You can find this French Tarrasch PGN in various places - one of Chessbase's databases, TWIC, at least one other website etc. But the result does not match the position. Kasparov appears to beat Bareev. But whilst I'm not a GM, I am sure I would have no problems drawing this, so either Bareev run out of time, the results tag is incorrect, or something else very odd has happened. Anyone...

Appeal from Decision Suspending Sam Sloan from USCF Issues Forum I hereby appeal from the two decisions of the Forum Oversight Committee suspending me from posting to the USCF Issues Forum for one week each. I appeal on the following grounds: 1. My posting, which stated that the USCF Executive Director, Bill Hall, is chronically absent from work is valid commentary. The members

I am working on a Dell Dimension with win XP. I am having difficulty with the CM 10. It moves the pieces jerky and with some slowness. Also the only two dimension color options are black and white. The layouts for CM 9 were much better. I have been to the CM web sight and found no helpful solution. I am considering uninstalling the program, but before doing so I like to know if the...

Now that our scammy sammy sloan is no longer a board member, where will he sleep when he comes to a chess tournament? Will we find him under some chess tables or will we find him in park benches? Bye bye scammy sammy.

Dear all, What is considered a node, and what is considered a leaf in AB search? Common sense would be that all but the last level where the evaluation is taking place is considered a node. And the last level, when you do not search any deeper, is a leaf. So when to calculcate NPS, you end much less than when calculating leafs. Secondly, when calculating Quiescence search, is each position...

Win with Damiano's Defense I just got back from the US Open where I had a terrible result, my worst performance in years. It was not that my score was so bad. I scored 4.5 - 4.5, an even score shared by many strong players. It was how I achieved that score. I lost three games in a row to players rated hundreds of points lower than myself. Even the games I won should not have been won. Polly...

I think it would be interesting to see what everyone thinks about: 1) Which engine do you think understands tactical matters the best? 2) And which handles strategy better? 3) Which has the most tactical style? (=chooses tactical moves) 4) The most strategic style? (will go for a long term space advantage or better structure for example) 5) The engine with the most chess knowledge? 6) The most...

Schaeffer, Burch, Bjornsson, Kishimoto, Mueller, Lake, Lu and Sutphen's paper _Checkers is Solved_ (Science, 19th July 2007) is now available free online at http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/rapidpdf/1144079v1.pdf I've not had chance to read it, yet. Dave.

Sam Sloan stated that he wants to see Brian Lafferty suspended from the USCF forums. When asked of the reason, Sloan stated that Lafferty's endorsement costs him the election.

Does anyone know if there are any recored games of Alessandro Salvio (1570-1640) ??

Hi. Have a basic, elementary even, question. Are the Fritz and other ChessBase software stand alone or do they function in conjunction with Fritz 10; specifically the *Fritx Trainer* series of software? Thanks in advance. I've come back to chess after more than five decades, and it's gratifying to see that I am no longer embarassed at the level of my chess incompetence. :-)

The non-3D board size in Chessmaster 9000 is small and I can't seem to resize it. Am I missing something?

I d like to know which is the most aggressive engine, even if it sacrifices some strength in order to accomplish that. And it doesnt have to be in the top 10, just fairly strong. Is it maybe chess tiger in suicidal mode? Also, the most defensive-solid-boring-to-death? Any thought would be welcomed. Thank you.

I was wondering if there was an easy way to capture the Forsythe (FEN) notation of a chess position from a diagram like we often find on the Net. Most positions are shown in diagram form and the only way I know to transfer said position to other chess programs is by manually and tediously setting it up. Anyone know of a simpler way?

I have found this game on TWIC and I think it can be found other places too.

I just watched the movie "Contract" with Morgan freedman and John Cusack, and there are two scenes where one of the geeky bad guys is playing a computer chess game. In the first scene, he sneers that he never loses, then is checkmated on the next move. I froze the screen, and set up the game...his move was nothing short of a colossal blunder. In the second shot, it is the exact same game, but...

hello: i am looking for a trainer, but they are very expensive for me. I am from Spain, 41 years and my elo is 1965 elo fide. If you are interested i can be your trainer and you can be my trainer. My mail is : torrechess@terra.

ChessGenius 3 (DOS) is now freeware and can be downloaded he http://www.gambitchess.com/progr.htm CG3 works fine in WinXP. Notice how strong it is, and how attractive the interface is. Its style of play is rather intelligent. It is a quite fast engine which is suitable for analysis. The opening tree handles transpositions. It is ideal for designing one's own repertoire. However, I noticed...

Hi, I released Scid 3.6.17 at http://prolinux.free.fr/scid/, (along with a new version of Scid for Pocket PC, which is still in Beta). Changes in Scid since last version : - corrected the Grunfeld and Grunfeld Exchange lines, which were incorrect - added moves announcement in "serious games" and "tactical games" - corrected a bug when creating a new EPD file

Hey guys, I have looked all around but have not been able to find a ASCII chess software (preferably open src) that can be compiled on a OpenBSD/*nix box. Could someone suggest something? I have a shell account on cyberspace.org - it's a great place and a online communtiy with hobby forums and Unix command prompt access. You can write programs, code in perl etc etc. They have a chat thing called...