What Chess Programs do you guys use to analyze your games, etc. & what have you?

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Rancid-Knight

Sup y'all. I'm looking into buying a well rounded Chess program to analyze games, look up openings and play against. Never had one, but was thinking about the new Fritz 16. Seems like the most user friendly, too. What do you guys use or recommend?

NP173E18GM

you could use this app called "Analyze this"download the one that cost money.I tried the free one it's not that good as the one that cost money

Rancid-Knight

Haven't heard of that one, but I'll check it out. Grazi.

andrewnox

I have Fritz 16, and that seems to be good enough for me. ChessBase is more expensive, but Fritz does enough for me, especially with playing against the computer. I'd recommend it. 

Rancid-Knight

Thanks andrewnox. I'll probably just go with that Fritz 16. Looks like a safe bet. 

mgx9600

The trouble with Apps running deep analysis is that they use up a lot of battery when processing locally on the deivce (not to mention the small memory, which causes even worse battery situation because of higher IO, esp. when running on personal cell phone that is used for many other things).

 

If you want a totally free App, check out,

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adamtai.analysisboard

 

I wrote it mainly for myself.  I've found only 1 important bug so far (it declares the game a stalemate when it is 1 move away from being stalemate, I think it is because I put the check ahead of the movements in the code).  But it hasn't bothered me enough to fix (or better put, not high enough priority).

 

It is totally free, there's no advertisement or anything.  I don't make any $ off of it; I wrote it for myself to use and put it out there in case others find it useful.