There have been a few threads recently about game commentaries that seemingly depend too heavily on engine annotation without the application of some common sense. I recently played a quick sparring game against Shredder 10 where the engine annotation by blundercheck was found wanting. Strangely even though all the engines in infinite analysis or deep positional analysis could easily see that...

How do I enter text above (or below) a diagram I plan to print. My text would be short, on the order of "Beware the Pin." I know I used to do this, but not having used the program in a long while, I've forgotten how. The booklet is useless as far as I can tell. Thanks for your help. -- Ian Burton (Please reply to the Newsgroup)

Please help. I cannot access the endgame database when playing 4 or 5 piece endings. The manual refers to the tablebase on the CD and advises to 'copy the content of the directory \TBS. I have opened the Fritz CD and cannot find anything with TBS on.

Hi, At http://members.home.nl/matador/chess840.htm#KING%20SAFETY I saw this table: +----+----+----+----+-----+----+---+----+ Initialize COUNTER: 8 | 02 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 00 | 02 | +----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ COUNTER = TABLE ; 7 | 02 | 01 | 01 | 01 | 01 | 01 | 01 | 02 | +----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ This will avoid the black king

It's been a few years in the making, and it's finally out of beta. www.chessopeningssoftware.com Mike Leahy "The Database Man!"

Last time An error was corrected but that brought new errors. I feel now all errors have been removed. You can restart your game and complete them Quickly. Play Chess at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html I played and saw the game is playing very fast and very strong moves. So Sorry for troubles, Now you can have pleasent games at GetClub

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Today 2 errors were removed which make GetClub Chess much better than it was ever back. Play Chess at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html The two strange errors were removed which were causing it to play weaker moves. Now, It will play best moves without errors.

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Kenneth Sloan wrote: the real question is: why can't he spell Goedel? The correct name of the author of _On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems_ is "Kurt Gödel." For those who use newsreaders that do not

I tested Fritz10 against Genius5 i a five game 5-min blitz match. I set the hash tables to equal sizes. Genius won with 4-1. The result is curious while Fritz10 represents the latest in engine technology while Genius5 is quite old. Fritz10 did not have much of a chance. Genius always seems able to strengthen his positions in positional games. This strengthens my suspicion that Genius is stronger...

It has been reported that Sam Sloan is a child molester and a pedophile. Everyone knows this. Sloan is now teaming up with litigator Brian P. Lafferty and pseudo accountant Donna Alarie for a dry cleaner to sue the USCF. This trio gives the term "White Trash" a bad name.

There seems to be no difficulty in obtaining PGN files for games played by strong players, but if one wants them from weak players, it is more difficult. I'd like to make a database publically available for games played by *week* players, where both are *human* (i.e. no engine vs engine or engine vs human). Also, I only want standard games, with the normal start position - not those with...

It has been reported that MA attorney Brian P. Lafferty plans to sue the USCF. I'm certain that it will happen. That's why he has been provoking everyone on the USCF forums. He also works with Donna Alarie to get confidential financial information to support his case. Sam Sloan

I am currently reading the August 2007 issue of Chess Life magazine, and an interesting this is that the very same game is annotated therein by two different people. More accurately, the first time is credited to a combination of GM Susan Polgar and FM Paul Truong, while the second annotator is IM John Watson. IMO, the Polgar/Truong team did a much better job, as indicated in both their...

Purchased the full version and can't get a response from them inspite of numerous attempts to contact him. Anyone share this experience?

GetClub Chess was making an error. And that was removed. So I hope many silly moves will be removed from game. Incase any player finds any silly move made by GetClub Chess let me know it. And I will see it get removed. Now Since the Resource Hog problem and Time Problem been removed. I will remove any error missing in the game. I played 9 Games and lost all of them to Beginner. I am a weak...

Ralf Callenberg wrote: The point is, you called yourself as a first class expert in trademark issues. Telling Pascal you had forgotten more about this topic, than he ever would learn about it. A quite bold statement. Well, and than you missed such a basic fact about trademarks. The claim that I missed a basic fact about trademarks has yet to be established. I presented what I believe to...

I have my account on ICC configured so it emails me the games I play. I played one yesterday . I'm 5 hours in front of the time of the ICC server, so that was 14:06 local time yesterday. Today I receive the email from ICC, at 14:45 local time - just over 24 hours later. Do others have this? I'm not sure if ICC are mailing the games late, or my ISP is sending them to me rather late.

Hello, I just started a new Online Chess Club: http://www.chessdevil.com If you like playing Internet Chess against other people all around the world, then please give my new website a try... Ideal to play e-mail chess!!

I've made a new release of ChessDB, a chess database based on Scid from Shane Hudson. There is a fork too of ChessDB from the lying plagiarist Pascal Georges who passes of work of mine as his own, as I have documented at: http://groups.google.co.uk/group/rec.games.chess.computer/browse_frm/thread/658a58d9a17b9aaf/dcb9e3c5e4e7266a?lnk=st&q=scid+released&rnum=1&hl=en#dcb9e3c5e4e7266a Anyway,...