Has anybody seen a preview of the upcoming ICC software release ? They have indicated some great enhancements are to be released this month and I am curious what to expect? Will it still work with WinBoard and other type clients ? -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key Fingerprint: 2DB9 813F F510 82C2 E1AE 34D0 D69D 1EDC D5EC AED1

Note, posted to rec.games.chess.computer and BCC'ed to the eboard project admin I tried to install eboard http://eboard.sourceforge.net/ which is a chess interface for Unix-like systems. But had a 4 problems which I have solved. I thought others might like to know of them, as I see someone else mention problems compiling eboard. Some of these issues

A big program mistake was found which was weakening computer moves. Now the bug has been removed. So it will play really tough game. Play Chess at: http://www.GetClub.com/Chess.html Recently Nomorechess and others won Advance level as there was a bug which has now been removed. The bug was asking Program to sacrifice its Pawns for no reasions.

Is it possible to play on ICC (or FICS) using a Windows Mobile PDA? What software would one use? Thanks, Angelo

Does anyone know the significance of the ports used on ICC? In Blitzin every time I try a new connection it seems to pick a random port. Is there anything to be lost by sticking to the same port each time? So far I can see none, but I'm a but surprised they have multiple ports. One expects a web server on port 80, an SSH server on port 22 etc, so why ICC need to have their server listening...

Anyone know if Chessmaster 10 will be upgraded to 11? From what I can gather on the Internet, CM 10 may be the last.... Any info will be appreciated, thanks, Hal.

Hello all Your recommendation please. I want to write a chess engine. I know Delphi very well. I know C a little. All major chess engines are written in C, but how does that compare to Delphi?? Do you think that it is worth learning C to implement a good engine (I'm aiming for 2100 elo at least) or will Delphi be good enough? In short - is the language a critical factor in writing chess...

Sam Sloan's Secret Agenda for the USCF Now that I have been elected to the Executive Board, I can now reveal my hitherto secret plans for the future of the organization. And, no, I am not going to guillotine all my defeated opponents, at least not just yet. Here are a few things I am going to try to get done. 1. Crossville Land Deal. The first thing I want to see is the deed to

Borked Pseudo Mailed wrote: Dysfunctional an organization as it is, the USCF with Sam Sloan anywhere remotely near the helm is a PR disaster of unprecedented proportions. It might as well shut down, pay Beatriz's kidney fund and all the staff all the cash to keep them out of Sloan's clutches, and hand over the Crossville keys to playchess, chessbase, ICC, FIDE - anyone but Sam. But...

Hanken more Fully Explains the OLM Title Jerry Hanken called me at 7:00 AM this morning to continue our conversation of last night. He says that I caught him as he was on the way out the door when I called him to ask about the OLM Program and he answered off the top of his head and that he was unaware of the thread that was going on. When Jerry hurriedly finished the previous conversation, he...

Borked Pseudo Mailed writes: A thing that came out from one of my discussions - your poster "jr" is not GM Larry Evans, as I read. Instead it is definitely and certainly the fired and discredited ex-editor Larry Parr. Parr sent an email to someone at the federation with the same IP (207.200.11?.???) as is used for the "jr" posts. Parr must have forgotten he...

wrote: Bobby Fischer loved to hate America. Now, Sam Sloan is an AMERICAN HATER. Sloan loves to move America, with his PRISION RECORD, and his FAILURE of friendships of former USCF Treasurer Tom Dorch. Sloan would just love to sniff Bobby's farts, *If* he could ever get the chess player's attention. Sloan is a US TRAITOR as a supporter of Osama Bin...

I predict that, handled properly, this could get to the Post or the Times - as well as Slate, which may count for more. And my rebuttal dossier will follow within seconds. A chess federation that hires a relative of a known organized crime figure is in a very precarious position to be talking about morality on its board, but feel free to see what the public thinks.

What is the best processor for chess engines? Exclude the double processor versions. Recently I tried a Centrino based laptop and found to be doubly faster than a Pentium 4. Why is it so?

Borked Pseudo Mailed wrote: Only a borked idiot may care. Why? Sam and USCF deserve each other! Let Sam be on USCF EB to the last days of USCF, who cares! It's time for serious people to seriously

Legal threats from Polgar and Truong On Friday, July 21, 2006, it was announced that Sam Sloan had been elected to the USCF Executive Board. Almost immediately, Paul Truong started attacking me in postings to the USCF Forums website. Today is Jaly 27 and in the six days that have since passed, Truong has attacked me a total of 115 times, including 25 times so far today. Truong has repeatedly...

This shows how unproductive and petty you people can be; it may be a contributing factor to the sorry state of affairs within the USCF. You mean to say that you are willing to waste your time and money on this, all because 1 board member you don't like was elected? You guys really need to focus on chess. Borked Pseudo Mailed wrote:

Anyone use this? Just wondering what was new with it.

Sam Sloan wrote: 16 Fake Sam Sloan messages posted while I was at the World Open I just got back from the World Open. In my absence, 16 fake messages supposedly from me have been posted especially to the Newsgroup rec.games.chess.politics . I have proof that I did not post these fakes because as everybody at the World Open knows, I spent three days from July 2 to July 4 handing ...

I was a member of the USCF about 20 years ago and competed in a couple of rated tournaments. I had a (very modest) rating and was listed in the ratings pages in the back of the Chess Life magazine. If I re-join the USCF, will my old ratings and tournament history be revived? Will they even put my old info and new info together again? Am I wasting my time?