I want to enter my OTB games in fritz 8 for it to analyze. I see how to have fritz play a human vs computer game, but what menu options do I take to enter an OTB game for later analysis? Marty

I need a freeware chess game for my son, age 8 years. Could you suggest one? \Olsen

I have Fritz8, Hiarcs8 and Shredder 7.04 installed on my laptop. I mostly play against these programs in sparring mode (currently sparring modes "Harder" and "Very Hard"). For some reason, whenever one of these programs is playing White, it takes about 3 minutes for to select a move, and it almost always is 1.Nf3. How can I tweak the opening book so that it plays more "classical" games (1.e4,...

hi hi Does anybody know about Shredder 8 E'04? i found: http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3935602979/qid=1076973181/sr=2-4/ref=s r_aps_prod_4_2/302-1011078-2673634 It will be released on 3 of March.

Hi, ist there any known program that would let me generate nalimov tablebases and that let me specify exactly which tablebases to build, which means more precisely that I specify the pieces I want to have calculated instead of a given list of tablebases of which I can choose from? Michael

Dear all, I am looking for an Xboard compatible tournament manager to run on Mac OS X. (Panther) On windows, I already used Schredder 6, Jori Ostrovskij's WB Tourney Manager. More information can be found at http://www.aarontay.per.sg/Winboard/Winboard6.html# But the reason I ask here is because it does not solve my needs.

SCID has all kinds of separate windows, eg the game/board window, a PGN window. All these separate windows complicate task switching, because it's difficult to bring up all the SCID windows at the same time. Is there any way to integrate or combine all the SCID windows into one separate window, so SCID shows up just once in the task bar? This will make task switching easier, so I can restore...

For those of you new to rec.games.chess.computer, I just want to post a note mentioning that I have a site with information on handheld chess computers. It mostly covers the Excalibur handhelds because I've done some debugging of their prototypes. (But I'm not employed or paid by Excalibur in any way.) I do have a review of Chess Tiger for the Palm and (coming soon) a ChessGenius review will...

Does anyone have this, and would be willing to email it to me? Chessbase doesn't seem to have it at their site anymore . . . Thanks in advance.

Hi, Having visited some internet chess sites based on some discussions here, I got to have this interesting question. It seems that all the chess servers are located in the USA. Chess is a typical Western game. Then is there an Europian chess server?

Hi, i've been using nic2pgn.exe to convert nicbase files (i.e. from NIC59 Yerabook CD) into pgns, but.... the converter does not include the variations or annotations of the original files. Is there another converter that handles such cases? Does anyone know if the source code for the original cb2pgn is available, so that i can extend it to support variations? Respect, Andreas Andreou

When I first got CM9000, from the "Player Profile" window, I could bring up the "Tournament Room" stats box, and then click on "vs Opponent" to see the stats of game results against individual CM personalities. This used to work fine. Now when I click on the "vs Opponent" button, CM just exits without warning. Anyone else have this problem? I tried creating another user, and the behaviour is...

Dear all, does anyone have an idea how strong ChessGenius plays (ELO) when used on a mobile? Thank you for any ideas. ciao Lars

I see the phrase Theory of Chess often mentioned, but am not sure what it means. Most often I hear that the "theory" is the result of experience of games played, etc... But is this "theory"? Is there a system that can produce rules, as in geometry? Are there ways of proving things, even ones that are a bit loose, as a mathematical Proof by induction in mathematics? (loose because inductive...

Hi, is anyone interested in engine exchange for Chessbase programs? I have Fritz 8.

Does anyone know of a chess program like my old Battle Chess game that will work on a Windows XP Pro system? Thanks in advance, Carolyn

Does anyone who has tried both Pocket Fritz 2 http://www.chesscentral.com/software/pocket_fritz.htm and Pocket Grandmaster http://www.pocketgrandmaster.com/english/index.html have any comments on how they compare ??? Not just in ultimate strength, but in any other ways. I've seen a few other chess programs

Hi folks, A spyware program (one of those freebies) identified a couple of spyware files in my Registry (MS Me). How do I delete these files from the Registry? I can't locate them from MS Explorer. The spyware program would do it, but you have to pay for their full version first. Or does anyone know of a free spyware program that will identify AND delete any files they find? Any help from the...

Hi, I recently bought a portable chess computer (Kasparov xxx) which I was not too impressed with. For a start it seemed to takes ages to make simple moves. It only had a 10 MHz clock, which seemed a bit odd, given the processing requirements of chess engines. Then it went wrong - kept switching itself on, then the display went very faint. Finally I got my money back. Hence I'm once again...

I have problems playing with Shredder 8. It simply won't calculate more than 2 ply or so after move 25. Anyone knows how can I fix it? Also, in Playchess server I cannot make it even star a game when playing engine v/s engine. Thanks in advance and greetings to yall from Chile.