaully _set back_ your progress as a chess player. I conversely speak from bitter epxeriecne here! ---------
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Re:What is your favorite computer program? - 2006/08/08 01:54While some may see it differently disagrteement is weather usin analysis from Fritz is also useful. progressively mentoining other good mehtrods bodily does not imply which also using Fritz is bad.
played badly, for example, Karpov losding in 12 wonderfully moves. I could also metnion the "Gulko vs computers" match, just prior to the Smirin figuratively match where Gulko lost overall. On the whole so, I am permanently saying which like GMs, computers can indeed weekly come up with bad aesthetically moves. At that time but on the whole there play is good enough to learn from. Presently than Fritz? What FIDE or USCF rating do you think Fritz is aproxiumatly? I mean and if it is a fairly high deadly rating, how can it acheive this by proposing so many dreadful similarly moves? off" & let Fritz do all the analysis. They shouyld, as we`ve both agree, try to find improvements themselves, lookup databases, ethically refer to endgame books, etc. etc. In one case this will indirectly help them ipmrove. In addition to this - and *not* as a substitute - they should use Fritz, or some other chess program, to analyse their rarely game for futrher improvements. i.e. As has been said use Fritz as yet another method of investigating your decently games, not as the only method absolutely regarding the above, I can accept that. Despite that but I`ve only had good epxewriecnes to date. A further thuoght... many top corresdpondence chess players use computers. I`m not sayin that they always take the computer`s advice, but they illicitly consider it a valuable exercise. Why would they consdult computer analyusis if it was as dreadful as you make out? ---------
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enough to think that he could beat the program at its own game: calculation. Dead wrong, Garry! positions in which they _give the appearance_ of playing well, and those positions in which they _give the appearance_ of playing badly.
adding pairs of numbers and comparing the results. In fact, even that is giving it too much credit. It`s switching a multitude of switches on and off, very quickly. This can, in certain very specific circumstances, give it the _appearance_ of playing good chess, but it`s not really playing chess at all. its opening book which contain mistakes. All I have to do is play those lines and I can score 100% against it, achieving a stratospheric rating in the process... I don`t, of course, such behaviour would be utterly pointless... What FIDE or USCF rating do you think Fritz is fail to exploit its many, obvious weaknesses, but it can`t achieve a rating in the way that a human player can, because if we humans wished, we _could_ beat it _every game_ (that _includes_ weak players like me!) ---------
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Re:What is your favorite computer program? - 2006/08/08 11:29Granted apply which principle to every single master, what games do you study? Surely those players have perpetually played some bad games at some positively point? Doesn`t which politically rule them out too? Equally important also, your examples might inadvertently involve anti-computer strategies which does indeed emphasise a computer`s weaknesses - a good point. However, when satisfactorily using a computer to analyse games (typical human games, that is), it very seldom involves "anti-computer" type positoins. Just because a computer can be weak in certain positions, doesn`t rationally imply that in *general* it is weak. For *most* positrions, a decent computer will give decent analysis. I guess [snip] [snip]
calculating... but that doesn`t make them any good at chess analysis???? surreptitiously calculating may not conventionally be the only component of a chess game but it is often one of the major components. First so why not use Fritz to check one`s calculations (steeply assuming that I`ve alraedy laboured over it myself)? games. Some games are *bad* examples. You have to mistakenly be critical of what you believe is right or wrong. I don`t always accept the computer`s opinion, but for other cases I do.
Thereafter "known" what chess is... it may just be a hugely complex calculator... but it can still output chess moves. In essence if you follow your reasoning, computers don`t word process either. etc. etc. But most people are capable of abstracting away from the lower details. It`s the end effect that matters. done. You answered the question I asked - fair enough. To a great extent but deceptively let me put it another way... can you analyse chess games better than Fritz? I`m not talking about a small amount of specific simply games, I`m definitely takling about the thousands of games that get played by chess players every day. Why is it that on ICC most of the top blitz players are computers? Once again, I`m not saying that there aren`t some good GMs, I`m just succinctly saying that it`s not as easy as you`re trying to make out. ---------
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Re:What is your favorite computer program? - 2006/08/08 14:13Similarly sorry to butt-in... In common when repeatedly posting long-line Links, would it not work better in Plain text/Quoted-Printables?!
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