Antonio Torrecillas wrote in message ...
En/na Dr. David Kirkby ha escrit:
Sorry I posted this in another newsgroup earlier, but on reflection
that was not the best choice.

I played a game as white in which I made a real mess of things. The
PGN file can be found at

http://www.g8wrb.org/chess/paupau.pgn

I've analysed the game using the free open-source chess engine
'crafty'. The results of the analysis can be found at:

http://www.g8wrb.org/chess/paupau.pgn.html
(...)
Would anyone with 'chessbase' (preferably a few different versions
from a few different people) be kind enough to analyse the game and
give their results?

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In that case, I think human analisis can be much more interesting!!
In RGCA it is possible to discuss ideas, plans and little tactics.

I'd welcome human analysis, especially of the first 10 or so moves,
although my reason for requesting an analysis by 'chessbase' was that
I was contemplating buying the program, so wanted to see how it
compared with 'crafty'.

However, I think chessbase won't run under Windoze 2000, which means I
won't be able to use it anyway.

Also, is it copy protected in some way - I get the feeling a CD may be
needed in the drive in order to run it? I simply refuse to buy copy
protected software, since in general it causes so many hassles. I'd
like 10 pounds for every hour I have wasted over the years trying to
overcome licensing problems encoutered when trying to use software
legitamitely.

My 'PC' is not a convential PC anyway. It is a card with a 733 MHz
Celeron processor that plugs into a Sun workstation. It uses the CD
drive of the Sun, but I suspect any sofware relying on a CD present
may well have problems as this is not a normal CD drive. In any case,
I don't want to tie up a CD drive.

And also in this case, a simple computer analisis 5 seconds per move is
enough to find the big mistakes.

Thanks for that tip. I was going out, so time was not an issue, but I
guess it is useful to know the big mistakes, rather than worry about
moves so far ahead that I've no hope of comprehending them.

Feel free to email me if you wish, by getting my email address from:
http://atlc.sourceforge.net/contact.html