PART 2 • Analyzing your games with houdini
Houdini will also analyze complete games as well as
individual positions. These can be games you've played
against Chess King, casual, club, or tournament games which
you've entered manually into a database, or even games from
the GigaKing database (or other databases)! You'll find the
controls for analyzing whole games in the “Game” portion of
the panel:
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• Full game analysis is really easy to use. First double-click on a game
from the database list (see the previous chapter) to load it into the main
Analysis screen of Chess King. Then click “Analyze” from the ribbon,
and the “Analyze” command from the left-hand panel to reveal the
“Game section” from the illustration above. You can then click one of
the four options:
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“Only blunders” does a very quick analysis of the game and
points out only the moves which lost a pawn or more. This setting
is best used by novice players.
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“Quick” does a very speedy cursory analysis of the game. The
analysis will be very good, but not as accurate as it would be if
one of the longer settings is used.
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“Normal” provides a very acceptable analysis quality. It doesn't
take as much time as the “Hard” setting, and trades a bit of
accuracy in some of the more complicated parts of the game for a
faster analysis.
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“Hard” is the most detailed setting. Houdini will take as much
time as it needs to provide the best possible analysis; analyzing
a thirty-move game at this setting can easily require an hour or
more of analysis time.
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