6/1/2023 0 Comments Chessok dinosaur chess![]() I hope this makes sense! It's an advanced feature I am not expert in at all. Obviously, inferior lines would be culled at some point. So, if SF is your main engine in a single thread running in IDeA, it will be "forced" to cue up and analyze the best ideas coming from other engines. IIRC, that means you not only could assemble a number of "instances" for IDeA to work on, but you could also be running different engines (Rybka, Houdini, etc.) through Sandbox and then feeding those as instances into IDeA that it will now cue up and evaluate. I might be talking above my actual knowledge base, but I got the thought from one of the Bicknell IDeA vids that another powerful feature (perhaps unique to Aquarium?) is to marry the IDeA tool with their Sandbox tool. Also, I find it enjoyable to play against engines in their GUI and also it is easy to run an engine match (just two engines right now). For now, I would say the strengths of HCE Pro are their very fast database handling, easy/simple IA with multiple engines, and their monthly updates of their opening books are nice. There has been discussion in their forums of adding some sort of deep analysis feature - but seems they are working through what that might look like. ![]() ![]() So, I don't anticipate that will happen very soon. However, I don't think the developer places a high priority on IDeA-like features relative to other things they are working on. Also does a very nice job presenting infinite analysis and using multiple engines. Quite fast searching and filtering multiple databases and the database trees update very fast making it nice in general to explore candidate moves. I have some very large databases and HCE handles them without hanging up while others (including chessbase) will often hang for a time while processing them. It has some really nice database features that make keeping open multiple very large databases relatively easy to do - making it a good choice for grabbing model games to import into IDeA. I have really liked some of the features of HCE Pro - what it does do it does well, very fast, and very simply. It is a very powerful and useful feature as you can analyze a game and link it to the IDeA project for the related opening (for example). ![]() In sandbox you can link the game you are looking at to an IDeA project and feed the IA lines (or any other lines from other sources like databaes) to analyze in your IDeA project. It is what I was debating, I am having second thoughts on getting ALSO hiarcs explorer with their opening book.īy the way these comments on iDea seem pretty interesting and i just opened all the links in this post to go through them, thanks for the insights. I need to know the quality of the moves and the variations based on the centipawn values. I was looking at the hiarcs explorer because of the opening book, yes it would be $80 for the software, plus what you need to pay a year for the opening book, but I wonder what the uses of the opening book are, if I cant see the moves in their centipawn values. as stated here, navigating through a database in aquarium is kinda clumsy, so using something like chessbase is better, however going through the theory on rybka aquarium, with the opening book is certainly a go. the opening book is huge, its essentially all i use in the software. I would like to add that if you own rybka aquarium but not the rybka 4 opening book then you own something but not all. I own chessbase 15 with the 2022 mega database and also rybka aquarium with the rybka 4 opening book. I purchased chess assistant once, but asked for a refund because I did not see the need for it.
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