Best chess analysis software

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mrpazoo

Does anyone know which of the commercial or free chess playing software gives detailed post-game analysis that is the same as the Chess.com one? I am referring to where the engine calculates best move, excellent move, good move, mistake, blunder, % accuracy, etc. I have a couple of tools, but they don't give statistics as detailed as the Chess.com one using Stockfish. Thank you.

notmtwain
mrpazoo wrote:

Does anyone know which of the commercial or free chess playing software gives detailed post-game analysis that is the same as the Chess.com one? I am referring to where the engine calculates best move, excellent move, good move, mistake, blunder, % accuracy, etc. I have a couple of tools, but they don't give statistics as detailed as the Chess.com one using Stockfish. Thank you.

The same? None of them.

Things like "accuracy" are proprietary to chess.com.

Marius01

It is a bit expensive, but I use Chessbase and then add the free Stockfish engine.  You can then  down;load your Chess.com pgn files into chessbase and when you analyze in Chessbase stockfish provides the top 3 (or howerever many you choose) best moves and you can also test out other ideas.  It takes a little effort to set this all up but then analysis is easy for ever after.

Sred

You can use the free arena with the free stockfish engine. Don't expect to reproduce the chess.com analysis, because that depends on the hardware and the engine settings. But the analysis on chess.com is very low quality anyway, your results will be much better with arena+stockfish.

sangahm

A vote for the free ScidvsPC, where you can plug in your favorite chess engine (eg. Stockfish) and analyze (similar to chessbase).

bong711

You deserve a very good analysis software. Use Fritz 17 with NN Fat Fritz. Upgrade your PC graphics card with the best  NVDIA RTX cards you can afford to use Fat Fritz.. Install the latest Stockfish version.

Ameershazlan

use DecodeChess App. truly like a coach. and FREE

lucianocardoso

It’s sadly, but as a beginner is not rare that I don't see improvements in the lines/suggestions when I analyze my games, or worse, sometimes even after a analysis with a powerful engine I still think that my moves are best, lol. So most of the time I'm still using Chessmaster to analyze my matches, it's really outdated, but generates a comprehensive report for novices, while I can’t find a replacement (i'm still looking that's why I end up here).

Engines are made primary thinking on elo power, not for learning, especially for the noobs.

JFSebastianKnight

Nice concept, but I'm not sure how helpful the "decoding" really is.

In Anderssen vs Kieseritzky ("The Immortal"), DecodeChess has this to say about black's final move before the checkmate:

Not much to learn from that.


 
 
Just in case White blundered, I guess

 

neveraskmeforadraw

Decodechess is a stste of the art piece of crapware.

CockDude

#8 (#8)

To be fair, it is the best move in the position (all moves are mate in 1). It was guaranteed mate in 3 after 20... Na6, what does DecodeChess say about 20... Na6?

AlteriVivas

#12 (#12)


CockDude

#13 (#13)

Seems very good to me, showing how Ba6 vacates a square for your king to run away to

WoodnBones
sound67 wrote:

Nice concept, but I'm not sure how helpful the "decoding" really is.

In Anderssen vs Kieseritzky ("The Immortal"), DecodeChess has this to say about black's final move before the checkmate:

 

Not much to learn from that.

You have to click Dig Deeper ... 
But indeed I'd say that app is for beginners till 1800 max.. above you don't have to read the verbose from the machine...

ruzolbenjie
JFSebastianKnight wrote:
#8

Nice concept, but I'm not sure how helpful the "decoding" really is.

In Anderssen vs Kieseritzky ("The Immortal"), DecodeChess has this to say about black's final move before the checkmate:

 

Not much to learn from that.


 
 
Just in case White blundered, I guess

 

 has a big bug

Spaniola92

If you can't learn from step by step why a move is not good then you are playing the wrong game lol

Lotus960

The Chessis app does a reaosonable post-game analysis. It highlights good/bad moves, excellent moves, threats and so on. It's on the Google Play Store.

Linus1969

Have You ever tried "Lucas Chess" ? It gives a good analysis. Colors to identify the quality (brilliant, good, interesting, dubious, bad, and blunder) of moves; a list of moves with the highest quality to poorest quality, clicking on which one can play through the sequence. But no annotations. It is a free program. Arena and Kvetka are also good programs. But none are comparable to Chess.com's analyzer.
https://lucaschess.pythonanywhere.com/home

ChessconnectDGTTest

I use Fritz 18, which is capable of analysing games and also commenting them using the so-called "Natural Language". So, for example in the notation you'll find, next to your moves, the line that the engine would have played, along with texts like: "White should have developed the Bishop in...." or "Black has no problems with ....." etc..

It also adds, at the beginning of the analysis, references to "famous" games (e.g. games it finds in its database") which are similar to what you played, indicating where you deviated, like "Qb3N" (with the capital N indicating "novelty".

Natural language for the comments is the one the program is setup to, so in my case the comments are in Italian language.

Hope this helps.

Linus1969

Thank You misbah_6060. I tried it and liked it.