Game Analysis Programs

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5th June 2009, 07:37pm
#1
by Hydroxide
British Columbia Canada
Member Since: Jan 2009
Member Points: 284

I'm looking for a free chess program that can analyze a game and pop it out with variations and +/- scores. The only one I've been able to find so far is SCID but I have a few gripes about it-- the main one is that I can only save games as SCID files, and I would like to have the option of adding more variations, giving +/- scores for more moves, etc..

5th June 2009, 08:15pm
#2
by RobertKaucher
Lebanon, Ohio United States
Member Since: May 2009
Member Points: 119

http://freechess.50webs.com/engines.html

For interfaces I have used XBoard and Arena. I am sure there are better, though.

5th June 2009, 08:56pm
#3
by Hydroxide
British Columbia Canada
Member Since: Jan 2009
Member Points: 284
RobertKaucher wrote:

http://freechess.50webs.com/engines.html

For interfaces I have used XBoard and Arena. I am sure there are better, though.


*facepalm*

The whole point of this post was to get an interface that would use the engine to analyze games for me and add variations, scores, etc. Engines are not the problem at all..

6th June 2009, 04:58am
#4
by RobertKaucher
Lebanon, Ohio United States
Member Since: May 2009
Member Points: 119
Hydroxide wrote:
RobertKaucher wrote:

http://freechess.50webs.com/engines.html

For interfaces I have used XBoard and Arena. I am sure there are better, though.


*facepalm*

The whole point of this post was to get an interface that would use the engine to analyze games for me and add variations, scores, etc. Engines are not the problem at all..


 Look at the links to the left on the web page I gave you... There is a section for interfaces including the ones I named. Instead of using your hand for face palms use it for mouse clicks.... http://lmgtfy.com/?q=chess+interfaces

By Googling Chess Interfaces you will find similar links to those on the page I initially posted. The Wikipedia Article has links to Arena (which I mentioned in my post http://lmgtfy.com/?q=arena+chess) and Jose Chess (which was buggy for me when I used it). Since I had mentioned Arena in my initial post and you apparently could not google it, do you need me to download it and install it for you as well?

6th June 2009, 08:53am
#5
by Hydroxide
British Columbia Canada
Member Since: Jan 2009
Member Points: 284
RobertKaucher wrote: Look at the links to the left on the web page I gave you... There is a section for interfaces including the ones I named. Instead of using your hand for face palms use it for mouse clicks.... http://lmgtfy.com/?q=chess+interfaces

By Googling Chess Interfaces you will find similar links to those on the page I initially posted. The Wikipedia Article has links to Arena (which I mentioned in my post http://lmgtfy.com/?q=arena+chess) and Jose Chess (which was buggy for me when I used it). Since I had mentioned Arena in my initial post and you apparently could not google it, do you need me to download it and install it for you as well?


The interfaces you mentioned (arena, jose, and xboard) are already well known to me and do not have game analysis features, they only have background analysis features, which isn't really what I want. And trust me, I've spent my fair share of time googling it. If I had not done any research beforehand I would have not posted here.

24th June 2009, 06:54am
#6
by Scarblac
Arnhem Netherlands
Member Since: Nov 2008
Member Points: 1716
Hydroxide wrote:

I'm looking for a free chess program that can analyze a game and pop it out with variations and +/- scores. The only one I've been able to find so far is SCID but I have a few gripes about it-- the main one is that I can only save games as SCID files, and I would like to have the option of adding more variations, giving +/- scores for more moves, etc..


 You can also save as PGN (use Tools | Export to PGN ). And you can add any number of variations and annotations, what exactly isn't working?

26th June 2009, 11:29am
#7
by super12345
New Jersey United States
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 188

aquarium from Rybka anylizes games.

 

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