"Solomon Nuffert" wrote in rec.games.chess.computer: Gentlemen! I am looking for a way to define real power of the chess engine on my PC. Probably, there are test positions allowing to calculate Real ELO (engine tournaments, I think, calculate relative power). May be you know properly places? There is no "real" Elo. Elo is defined as strenght relative to others in

Where can I d/l a working copy of 9000 pse.

I am looking for a copy of Chessmaster 2100 or maybe 3000. I can't get 7000 to work on my PC so I need to downgrade. If someone could please email it to me at I would appreciate it. No it it not stealing since I have a store bought version of 7000 and this is an earlier version. I do not want any version later than 3000 please. Thankyou.

Hi all. I'm building a new web site for my chess club and we are going to store games and problems in a database. I have built a few ASP pages that grab info from the database and activate a viewer with the corresponding game. So far, I experimented with MyChessViewer and ChessTutor.

----- Original Message ----- From: "CeeBee" Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.computer Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 3:54 PM Subject: Uninstall Fritz 6 A workaround could be to reinstall Fritz 6, use the add/remove option, to uninstall it. The Fritz 6 folder that is left behind can be deleted, because there might only be an ini-file in it or something.

"abcedminded" wrote in rec.games.chess.computer: Tidying up my drives, I noticed that Fritz 6 is still sitting there (I'm using Fritz 8 now) but I can't find an uninstall feature. I understand that Windows shares files all over the place so I don't just want to blow the folder away. I'm using XP by the way.

Nonyz, I have been doing some dabbling lately, and was just curious.... What are your tools of choice for software debugging? -- WinterSea

I've been looking at the ads for the new Excalibur chess computer with the robotic arm. Has anyone tried it yet? Does it really work? http://electronicchess.com/catalog/pages/roboticchess.htm

I think I may have found a bug in the CM9000 tablebases. I've patched CM9000 to version 1.0.2 and regenerated the tablebases with FEG 3.03c. I have found problems in positions where White can castle like W: Ke1 Ra1 Rh2 B: Ke8 .Here, every legal move for White will win, but when I go under Mentor/Chess Coach, it only reports mate in # for king moves, moves by Ra1 and 0-0-0. For moves by Rh2...

Anthony PDC antdeclan_at_hotmail.com wrote in message ... Hallo all. I bought Majestic Chess the other day and I must say it's dead brilliant - especially in Adventure mode: witty, involving, challenging, educational. Lots of thought has gone into it, and there's much to explore and LEARN, in an absorbing, wonderfully cool graphical...

Fritz 8 chess engines - Chess Tiger 15 engine.zip Fritz 8 chess engines - Hiarcs 9 Engine.ace Fritz 8 chess engines - Junior 8 engine.rar Fritz 8 chess engines - Shredder 7.04 engine cracked.exe

J8 must have some kind of specialized knowledge when evaluating moves, because so far I am very impressed with it's play!! Examples: I was playing white against it in a KIA (5' + 10") and on the 11th move, it played Ke7, foregoing K-side castling!! None of the others I have (Hiarcs 8, Shredder 7, Fritz 8) chose this.

just brought cb 8 and can't get goto fritz to work. upgrade the update to fritz 6 but still don't work . any help will done got all fritz program but now work fritz 5,5.32, 6,7,junior 7,hiarcs 8 still won't work

Hi! I realized that the InCheck function of my chess programm is a bottleneck. While the tablebased movegeneration seems fast enough, and also MakeMove is acceptable, InCheck is really slow. Currently I do MakeMove and check the legality by InCheck. Looking one ply deeper and getting the information about illegal positions by generating all moves and recognizing a king capture didn't really show...

Hi! I wrote a simple Checkers program (I know it's not chess, but I believe you can help me anyway) and I wish to improve it. I've found a webpage(http://www.seanet.com/~brucemo/topics/hashing.htm) about transposition table, but I don't understand few things, especially this: 'The hash array is indexed via a ZobristKey. You take the key for the position, modulo it by the number of elements in...

I would like to comment on a relative ability of newer vs. older chess software to spot the key moves in acceptable time frame. I recall my Saitek Simultano on 120/40 levels, it would think for a couple of minutes, being sure of the response found so far, then on depth of 3 it would come up with something dramatically "improved". Seeing this, I would think, hey, this is not such a bad chess...

i am writing an graphical user interface for chess using OpenGl. I need to also validate the moves of the players as the interface should be usable across a network. The problem arises when i try to identify the cases when a checkmate or a stalemate position. i have no better idea than computing all possible next moves and finding that they are invalid. This is a too big a task to perform after...

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:17:14 +0200, "Christian Kongsted" wrote: My new book about computer chess is out now. Questions about the content are welcome. HOW TO USE COMPUTERS TO IMPROVE YOUR CHESS (Christian Kongsted) Hi Christian, Are there any reviews yet on the internet? URL's are welcome.

If you are resonably competent with Access, I put together an Access database last year for our club that will calculate ratings using the method given in USCF's scholastic chess manual. I don't know how "user friendly" it is since I just put it together for my use, but if you're interested, e-mail me and I'll send you a copy of th DB. It basically allows you to input games one at a time but...

From: Alberich Date: 28/08/03 02:17 GMT Daylight Time Message-id: I love SCID's ability to bookmark games for further review later on. You open a database and choose a game and setup a position from it. Then if you want, you can "bookmark" the game so that the next time you open your computer the position gets...