The chessbase site states that a graphics accelerator is necessary to view the 3D board in Fritz 8. Is it really needed? I have a Pentium 4. Thanks.

I have Hiarcs 8, Fritz 8, and Shredder7 and I'm wondering if there is anything radically different in Junior 8 that would justify buying it. Comments on these programs welcomed.

Have you guys checked out the FPGA chess playing computers? They are in their infancy and already Brutus is destroying grandmasters (cf. ChessBase). For next year they're talking about 6 million positions/sec and almost unlimited chess knowledge!!? In 2 years nobody--software nor human--will be able to beat FPGA in a match or tournament. Quote me on that! Paul

Hello! I am writing a (simple) chess program and I think it is rather slow, i.e. it would not search very deep (only a few plies) in a short period of time. I thought one reason might be a poor move ordering (I use alpha-beta with iterativ deepening). So I read some posts in this group to get informations how to make it faster. Robert Hyatt suggested to test the move order quality by computing...

Hello, I am thinking already for weaks which PDA I am going to buy. Main purpose is to play chess. On the road, on my couch and at th park. I am a round-about-1700-player. Important is IMHO a very good display. Therefore I put the both in the shortlist. They have great displays. I think that the T2 has a superior display because of the higher resolution on less space. How looks i.e. Chess Genius...

Does anyone have Mr Kasparov's mobile number? It's just that his Imprezza's been parked outside my flat for a week now.

Here is a game between Ruffian and Fritz with an Athlon XP1700+ 384 Mb, 100 Mb hashtable each. 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6

Anyone had any problems running Maurice Ashley Teaches Chess on Windows 98 ? It crashes my PC after running for say 20mins. It might be to do with the sound or graphics as these both sometimes appear slightly distorted. Any ideas ?

Hi All; Is anyone aware of any software that will allow you to point it at a large PGN, sit back, and just watch it play through all the moves of all the games? Of course currently I just use Fritz7 and click click click click.... But I'd really like to forgoe the constant clicking around and just sit back, relax, and watch.

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Can the Fritz 8 engine be used without problems in ChessBase 7? Thanks, John Cordes

From: (Mike Ogush) Date: 12/08/03 21:49 GMT Daylight Time Message-id: I would like to identify those games where the result was either misreported or one side lost on time in a winning or drawn position where the evaluation of the final game position does not match the reported result. I can see how to do this manually for each...

Hi! I know this probably has sorta been asked before. I hate asking. Here it goes. I cannot compile crafty under Windows XP w/MSVC .NET (or 2K w/MSVC 7) under a particular condition. I am trying to compile it for a multiple processors. I can do it fine for a single processor. I am using the Makefile.nt and it works fine. But I want to compile it with COPTS=/MT /DSMP and it fails. If I...

hello how can i see in the window the analyse moves of crafty ? tx

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When two engines playing a tournament, sometimes in a Notation pane appears move coloured red. I didn't find anything about this in help. Does somebody know what's that mean? Txnks in advance.

IMO, the SSDF endeavor is awesome. Every time I look at the newest issue or posting, my mind drowns in a sea of questions to which I've never found answers. For any report, be it a scientific experiment or otherwise, it woudl be nice to know how the testing was done. A basic explanation would be nice, and "the more the better." I recently email Mr. Karlsson...

Hey guys/gals, I've read on a couple of messageboards that people who play the cracked version of ChessTiger (illegally pirated and registered) for Palm OS get an unusual problem. The chess engine plays at the difficulty level you set it to for most of the game, but then when you make it to the end of the game (the endgame) the Chess engine automatically resets your difficulty to EASY MODE. So...