Houdini?
Deep Rybka or Fritz?
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May 26, 2011
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If you just want to analyze your games, don't waste your money on any of these. Google stockfish, houdini and fire chess engines, they are equal or stronger. As the "car" to run the engine on, google arena gui, SCID or chessdb.
May 26, 2011
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#4
i used fritz and it was good but i now have a Mac Book Pro and have deep shredder 12 on it and it is very good. Not sure about Rybka but is similar to Fritz but i believe the use of descriptive English to anyalyss the games is useless
To play computer games with, Rybka/Houdini are better, but to analyse with, I love my Fritz 12, it give you practical tips (for me even in Dutch =P) and is very helpful.
May 26, 2011
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#6
be sure you have a dual core processor before you get "deep" anything - deep utilizes TWO cores. if you are learning, chessmaster is really nice. if you are middle level to advanced, go for fritz. they are great and you can run any engine you like in them. :)
I agree with philidor. No set of engines is complete without Houdini, Stockfish and Fire. (And Critter, and a few others.)
Spend money on something like Fritz if you wish, but be sure to download and add these free engines too. Then have all of your engines compete in automated tournaments against each other, with different opening start positions and different time controls, and you will see how much stronger they are to some of the commercial engines/
Hello Forum members
I am thinking of investing my hard earned cash to buy a chess engine for my laptop to analyse my OTB games.
It would appear that I have two options, any thoughts please?