All wrong. It sounds as if you or Mig were no real chess players. No matter of what level.M ANSARI wrote:The problem is that Rybka will not cater to its core users, which like to have the engine loaded in their home, physically on their computer.
Let me explain why you both are wrong with almost all others too. Main reason the profan buttonpushing which isnt chess at all.
Let me rehash what chess is and well below master level in my case.
Look at this:
when I was young I played and analysed our games with my dad. Then I went by train to Switzerland and bought my first journal the Deutsche Schachzeitung at the station. Man, that was like Easter and Xmas on the same day. These little commentaries from the editors or in exclusive mode by the GM in person, that made my day. I tried to play like them - of course with little chance because my dad always followed other plans.
Later we went into a club. Man what a shock that was. Suddenly I lost confidence that I understood sometting in chess. They played the lines that have been commented in the paper but I hadnt analysed all this at home. Then I visited the team events and studied the play of the first boards.
I observed veritable masters, but had no idea how they always managed not to lose - what became a usual fate to me when I climbed the ladder of strength. In short there was always someone who knew more about it than what I could play.
Other than true talents I never had a IM or GM explain something to me.
And that continued with the machines. I played with something weaker while others operated their tuned stuff that costed several thousands and the best were standing in math institutes and couldnt be bought at all.
Now for the first time, after over a decade of software updates I own the Wch programm - BUT the gap was still there because I never had the horse power that were the main source of success for the different progs.
For my job I didnt need a pentium at all. And for chess I should get the always best hardware now? Never in my life. I mean I have a life besides chess.
Now listen closely. I am still addicted to chess if I could afford the best possible combination in soft and hardware for the analysis of my own games. I want to get it. But not on the basis of always new hardware investings.
So, for me I promise you that I will loan the analyses time online to get my own games analysed at a best possible level. Call me an idiot but I'm no GM, not even active anymore, but I would pay hundreds of € to get deeper insight in what I playedmyself when my dad was my opponent because I recall every idea of that time. Was it really that stupid or was it brilliant but lost due to a later oversight? And I have played almost 2000 games!
Now the moral of it all: I am not the only one who wanted to know a really deep comment on my own play. But I admit that mere button pushers and the pompous freaks who dont play chess at all, they have no history to get evaluated. They are just operators without a life in the past. Living deads.
But a true chessplayer like me has 1 million positions with all the ideas and dreams and memories, fears and hopes, bloodpressure changes, hunger and thirst. And rocknroll...