I was analysing an opening position with multiple lines displayed in Shredder and Rybka and observed some curious jumps in the evaluation function depending on the parity of side to move. I ran Shredder for about 24 hours and Rybka for 4 days. The position is from the English opening A33 : r1bq1rk1/pp1p1ppp/2n1pn2/8/1bPN4/2N3P1/PP2PPBP/R1BQ1RK1 b - - 0 8 With black to move. Conventional wisdom...

Our Rook House BLOG site is going to revisit the 1992 Fischer-Spassky match over the next few weeks. Every Monday, we will post a new article and game from the match in chronological order for your analyzation and enjoyment. http://www.rookhouse.com/blog/

I'm looking in PDF for: 1-Silman's Complete Endgame Course From Beginner to Master by Jeremy Silman 2-Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual 2nd (revised and enlarged) Edition by Mark Dvoretsky

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The site is mostly a resource for chess history. There is also a chess blog for interaction between visitors to the site. The main portion of the website just opened over the weekend. Please check it out. http://www.rookhouse.com Thanks,

Nomorechess suggested me that GetClub Chess should look for Defence moves and also look ahead when something is captured or King gets Check. His technique was implemented. But it looks like its depth has gone very down. Earlier it used to go upto 6 level deep now it goes till only 2-3 level deep. Play Chess at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html

The World Chess Cup takes place in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia between 23- th of November and 18-th of December. There will be 7 rounds on a knock out elemination rule. Round 1 Pairings: http://en.chessfish.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=548

World Youth Chess Championship 2007 (under 8, under 10, under 12, under 14, under 16 and under 18 years old - girls and boys) take place in Kemer-Antalya, Turkey, between November the 17th, 2007 (arrival) and November the 29th, 2007 (departure). Here are results from second round (first 10 boards): http://en.chessfish.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=547

Russian grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik won Memorial Tal with final score of 6 1/2 points of 9 possible. All 5 games played today were drawn finished and there is no change in the shedule. Final standings and cross-result table: http://en.chessfish.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=546

Probably a stupid question, considering the current state of all newsgroups. But anyway...this used to be a place where you could find some interesting and serious analysis. Now you have jokers trying to make money online with their crappy chess programs and advertising their silly games, and the usual Sloan and Chess One bs. Any listservs or groups for somewhat serious players?

Since we have so few cases of contested races in small states, I don't know if we can definitively say whether or not it is easier to get elected from a small state than from a large state. The best example of the problem this would create is Mike Nolan himself. Mike is from Nebraska, a state with only one delegate slot. Yet, for some unknown reason, Nebraska has produced more chess

This occurred to me today on FICS, when someone needed an example of O-O mate. Premise: Starting from the initial position, construct the shortest possible game so that the final move is a mate delivered by castling. I could quickly come up with a solution in 9: 1 f4 f5 2 e4 fxe4 3 b3 Kf7 4 Bb2 Kg6 5 Bc4 Kf5 6 h4 Kxf4 7 h5 Kf5 8 h3 Nc6* 9 O-O#

CM 11 (Grandmaster edition for PC) will shortly be released, Nov 2nd in my country. I have not read nor heard a single word about this product. Does anyone have any knowledge about this program? Thanks, Gra

Dear Chess friends, a new version of the free chess games collection is available for download on http://www.icofy.net Games: 5,025,445 (includes Correspondence and Over-The-Board Chess) Players: 283,749 Period: 1560 - 2007 Formats: Chess Assistant, ChessDB (Open Source) and PGN (usable with nearly all chess programs)

GetClub Chess beat jester in just 28 Moves. Jester was ahead but GetClub found a Check Mate and won the Game. Game Played at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html White: Jester Black: Easy Level (GetClub.com Chess) Recorded game: http://www.getclub.com/playgame.php?id=DM11974&game=Chess

Care to share them? If not the specifics, how about just commenting which one's higher and what the point spread is? Just curious. Thanks.

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I own Ray Cheng's "Practical Chess Exercises" (Wheatmark 2007). It' a very good book with 600 "Lessons from Tactics to Strategy". Or according to IM John Watson (USA): "If You study this book, you will acquire the most important chess skill of all: the ability to think for yourself." Now I arrived at exercise #155.

Capablanca vs Janokowsky St Petersburg 1914 Very nice game. Capa has a very clean game. Doubled pawn on e file? Interesting. SO doubled pawns is not always a bad thing? http://www.youtube.com/swf/cps.swf?video_id=qKNZ6Hqw0dg&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//img.youtube.com/vi/qKNZ6Hqw0dg/default.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskJLpwdQIwadPe7lwvBMBaSs&&rel=1&border=0

In this game Jester win. But many times GetClub went ahead of Jester. But later the Queen & Bishop got Pinned and were killed So GetClub lost the game. The Game Played at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html White: Jester Black: Easy Level (GetClub.com) Recorded Game: http://www.getclub.com/playgame.php?id=DM11740&game=Chess