I voted for Sam Sloan AND Tim Hanke. Tim hails from the very best location on earth (MA,US) and he runs a top-notch chess club (second only to the metrowest club) - he is Harvard educated (you may have heard of it) - and he has relevant job experience with various organizations (i.e. Scleroderma and MACA) - and more importantly - as a frequent newsgroup poster and prolific chess journalist -...

I recently started playing Fritz 8 using a number of different playing strengths. It seems to be stuck on Alekhine's Defense. Is there a way to get it to mix up the choices or it Fritz sending me a message to practice more against this opening g. Thanks in advance... -- Bobby C. Proper reply address is without the text -REMOVE-

how do i tell this program to promote a piece please

Has anyone had any luck getting chessbase chess products to play using autoplayer via a network? I have a in house network, trying to get Junior8 on PC (A) to play Fritz8 on PC (B) using autoplayer232 via network. My OS's are Windows XP. I have followed the directions in the help file with no luck.

Hello Everyone, I've just recently purchased a Dell Axim PocketPC, and would like to add chess-playing sofware to it. I've been looking at the various reviews, and all 3 major players (PocketFritz, ChessGenius, and PocketGrandmaster) seem to be quite strong. In any case, certainly strong enough to beat me more often than not. But from the perspective of learning & improving, what are the...

Anyone know where I can get PGN to these two books. Some of the answers given in the books appear incorrect and I'd like to let my chess software chew on them for a while to see if I am wrong of the answer is wrong. ie: ALOT of 1001 Sacrifices and Combos by Reinfeld come out with incorrect answers given in the book. Also the Traps and Zaps by Pandofini PGN would be nice altho I;ve not cracked...

How does one go about choosing which board features to consider for a static evaluation function? For instance, say you have some board feature, and a weighting of that feature that is appropriate some of the time, but when it's not appropriate, it really screws up the composite evaluation. What do you do? More to the point, isn't it the case that EVERY board feature (save checkmate) means...

Few days ago, there was a thread where it was said that: making an iterative deepening was a faster way to reach certain depth than searching initially to that depth, because the transposition table can be looked up to get info to sort the moves, and therefore the alphabeta (pvs, negascout...) will prune more. But, is deepening a single depth level per iteration good when

What is the estimated chess rating of a PIV 2.66 Mhz (Hyper Threading) system with 1.5 gig of ram and a 200 Gig HD? Using Shredder 8, Fritz 8, or Junior 8. Just wondering how strong of a master player it would be like having access to. Also if we all have access to this strong of a chess coach, has the level of the avg human's chess game gone up in quality?

Is this a fair statement? "In order for computers to play better Chess, they must run faster." In asking this question, I don't intend for it to be taken in its strictest literal sense because it's really the "must" word that I hold most in question. Let me explain: On the one hand it seems apparent that all chess-playing computers must eventually bog down at some move depth, and that even if...

It gives away the queen for free, or refuses to make a "mate in 1", etc. It's not playing chess. Nothing in the analysis can be trusted! This is a late middlegame/early endgame involving queens and pawns, plus one piece. There is a lot of tablebase access. Try it for yourself, if you wish. Here's the fen. I have analyzed it to a level of 24/58 taking 12+ hours, and the result is still...

Hi folks, just a suggestion: if you're writing your own chess program, one of the very first things to do is to add support for Eugene Nalimov's fine EGTBs. It's not that difficult, and will save you tuning effort. E.g. you will never feel the need for the "right corner" term in your KBNK eval branch if you do this upfront. In fact, you will not need this branch at all ;-) That said, do not...

Hi! I used nmake when compiling crafty on Windows 2000 VC++ 6.0 at the DOS prompt and it works fine. But when I load the files into the IDE and do a compile, I get 3 errors indicating that the IDE cannot find "unistd.h" or does not exist. Does anyone know what the problem might be with unistd.h? Does anyone know where I can get the proper unistd.h file?

tip: bugs in Oct 8 2003 update from Playchess.com Kindly report here any bugs you've found in the Oct 8 2003 update for the Fritz8-Shredder7-Hiarcs9-Junior8-DeepJunior8-Tiger15 GUI downloaded from the Playchess.com server. I will make sure the information is forwarded to the developers. Here are the specifications for that downloaded update file: filename: "GUI8.iup" size: 7,494,074 bytes

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Does somebody know exactly what's the basic difference (idea of) between: - Importing games to the openings book, - Import analysis into openings book and - Openings book, learning from a database I will like to include openings from Bled, and some USA tournament, and after reading help not so sure which option to choose. Any help, please. Txnks in advance.

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Played a day long game yesterday via e-mail matching my Fidelity 2100 against an owner of Junior 8. Great game, and Junior's end game strength was just too much. It was going to be a slow and painful end for the 2100, and I resigned. The final position is very interesting, I would like to hear some analysis of it. Black king on d8 White rook on a7

Does anyone know whether pocket fritz 2 runs on the compaq PDA with the samsung 266 processor thanks D Coulter