Is it possible to switch off startup screen in Fritz where I have to choose between playing with Fritz and playing on playchess.com? -- Darko Majdiæ

What does this module parameter mean ? Regards. Brice Allenbrand

In the article http://www.chessbaseusa.com/T-NOTES/011401.htm I have now red that : "Roycroft was also one of the inventors of a special form of chess notation, called the Roycroft-Guy-Blandford Code (or RGB Code, for short). This code is used automatically in ChessBase 8 whenever you enter a board position and save it into a database. If you don't enter a name for the Black player, a bunch of...

Is there a possibility to view taken pieces in Fritz 8? -- Darko Majdiæ

Hi, a brief question: how long will Fritz8 think when playing in friend mode? To me, it would be logical that the program thinks as long as required in order to make a move on my handicap level. However, it seems to me, that the LAST setting before switching to friend mode is taken - it makes a difference if I had "long game" before or "Blitz game". Is the quality of the moves different if the...

On 19 Aug 2003 06:59:09 -0700, Moozie wrote: I would like a setup position of an endgame be finished by "engine versus engine". I use Fritz 7. I can choose for "engine versus engine", but it will start a new game. Not my setup position game. Has anybody an idea on how to do this? Thanx, Moozie

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Why would the CPU usage always show 100% when playing against or analyzing with H8? I have set the hashtables down to 65MB (so as to play blitz), but it runs 100% all the time. The hard drive makes alot of noise during it's usage-- soon as I close it, the HD quietens back down to normal. Strange.

"Dieter Buerssner" wrote in message ... rhinodrome wrote: Is there a table of number of iterations for each tablebase? The number of iterations needed is the number of maximum mate length (or mated length). Those lengths can be found in rather small "tbs" files available at the Crafty site,...

I downloaded the .pgn file of Reinfeld's 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate from U Pitt with the idea of copying it to my PocketPC and working on the problems with CEBoard.. The .pgn file copied okay, and there are 1001 games (or positions, I guess) listed, but whenever I click on one I get an "Unable to load game" error, with a big red x saying "incorrect pgn header." Is it possible to correct...

From the NY Times tech section today. I wonder whether there will be a 64 bit chess playing program soon--with 64 squares, you can have one bit per square and really do some fast assembly language type programming. RL "But beyond the predictable costs and performance benefits, if 64-bit computing follows the PC's historical patterns, this migration may bring a surprise or two.

I'd appreciate any opinions about the program Chess Genius. Thanks.

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 ?