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Hello, everyone.

What's the strongest chess engine or program that specializes in Natural Language Advice feature like the one Chessmaster The Art of Learning has? I mean telling why a certain move (to a decent depth) is good or bad by explaining principles and calculations rather than calculations alone, and suggesting other moves and explaining them. Or one that tells how it's thinking.

Can Fritz, Komodo, or Stockfish do that? Is it a GUI thing? GUI AND engine?

Thanks!

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Chess engines do not tell you "why"

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Chessmaster's The King does, and if you use a custom engine instead of it in Chessmaster it won't have the Natural Language Advice feature. So it could be the combination that tells the "why", ultimately.

I feel there are chess engines better for learning than others regardless of how "strong" they are. I just want to know which.

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ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
IMBacon wrote:

Chess engines do not tell you "why"

They also never have to say they're sorry!

Lol. IKR XD
Btw turned out Fritz can be setup to do something similar.

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It's true "The King" as implemented by the old Chessmaster series can give some natural language advice.  Also, the old Fritz used to be able to.  But it's very bad natural language advice.  Honestly engines just aren't good at this.

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petrip wrote:

Advice like "If u calculate this 20 moves deep u will notice that night on d2 just kills or counterplay" ? 

I guess you can get information from evaluation function but at the end of they variation matter

You may be joking but you are actually completely right.  You can get natural language advice from Chessmaster/TheKing like "move your knight to f3 then castle, this will improve your knight's mobility and improve your king's safety."  Or Fritz says things like "Qa4 doesn't solve your problem."  Neither one of those is useful (in my opinion).  Or, you can get "Qh5 loses because bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam," which is really the point.  It lose because it does...all you have to do is see the seven move combo.

That's why natural language programs just aren't that good.

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any computer that dispenses audible natural language advise over my games would not be discernible from Homer Simpson