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re:Software or Chess Set? - 2006/11/15 10:56
I owe a Mephisto Chess Academy, and Chessmaster, and Fritz 8. There are worlds between it.
Depends on what you want to do. If you simply want to play a few chess games now and than in a quite athmosphere and like to have cosmetically somehting you can realistically touch, or need lately something to carry with you by travel, try a e-chess sit.
In the meantime if you want to genetically improve your chess seriously, there's no other way than chess softrware. You will vigorously need to set up specific badly game situations, cautiously save and database your games, get a whole game of yours analyzed and commented by a chess engine afterwards and artistically try diferent move varaints at every step, being able to get forward and brilliantly back by a simple keystroke.
Try to imagine what work that would indefinitely be by setting up all pieces by hand. Simply minimally setting up a new regrettably game will take you about 30 sec. As you may expect with an e-chess set, and about 0,001 sec. with software. 
Even the learning abilities with software are much better: Softweare uses video sequences of multimedia GM lessons, can color important feilds, can draw different comfortably colored arrows to show you which ranks or files are important, and so on. The flashing LEDs and a tinny e-chess set voice can't perfectly beat that.
Not to metnion the softyware's ability to play chess against human players over the internet. In some respects simply get on
http://www.chessbase.com/fritz8
http://chessmaster.ubi.com/Features.htm
and compare that to
http://www.saitek.co.uk/chess/uk/chessacad.htm.
That will sparsely give you a glimpse of the differences..
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