http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~davoudo/pubs/blockage2.pdf How many programs have this bockage detection at the moment (Junior 9?)?

Not to play wireless chess, but to play against the computer (on my Blackberry)? Thanks for any info, Bharat -- R. Bharat Rao (remove "-nospam-this" to reply)

Message-ID: For reference- what are the simple definition for: 1.) General expressions 2.) Problem-forms 3.) Figure-theme's a) Activity of a single piece b) Activity of multiple pieces 4.) Chess-theme's

Message-ID: For reference- what are the simple definition for: 1.) General expressions 2.) Problem-forms 3.) Figure-theme's a) Activity of a single piece b) Activity of multiple pieces 4.) Chess-theme's

Beating them is very easy, all the chess programs have bugs that are easy to find !

I've had Fritz 8 for a week or so. One thing I like to do a lot is have it play both sides of a position, using 10-15 seconds per move. I haven't been able to find a good way to do this. For instance, if it is a position from one of my games in the database, I 1. get to the position 2. go to New/ Position setup 3. change the number of moves to zero (otherwise it seems to count

I'm using the Mychess viewer for our club's website. I've only put two games up so far but I really like the feature and so do other members of the club. It is incredibly simple to use but I have now run into the problem of inputting variations. So far what I've done is play through the game in WinBoard, save it as a pgn, and then publish it but I can't see how to get variations into WinBoard....

Hi there! For a university project I want to compare different algorithms (minimax, alpha-beta and some variants). So I am looking for rather simple and working opensource program where I can easily exchange the algorithms. I have already tried GNU Chess but the search routine is rather complex because of various prunings, heuristics etc. Thank you,

Fritz 8 - in the manual and help file it says: "The program can create an openings key based on the ECO code. In the database window, click New – Openings index and choose “Fine” for the openings index. If you choose “coarse” instead, you will get a less formal classification with well-known names like “Sicilian”, “Pirc”, “French Defence”, etc." However - I can't see how to do that. There is no...

SCID doesn't seem to have news beyond April 2004 when it was mentioned the reason for a short absence at *that* time ... any info appreciated, I hopr it is just that I was looking at an old cached page or something as I liked it. Keith

Hello all, I can't connect to playchess.com. The TCP session is established: from the client Trying playchess.com Connected Server timeout

What's the difference? The descriptions seem similar. Can someone enlighten me? Thanks much. Locksley

I got from the Net three files for my Fritz (X3DFritz.cbe X3DFritz.cbj and X3DFritz.eng) but I don't where to put them in my Fritz program so they work. Can any one help me? Thanks Drazen

I have seen various versions of Fritz 8( deluxe vs championship) with prices as low as $30 for the deluxe and $43 or more for the championship. Comments refer to new championship bilbao engine. Is this a marketing ploy of are there significant diffrences warrranting such disparity?

Are these compatible with Windows XP? There doesn't seem to be any info. given on compatibility on the Lokasoft website.

wrote in message ... You blithering idiots! You re-elected that imbecile George Bush as your President. He's a complete moron and so are most of you! So says an anonymous, self-proclaimed "victim." As if there aren't enough of those around. Don't you care what the rest of the world thinks of you?

Sound like a winner??? LOL

I am looking for an elo rating calculator program. EloCalc doesn't fit my needs and I don't want to use one online. It needs to be a downloadable program. Been looking for awhile and have turned up nothing. Any help anyone can provide is greatly appreciated. Thanks very much. Regards, Jeff

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Here's what Chess4Less says on their website: “Ultimate Game Collection 5 with the following improvements: 2.5 Million Games on the database Duplications under 0.5%” I just cleaned up the database. It started with 2,809,549 games, and had 1,220,270 duplicates. That’s 43.4%! NOT under 0.5% --