How do we use bookthinker with TheKing? Do we have to rename BookThinker.dat as TheKingBook.dat incase I prefer to rename BookThinker.exe as TheKingBook.exe? Please advise. Thanx/nsp

I don't know if anyone has already used Chess Discounters, located in Pennsylvania, but I would like to recommend them. They seem to have good prices on several items including DGT Boards, are nice people to deal with, and are responsive to inquiries. I've been eyeing the DGT Board for a while and broke down when I saw their price and free shipping. I received it in just a couple of days, and...

"David Richerby" wrote in message Ah. ECO is a genuine paper book: copyright rests with the authors. Like any other book, it's very unlikely that it's available for download. If you just want the main lines, you can download a text file from http://pgn.freeservers.com/ECOMast.txt This is great! Is there a place somewhich lists the winning...

Could anyone help me out with an activation key for Chess Informant Expert please. thanks Mac

Keppum al JP, PM "JP Hendriks" schreef in bericht ... Sevilla is a piece of software for Win32 intended to manage (Chess) competitions. It supports several competition systems like Swiss, Round Robin and Keizer. Several options are available to customize your competition to your needs and wishes.

Can anyone tell me the absolute strongest sound playing chess program right now? Also, what's the strongest gambit/sacrificing playing chess program? Thanks!

I need to practice using a 5 second time delay for playing in USCF over the board games. I do not need 5 seconds for each move added to my existing time, but rather a staightforward delay of 5 seconds before my clock starts ticking down. (The Chronos manual calls this "Andante Mode".) I tried setting up games using this delay in both Chess Assistant and Shredder, but have not been able to get...

Hi guys, lately I got one of my old favorite games: "Battlechess" but when i try to play the sound doesn't work on my win xp platform it displays this message: "Digitized sounds are not available in Enhanced Mode due to the nature of preemptive multitasking. Use standard mode to allow for digitized sounds"

Hi all When i want to use xboard as a internet chess client with timeseal, the error message : connection closed by fics appears When i don't use timeseal it is ok i use timeseal.Linux-i386 Thx

If I've entered a game in SCID, how do I set the game result? I've been entering a correspondence game I've been playing, and now that the game is finally done, I can't figure out how to edit the headers to set the game result. I'm sure it's something obvious, but I can't find it.... thanks in advance. -- Gregory Topov --------------------------------------------------------------------- "I...

Jud McCranie wrote: If the 6-piece endings can be done, what is the largest set that can reasonably be completed? Depends how long Moore's law holds, really. If CPUs keep doubling in speed every eighteen months and storage (both RAM and disc) keep up their similar performance (ISTR they've been doubling in capacity every year for a while, though I don't...

Does anyone know for sure if the Fritz 8 sold at Compusa is the same as the one sold at normal Chess line stores, package is different?

International Master = Master = GM = There is a Chess teacher i talked to the other day and he said his rating is about I650 would he be a International Master ?? or Master ? Is every player over 2000 a GM ? just wondering , thank you for any info....

Hello. I use ChessTiger on my Palm PDA, and it does a good job. Flexible, way too strong for me at most of its levels, and lets you play through games; even shows its analysis while replaying previous games. But it doesn't have a real "teaching" mode that lets you practice tactics (or even particular openings). Is there any program for the Palm that lets you practice tactics (and/or...

In the new (Winter, 2004) Chess Life, Larry Evans writes, "... why would anyone devote a lifetime to mastering a game from which it is almost impossible to earn a living if a hand-held device can find the best move in a split second?" (This was in response to a reader's comment that asking the computers versus humans question is "equivalent to asking if a fork lift could beat a weightlifter or...

This is probably (scratch probably) a stupid question. The help file for Fritz 8 says that bullet games are 3 minutes or less and blitz games are 15 minutes or less. Whenever I click on a game in the challenge window that is rated 3 minutes only, it shows the rating change for my blitz rating. Which one it the true level for bullet games? -- Bobby C. Proper reply address is without the text...

Hi gents, I've hit a wall... In the creation of a Frtiz 8 tournament, engine invites only, you can set each engines individual parameters and save them. So far, I have done this, setting each engine's paramters individually. Yet, when the tournament starts, I have no indication but plenty of contra-indication, that those saved parameters are not being loaded, instead the default parameters are...

Hello all, I began publishing a new chess programming tutorial. It follows my pet project of developing a chess playing agent from scratch. The tutorial is released in stages, as soon as I complete parts of the program. Each release includes a new chapter of the tutorial (in PDF form) and all the code for that release. The whole thing is free, of course, including the code which is licensed with...

howdy! have 64 games in a Fritz cbh database but I want to reorder them so lets say game 7 and game 5 switch spots on the screen. Any help? thanks

When I load SCID, the welcome window gives the message: "Trying to load the ECO openings file... Unable to open the ECO file: C:/Games/Scid/bin/scid.eco" Am I missing a file? (it's not in that folder) Or is this a separate download? Obviously it has to do with the opening book I imagine. Any tips appreciated. -- Gregory...