Some say Gruenfeld is one of the best openings for black..
Mhmm, maybe...but not for H3!



Total control everywhere! 

Let's go to the classic!
Even Breyer is not safe anymore.. 

Let's start with the mighty Najdorf:

Master Om wrote on 09/18/12 at 16:43:32:

We just discovered a new continent.. 
Let's call it America! 

Great analysis tool, but only for those who can work with it. (A little reading is needed and a lot of hard work to become good at it.)
As for the prices (special offers, discounts and alike), look at: http://chessok.com/shop/

A candidate to be the best analysis program: the new version of Critter uci chess engine (created by Richard Vida) - 1.6
Completely free, yet powerful - maybe best for endgame analysis. Download versions are at:
http://www.vlasak.biz/critter/

New improvements:

"Richard Vida
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:54 am Post subject: Re: Critter 1.6 released!

Recent changes/additions:

- Automatic detection of SEE4.1 capable CPU. Both SSE4/non-SSE4 codepaths are now compiled in a single executable and chosen dynamically at runtime.

- Large pages suppport. This requires sufficient user privileges and right OS settings.

- Own book is automatically turned off when analysing.

- Engine now honors multi-pv even when the root position is a tablebase hit

- Session file now supports IDEA. SF writes are disabled at root when any moves were excluded.

- Session file writes are now protected by OS IPC mechanisms (semaphores/mutexes). Same session file can be accessed concurrenlty by multiple engine isntances without risking corruption (useful when running IDEA)

- Removed UCI option "SF strategy", now its value is hardwired to "depth"

- New UCI option "SF move limit" which disables learning after game has reached given number of moves. When set to 0 this option is ignored.

- New UCI option "SF material limit" (0..32). Disables learning when total amount of material is less than the given amount [Q=6, R=3, B&N=1]. When set to 0 this option is ignored.

- Gameplay related changes:
* Tweaked blocked-pawn recognizer
* Skewer detection in eval
* King safety tweaks
* Pseudo-contempt: slightly increased preference of moves increasing pressure on the opponents king
* slightly increased preference of pawn pushes in semi-blocked positions
* Recognizing more types of drawish endgames

- new console mode commands "sf probe", "sf delete", "sf store" for mainpulating session file entries

Richard"

GMTonyKosten wrote on 04/07/12 at 12:48:57:


Uninstall and reinstall the engine, then when you add the UCI engine, tick the box 'below priority', if I recall correctly. Reducing the number of megabytes on the hashtable can also help.

Not a bug but maybe something to know. Komodo has a drawscore=-5 as default (in analyse mode too). It is maybe better to set this to 0 when you use it for analysis. And it is even more important to do this if you use Aquariums IDEA analysis, else you would probably get too much of something that looks like a odd/even scoring.
For IDEA use (or while excluding moves in normal analysis) I wouldn't thrust to enable positional learning, it could give some unpredictable results. (This latest is for other engines than Komodo.)