Analizing Tool

Hi everybody,

I am playing chess not just online but also in the real world and i would like to have some of the games i play analyzed by the engine of chess.com.

The Problem I have is that I know how to get a game analized i played online but I have absolutely no clue how to do it with my offline played games.

Can someone give me an answer ?

Uh... I'm sure any sex shop will have tools for analizing.

For analyzing, I don't think you can just send the site's engine pgn files. The site's engine is not terribly strong anyway. It wouldn't be a bad idea to just spend some money on a decent engine, unless (like me) you're on a Mac (in which case, you're pretty limited in options).

I think the most common ones people use nowadays are Houdini and Rybka. If you want to go with free options, Crafty is pretty standard. Just download the pgn and run the game through the engine. Most of them have some functions to generate a full game analysis report, or you could just click move-by-move, and let the engine spend as much time on each move as you want -- maybe spend more time on critical positions than trivial ones.

Is there a significant difference between Houdini, Rybka and Fritz?

I have Fritz and only use it as part of my analysis process. Does Houdini or Rybka provide anything different and useful?

@kleelof

Fritz is supposed to be a bit weaker than Houdini and Rybka. But truly, it is not worth switching for the very marginal difference in strength. The differences between the top engines are really minute at this point, and the most recent versions of Fritz are plenty strong. I guess if you were analyzing opening lines to prepare for the world championship, then maybe (maybe) you might want to use Houdini, but realistically it probably doesn't even matter at that level. 

Also, they have slightly different styles. Fritz is a bit more positional. Houdini is thought to be particularly aggressive.

Thanks for the help, I think i have to go to the (sex) shop now and buy one of these :)