Houdini 6 Standard Chess Playing Software Program Bundled With ChessCentral's Chess Masterpieces Ebook

The super strong Houdini 6 engine (ELO 3525) comes with the superb Fritz 15 interface and a huge database. One of the best features of the Fritz 15 interface is Live Book, which shows the latest moves by strong players in any variation. It is a live database, so if your older database hasn't been updated this feature will keep you current. Invaluable. Of course, any videos you download from Chessbase.com can be played within the Fritz 15 interface also.There is an excellent training feature that has many extremely useful functions, from opening and endgame training, to attack, defense, check and mate training. Really, there is so much to Fritz 15 that one has no excuse not to improve their game by several hundred points over months.And Houdini 6 is very strong. If you have the right rig, you can have this engine analyze on 8 CPUs. What used to take hours to find, Houdini 6 running on multiple CPUs can find in minutes. Very impressive.Highly recommended if you are serious about improving your game.

This program is super-strong. I use it mainly to analyze games that I have played - to look for improvements by both sides. In the infinite analysis mode, it shows results from different chess engines. I'd wish only for more allowed installations (I had a hard-drive problem on my new computer and it failed repeatedly before the company finally agreed to refurbish it with a new hard-drive under warranty. I lost my first Houdini 6 due to that. I had to buy a new one since there is nothing better than Houdini 6.

I will support the makers of most computer programs, despite, possibly, making it more "intuitive" would be appreciated. But, still, more than you can handle engine wise, and very decent graphics. Great deliver time!

Good learning tool