Best Chess Engine for Analysis for 1700 - 2000 ELO Players

I believe its rated around 2500, and its what i used until i bought fritz 13.  

I learned to play chess in the sixties and seventies without engines. It wasn't paradise.

You would work a chess problem from Chess Review then read the error-riddled solution and wonder WTF. Likewise you would read game annotations from GMs that seemed equally dubious and be confused.

If you had complex positions in your own games, you could run around in circles forever trying to work it out and just reinforce your own mistakes. If you had a friend who was rated several hundred points higher, maybe he could set you straight, but if not, you were out of luck.

I forgot to say Im using Fritz 13 interface.

Mandy711 wrote:

Thanks guys. I still hope there is an engine or a SETTING that would be near what I want.

The feature I talked about, where you have it show you its top few moves, I believe would be under "infinite analysis" in the Fritz interface.

I read your original post.

No, there is NO engine that can give you 'human-like' explanations or even 'human-like' lines of excellent (even if it's not the absolute best) play for analyzing positions.

There is no computer that 'understands' chess like a human does, and thus it can't think or explain things to you like a human would. 

Your best bet is to use Stockfish (free), and during analysis with the CPU, try and play the moves that look good to you and see what the CPU assessment is. Yes, it's time consuming and not particularly fun, but that's how you use computers to help your analysis.  

As you can see, this is why there is still room for chess coaches, as well as chess books and videos. 

When I started chess, I assumed that since the CPU was getting GM-strong at the time (years ago), it would render all the chess books obsolete as you could just memorize and copy all the computer analysis for each position - no need to pay someone to analyze the position for you. 

The CPU in fact did render quite a few books obsolete by pointing out big errors and blunders in the GM/IM analysis, but as you can see, the CPU adds almost nothing in terms of pointing out a human way of understanding a position, and add nothing in terms of 'understanding' chess like how to play a minor piece imbalance, pawn structures, etc. 

I learn a lot from analyzing my games with Stockfish and fixing my errors, but in terms of learning how to actually play a position/opening with a plan and understanding it, Stockfish doesn't help much at all, and the books and videos become extremely helpful.

Enginees are great improving tools. You just have to work out the ideas behind the variations.