Many times in several newsgroups and forums I've read questions, references and advice about chess-engines/programs that are supposed to play 'human-like' chess. (Very often Rebel/ProDeo comes up in these cases, btw.). Chess being a somewhat mathematical game, I've never understood these remarks. Besides, several humans play different styles and types of chess, so that could also be the case with...

Hello, I've been using Fritz 8.0 for some time now. Just today I changed engines from Fritz 8, but when I tried to change back it asked for the CD. Here's the problem, our home was destroyed in the tornadoes that came through our town in March. Among the many things that were lost was my Fritz CD. Is there a work around so I can once again use the 8 engine?

Hi to all, i have just downloaded Shredder for linux (demo version) i had extract the tar.gz file and as root i try to launch executable ../Shredderclassic with this output: "Please edit $JAVA so it is executable" i have installed jre and the command "java" is in the Usr/java and in my Path if i try to launch the executable with java Shredderclassic this is the output: "Exception in thread...

I guess this might really be an engine question, but when I copy a FEN notation into Scid, the Scidlet engine can't do any analysis - it says that the starting position is non-standard and therefore it can't do any analysis. So, is there a Scid compatable engine that will do the analysis, or are there tools to generate bogus moves to yield a certain position? Any and all help appreciated. -gk-

I'm thinking of purchasing a palm handheld, mostly for chess related stuff. 1. Any recommendations as to best bang for the buck? 2. Any experience out there with Hiarcs for Palm? The website boasts a 2600 ELO on upper end Palm devices. Thanks, Angelo

Because it is made to humiliate, insult, torture human beings. Amnesty international should know that human intelligence can not compete with computer intelligence. Also this game is voilent. I see so much blood on my mobile screen.

Why is she such a bitch? Is it because she's not getting enough at home? Ray Gordon

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Hello, If you are interested in the Digital Game Timer chess board and clock support for Linux and MacOS, you can have a look at the dgtnix project on the page http://dgtnix.sourceforge.net/index.html . For the moment the driver only support the eboard chess GUI (eboard http://eboard.sourceforge.net/) but there is ongoing work to also support other GUI's like knigths, the kde chess interface.

She's known to lie. She's known to cheat the USCF out of money. She's known to deceive people for a green card. She's known to turn her back from her supporters. Can anyone trust her again?

Am I doing something wrong? I go to the opening training(detailed) and Fritz only has 4-5 moves, no matter what the variation. I thought it would be better. Any ideas? Cheers

Last time the Chess Game speed was improved but it reduced it's thinking skills but now the game is fast as well as very strong. Play at: http://www.softtanks.com/chessgame/Chess.html Here you can play with Beginner level, Easy level, Normal levels. I believe for Good players Easy level will be good to start. For new players try playing the Beginner Level.

What is the difference between this.... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000B643GA/ref=pd_sbs_sg_1/103-1295355-0367036?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=468642 ....And the "regular" Fritz 9 program on the ChessBase site? John

I switched to Macintosh a couple of weeks ago only to see that there seems to be no decent chess programs for mac. Here's what I have tried out so far: Shredder Classic Mac - Nice looking interface but game exporting (including printing of games!?) isn't supported. SigmaChess 6 - Promising set of features but apparently doesn't support alternative move variations. Vektor 3 - Almost zero...

I just bought Fritz 9 (from a reputable vendor) but am having problems with the software complaining that I don't have the original CD and refusing to run analysis mode. (it does say CD although this is a DVD) Before I jump into the whole tech support routine, I'm wondering if there's an anti-CD-check patch to just work around this? Or any known incompatibilities or workarounds? Or patches? ...

Why in the world does the new game give regional weather reports? John -- Von Herzen, moge es wieder zu Herzen gehen. --Beethoven

Don't use the book that comes with rybka. Rybka didn't perform as well with this book on SSDF games than the book they were using before (free book that comes with Arena). Also, I saw some posts by the author of that book on a different forum. He is one loud mouth arrogant moron -- insulting everyone who questions any line in "his" worthless book.

Beatriz is a strong woman who's willing to stand up against Goichberg, Schultz and Channing. She's also willing to stand up against Bessel Kok and support Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. She's entitled to change her mind and negotiate the best deal. It's a free country. She should be praised for the decision to support FIDE and she should be the FIDE General Secretary.

Today's CB "report" on the Sofia tournament contained two links to videos that did not work, and a second link to "all games so far in PGN" that did not contain today's games (even though the results were listed). In fact the database file contained only nine games out of 18 played. I know CB likes to dump crap on their website and call it journalism. I can almost understand that, as covering...

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