somebody knows if theres a hydra-chess-engine???

My son (12 yr old) used it for about a month until he got board of it. He did master many of the skills - call out a square and he can name the color, call out any two squares and he can tell if different, call out any square with a piece and he can tell you what squares that piece attacks. Not sure if it helped his game though - he has been stuck at 1800 uscf for more than 6 months. Ghen

Which is the strongest engine for tactics ?? C.C.L.

Does anyone have experience printing chess diagrams and commentary? I'm interested in printing chess positions on index cards, with text on the back of the card. adp

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Does anyone know of good endgame training software?

I can buy "Fritz Chess 9" from Excalibur Publishing (UK Chessbase distributor) much cheaper than the "standard version" from Chessbase. The specs seem to be exactly the same - including a year's membership to playchess.com. Except on the Excalibur site they don't advertise this: "Chess course for advanced players (3 hrs. video in Chess Media System) a 3-hour tutorial for advanced...

Does anyone know if there is a way to make this disc work on Windows XP? Thanks in advance. mahduk

How do you "kill doubles" that contain notes/variations? Here is an example: 1) Find a game that has VCS (variations, comments, etc.). 2) Copy the same game twice to another database. 3) Run "Kill doubles" on the other database. 4) Both games you just copied will still be there - they are not recognized as doubles. Is there any way around this without doing "Unannotate DB"? (however -

I was thinking of buying Chess Tiger 2004. I would like to know if it works under Windows XP? Also would like to know if you can adjust it to play weaker? Thanks

Dear Chessfriends, Please let me inform you that the new 4.0 version is online. It run under linux and windows. It administer round robin and swiss system (FIDE Dubov variant, USCF) and permits rating report to FIDE and USCF. There is even a freeware version. Thank you, Luigi

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So, after Fruit chess engine, there seems to be a newer kid on the block, or is this too soon to mention? Rybka something: is it really this good or is everyone just playing with it? The extreme low value of kN/s is remarkable. And why is it so hard to find?

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This year Chessbase does not make any discount for an update Bigbase2005-Bigbase 2006. So you have to pay 50Euros (about 60dollars) instead of 30. I wonder if many people will pay that much for a database where only 10% is "new" (and part of it you can get free from TWIC). Any comment ?

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Saw this article on Yahoo and thought some of you might be interested to read it: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051216/tc_nm/chess_topalov_dc;_ylt=ArJy73Bw4vRs2oel8SF0p8.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3cjE0b2MwBHNlYwM3Mzg- --Richard

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