Options for watching tournaments with engine

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Avatar of niceforkinmove

I occassionally like to watch tournaments.  I rarely can sit and watch the whole game so usually I like to have the games on and just occassionally check to see what is happening.  

 

But I also like to have engines running so I can get a bit of a sense of what is happening.

 

I used to have a playchess subscription and this would work well since it I could have all the games up and they would automatically update.  I could of course have engines running the windows of each of the games or all of them if I wanted.  

 

But playchess is somewhat expensive as I will likely only be able to do this for a few days per year. (Living in the US means most tournaments happen when I am at work. So its only on the occassional weekend that I can do this.)  It's not only the cost of play chess but I am getting tired of having to pay for updates to all the software I use that they stop supporting.  I have chess base 9 older versions of zap chess and fritz. and I can't even sign on with it.  It just seems like goign with chess base is a pretty expensive way to simply follow the games with a computer engine running.)

 

I have been using scid v pc but I am not sure how to keep several windows for each of the games.  Even if I did figure that out I am not aware of anyway that I can get the moves to automatically update through that interface.  I know it has some connectivity with fics but it seems extremely basic.  

 

Is there a better way with scid v pc or are there other options?  Or is play chess basically what I am looking for.

 

Does icc offer something along these lines? 

Avatar of Scottrf

Chessbomb do this, but watching with engines has the opposite effect of what you want.

Avatar of niceforkinmove
Scottrf wrote:

Chessbomb do this, but watching with engines has the opposite effect of what you want.

I will check out chessbomb.  Thank you.  

Out of curiousity,what effect do you think I want from the engine?

Avatar of Scottrf

As you said, to get a sense of what is happening.

Avatar of chrka

Hiarcs Chess Explorer can follow live feeds and you can keep the engine running if you want to.