My son has recently started playing chess at school, and we have Lego Chess at home for him to practice with. I was curious just how strong the Lego Chess program is: it has a 'difficulty' setting that runs from 0% to 100%, but I was wondering if anybody knew roughly what its ELO rating was. I tried scratching about on Google, but couldn't find anything there, so if anybody can point me at...

I think I've asked this before but I didn't get a memorable answer... If I'm playing/practising chess against my comp with a mind to maximize my improvement, is it better to play a game the whole way through without analysis, or evaluate the position with help of my comp on a move by move basis? Many say comp analysis is only good for immediate, tactical considerations, like a fork here or...

Is there a program out there that can do the following: I want to enter in limited openings for my son to practice. Ideally, the program would randomly play the openings from that entered and correct the user if a move is not in the database. Thanks in advance, Mark

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Hello, I cannot see the Photorealistic 3D boards with Fritz9, it tells me "you need to install DirectX from the CD in order to use 3D boards". I did not install Directx from the CD because I already have DirectX 9.0c on my computer. After clicking on OK, it dipslays this ugly old 3D board. My graphic card is a Geforce2 mx with 32 mb ram. Thanks.

Hi Everyone: I had been using Chessbase 9 for making html/javascript games from our chess club for posting online. The last couple of months I used Chessassistant 8 (it gives a many more options for the website visitor such as board size, color, chess font, etc.). I tried doing some searching online but wasn't able to find anything else that seemed really good. Do any of you know of or have a...

ok this is just a twinkle in my eye right now and is far from complete but.... what about a format instead of the current movetext portion of pgn that looks like this: { {"e4", "e5"}, --1 {"Nf3", "Nc6"}, --2 {"Bb5", "g6"}, --3

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Hi Everyone: I had been using Chessbase 9 for making html/javascript games from our chess club for posting online. The last couple of months I used Chessassistant 8 (it gives a many more options for the website visitor such as board size, color, chess font, etc.). I tried doing some searching online but wasn't able to find anything else that seemed really good. Do any of you know of or have a...

I'm angry about this. Now I'm not allowed to get updates to Chessbase 9 without purchasing a new serial number?! There's no way I'm going to purchase another serial number for a 100 dollar program I installed a year ago. I'm reduced to downloading only weekly chess games from TWIC. I'm switching to playing practice poker against the computer instead...because it uses less resources than playing...

Chessville and ChessCafe are joining force to monopolize the chess B&E market. I believe Innes and Kingston are the same person. Sam Sloan

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http://utdallas.edu/~njg011100/chess.html With Nate's Chess Game you can play chess online whether you only have 10 minutes to spare or the whole day. Either way, you are guaranteed a good exercise for your brain and you'll have fun too! Online chess at its best! You choose when to move and how often to move, and you don't have to finish the games in one sitting -- they'll be waiting for you the...

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I got Fritz 9 for Christmas. I already have Fritz8. The Fritz8 engine is not included with Fritz9. Is there any way I can get it into Fritz9 so that I can play the engines against each other? I tried importing the UCI Fritz8 engine but it failed. Henri

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