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Increase the quality of your analysis by using different chess engines on different
computers, combining the results in a single board window. That is just as
comfortable as if you were running the engines locally on your own computer.
If you own several computers you can use them with Engine Cloud to create a single
analysis. When you do this you have all the ressources of the available hardware
and software at your fingertips.
It is possible to remotely access an office computer and use its chess engines in the
Interface as if they were stored on your own computer.
This system offers many advantages to tournament players. They can travel to a
tournament with a relatively weak notebook. In between rounds they can use Engine
Cloud to analyse positions with the more powerful computers that they have at
home.
Chess engines are extreme applications that demand a computer’s complete power.
This means that a lot of energy is needed. If you work with a notebook a lot you
can use the computing power of other computers to prolong the life of your battery
and still use the maximum power for analysis. Another advantage is that the fan
doesn’t have to be used so much, so the computer runs more quietly during the
analysis.
Powerful computers cost a lot of money. By using Engine Cloud you can pay a small
fee to use top engines running on extremely powerful hardware. You can decide for
yourself how often you want to use these ressources, so you don’t have to invest a
lot of money in expensive hardware to make first class analyses.
For complex analyses you can access several machines at the same time as
kibitzers, each running with full power.

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