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> Running Stockfish 30% to 40% slower for no reason at all, and with far less RAM / resources means that you'll get weaker analysis at slower speeds. Even if 1

> Running Stockfish 30% to 40% slower for no reason at all, and with far less RAM / resources means that you'll get weaker analysis at slower speeds. Even if 100% true, this is a complete non-issue. Absolutely nobody reading this comment is going to notice a meaningful difference or benefit from running their games against a 3550 Elo engine running hand-optimized x86 instructions versus a 3200 Elo engine running in WASM in the browser. The extreme convenience of pressing one button to receive high-quality analysis (and ongoing live analysis powered by a WASM engine) beats the annoyance of exporting your games to PGN and importing them into an external UI just for the sake of analyzing your games even farther past the horizon that humans will ever truly be able to understand. If you're a competitive GM or Super GM? Sure, maybe that level of analysis will help you find unexplored lines for your preparation. Fro anyone else? It's completely irrelevant.

dragontamer 5y ago
> The extreme convenience of pressing one button to receive high-quality analysis (and ongoing live analysis powered by a WASM engine) beats the annoyance of exporting your games to PGN and importing them into an external UI just for the sake of analyzing your games even farther past the horizon that humans will ever truly be able to understand. If you're a competitive GM or Super GM? Sure, maybe that level of analysis will help you find unexplored lines for your preparation. Fro anyone else? It's completely irrelevant. Its one button click for me. "Download .PGN" button -> open with SCID vs PC (which I setup as the default app for PGNs). I hit "F2" and bam, analysis is going on already. Sure, you have to set it up so that the F2 engine is Stockfish / tuned parameters as appropriate, but in the long run, having control of this is clearly beneficial. Especially if you're going to be using computer analysis to teach yourself more advanced tactics.

dragontamer 5y ago

> The extreme convenience of pressing one button to receive high-quality analysis (and ongoing live analysis powered by a WASM engine) beats the annoyance of exporting your games to PGN and importing them into an external UI just for the sake of analyzing your games even farther past the horizon that humans will ever truly be able to understand. If you're a competitive GM or Super GM? Sure, maybe that level of analysis will help you find unexplored lines for your preparation. Fro anyone else? It's completely irrelevant. Its one button click for me. "Download .PGN" button -> open with SCID vs PC (which I setup as the default app for PGNs). I hit "F2" and bam, analysis is going on already. Sure, you have to set it up so that the F2 engine is Stockfish / tuned parameters as appropriate, but in the long run, having control of this is clearly beneficial. Especially if you're going to be using computer analysis to teach yourself more advanced tactics.