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| Posted by onlygb uskidscompute.com 11/12/2004 04:47:42 Play online chess |  Subject: PGN Viewer Message: Does anyone know of a good (free) PGN viewer that will allow me to review my downloaded games off line? Windows Also, I'm not interested in that PGN Screen saver program. Thanks in advance for your help. |
| Posted by bucklehead uskidscompute.com 11/12/2004 06:27:15 Play online chess | The best free all-in-one Message: Has got to be WinBoard at www.tim-mann.org/xboard.html . Comes with a free (though fairly weak) chess engine you can use for analysis, though you can set it up to use whatever engine you want. You can even use this as your interface on a bunch of live chess online sites. But at a basic level, as a PGN viewer and basic annotator, you can't go wrong. |
| Posted by onlygb uskidscompute.com 11/12/2004 07:29:41 Play online chess | Message: Thanks! I'll give it a shot. ——— Chess: Berbatov's long shot — Football fans will recognise the name. This is the Manchester United striker's 15-year-old cousin, Kiprian, a rising star in Bulgarian chess. He has just played his pawn to b4 – and set an evil trap. How should Black reply? RB: I had the wild notion of responding with 1…axb4. No one likes tripled pawns, but then I realised that with three pawns to clear on the b-file, White would have his hands full while Black could make merry on the opposite wing. But that's precisely the problem – what can Black do on the kingside? Not much that I can see. So, to be sensible, it's either 1…a4 or 1…b6. I prefer 1…a4, locking the queenside and giving Black a chance to improve his position on ... |
| Posted by bonsai uskidscompute.com 11/12/2004 07:40:45 Play online chess | Message: Chessbase Light would also do the job. ——— Graybeards of the Chess Board to Battle for the World Title — Boris Gelfand, an Israeli grandmaster, was the surprise winner of the World Chess Championship Candidates Matches in Kazan, Russia, which ended Wednesday. Gelfand was the second-lowest-ranked chess player among the competitors, as well as the oldest; he turns 43 next month. The victory gives him a title match next year against Viswanathan Anand, the world chess champion, who turns 42 in December. Chess has become a young man’s game, and Gelfand and Anand will be the oldest championship opponents since 1934, when Alexander Alekhine, 41, defeated Efim Bogoljubov, 45, to retain the title. Gelfand, who was born in Belarus, has never played for the title, which is remarkable in ... |
| Posted by premium_steve uskidscompute.com 11/12/2004 15:11:13 Play online chess | winboard Message: i can't get this to work.... i downloaded both xboard and winboard, but when i click on the winboard.exe file, i receive the following message in a grey box (always bad ;)) -- "16 bit windows subsystem the system file is not suitable for running msdos and microsoft windows applications." nothing ever works for me. no matter which interfaces and databases i try downloading, legal & illegal, i never get anything working. i'm just so stupid. AARGHHH! *bangs on keyboard* ——— On Chess: Tiny American was titan of tenacity — Is it possible to be 5 feet tall and yet be a formidable sporting icon? It is in chess - a gymnasium of the mind where size, speed and physical strength are incidental. Two small chess players who immediately come to mind are the 19th century's Paul Morphy and our contemporary Anatoly Karpov, who in his prime weighed little more than 130 pounds. And, of course, there was the diminutive Sammy Reshevsky (1911-92), who was justifiably feared by the Soviets as an unpredictable chess player of great talent in the post-World War II period. Reshevsky dominated the American chess scene until Bobby Fischer eclipsed him in the late 1950s and thereafter. No one - including himself, Fischer admitted - could ... |
