Hello all... I recently aquired CheesBase's Fritz7 CD from a deceased relative. I am not that great at chess, but find the program pretty cool. I dont have any documentation, so i have a couple questions here... 1. It seems buggy. Program has crashed a few times, and also doesnt save my board settings about 25% of the time. Is there any patches or upgrades i can install?

I have these two programs installed on two computers connected in network. Is there a way to make them play against each other? How can I do it? -- Darko Majdiæ

Can anyone explain what does "UCI" mean when included with the engine name? (on the SSDF list in particular) Thanks. Leonardo

In the posiotion 8/1k6/8/3KB1N1/8/8/5n2/8 w - - 0 1 The Tablebases annouce correctly mate in 85 moves. But strangely they stop to work after 50 moves certainly because of the rule of the 50 moves. To have the end one's have to copy the position in anoter board, finish it and then cut and paste. It think it's strage !

PJ If you're interested in online chess check out FICS (Free Internet Chess Server). Their site has links to free client software, Winboard seems to be the most popular. It takes a little while to set up, but it's great fun and you can't beat free! http://www.freechess.org/

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I've heard it said by more than one commentator that computers are too heavily biased by material to sacrifice it for positional advantages that have no immediate tactical payoff. It puzzles me when they say that because I've seen CM9K do it quite often. Here's an example (also attached). The program sacs one pawn and later offers more. The later ones may be tactical, but the pawn I took on my...

Hello, I did a search on this group for information concerning hash tables keys and collisions, and most people seemed to argue that while a 32-bit key will result in many dangerous type 1 collisions, a 64-bit key should drive this to an acceptable level of risk. I am writing a program that will play several variants of the Japanese game Shogi, an Eastern cousin of chess that is played on a 9x9...

"Solomon Nuffert" wrote in rec.games.chess.computer: Folks! I try to find the reason, on which I should buy the new chess program. I have the old chess program Rebel Decade - free-of-charge version Rebel 10, which on my computer declares power of 2450 ELO - and I can not beat her. At the same time I know many people, which, by not beat Chessmaster 7K get the...

It's not too clear to me, when you purchase Fritz 8, the account they give you on their playchess.com server, is it for one year or for ever? I couldn't find the exact details on the Chessbase website, can anybody offer me this info? Thanks!

"Euc1id" wrote in rec.games.chess.computer: I noticed that Shredder 7.04 UCI takes a long time to load with Windows XP. I didn't know why, but I do now... Tablebases. It might be a good idea to check the integrity of your tablebases. A very simple way to do it is downloading Wilhelm from Rafael Andrist http://www.geocities.com/rba_schach2000/

"John Henderson" wrote ... I'm selling an official Yugoslavian poster from the 1992 Return Match between Fischer and Spassky on eBay. If interested, you'll find it at: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=28009&item=3545709834 Anyone who wants one of these official posters can get one from me for $20 + $4 shipping & handling.

Hey guess just recently checked out the demo for Majestic Chess and it was very enjoyable. I was really impressed with the multi-player portion, that was amazing. The graphics and bold colors are really great. What did you guys think of the adventture portion? Thumbs up or down?

"David R. Heffelfinger" writes: Every time I click on the link to get the registration form, I get an error message. It seems their MySQL server is not running, or at least not running in the way their web page expects it to. Unless the webmaster already found this, you could send an email. I believe you can still log in unregistered (as an guest), although

Hello, I bought Fritz8 and ChessBase. I only installed the Fritz8 copy and decided to play a few blitz games. My new laptop, which otherwise works fine turned itself off every time I tried (about 7 times during a few days). I did search this news group, but I didn't find any tips on what I can try. If you encountered a similar problem and/or know how to solve it, please share your knowledge...

I wonder if there is conclusion or consensus on whether to store quiescence search results in hash table. What are the advantages and disadvantages? If I choose to store the results, is it better to store in the same hash table as regular one or I should have separate one? And reasons for that? Thanks in advance!

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Neil Fernandez wrote: How would people rate the relative strengths of the best programs at chess, Chinese chess, and go? I realise that it's not a straightforward task to find a basis for comparison (including because the processing power made available to chess programs when playing Kramnik and Kasparov has not been made available to Chinese chess and go...

Will Shredder 7 take advantage of hyperthreading on enabled Pentium 4 systems? How about the tripple brain function, will it use hyperthreading? Thanks in advance, Tom Veldhouse

I have been trying all day to connect to FICS and keep getting a message "Connection Refused = Please try again later". I have sometimes not been able to get onto FICS, but have never gotten this particular error message. Is anyone else getting this, and could it have anything to do with my new Norton Internet Security Software? (JUst installed yesterday) Thanks

I am new to chess NG's so please excuse me if this question has been asked before . I intend to d/l and buy Chessmaster 9000 but notice it states on the Website I was looking at that W2K " ...is not supported..." I am wondering whether this advice is now out of date as W2K , although initally not great with games , has now improved a lot as far as that goes.