I'm a beginner, and although I know that I can learn from losing, I would like to win a game once in a while. The problem is I have Fritz 8, and it is too strong for me. There are handicap settings, but they play more like a master who is letting me win, than a weak player trying his best. Can anyone point me to an engine that doesn't make blunders, but isn't very good?

I normally open (as white) p-K4 like Bobby Fischer does (that's the entire extent of any resemblence of my game to Fischer's), and the latest version of gnuchess seems to want to reply either with center-counter or kn-c6. In the later case, I've discovered what appears to be a fairly easy and consistent way to beat the thing, e.g. 1. e4 Nc6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 a6 4. h3 Bf5 5. f4 e6 6. Nf3 Bb4+ 7. c3...

I've been checking ChessGenius, ChessTiger and Hiarcs. They all look very good but I don't know really which one is the best to improve in chess. I'm not really interested in how strong they are, since all of them will beat me. What I want is to play good chess, learn a bit and have a good time. Any suggestions based in your experience?

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Hello all :) The crafty ftp site appears to be down ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/ Any ideas when it'll be back? thxs. ../i'khala

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Just bought a new laptop with amd 64 3700+ cpu and 1GB ram. Tried to install shredder 7 but everytime i load the program i get an error message: not enough memory. I can't change the engine without crashing the program. I tried to contact chessbase support and they mailed me a improved 704 engine, but the result is the same. The prog runs on my old celeron desktop without any problems. Any...

I have a nearly new Fritz 7 I will trade for a beginner or intermediate chess book or other software.

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hey all, Is there a way to convert NIC including annotations into chessbase? txs in advance Ton van Bladel

I have a running program. It runs well without transposition tables. When i add transposittion table i face some problems. * I choose some middle-game positions.The search scores with/without TT are always same(These are fixed-depth searches.I have no Iterative deepening at the moment.I do a direct search).Sometimes PVs are changing.But this is ok ,because TT affects move orders...

Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Will Crafty run as a native 64-bit application if compiled on a 64-bit system with a 64-bit toolchain? Yes Any commercial software support this yet? Quite a few I imagine, I'm sure mine does. The problem is that there is no public 64-bit Windows, so there's no audience to sell them to.

Dear Chessfriends, please let me inform you about a new upgrade of Vega (crossplatform swiss pairing software). The pairing system are the Swiss Dubov-FIDE, the USCF, and the round robin as well. There is online even a version for team tournament extremely easy to use especially useful for scolastic tournament. Thank you,

I'm tired of having to carry the fritz 7 cd. -- "this is a sigless ingredient"

l just bought fritz 7 and need the no cd patch. Anyone know where to get it? files -- . "no trails"

What do you think about its playing style? -matt

All the best Chess Engines can be yours for an amazing price! I am giving engines worth hundreds of dollars for a unbelievable price of only 10$ ! The engines are :- 1) Chess tiger 14 ,15 2) Shredder 5.32, 6, 7 ,8 3) Nimzo 8 4) Junior 7, 8 5) Hiarcs 6, 7, 8, 9 6) Fritz 7, 8 8) Gambit Tiger 2

Where can I download some of this engines ? 1.Shredder 8 2.Hiarcs 9 3.Chesstiger 4.Nimzo Thanks and best wishes from Macedonia