![]() options like this, you don't have via browserĪlso, the simple act of manually commenting and annotating your games, is much smoother in a desktop UI, especially with saving when and where you want, undoing and reverting back (autosaving in lichess studies is nice.except for when you don't want to), copy/pasting fragments of games from one notation to another, cross reference with one or more database and much more. Well, you just have much more control over everything.įoe example, in Lichess you can use the local optmized engine for "infinite analysis" mode (engine running while looking at a position) but not for full game analysis, which is done server side with a cap to nodes/position to preserve resources local EXE does not have any limitations and runs at your full hardware capabilities, plus the best UIs lets you fine tune time or depth, the score threshold, how the lines are added to the game and so on. ![]() case in point, there's Fritz 13 on sale on Steam right now for $10 (at some point it was even available for less than $5), which has more or less everything it's bigger brothers have the actual analysis engine is irrelevant since the UI supports any UCI engine of your choice, so you can swap with Stockfish or whatever you like They may or may not be worth the price, depending on how extensive use you make of them you can however stumble on the occasional sale and, since there are many close iteraction not much different from one another, if you can get your hands on a close-but-not-latest version, it can be a good bargain. Then, of course, there's the Fritz/Chessbase family of commercial UI, which are equally good and whose biggest sin is probably that of being powerfull but not that well documented (so many things you are left figuring out for yourself). if you want to keep some extra notes, with formatting, diagrams and what not, it could be handy It has an integrated Rich Text editor, it's based on the standard ODT format (the one Open/LibreOffice uses) and can export to PDF too. SCID uses the same kind of extended PGN comments but with different tags for describing the graphics, and as far as I know, no other UI parses that format. there are many other UI that parse those comments correctly, so even if you open your game in some other software there's a good chance all your notes will be shown as expected. ) ever since it was implemented by Chessbase in their PGN exporting routine. When adding graphical annotations, it uses a format that has became a semi standard ( "%cal", "%cls". If we focus only on studying and annotating games, then ChessX has a couple of things that may be of interest: SCID has more powerfull features, first among others a very efficient database format that can handle huge archives with ease, but it's a bit on the "exotic" side if we are talking about pure UI appealĬhessX has a much more cleaner interface, but only works with PGN files, so if you want to add any kind of opening reference to your study routine, it may not be the most efficient choice. "Best" is a bit subjective for these kind of things, always better to do a test run and spend some time thinkering with the software to find what you feel comfortable with (personally, I find Arena on the verge of being unusable, for example, but i never really put too much time into it)Ĭommon suggestions for this type of use case, are SCID(" vs PC" or vanilla) and ChessX, both free and multi-platform. Please continue to give us your feedback and suggestions on how we can help make /r/chess better for everyone. Use the message the moderators link if your posts or comments don't appear, or for help with any administrative matters. Twitter/Facebook posts must contain a direct link to the tweet/post, and include the author's nameĬhess Spoiler format for problem answers etc., ![]() Instructions for /r/chess PGN addon ( Chrome, Firefox)ĭon’t engage in abusive, discriminatory, or bigoted behavior.ĭon't ask for advice about ongoing games.ĭo not use /r/chess exclusively to promote your own content. News Puzzles Games Strategy Twitch Other Resources ![]()
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