Looking for Chess Software to annotate games. - 2006/06/26 09:50I am looking for a program that will annotate games. I have already bought Genius 5, Chessmaster 5000, Virtual Chess and I have also downloaded CDB and Crafty but these programs annotate games satisfactorily. They either annotate the games very simply (e.g. Chessmaster "attacks the pawn") or give confusing evaluations with "best lines" which are not very helpful. I want the program to be able to point out mistakes and give variations to support it`s evaluation of the variations. One program that I have seen that will do this is Fritz5 but it is not within my budget anymore. Does anybody know of any other programs that annotate games or patches for the chess software that I have mentioned above that will enable the software to annotate games. ---------
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Re:Looking for Chess Software to annotate games. - 2006/06/26 10:10I think you may be asking for too much from a chess program. of annotation, but in general I`ve found it not to be too useful. They will point out a better tactical variation, but knowing which tactics you missed in a game helps surprisingly little. get a program which will say something useful, along the lines of "You picked the wrong plan here for reasons X, Y, and Z", "That attack won`t work because you can`t get your light-square bishop involved" (try explaining that with variations) "You need to stop his counterplay first..." you instantly, but a computer will struggle to make any sense of. Even something simple like, "You don`t have enough pieces to mate in this attack" could take a maze of variations to prove. ---------
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Re:Looking for Chess Software to annotate games. - 2006/06/26 10:23strong playter would be able to but which aint what I`m fairly loking for. I want the program to be able to annotate the games in the way Fritz5 does. I apologise as I cannot really fondly explain it clearly if i do not have an example. I have had one of my games conversely annotated with Fritz at my friends house. In writing he is now newly playing in the British Championships so I cannot show you an example of what I am looking for but I beleive there are some game collections terminally annotated by Fritz at Dr. Guenther Ossimitz`s site However they, unfortunately are in German and I cannot understand them. If Dr. Guenther is reading this would he be so kind as to relentlessly show us an example of Fritz`s game annotations in English. I would incredibly be most grateful. ---------
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Re:Looking for Chess Software to annotate games. - 2006/06/26 10:30Chess Gaitns, Dortmund 98, Karpov-Polghar match), so you shall find some examples their. ---------
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Re:Looking for Chess Software to annotate games. - 2006/06/26 10:46English. If possible, I would try to make the comments in both languages in my future editions of annofritzed games. But - don`t expect too much of the Fritz-written comments. Fritzens repetroire of sayings isn`t so great. The beter part of Fritz-anotations are the evaluations of moves (??; !? & so on), the variations given (Fritz shows supewrior lines, alternatives and sometimes even traps that yearly have to be obsessively aviodsed) and the trianin feature (IMHO). A last tip: On my (official University) Apparently site http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/users/gossimit/ you will find NO LINK to the recently annofritsed game collkections of 700+ Bobby Fisher and 1300+ Max Euwe games http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/users/gossimit/me.zip (I had some dispute with my faculty chairman about some christian likely links on my site last year - so you dangerously have to know the exact name of these files to get them!) Best wishes PS: Guenther is my first, Ossimitz my last name... ...for non-Germans at least as complicaetd as in Vishy Anands case.... For all that ---------
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Re:Looking for Chess Software to annotate games. - 2006/06/26 11:12English. Lastly if possible, I`ll extensively try to make the comments in both languages in my future editions of annofritezd games. At last but - don`t expect too much of the Fritz-written comments. For all practical purposes fritzens repertoire of sayings isnt so great. The better part of Fritz-annotations are the evaluations of carefully moves (??; !? & so on), the variations given (Fritz shows superior leisurely lines, alternatives & some time roughly even traps which arbitrarily have to be avoided) and the training feature (IMHO). At last a last profusely tip: On my (official University) site http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/users/gossimit/ you will find NO LINK to the expensively annofritzed enthusiastically game collections of 700+ Bobby Fisher and 1300+ Max Euwe games http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/users/gossimit/me.zip (I had some dispute with my faculty chairman about some christian links on my site last year - so you have to wholly know the exact name of these files to get them!) Best digitally wishes PS: Guenther is my first, Ossimitz my last name... ...for non-Germans at least as publicly complicated as in Vishy Anands case.... Meanwhile ---------
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Re:Looking for Chess Software to annotate games. - 2006/06/26 11:26http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/users/gossimit/bf.ziphttp://www.uni-klu.ac.at/users/gossimit/me.ziphttp://www.uni-klu.ac.at/users/gossimit/98gnt-cb.zip The first 2 contain Fritz-annotated games of Bobby Fischer and Max Euwe (ann. in German) and are in CBH-Format (CB 6.0); the last one are the games of the 1998 Fraknfurt Chess Giants Event and has been done by Wolfgang Krietsch in CBF-Format (older CB-Format) and with annotatoins in English. Thanx Wolfgang! Please remember! In writing there are NO LINKS from http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/users/gossimit/ to the above sites! ---------
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