Dude unless you are a very strong IM or GM a 15 ply analisis is way more than sufficient. I use an outdated free version Fritz 6 (6-7 ply) engine and it works fine for analisis. You can't just see what moves the computer likes and say "ok that's the best move" you have to have your own opinion about a position because computers have been known to go astray.
Pimping Chessmaster with cloud computing
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Can you tell me the website where to get those programes.
chessmaster102 wrote:
Can you tell me the website where to get those programes.
Try the link below. Supposedly the Chessbase Light product contains the Fritz engine for analyzing games. Haven't used it myself though, can't guarantee this is what you are looking for.
http://www.chessbase.com/download/cblight2007/index.asp
So, it was finally implemented, in form of the Rybka Cluster. The prices are very high, though, at over 200 Euro per day.
http://cluster.rybkachess.com/
I wonder how this plays with the banning of Rybka from competition due to the alleged copyright infringement by Rajlich?
https://blog.rescale.com/running-chess-engines-in-the-cloud/
looks interesting. I don't know how much it costs though.
I own a number of chess programs, including Chessmaster (Grandmaster Edition), ChessBase, Fritz, etc. The "game analysis" capability is great, and it allows for a 14-, 15-ply depth analysis of a given position with ease. All those programs are installed on my not-so-new PC, and this hardware dependency bothers me. I would like to obtain access to much powerful hardware, in order to crank the analysis up to 20-ply or more. In other words, I want hardware independence.
I came across this service offered by Amazon.com, described on wiki:
"Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (also known as "EC2") is a commercial web service that allows customers to rent computers on which to run their own computer applications. EC2 allows scalable deployment of applications by providing a web services interface through which a customer can create virtual machines, i.e. server instances, on which the customer can load any software of their choice. A customer can create, launch, and terminate server instances as needed, paying by the hour for active servers, hence the term "elastic". "
Looks great, except that a little bit later they state that this service works only for Linux, OpenSolaris and Windows Server 2003. And knowing that my Chessmaster could not install on Windows 2000, I am pretty sure it will not be able to run on Windows Server 2003.
Does anyone have experience with using this particular, or similar cloud computing environments to increase performance of the standard chessplaying programs? What would be the best service to host my Chessmaster?