I am looking to find the best value in training software. Currently, I tend to read through books, but I find it rather annoying to setup a board and parse the notation for each example. It is tedious and doesn't play well in a mobile setting. So, I am thinking of doing some training on the computer. I note that ChessMaster X has a lot of training material. I am a owner of Fritz 8 and I...

http://www.stltoday.com/blogs/sports-tipsheet/2006/03/end-of-a-storybook-romance/ Dwight Perry, Seattle Times: "Russian chess champ Alexandra Kosteniuk, 21, one of the world's top four women's players, will be featured in the May issue of Penthouse, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. No reaction yet from world federation officials, but, in chess parlance, it certainly gives a whole new meaning to...

Can anyone explain what is meant by the term 'ponder on' or 'ponder off' in computer-engine chessmatches? It seems a very common term, some kind of condition of play between engines, but I cannot find anything in the helpmenu, and it's not clear to me what it is . Thanks in advance Ruud

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Hi, Im looking for a robot that I can use to control crafty on the ICC, I have looked at icsDrone but currently i am experienceing problems getting icsDrone to reply to a move or to play the first move if white. Can anyone recommend a command line client that I can use with crafty to play on the ICC Regards,

I'm running Chessmaster 8000. It performed fine until earlier this week. Now all the time settings seem to default to as fast as possible !. Just set upo a game between Tal and Tinman with a half hour clock. Chessmaster just went crazy playing the moves at blitz pace ! When analysing games no matter what is put into the 'Time For Anaysis' dialogue box, again the program just rushes through at 1...

Hello There. Are there any differences between the two? I'm thinking about buying Fritz 9. But only if there is some big improvements over Fritz 8. Can anybody advise? Thanks Tom

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I need a Petty chess or Speed chess game (5x6) for Pocket PC platform. Any ideas?

Hiya, So situation is that I have a database of my games that was created with old Rebel Century that doesn't run on my current computer anymore. Is there any tool out there, which would convert Rebel .dat file to ..pgn format? Or is the only solution to find some old computer with Windows 95/98 and do the conversion with Century? Oh, and I am aware of Fred van Engen's PGN Export Utility but it...

What happened to Chesslib's big database?! Over 3.5 million games at last count, but no longer mentioned at http://www.chesslib.no/ --Fran

I have decided to make ChessliB's main database, 3 752 026 games, available for free. Arild www.chesslib.no

i am a legal owner of chessbase 9.0 after starting chessbase 9.0, a window pops up asking me to upgrade online. i click cancel each time. finally, today, i decide to go along with the upgrade "v9 to v10" whatever that means. i figure if chessbase wants me to upgrade, it's probably a good idea to do so.

Hi, You can read an interview with the Eiko Bleicher author of this great tool he http://exactachess.com/modules.php?name=Interviews&page=6 (English) http://exactachess.com/modules.php?name=Interviews&page=7 (German) At the main interview page you can read also interviews with other computer

I tried to install Chessmaster 4000 Turbo in my Dell WINXP computer. When I open up the program I get these error messages: The first pop up box: CHESSND1.DLL The second pop up box: Application Error

Here's a little collection of puzzles from short games beginning with 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.h4 - the Allagier & Kiesertisky Gambits (ECO C39): http://www.wtharvey.com/c39.html

Hello, is there anywhere a very new version of the ECO opening database with the latest variations and opening names available, perhaps as a free pgn file? Thank you very much in advance for any hints. -- Regards, hpm

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I'm curious about the Explain All Moves pane. Does Fritz use the engine to its *maximum* strength when suggesting moves on this pane? That is, assuming I give the Explain All Moves pane enough time, on any given turn does it report (via the first item in the list) what move the engine would make on its *strongest* setting?