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Good graphics, friendly chess for PC? by Jane Galt[_2_]
I'm not an advanced player. I used to like Chessmaster for the graphics and a friendly game, but it never worked well and crashed a lot. Now I understand it's gone. So what can I get for the PC that has that good a graphics, and I can play a decent relaxed game, without getting my butt kicked 100% of the time, which is discouraging? I used to like playing Chessmaster without a timer, and...
Yesterday 12:13 PM
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Chess Games by Sergiu Herman
Hello Everybody How you can get Chess Games on the screen of the webtv play by very known Players life Botvinik-Fisher- Capablanca etc. many years ago I use to have a lot of this Games play by big players and replay the games and move the chess pieces, but I forget how I did it, I will be very appreciative if someone knows very good how to do it.I am not...
May 18th 13 10:12 AM
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Winner of the award for most beautiful girl chess player by samsloan
Winner of the award for most beautiful girl chess player It was a close contest with many worthy contestants, and a difficult choice to make. But the winner on tie-breaking points for the Sam Sloan Special Reward for most beautiful girl chess player at the 2012 World Open Chess Championship in Philadelphia has been won by Anna Matlin. A stunning beauty, Anna is a strong chess player too. Rated...
February 24th 13 12:39 PM
by GK Go to last post
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Smullyan Problem in Sherlock Holmes book by Christopher Heckman
I was re-reading Raymond Smullyan's _The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes_, and I came to the section "Some Chilling Reminiscences", specifically the second problem. The board is given as: 8/p1p1p1p1/p1kP2p1/8/P1N3N1/1P1bP1PP/1Q1Pq2P/r3n2B (in FEN notation), with the condition that Black is to mate on the move; where is the White King? Smullyan provides a solution using retrograde analysis,...
January 18th 13 11:52 AM
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Chess engine design resources by Thinus Barnard
A chess engine can in many cases be broken up into the following areas: The chess game rules: - Board representation (a confusing term for me, I prefer game state) - Interface - Move generation (heavily influenced by how the board is represented) The engine: - Position Evaluation - Search
January 11th 13 03:31 AM
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Chess engine design resources by [email protected]
On Tuesday, December 4, 2012 11:34:32 PM UTC-8, Jason Benjamin wrote: I am not an experienced user of newsgroups and I know virtually nothing of how to create chess programs. I have come upon a wiki at the http site chessprogramming.wikispaces.com and find it as a vague but varied reference on the subject. However, I have downloaded the sources of some chess programs...
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Which simple computer software for beginner to Intermediate -Openings training ? by u473
Simple question for a Beginner to Intermediate Level. Is there a simple openings training program software that will : 1. Rate and comment my move good or bad. and if bad, comment why. 2. Rate and comment better moves Thank you for your answer, J.P.
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Sam Sloan at Reno-Western States Open by Offramp
On Oct 28, 4:17*am, samsloan wrote:
November 11th 12 05:07 PM
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Free Android App for chess tactics training by Zuril[_8_]
Free Android app for chess tactics training https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cisana.ideatactics Zuril
October 14th 12 10:06 AM
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chess puzzles java by jmrw
I would like to make chess puzzles as this on (at the bottom of the page) http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/who-was-nikolaiuml-dimitrievitch-grigoriev Do you have an idea where I can find some software to do it. Thanks jmrw
September 22nd 12 08:18 PM
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Guess the move: free chess training system by [email protected]
I wrote this for my own use because I was dissatisfied with available software. It has had 8000 downloads on chess.com. Suggestions welcome (by email). Documentation available he http://www.chess.com/download/view/guess-the-move---chess-training-system
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K K Chan by [email protected]
On Saturday, 7 September 1996 08:00:00 UTC+1, harold van der heijden wrote: Does anyone know how to contact K.K.Chan. He was a programmer of Novag Chess Computers and lived in Hong Kong. Many thanks. Harold van der Heijden You can contact K.K.Chan he-
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Backgammon Tactics by Harold Thorne Review by Sam Sloan by Offramp
HERRING AND CABBAGE AND CHEESE SAUCE Take your eggs. APPLES AND MUSHROOMS There is poured over them in that you have, two spoonfuls of almonds rolled in butter, the vegetable on a little tender, pass them out, drain them well, and add the last are indispensable to which will work juice, and when brown sauce ought to cover them the puree of eggs placed on to a pan, adding a saucepan with an...
August 14th 12 02:59 PM
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Back Beef a la Raymond Queneau by Offramp
BEEF Bind the first of four eggs and let them in fat pork weighing perhaps three soup-spoonfuls of sherry and salt. Peel the threads. TOMATOES Take two or kidney which will not do and fins, which you have already added.
August 14th 12 02:58 PM
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Ideachess new improvement by Zuril[_8_]
New significant improvement! Now observing the solution of the tactics problems, leaving the mouse for a second on a move will be shown the main variants with the evaluation of the computer. http://www.ideachess.com/ Main features: - 100,000 interactive chess tactics and mates problems - Calculation of your ELO, statistics and standings - End games training
August 4th 12 08:47 PM
by Zuril[_8_] Go to last post
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Searching and/or parsing PGN libraries by Barry Gold
It's easy to find libraries with thousands of games. But sifting through those games to find games with a specific feature... that's hard. I'd like to avoid re-inventing the wheel, so... is there a program out there that will search game libraries (in PGN of course) for a given combination of moves? Example: poisoned pawn accepted and PxQ. Failing that, is there a standalone parser that I...
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ChessMaster 9000 EGDB - black pawn on a7 problem (FEG 3.03c) by [email protected]
The following position occurred during a recent game against a friend. 8/p7/8/P7/4k3/2K5/3n4/8 b - - 0 1 The Chess Coach in ChessMaster 9000 (v1.0.0; The King v3.23; 3, 4 and 5-man EGDB generated using FEG 3.03c) reported "Nf3 Safeguards - Game is Drawn", when actually Nf3 as the only winning move, all others draw. After black plays Nf3 the Chess Coach's advice is "Kc4 Black mates in 26",...
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P vs NP problem by Martin Brown
On 02/06/2012 15:08, Jesse F. Hughes wrote: "|-| E R writes: i.e. my Javascript Chess Engine Vs Deep Blue. I can look 30 moves ahead - 2^30 16^20 more than 20 moves ahead that Deep Blue can do. Keen! Let's see that competition!
June 7th 12 10:18 AM
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June 5th 12 09:34 PM
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FIDE Views on the USA and the Polgar Problems by chaos
On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 20:40:03 -0700 (PDT), samsloan wrote: (snipped) Some of the players were historical. For example Bobby Fischer had a high correlation with the computer picked moves. This was, of course, because Bobby Fischer was a strong player. Computers did not exist back when he was playing.
May 7th 12 04:08 AM
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