If you have broadband (or a lot a patience) please give this web video a try. http://www.bookuppro.com/tutorials/trainingdemo.exe ChessBase and Chess Assistant users often ask me how Bookup's training approach is different. This video explains that. Mike Leahy "The Database Man!"

I need help finding a good pairing program handling fide-swiss with or without modifications. It must be fully windows compatible i.e. user configurable with regards to printing fonts, different codepages etc. It also must support different types of tie-breaking systems (Bucholtz, progress, lot etc.). If there is anyone out there who knows of a good program please let me know. Yours

I use ChessBase 8 under Win98 without any problem. I just bought a new computer running under WinXP and installed CB8 with all the fonts ... But I am having the following problem : if now I want to insert a diagram in the notation (text after move/ctrl + D) the familiar "knight in a square" icon does not appear ; instead I have in the comment window a "z" with a small "v" on top (ž ; looks like...

In playing against Shredder8, I traded down to a Knight and King versus Knight and King ending. Shredder kept playing on for eight more moves until it asked for a draw. Has anyone else had this experience?

A while ago I received an email invitation to join the chessdatabase group at Yahoo: *************************************************** You are invited to join this New Yahoo Group about Chess Databases (commercial and freeware programs). Enjoy it! Thank you Chessdatabase Group

Is anyone using Shredder 8 for practice at home? Any comments on the program, its usefulness/utility for improving vis-a-vis OTB opponents? -- HH 'What goes around comes around'. -- Robert J. Fischer

I have also noticed that if I load a mate in 7 puzzle and then solve it in a few minutes, then start a new game a play it all, then I load the mate in 7 puzzle again, the chess program still remembers the solution (from the TT) and plays the correct move immediately.... I thought that with always replace, after more than a billion nodes (on a much smaller TT) the TT would not be able to retain...

Hello! I like playing against Fritz, but I always lose ;-) My Fritz programm has imho two scrollbars which are important for his strength: one is strength in Elo and the other is mistake-tolerance. If I set. last one on e.g. 4 or 5 (I usually play with 0.5), it is not fun to play because Fritz doesn't avoid material loss. Which is a good value for this mistake-tolerance so that I can play...

Does anyone wont to exchange the serial number for Fritz by engines like Shredder 8 Deep Junior 8 Junior 8 Chess Tiger 15 Rebel 12 Nimzo 8 the king 3.23 chessmaster 9000 Hiarcs 9 Hiarcs 8 Bareev

Recently I tried to install and run Fritz 8 on my PC which has Windows XP Professional OS. For some reason it keeps freezing as soon as I try to run. The installation went smooth and all. No problems there. Wonder whether Fritz 8 works on Windows XP Pro at all. Previously i was running it under Windows XP Home successfully and never had any problems. Thanks in advance for any help in this matter.

I own Bookup Professional. I've read through the Bookup website a number of times and I've been through some of the online help, and I'm still not quite following how to monitor developments in my opening repertoire. Right now I just use Bookup to key in my opening reptertoire - using the training feature occasionally. Here's what I tried: * I grabbed a copy of TWIC as a PGN * I created a...

Try to download to www.Freechess.org the Varese interface is relly nice see ya there Cariboou

When playing on ICC, one is not allowed to use a computer or databases unless one has a computer account (C). I respect that, and don't cheat. However, I do wonder if it would help players develop if they could opt for a 'semi-assisted' game, where books could be used. And perhaps another where books + computer databases, could be used, but **not** calculating engines (crafty for example)....

APR 17, 2004 THE OTTAWA CITIZEN PAGE: L17 Happy Birthday, Garry Deen Hergott The Ottawa Citizen This past Tuesday, April 13, marked the 41st birthday of arguably the strongest chessplayer the world has ever known --Garry Kimovich Kasparov,

The makefile has changed in the Crafty's recent version. Can someone please post the instruction to compile Crafty in MS Visual C++ 6 ? I have no problem of compiling the Crafty v19.10 but not the version 19.11 and 19.12. The instruction (as below) posted by Simon is no longer working :- Well if you have nmake and Visual C++ it is pretty easy.

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I hear that good human chess players have hundreds or thousands of situations that they have studied. When they see a board close to them, they coax the game into the situation they understand then rely on their understanding of that situation. And computers can't play that way because it's too expensive for them to classify the situations. If that's all correct, then it would be to a...

OCTI Challenger: Donald Green OCTI is a simple, yet deep game of strategy designed to give humans an edge over computers. The basic premise of the game is that players build their pieces as they play. On each turn, a player must decide whether to move a piece, improve a piece, or add a new piece to the board. This simple framework creates an extraordinary array of strategic options and plays...

hello, where can I find an opening file, easy to parse, for my chess engine? Thanks, Tommy

Dear chessfriends, I just want to inform you about an update of my chesspage, the linkcollection to free downloadable chessgames: http://www.chessgameslinks.lars-balzer.info Some links have been added or updated and a new section (games from famous chess books) has been included. Greetings Lars