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Oct 11, 2011
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#42
@nkt73 not quite. The preference should be for fewer cores for the same total GHz. This is to reduce the multitasking overhead.
Oct 12, 2011
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#43
You've been reading older reviews, for instance Fritz is now up to version 12. All you need for now is a cheap older version of Fritz or anything else that will allow you to add FREE awesome engines such as Houdini, Stockfish and Firebird. Look around for them at amazon and eBay.You DO NOT need the latest and greatest of Rybka or anything else, trust me. I use my ChessBase DB way more than my Fritz 12. If you are not a GM just about any decent chess program will be all you need. Download WinBoard, and then add the chess engines mentioned above. If I had known about WinBoard previously I never would've bought Fritz 12. I already had Fritz 10 and it was just fine, so is ChessMaster.
Oct 13, 2011
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#44
@emmanuel_toska
When a single task is split across multiple processing cores (or threads), something has to keep track of what's going on. This is deemed "overhead".
One can think of it as project management for processors. As you increase the number of "workers" the job of supervising and coordinating them increases. 2 workers does not give you twice the work done when you factor in the management overhead, it is slightly less than twice. The inefficiency (overhead) increases as the number of workers increases, as more of the total time is spent on management.
wizard chess
I think you may find the casual players using Chessmaster but the tournament players are all using Fritz, Rybka, Houdini, etc.
Chess Tutor - which implements the Chess Steps method (Stappenmethode) - might be worth a look.
http://www.shredderchess.com/chess-program/chess-tutor-step-1.html
I have not tried it myself except in as a demo, but it seems well thought out.
I find myself using WinBoard more than any other GUI. A close second is Scid vs. PC. Occassionally I use Fritz 12, Chessbase 11, and the Deep Shredder 12 GUI. I can't stand Arena, but I know others like that interface. Tarrash is about as simple as they come, with Kvetka a close second.
Chess King is terrible... not a fan at all. I also have never liked Chess Assistant, but I know that's also a popular GUI with others.
Each GUI does certain tasks better than others, so it really depends upon exactly what you're doing.
As far as engines, everyone should have as part of their collection, Houdini 1.5a, and the latest versions of Stockfish, Critter, Rybka, Crafty and Fruit. The free version of Komodo is good too. And yes, if you know where to look, the better commercial engines (Houdini 2.0c, Komodo 5, etc.) are out there available for download, but you didn't hear that from me.
A Google search will give you the download links for all of the free programs.
Fritz is excellent one.
Fritz,rybka are strongest chess engine for strongest player atleast ur rating should be 1400+ And these engine are good for game Analysis. For your rating chessmaster grandmaster edition is perfect and easy to understand and it include josh waitzin learn academy is excellent.
I thought Houdini was the strongest engine these days...?
Dec 8, 2015
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#52
NKT73 wrote:
Well, I gave all my commercial and professional chess programs away like Fritz. So I'm down to coming across an ancient Chess tutorial from the Netherlands call "Rebel Decade". It can only reach 2399 ELO which is higher than my highest achieved 2212 on Chessmaster 10th Edition.
That's quite an unusual choice of chess program. That's Ed Schröder's program that plays crippled by 200 rating points except every Friday. 
What operating system are you using? (Most people run it in some kind of DosBox setup, since it doesn't run on any of the modern OSs.)
+1 for ChessMaster (I have 10th Edition). I'm very much a beginner/patzer, and ChessMaster is pretty much a complete package. I do also have Fritz (in its 9 incarnation), it has some excellent features but frankly I think is something I might use fully only if and when I progress. The lessons by Waitzkin and others alone are well worth the price. The ChessMaster GUI does look a bit dated, but the content remains top class. Do note that it only runs on Windows, and the 10th edition I have requires one of the 3 CDs it comes on to be in the CD drive, which might be an issue for a laptop with no built in CD-rom drive. I daresay the ChessMaster engine is nowhere near as strong as others these days, but for learning it is plenty strong enough in my view.
Apr 8, 2016
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#54
Recently, Ed Schröder has been busy packaging up a lot of his old programs and other DOS chess oldies in preinstalled D-Fend Reloaded packages. Take a look, you might have some fun with these programs.
http://rebel13.nl/download/dos%20rebels.html
http://rebel13.nl/download/more%20dos%20oldies.html
Apr 9, 2016
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#55
NKT73 wrote:
My mom Huong Thi Thuy Vu always says to be nice so I checked it out and it looks like a LOT of hard work was put into it. Congratulations! My dad Nguyen Binh Thuy sent me to school for programming and I'm home schooled now; Almost 4 years has been completed so I've decided to make my own chess program. It is fully functional except primative. There's no legal moves checking so you can move anywhere. The columns from left to right are numbered from 0 to 8 skipping the number just before 7. The same numbering is for the rows starting from top to bottom. You would enter the column first then the row number where the pieces are. The second time you enter the column and row number is where you want the pieces to go. The q quits the program. I hope you enjoy the little work. It's not a lot like the Rebel package however it's something different I hope you find interesting.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ghbg1uu3tg3iaz6/NKT73.EXE
Here is an example of moving a pawn from d4 to d5, enter 37 then enter 35. The board should show the pawn moved.
Note: This program works in DOSBox 0.74, possibly MS-DOS 6.22, and Windows XP. Thanks for the link for the demo.
That's a good start!
NES battle chess!
It's important that you get the absolute most powerful chess engine, because, if you can only beat the number two engine in the world, you will never be good at chess. 
j/k anyway Stockfish 7 is both the strongest and free.
hi im a 1250 player! i was looking for great chess books, then someone told me
that chess softwares/programs are way better in some parts.
so i researched them and learned that people love chessmaster 10, fritz 9 and rybka 3. Now, eventually i'm going to get a rybka 3, but for now what should i get?
i heart that chessmaster 10, 11 and fritz 9 is good(but i only want to get one!)
so thank you to all of you who are going to answer me!
I have ChessMaster and Fritz and both will not run on my old computer so keep in mind the requirements of the program and the limits of your computer.