I'm looking for a Windows-compatible software program that has similar analysis functionality to Lichess. Specifically, the ability to paste a pgn in and have the biggest mistakes and blunders pointed out in a clear way. Lichess could even force you to discover the correct moves on your own, which was ideal. So far, I downloaded and tried three programs, but, typically, they just show the rankings for the top computer moves for any specific position. Not the same thing. Worse is that the moves are just listed in algebraic notion. (Not shown on the board graphically.) None of them came close to Lichess. I'd rather not fill up my system with a dozen programs I'll never use. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
ChessX with Stockfish is what I personally use. There is no lichess-like automated blunder detection but it's pretty straightforward to see if you just turn the engine on.
LucasChess has some nice features similar to lichess, e.g. an equivalent of lichess' "learn from your mistakes" by turning blunders into puzzles to solve, etc. Comes with a bunch of different engines, and you can add your own.
ChessBase is best. Meanwhile the auto-analysis should work fine. In order to search and organize our chess content you won’t find anything better. There’s practically no good player who doesn’t use CB.
I have been using it for say 30 years.
ChessBase is probably the best BUT assuming you are not a good player and dont like investing on tools then the SCId and offshoots are decent option
http://scid.sourceforge.net/ has served me well enough. Pretty sure searches for particular end games etc. is somewhat better but not an issue for me. In case you want read books in chessbase format (I do) then chessbase free will do. SCID comes with stockfish and obviously can connect to whatever chess engine you have on your computer.
Oh and as offtopic: no chess book ever has had any impact on play skills.
I am not and never will be a strong player, but I have used and enjoyed Chessbase software for many years. However, it is good that there are decent free software options for people to consider. For Apple users Hiarcs Explorer I am told is a very solid database management option.
For engine games i'd use cutechess gui over fritz.
I am not familiar with cutechess, but since you mentioned it will look at the gui.
I recommend it over fritz gui simply because of better adjudication settings. For analysis fritz is the number 1.
Cutechess GUI - Engine Games.
Fritz GUI - Analysis.
It's also possible to install lichess locally on your machine. This is however far from technically trivial, but if desired you can have your own offline-lichess on your computer.
