i said fritz was better than stockfish at analysing games because of its almost human style and a young almost prodigy laughed at me.
The concept is this fritz plays the most grandmaster moves of any engine therefore as a player isn't likely to be better than a grandmaster he isn't going to see 3 million positions and see the best ridiculous computer move from stockfish so fritz teaches grandmaster moves likely to be played.
How do you know Fritz plays with a "human style"? It's programmed the same way Stockfish is, to form an evaluation based on various aspects of the position.
Does it have a "human style" just because it's worse than stockfish, like a human? That's not a very compelling argument.
I think I'll stick with Stockfish.
Comparing the top engines you‘ll barely see any difference at all. I reproduced this often enough...
@cap78red #1
If you only read the Chessbase website for chess news from all over the world, then, after a while, you are likely to use the word Fritz more often in daily life. It is hard to avoid that word on that website :-)
(And for my amateur chess level, Stockfish is more than enough. Open source, free of charge and "Too strong, too fast" for me.)
I think Stockfish even does not have problems to beat the current WC - so it should be enough for every level. Sorry if I noobishly missed something.
yes but are you ever going to play like stockfish. I play like fritz and play to a strong level, i have learnt my tactical side from analysing 100,000s of positions from my games using fritz and looking what fritz would play- unless you are a cheat
@zitterbart and take the computer with you into the game what use is stockfish for learning if it comes up with moves constantly you need to analyse millions of positions to find-which is impossible to the human mind.
if you don't understand what i am saying you are obviously a computer cheat or from another planet- greetings from earth!!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry i should explain i meant studying games to learn from the analysis
you americans idea of analysis and study is finding mate in 3 100,000 times. I am sure the Russians motivate the émigré Russian teachers to get the americans useless at understanding positional analysis and getting into winning positions in the first place. Boo bad Russians.
I haven't used fritz so I don't know anything about it, but I have 2 titled players saying the free stockfish analysis on here is good enough. I love wasting money and would like fritz or hudini or something but if you've spent that much time with fritz only to be rated 1800 on here maybe it is just a wast of money =/
You think your style of play is influenced by the chess engine you are analysing with? I don't think it works that way.
If you like Fritz better, use it. There is nothing wrong with it. Although Fritz is significant weaker than SF, it won't matter in most cases.
But there will be rare cases in which the SF analysis is more precise and since it's totally free of charge (in contrast to Fritz), it should be objectively the better choice.
