According to the instruction booklet ("manual" is too big a word) for Fritz 8, when this program analyses a chess game it should assign a number of "medals", according to different features of the game. However, the only "medals" I have seen assigned so far are the black one (blunder) and the red one (brilliant move). What about the others, like strategy, tactics, etc? Even when I analyse some...

Has anyone tried the new Sjeng 12.13 engine available from Chessbase? When used in Fritz8, it reminds me of the crappy early 1980's programs that threw away pieces and made inexplicable moves. Is my experience with this download unique or have other players had a similar experience?

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Just wondering if move 27. Qd5-e5+ in the following game is a blunder? Testing a beta for a group of friends working on their own program. Rebel 12 is closing in for the mate and Buster b1.03 (c)2004 MDU Math, plays this move that gets a worthless check and looks to just throw away its queen. With the inpending mate was this a move that I just don't understand or can't see the logic in, or is it...

Do the Fritz 8 Sparring settings (normal, harder, etc) apply when using other engines? For example, if you load and use Crafty, does the Sparring setting work the same way it does with Fritz? It seems to me that when using Crafty, with the Sparring setting set on Harder, the program doesn't make an occasional mistake like it does when using the Fritz engine.

Hello, Can someone tell me the basic difference between Fritz8 species, so to say. I have Fritz8, lately have gotten my hands on DeepFritz8, and I have heard of X3D Fritz which played a few weeks ago with Kasparov. I wonder which kind of chess software is in your opinion the top one. Regards, Stefek

Could you pleas help me with selecting a good chess program for my purposes. I'm not very at home at playing chess, so I will have to put my wishes in layman's phrases: - I need to install it on multiple computers at different houses (I got several requests for a chess program) - The players will range from novice to peole who occationally play a local tournament (but mostly people wh play a...

I have game(s) in PGN format saved in fileswith a pgn extension. In what Fritz directory do I place them so I can play over them, have Fritz analize them etc? thanks Jim

Does anyone know what the approximate NPS for ChessBrian was? or what its playing strength was estimated to be?

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Frequently it is noted that having 6-men Nalimov tablebases is problematic, both because it takes an enormous time to create them and also because they are huge, some of them even multiple gigabytes each. I think I have a proposed solution to the second problem, i.e. the size but not to the first (enormous time to create): "Leapbases" or "skipbases". As far as I know, Nalimov tablebases do store...

Hi all, I'm looking for a computer chess program. Must be easy to use (preferably Windows, but a graphical DOS game would be fine) and not be too good ! This is probably a strange requirement, but it's for my 9-year-old who's showing an interest, and it'd be nice if she could win now and again without my help :) Also, modest hardware requirements. I've got a copy of Pawnchess, which

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I got chessmaster 9k + Fritz 8 I understand the machine can't play full power unless U give it 2 hours 2 make 40 moves I only give it + me 15 minutes , + I set it at 2400 , my guess is cause of the time limit it only playing bout 1300 U need 2 give it bout 3 minutes 2 make a move 4 it to play at full strength , correct ? on Chessmaster 9k if U set it at 2400 even w/3 minutes per move it...

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My Pawns are Roman men with shields and long sharp spears and when you kill another piece the spear go's through the body of the other piece.. My Knights are Dragons and when you move them they fly around the board and when they kill they spit fire at the piece.. My Bishops are Wizards and when they kill they throw fire balls.. My Rooks look like the castles and when they kill a few archers...

A friend sent some Chessbase annotated games. The names are French.cbh, French.cbj, and French,cbp (for e.g.). I downloaded ChessBase Light. Now, how do I open these these files to see the games and comments? TIA.

In this week's column on the Chesscafe web site, Bruce Pandolfini replies to a question about rating by saying that US ratings are about equivalent to FIDE raitings. For over 30 years, I have been reading that US ratings are about 100 points lower than FIDE ratings. Has something changed? Is Pandolfini right? And if US ratings are lower, why is that? I remember back in the old days the US...