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DiscipulusIncautus

Hi All,

I need suggestions for chess software for game analysis that is user friendly.

My idea of user friendly would be something like hitting a Tab marked "Analysis" 
Upload PGN
Choose it from your downloads folder. 
Open it and then analyse. 

Eat cake and learn where all my mistakes are. 

Straightforward like opening a new file in microsoft word or a PDF in ADOBE.  What can you reccommend I use instead of my current horribly unintuitive Fritz 14?

My preference is for something genuinely user friendly. I don't want to do half a programming degree or engineering degree worth of study just to learn to navigate my chess program. I just want to fire it up and go.

I love the tools online here at Chess.com and I got myself a membership for access to the unlimited tactics practice and the lessons. I'd like something I can use though that can analyse my pgn's offline or that I can easily use to analyse an over the board game I've notated.

Free is obviously preferred but I'll take paid software as long as it is not horrible to use for a casual player.

notmtwain
renny379 wrote:

Hi All,

I need suggestions for chess software for game analysis that is user friendly.

My idea of user friendly would be something like hitting a Tab marked "Analysis" 
Upload PGN
Choose it from your downloads folder. 
Open it and then analyse. 

Eat cake and learn where all my mistakes are. 

Straightforward like opening a new file in microsoft word or a PDF in ADOBE.  What can you reccommend I use instead of my current horribly unintuitive Fritz 14?

My preference is for something genuinely user friendly. I don't want to do half a programming degree or engineering degree worth of study just to learn to navigate my chess program. I just want to fire it up and go.

I love the tools online here at Chess.com and I got myself a membership for access to the unlimited tactics practice and the lessons. I'd like something I can use though that can analyse my pgn's offline or that I can easily use to analyse an over the board game I've notated.

Free is obviously preferred but I'll take paid software as long as it is not horrible to use for a casual player.

What could be more user friendly than the analysis here?

It points out your mistakes, inaccuracies and blunders.

In this recent game what is not clear?

You repeatedly put pieces in harm's way. That is a blunder.null

Ten moves. 2 inaccuracies. 2 blunders.

Enjoy your cake.

cellomaster8
It’s so easy to read the computer analysis and numbers wtf are you talking about
DiscipulusIncautus
renny379 wrote:
 
I'd like something I can use though that can analyse my pgn's offline or that I can easily use to analyse an over the board game I've notated.

This.
 
Please be polite. I asked for advice for software I can use offline. 
DiscipulusIncautus

Thank you Kevin.

 

Exactly the kind of answer I was looking for. I appreciate the politeness.

 

MainframeSupertasker

Free Shredder Classic 5.. its got a lot of features! check your elo rating there.. i use this one

NichtGut

I agree. Most GUIs look like they were taken directly from Windows 2003 or something like that. They look horrible.  There is a certain open source chess website coded in Scala (Java´s son) that has a very nice online analysis tool. I have always been interested in making an offline equivalent for that. 

 

But that takes time and reinventing wheels in C is more fun.

madratter7

You might also look into Lucas Chess. Chessbase is actually fairly easy to use for this purpose as well (easier than Fritz), but I hardly expect you to go out and buy even more software from them since you dislike Fritz.

Drawgood
I hate Fritz. I own Fritz 14 on Steam and I regret having paid for it. The interface is horrible. Like others said, chess.com online analysis is very good these days. Other sites do it too.

I like Lucas Chess also. There are also many apps for chess analysis in mobile phone App Stores.
MainframeSupertasker

What about DroidFish?