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| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | ChessCentral |
| FEATURES: | DVD-RAM, Zap!Chess is the 2005 World Co/mputer Chess Champion., The DVD contains two versions: Paderborn and Reykjavik, Fritz9 user surface with many training functions for beginners, club players and Grandmasters, Exclusive photo-realistic 3-D boards in various designs, Access to the ChessBase internet chess server Playchess.com (free for 12 months) |
| MEDIA: | Software |
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Customer Reviews of Zap!Chess
Buy Fritz 9 or Hiarcs 10 instead Zap!Chess is an engine that uses the same GUI as Fritz 9 and Hiarcs 10 and, like them, has the million game database, the free one-year subscription to Playchess (to play chess on the Internet), training functions plus a host of other useful features. BUT so do Fritz 9 and Hiarcs 10 and they have infinitely stronger engines and are much more useful for analysis. Zap!Chess won the world computer championship last year under the name Zappa(though it will certainly not win this year) but it was a multi-processor version on much the most powerful computer in the tournament. Anthony Cozzie, the author of Zap!Chess, deserves credit for taking a very average program and getting it to run very fast and efficient searches on a powerful computer, but the fact is that the engine offered for sale here is very average indeed on an ordinary PC. It is in ninth place in the respected CSS rating list for chess programs - a long way behind other ChessBase engines such as the splendid Fritz and Hiarcs in strength of play and more than 200 Elo points behind the top engine. It is equally far behind as a tool for analysing games. <
>So if you do not own a ChessBase program go out and buy either Fritz 9 or Hiarcs 10 - or both. If you possess one of these programs then you can download various UCI engines from the Internet and use in the Fritz/Hiarcs interface. These include Rybka 1.0 beta, Toga 1.2 beta 2a and Spike 1.1, all of which are stronger than Zap!Chess are are free! <
>ChessBase produces a large range of wonderful chess programs, which can be highly recommended, but Zap!Chess is not one of them. <
>An added comment on 6 July: tests have shown that Zap!Chess is strong on two CPU machines and very strong on 4 CPU systems. For the growing number of people with dual-core computers then Zap!Chess is certainly a suitable choice.