What is the most likely outcome of a game in which *legal* moves would be randomly generated? Probably a draw, but did anybody ever test this with a computer? How difficult would it be to modify an existing software so that it generates such moves (i.e. replace the evaluation function with something random, I believe)?

Gents, Young chess students around the world will battle for the title of Internet Scholastic Chess Champion. Over $10,000 USD in prizes, trophies, and memberships to WorldChessNetwork.com will be given away to the contestants. The main qualifying rounds take place online at WorldChessNetwork.com between October 20 - November 30, 2004. The final 8 (eight) students remaining in each of the two...

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What does the newest Chessmaster 10th have for copy protection? Does it require the CD? If so is there a crack? I'm pretty happy with Chessmaster 9000 and it would be a real "downgrade" to go back to needing a CD to play. thanks Betsy (with legal game and messy desk)

Greetings chess fans!! As most of you might have read, for the past week I have been attempting to run REBEL12 DOS V12.00.02 JAN 04 on an old 386-25mhz DOS v6.22 machine with 8megs of ram. The manual for Rebel 12 DOS indicated that the minimum requirements to run Rebel 12 DOS were a 386 CPU, VGA card, DOS, and 8-megs of ram. Well after a weeks worth of trying I have been unable to get it to...

Technical support has absolutely ZERO interest in hearing about bugs in the chess engine. They directed me over to the CM 10 Forum which mainly puts you in contact with other users of the program. Other people hear have been complaining about how the game makes strange blunders sacrificing material for no apparent reason other than to throw the game. I encountered a similarly strange occurance...

Hi all, Does anyone have opinions, if Fritz is worth the extra price they charge over Chessmaster? In the rankings the CM engines seem to be weaker than Fritz but both are amply stronger than I am, so that shouldn't be an issue. In fact, the important point would be that the engine could be handicapped to play at less-than-full strength (so I don't lose every time!), the software should have...

I recently got HIARCS for my Palm (Tungsten E), and I think those modifications should be interesting : - The queen in the piece chess set "challenger" looks too much like the king (the chessgenius chess set is far more readable). The "challenger" pieces look too fat ; - I'd like to save games in different databases. there is no need of nested directories but at least to categorize easily games...

Why don't you can it? Nobody wants to read your trash. -E

Hello, Beta Testers wanted for DiagTransfer, a freeware program. To take a look at DiagTransfer click on the link below http://alain.blaisot.free.fr/DiagTransfer/English/home.htm DiagTransfer is a chess editor position (fen/EPD) with two originals features: -An original method to copy diagrams in another program or in web pages with a semi-transparent window you have only « to trace » the pieces

When I got my CM 10th edition, and saw that it came with a pair of el-cheapo 3D glasses, I thought this was a silly novelty. But then I tried 'em! I haven't used chessmaster since 5000, so I don't know if this is a new feature or not, but I *love* the effect. With my 21" monitor, and the classic wood staunton pieces, I can almost feel the grain of the wood. I enjoy the effect so much that I...

I play chess on an internet chess website and I cheat. I use shedder 8 to make my moves, however, it is not doing so good recently. I know there are others out there who also use a computer program to make moves on the internet chess sites. Can someone please advise me as to what setting I should put Shedder 8 on so that it is unbeatable?? My computer is 3.2 MGZ with 1 gig of RAM.

Nobody wants that junk. But if you insist post it on a website and give the link. It's stupid to post it piecemeal as you are doing. -E "Chaos" wrote in message ... A 14 engine, 2RR engine match has just ended on this computer. I thought I would post the games to this forum for those who may like to have them. Because of...

Anyone know the Danish chess player that came back to the tournament hall at night and cut-off all the queen heads after he lost a game that day for a hand slip on a queen ? Rumour has it the story with reported in "Chess Scene" ! Anyone have a copy of the story ?

Interesting article: http://home.att.net/~bobbyfischer/watai_admits_fischer_marriage_aimed_at_getting_visa.htm

I have just been given a fully functional Compact 386 25mhz with Windows 3.11 and 8 megs of ram with a 120mb hard drive. After enjoying a nostalgic trip back in time playing with Windows 3.11, I started trying to figure out what I could do to make this machine useful in some way. I decided that I would do what I can to turn it into a nice little chess machine and was wondering what programs...

One of the tactics problems (01 D 13) from Claude Kaber's website (http://webplaza.pt.lu/public/ckaber/) is missing the players' names and the solution. Can anyone find the game having this position? 4rrk1/pp3ppp/2n5/3N3R/7q/8/PP2Q1PP/3R3K w - - 0 1 (Solution below) .. .. .. .. ..

KChess Elite 4.0 is great! Its small and plays really well. If anyone wants to trade their saved games email me.

Chaos wrote in message ... A 14 engine, 2RR engine match has just ended on this computer. I thought I would post the games to this forum for those who may like to have them. Because of the number of games played, 182, I will only post one rd per day so as to keep the message length within reasonable limits.

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