As you can see at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jmrw/Chess/Kasparian/base.htm chessbase8 can produce nice presentations of games. But I would like to have figurines instead of RCFT (in french) or other letters in other languages. So it would be multi-language. Does anyone have a solution ? Thanks

"Usenet being what it is, if you participate in newsgroups at all over a period if time you have the possibility of attracting your own personal lunatic, who considers any disagreement a personal affront, and considers it their duty and obligation to "expose" the person they fixate on. It's kind of pathetic, but they can't quite seem to figure out why no one else sees their actions as...

Hi I'm having trouble building Crafty under the new free C++ downloadable from MS (2003). Has anyone built for SMP - if so please post makefile (nmake) and any source changes. Robert if you are listening: Is there any chance of getting a Eugene Nalimov build binary? Errors follow...

http://w1.859.telia.com/~u85924109/ssdf/ Shredder 8 is on top !

Ok, I'm not insulting chess tiger itself, since I happen to think it's a great engine and one of the best out there, but as far as its "gambit" settings, they are a joke. Do NOT buy chess tiger thinking you're going to get some gambiting, brilliant combination seeking program, it does not do this. The "gambit suicidal" and "gambit aggressive" settings are silly. They might as well call it:...

Greetings. i currently have Saitek's Kasparov Team-Mate chess computer, and it's already quite old, so i was wondering if newer ones would have significant improvements in the ways they play, or is there no advantage in getting a newer model? Save for the improved features like digital displays etc which i don't really need (but wouldn't mind, either...would be nice if the computer remembered...

Years ago, I had an Atari 800 with Sargon-II. I recently started reading about how computers play chess. I recently read about how computers play chess and had some questions about how it played; mostly curiosity; since I don't have access to this old game to see how it does. Question 1: Does it do alpha-beta pruning? Question 2: Does it do any other form of pruning? Null search pruning? ...

The new update is out: http://www.playchess.com/updates/GUI8.iup What is new there ?

Good morning, i'm trying to add extensions to my engine. I'm using a classical alphabeta function : int alphabeta(int depth, int alpha, int beta) depth is dicreased 1 by 1 : eval=-alphabeta(depth-1,-beta,-alpha); At the beginning at the function alphabeta(), if king is incheck, i do ++depth. This works fine.

Hello, My program has a transposition table and quiescence search but I only probe/store things from/to the transposition table when I am in the normal alphabeta search and not when I am in the quiescence search. Is it possible to use transposition tables also in the quiescence? how? Thanks in advance, Tommy

I think that this used to happen when I tried to change my display in F8. I remember that there was a cure.Does anyone remember what the cure was? Margaret

I'm a beginner at chess ( have been playing for about a year) and would like to start studying tactics. I have Fritz 7 and would like to know if there is any way to practice tactics or do I need to buy other software such as CT ART 3.0. I have read Winning Chess Tactics but would like to practice on my computer. Thanks Rich

"BOOKUP" is a scam being run by a single, out-of-work, hack programmer! Mike Leahy is a known liar, thief, and con-man that runs this software scam involving something called "BOOKUP". First, he offers you some software for free in order to get your email address. Then, he plies you with emails trying to get you to purchase his paid versions of the program. Then, if he can suck you into parting...

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...