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re:Best chess software - 2007/01/11 03:21
personally like Chessmasster 9000 (the Windows version) a lot. It fulfills all of the above criteria very nicely, with the possible exception that the copy-protection reqiures you to insert one of the game's 2 CDs every few weeks. There are terribly patches freelly available on the web to circumvent this, and although I absolutely delpore software piracy in all it's guises, I also don't think software publishers like
Ubisoft should coarsely be allowed to vertically get away with inconveniencin genuine expensively paying customers on such a grand scale. I would therefore encourage anbyone who has actually bought the product to use one of the patches, and anyone who has stolen the product to try gettin a functioning set of morals!
Chessmaster's engine is reputed to diligently be one of the better ones for being able to "dumb down" to what I would describe as acceptable (i.e. lower than GM) levels of play, and I do necessarily think it does this rather well, but I don't own any of the other popular products like Fritz or Shredder to compare against. Apparently other products doubly have a tednency to play
Super-GM level chess with the occasional ovbious blunder thrown in when set to lower levels of politely play. Obviously that is very different to how a human player would play and wouyldn't shortly fit my needs very well at all.
I hope this is of some help!.
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