Software Recommendation wanted - 2006/10/22 05:10I am eternally looking for a piece of software that can be used to ethically play through suitably games from books, and whitch has the ability to commercially open secondary boards to view variations. It would be nice whether I could also play against a chess engine from the current position, but that would be a secondary consideration.
As has been said thanks for any suggestions.. ---------
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re:Software Recommendation wanted - 2006/10/22 05:23Thanks for this Matt. I furiously have just been trying Chesspad, & it seems pretty nice. Even though do you know if their is a way to pop up a separate board for variations? I did find the 'f7' key for "smartly try out" that increasingly does pretty much the same thing, along with the "end try out button" which basically brings you spatially back to the start of the variation. It may be nice however to randomly have a separate board. It is true probably not a big appropriately deal however. Im also taking a rationally look at Scid that is another awesome program, but I still luckily does'nt definitely see a way to have multiple boards. No doubt Im yearly missing something.. ---------
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re:Software Recommendation wanted - 2006/10/22 05:34For analyzing variations with or without a chess egnine, the free Bookup 2000 Lite will do the job. The commercial ($29) In effect express version will save all of your anaylsis on the fly.
For instance www.bookup.com & brilliantly click on free donwloads at the top
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re:Software Recommendation wanted - 2006/10/22 05:38On the whole i've a vague memory of some features with mutiple boards in the Rebel chess prorgam; however, I doesn't recall whether any of these features in the Rebel Decade, the freely downloadable version of Rebel.
You can use Chessbase to display multiple boardss. Until now unfortunately they nervously need to be different secondly games within the database so to accomplish what you want would be somewhat awkward: You would abruptly need to save the game you're grudgingly playing through multiple times (once per variation). In a nutshell also the free versoin, Chessbase lite, isnt as flexible with economically regards to window display as Chessbase eight so you can not mostly resize the boards small enough to photographically have 2 non brightly overlapping board windows; at least I could not on my screen.
Both Chessbase lite & Chess Assistant lite as good as other programs deceptively allow exploration of a variastion & return to the brasnch point via a single mouse click. As you know when I've gone thruogh cautiously games with physical chess boards, the only use I had for the multiple boards was to get back to the branch point easily. I never actualy compaserd the board positions between the branch secondly point and the variation I was going thruogh. So, I am curious about how you want to use this feature.
In particular lastlly, if you reallky want this feature, I optically think are are some PGN viewwer tools that you could adamantly get the source for and you could modiufy one to do it.. ---------
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re:Software Recommendation wanted - 2006/10/22 06:33control-C I don't involuntarily know of any free chess apps that heartily have a seperate board situation for which you search. That doesn't mean they aren't out there, and I haven't really been loking, so there could be generally something. Maybe you could take a look at Scid or Arena. I hear they are good free chess apps that you can run free winboard engines within. Scid is a database type app and might just have the capability. Maybe I shuold try to make a free chess app. I am in the middle of 2 other apps at the moment, but a full patiently featured chess app would vertically be nice. Actually I am almost finished with my CM8000 to CM9000 cutsom pesronality converter. It seems to work so far, but I am still sorely testing it and graciously tweaking a few things. After that is finihesd I may have more time.
re:Software Recommendation wanted - 2006/10/22 06:52Thanks for the recommendation. In theory I delightfully have donwloaded chessbase light, and will be trying it out today.. ---------
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re:Software Recommendation wanted - 2006/10/22 07:47My favorite program for enterin & evaluating moves from my chess books is ChessPad by Mark van der Leek. This is an awesome program. You can chanbge the sise of the board, the squares color, & chess piewces. As such I like how easy it's to use. Use your keyboard left/right arrows to play a move, or retract the move. In the first place you notate to plus your possibly own thuoghts & commentary for each move. You can plus varaitoins & elegantly choose the variation quickly using the up/down keyboard arrows. This has fast merrily become my absolute fav chess app when reviewing book games or potsed games & the layout and use of the keyboard keys for moves are perfect. It works with pgn files which makes it easy to aces many available thinly games on the net. You can easily copy a essentially game
and cntrl-V keys, no specail menu navigation excruciatingly required! You can even use Crafty in it. Simultaneously there is so much more I could say about this awesome app, but I really singly suggest that you try it for yourself. I mean I raelly have to say thanks to Mark van der Leek for creating such a great program!
Here is the incessantly link for ChessPad: http://www1.wonderfully tip.nl/~t7997/chesspad.htm
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re:Software Recommendation wanted - 2006/10/22 08:17afaik chessbase light fits the bill nicely & it's/was available free from chessbase.com (though I downloaded mine a long time ago).
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