I recall someone saying that CA7 can find weaknesses in a player's repertoire by showing what openings that he is uncomfortable with (losses incurred). Does ChessBase 8.0 - 9.0 do this? I am interested in an upgrade but is willing to wait next year to purchase. If you can contribute to this article please do so. cordially yours, Larry

Al Lewis wrote in message ... On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 13:32:51 +1000, "|-|erc" Lay off attacking Arnold Schwarzenneger If you've read any literature about him you would appreciate his accomplishments, even just from his movies he sets exceptional moral standards and works for his people and...

Worlds Strongest Chess Program (Shredder 7) on eBay! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3145153389&category=2554&rd=1

Someone from ICD Your Move told me that Mephisto company had gone out of business. Now delicated handheld and tabletops are being offered for sale under the Mephisto name by US Chess and ICD. What's going on ?! The Mephisto Master looks like the Milano Pro that was sold some years ago in the late '90's. I am confused about the other computers that are being sold too. When you pay your $225 - $300...

Hello, I have just installed Pocket Fritz 2 on my iPAQ 2200 Pocket PC 2003. It runs fine thanks to the idiot-proof instructions provided by Steve Lopez - the Chessbase guru. But the online search appears to be "broken." When keying a game into Pocket Fritz 2, I am attempting to lookup the position in the online database, i.e., Edit- Search Online Database- This brings up the Search Games...

CM6000 is a nice bold general purpose font, which I use with the Chessbase products too. You can download it he http://jbob2000.tripod.com/cm6000_0.zip I don't believe it's still available elsewhere. I don't know if it's copyrighted, but I doubt anyone will object after this long. If so, let me know and I'll remove the download, which I'll probably do automatically anyway after about 30...

Doesn't anyone play chess on the ubi.com site? I was curious as to how it worked. Do you use the Chessmaster 9000 board? The few times I tried, there were no players there. Some different than ICC! I noticed that some of the other game rooms had players. Not the chess rooms though.

Sounds cool, are you using .Net? Paolo "Martin Bennedik" wrote in message ... Dear chess friends, Xfcc (Xml web services for correspondence chess) is my project to standardise interfaces between correspondence chess organisations,

Hi! I would like to know, what the difference between "normal" alpha-beta and fail-soft alpha-beta is, concerning the usage of the returned values. As far as I know, alpha-beta will always return values = alpha and = beta. Fail-soft on the contrary could also return something alpha or beta. How could this be used? It seems to me, that narrower windows are better. And is there probably a...

Has anyone played chess at ubi.com? I've tried a few times, but no one ever seems to be there. Definitely not another ICC! What is the idea anyway? If I found someone there, and did play, would I be using the chessmaster9000 board? I notice some of the other games at the site have players there, but no one in the chess rooms. What gives??

Hi Geoff Expanding FEN-0: rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1 0.224 Nb1-c3 0.220 Ng1-f3 0.201 e2-e4 0.197 d2-d4 0.197 f2-f4 0.187 c2-c4 0.187 g2-g4 0.172 b2-b4 0.172 h2-h4 0.156 a2-a4 0.146 Ng1-h3 0.123 Nb1-a3 0.101 e2-e3 0.099 d2-d3 0.099 f2-f3 0.095 c2-c3 0.095 g2-g3 0.088 b2-b3 0.088 h2-h3 0.081 a2-a3 ...

Has anyone else had problems getting the Chess Today newsletter with AOL? I realize it's a problem with Yahoo & AOL, but was wondering if there was anyone who had found a workaround. I've tried every setting under the sun in both and have not had any luck with it. I'm ****ed 'cause I paid for Chess Today and am missing them all. Any help would be appreciated. ryan

I've been a Palm user for years. I initially used Chess Genius, then switched to Chess Tiger. I've just purchased a Pocket PC, and, looking at pocketgear.com, I see there are a fair number of chess games for it. I'd appreciate some recommendations as to which to try. I'm an average, non-tournament player. Much obliged! Todd

There is a new, free Chess Database for download at http://jose-chess.sourceforge.net You can store and edit chess games and play against a plug-in engine (Crafty) Features a 3D display. It's currently available for Windows, Linux/Intel and for Mac OS X (a bit incomplete, though).

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Cordes wrote: Also, it would be even better if I there was a command line utility which could do this running under Linux. Any ideas, anyone? Luddite* ;)

I am contemplating buying the Mephisto Exclusive chess computer with the Senator module. It is a priportary 32 bit RISC processor with an opening library of 30k half-moves and an opening book of 50k games. It also sports an end-game database, and is rated at 2400 (US) and can be updated. Anybody familiar with this brain? I have Fritz7 running on a 2 gig processor with 1 gig of RAM...how would...

Is it possible to get a cable to connect my Saitek renaissance to my pc (windows xp) and what software would work with it. Many thanks Tony --

How many of you are aware of or use this feature? For those of you who don't know, 'premove' is a feature incorporated in the newer Chessbase GUIs, by which one can actually make his next (several) moves during the opponent's turn. You just make your next move or moves during the opponent's turn and after the opponent plays, your 'premove,' if deemed legal, is immediately made. The premove costs...

BlankI have megadatabase2002 zipped but I can't get it open. I is asking me for a password. Any Ideas?

I acquired a set of 4 CDs containing the Nalimov Endgame Tablebases from Kazabee, Inc.. Since I already have the EGTB's, I have no use for this. I'm offering them on e-bay for $1.00 plus shipping. It may save you the hassle of downloading them. I'm only this as a convenience for some poor soul on dial-up. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3144787420 Best,