Chess analysis software

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Cumnor
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Re: Chess analysis software

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Here is a nice online chess game analysis maybe good for human games https://app.decodechess.com/
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Re: Chess analysis software

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Dann Corbit wrote: Fri Feb 01, 2019 12:44 am
S.Taylor wrote: Fri Feb 01, 2019 12:08 am
AdminX wrote: Thu Jan 31, 2019 2:16 pm
jdart wrote: Thu Jan 31, 2019 3:29 am Fritz has had this for a long time (see http://help.chessbase.com/Fritz/15/Eng/ ... 000017.htm).

--Jon
I think he means voice commentary that you can listen to. Otherwise, yes Chessbase / Fritz has had this for years.
I used to post my wishes for such a thing, but i was asking for something much more expert than what IM Malcolm Pein did for fritz, and certainly not random comments.
But entertaining narrators are also very nice, but there should be more serious/advanced chat options too.
Even the more entertaining ones MUST be genuine to the position and not purely random.
When i used to post my wishes for such a thing, others claimed it was distracting. But for me, it sometimes even helped me concentrate! But only good if i feel it is intelligently done, and that it gave me something to think about in that position, even if it is wrong assesment.
I think chess analysis software is quite an interesting and important topic.
We make engines stronger and stronger, but we put no effort into making something that will teach us better and better.
Simple things like how Wilhelm would show patterns on the board are very helpful.
And the "Plain language" descriptions by Chessmaster were very nice.

I think a real revolution in chess for humans is not going to happen until we teach those shiny silicon beasts how to teach us.
+1 That would be the TRUE test if AI
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