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| Posted by daverundle uskidscompute.com 9/30/2005 04:00:33 Play online chess |  Subject: chess programsMessage: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by trond uskidscompute.com 9/30/2005 13:01:18 Play online chess | Crafty, Spike and Fruit Message: If you download Arena 1.1, you can get Spike 1.0a Mainz as engine along with it. Spike 1.0a Mainz just won the Computer Chess960 world championship ahead of Shredder and other programs. Crafty is also a good old choice which has a annotation function as well, but this is a bit weaker than the best free engines (rated "only 2600"). Fruit 2.1 is the strongest free engine out there, only beaten by Shredder. Also see: -> www.computerschach.de under rating list | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by daverundle uskidscompute.com 10/01/2005 01:42:14 Play online chess | chess programs Message: ——— An Unusual Double: Husband and Wife Win French Chess Championships — Marriages among top chess players are not common, but they are not as rare as they once were because more women play chess now than did 20 or 30 years ago. Sometimes the marriages are between chess players of different nationalities, but once they marry and settle down, they often play in the championships of the same country — competing for the men’s and women’s titles. Under such circumstances, it is possible that a husband-wife team might win the national chess championships in the same year — becoming a country’s unofficial chess royalty. It happened in 2008 when Bartosz and Monika Socko swept the Polish chess championships, and in 1994 when ... Posted by thepunisher | uskidscompute.com 10/01/2005 08:35:23 Play online chess Chess programmsMessage: Sometimes its free on a CD of a magazine. It is very fine to analyze games with it and strong enough for everyone. It shows you ( Strong )moves you never thouhgt about. So it is ideal to train your chess with it. And it has a good serching engine for games ( also chessbase format !!! ) Interesting is the very, very old Psion chess, one of the first PC chess Programms ( runs under MS-DOS ) ——— In Race for Global Chess Dominance, China Is Gaining on Russia — There was little doubt why the Soviet Union was so dominant in chess — the government poured money and other resources into programs that cultivated chess players. Yet even after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Russia remained the world’s leading chess country. Its strength might be a vestige of the Communist-led system, or of the country’s historical affinity for the game. If there is one nation that seems able to displace Russia, it is China, which created its own state-run chess-training program about two decades ago. China has already narrowed the gap, finishing ahead of Russia in some team competitions and producing several women’s world chess champions. One measuring stick of ... Posted by jamesdriggs | uskidscompute.com 10/01/2005 16:35:42 Play online chess chess programsMessage: ——— Chess still struggling to capture imagination of the masses in China — China is a unique phenomenon in world chess. The team only began to compete in around 1970 but within 30 years was a serious contender at men's level and No1 in women's chess. Yet the national game remains Chinese chess and the global version has little public support. The secret has been well-directed government backing to identify young talent and provide intensive coaching. China will be going for medals again at next month's world team Olympiad in Russia, although the home squad will be heavy favourites. China has also created its own elite chess tournament at Nanjing, where the top two finishers qualify for a Grand Slam final against world chess champion Vishy Anand and world No1 ... Posted by daverundle | uskidscompute.com 10/03/2005 06:59:01 Play online chess programs Message: ——— Rising Chess Stars Open up a Lead at NH Tournament — The saying that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link is also true for chess teams. Unfortunately for the older team at the annual NH Tournament in the Netherlands, it seems to have three weak links right now. After seven rounds, the rising stars lead the experience team 19 to 16. The top chess player for the experience team, Boris Gelfand of Israel, is actually playing very well. He has scored 5 points — the most in the competition. Peter Svidler of Russia is playing beneath his ability, but he still has 3.5 points. But the other three experience members — Peter Heine Nielsen of Denmark, Loek Van Wely of the Netherlands and Ljubomir Ljubojevic of Serbia — each have only 2.5 points. That is ... Posted by wulebgr | uskidscompute.com 10/06/2005 06:17:45 Play online chess divorce is goodMessage: Free engines are great--I have 64 or so, and Arena--but the GUI that comes with Fritz, Shredder, and the like is well worth the money. For beginners, Chessmaster is a good choice, but steer clear of it if you want serious game analysis, online playing options, decent 2D boards, multi-engine support, and compatibility with the next generation of chess software. Fritz and family is the choice of serious chess players. ——— Two Win Diminished Chess Crowns — Boris Spassky, the future world chess champion, was once world junior champion. So were Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand, the current world chess champion. It used to be that the world junior championship was an important stepping stone for chess players who had dreams of becoming the best in the world. No longer. While the junior championship, which is open to participants 20 years old or younger, still draws talented chess players, the best of them usually skip the event because they are already among the world’s elite. Among those who were eligible to play this year, but did not, are Magnus Carlsen of Norway, No. 1 in the world; Sergey Karjakin of ... Posted by daverundle | uskidscompute.com 10/07/2005 03:46:18 Play online chess wulebgr divorceMessage: Posted by spugmyers | uskidscompute.com 10/07/2005 04:08:15 Play online chess Message: -> shop.game.net I guess there might well be a difference between Fritz 8 and FritzChess 8 though. Seems suspiciously cheap. 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