| Posted by bucklehead uskidscompute.com 11/12/2004 16:55:36 Play online chess | There are lots of choices Message: Can't speak to the WinBoard difficulty--it works perfectly for me. I seem to remember there being several WinBoard forums somewhere, if you wanted to work at it. Otherwise, there are a million free PGN viewers out there, and I'm sure at least one will work for you: *Chessopolis lets you download an old freeware program called CDB which is actually pretty good: chessopolis.com/cdb-1_5.exe *There is a "lite" version of ChessBase at www.chessbase.com/download/cblight/index.asp *ChessPad ( www.wmlsoftware.com/chesspad.html ) is fairly no-frills but does have the nice feature of letting you export a diagram as a bitmap. Or maybe I'm the only one who thinks that's nice. *SCID ( scid.sourceforge.net/ ) is a full-fledged database program, but can also be used as a simple PGN reader. It's got lots of features but I find it really difficult to use. *I just ran into Jose ( jose-chess.sourceforge.net/ ) today, and it looks OK. Its thing is that it offers a 3D board, but not a fantastic one. Chessopolis has links to a bunch of others that I have no experience with: chessopolis.com/software.htm . At a minimum, this is a page of great links. ——— 'Bobby Fischer' documentary captures audience — Our brains tell us fame is fleeting, but do we believe it? Elvis, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan -- could they all really be wiped out of our cultural consciousness? You may not learn a lot about chess in Bobby Fischer Against the World, Liz Garbus's well-documented film about arguably the greatest and most tragic chess player that ever lived. But you do learn a lot about fame, and its possible relation to pathology. In his day, the ironically-shy/perceived-arrogant chess prodigy was among the most recognizable faces on Earth. When he played Soviet Boris Spassky in Reykjavik for the World Title in 1972, it led the news over coups, wars and elections. And then something ... |
| Posted by premium_steve uskidscompute.com 11/12/2004 19:45:20 Play online chess | cool.... cool.... Message: thanks :) i'll have a go at some of them now. ——— Boris Gelfand to challenge for world crown after beating Alex Grischuk — Israel's Boris Gelfand beat Russia's Alex Grischuk 3.5-2.5 in the candidates final in Kazan on Wednesday and will challenge for Vishy Anand's world chess crown in 2012. Gelfand is 42, Anand 41, and it will be the first time since 1934 that two over-40s have played for the unified world chess championship. Gelfand is only ranked world No 16, and Anand leads 7-0 in their decisive classical games since 1995, so the Indian will be long odds-on to win. Gelfand's success will be overshadowed by the record 90 per cent draw rate, 27/30, in the slow classical games at Kazan, where the eight chess grandmasters refused to take risks until the tie-breaks. Only four classical games, six in the final, were scheduled before ... |
| Posted by theprez98 uskidscompute.com 11/14/2004 02:33:01 Play online chess | chesspad Message: I like ChessPad, free, and easy to use. |
| Posted by autumnbreeze uskidscompute.com 11/14/2004 06:17:28 Play online chess | I use Chess Cat Message: available from www.pgn.freeservers.com/chesscat.html Have u found one which you like onlygb? Chessmaster 9000 etc lets you import PGN games also. :) |
| Posted by onlygb uskidscompute.com 11/14/2004 07:16:13 Play online chess | Chess Cat is what I needed Message: Big thanks autumbreeze. Chess Cat is exactly what I was looking for. |
| Posted by bucklehead uskidscompute.com 11/15/2004 07:10:31 Play online chess | I must say... Message: ...that I am very impressed with ChessCat--it's no-nonsense, easy to use, and offers a strong list of features for a free program. I think I may have to make this my front-line tool for annotating my own games. Thanks for the tip, autumbreeze ! |
| Posted by wulebgr uskidscompute.com 11/19/2004 20:43:00 Play online chess | Winboard is great, but Message: it is now superceded by Arena: www.playwitharena.co.uk/ |
| Posted by baseline uskidscompute.com 11/21/2004 18:54:52 Play online chess | look at this one Message: the chess assistant lite version ,free and if you download crafty with it an analysis engine and chess playing program. |
| Posted by sspiroff uskidscompute.com 11/23/2004 13:04:36 Play online chess | Screen saver? Message: Are there any free PGN screen savers? I googled around a bit, but could only find shareware programs - which, I certainly don't mind paying for if they're well written, but if there are any free ones, I'd prefer that. |
| Posted by theprez98 uskidscompute.com 11/25/2004 00:16:59 Play online chess | ChessPad Message: I forgot to post the url for ChessPad: www.wmlsoftware.com/ Free, and easy to use. Also, compatible with Crafty and similar chess engines. I've used a number of PGN viewers over the years and found this to be the easiest to use. Also allows you to save variations, alternate lines, etc. |
| Posted by gambiter uskidscompute.com 1/24/2005 02:31:11 Play online chess | chesscat Message: Im impressed with chesscat. Its easy to use and simple. |