From what I understand, crafty is basically a 64-bit calculator, so ***COULD*** run a lot quicker on 64-bit hardware. But when I build crafty on my 64-bit Sun Ultra 80 (4 UltraSPARC CPUs), I have two choices. 1) Compile as 64-bit C code, without any assembler code. 2) Compile as 32-bit C, with 32-bit hand optimised assembler code supplied in the crafty source code. There's not much difference...

"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...

"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...

"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...

"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...

Hi, Shane is soon back, as read in SCID Forum. Regards Anton

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1569 Ruslan Ponomariov's Open Letter to the ACP 07.04.2004 "I am not trying to hold on to my title whatever it takes," writes the still-reigning FIDE champion, "but I can't put up with the absolute dictatorship of FIDE. I am ready to defend my title on the conditions that were clearly set at the time I won it." He also attacks Garry Kasparov for...

I recently downloaded the Gromit 3.82 engine and am running it with Winboard. However, I am uncertain as to how to integrate an opening book. One web page I found said that the engine would read Fritz style opening books (*.fbk). So I borrowed a couple of these from my Extreme Chess program (a less sophisticated commerical version of the Fritz program) and placed them in the same...

Hi, If you have any chesscomputers for sale, preferebly Fidelity, Saitek,Mephisto and Novag let me know. Especially interested inWood set . So dig into your closets and let me know what you have! Top dollars paid!! Charles

I posted just a few minutes ago (but it doesn't show up yet, so starting a new thread). With incomplete tablebases and pawns, the computer won't play right because it refuses pawn promotion. How about making search engines capable of an alternate format (about 16% larger???) that includes the pawn on the 8'th row as queens. This way, if you only download the tablebases with pawns, it will see...

Its possible with scid with crafty or scidlet analyze a game viewing best 5 lines? i mean something like this in ChessBase... http://www.cavallirapacidamonta.org/fritz.JPG Regards, Botvinnikov. -- Circolo Scacchistico

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Juha Kettunen wrote: "Juha Kettunen" wrote in message sori tää on vaan Mikolle: kokeilin muuten ohjelmaasi Craftya vastaan, ja se hävisi aika nopeasti ... vielä on varmaan paranneltavaa ... mutta varmaan toimii ihmisiä vastaan . Laitetaan jatkot 'rec.games.chess.computer':iin, mutta ongelmana on siinä väärä kieli. Ei voi mitään. Joka tapauksessa,...

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/7007/ Download Chess Client v1.41 Now (718k) ---------------------------------------------- This link is broken any other site where I can download Chess Client?

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Hello I downloaded and installed Chess Assistant lite (a freeware version) It seems that icon to connect ICC is disabled. Is it normal? Do I need to get Chess Assistant conmmerical version to use it as a client for ICC?

Take care. It looks like he took my money and ran with it. No CD as promised for $20. No response to my inquiries. A complaint has been filed with my $-transfer agent (PayPal), which may take up to 30 days to resolve. -E

I would like to start to program a chess engine, but I would more like to concentrate on other things than programming the basic thing (board presentation, bitboard system and so on). I would like to do searching algoritms myself and evaluation functions and so on, so all the things linked with the artificial intelligence. Would it be possible, and a good idea, for example ask Crafty code to be...

Anybody knows this gui and engine? How good is it? www.ychess.com

Here's a subject which everyone may say has been done to death, but it really hasn't been 'done' in the past few years. So everyone belly-up to the bar and give us your opinion of the ten best chess books ever written (or in your collection at least)... Here's mine, starting with the best, #1: 1) "The Test of Time", Garry Kasparov. A superb book, a collection of Kasparov's best games,...

"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...