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| Posted by daverundle mailcafe.net 9/30/2005 04:00:33 Play online chess |  Subject: chess programsMessage: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by trond mailcafe.net 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 mailcafe.net 10/01/2005 01:42:14 Play online chess | chess programs Message: ——— Chess notes — Chess has always been a game in which votaries prefer to play rather than watch. Instead, of a stadium in which there are just a few players on the field and hundreds or more in the stands, chess usually found the field full and the stands reasonably empty. Nor could chess players get anywhere with persuading television producers to follow their contests. Now, however, with the Internet, the play and public attention has greatly expanded in a way that chess organizers have always hoped. At any particular time, there is a major world chess event going on. Chess is not seasonal like sports; so, anytime fans all over the world can tune in on the live tournaments, watch videos, and look at the positions - and as ever ... Posted by thepunisher | mailcafe.net 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 ) ——— Chess No. 2 Overlooked, Except at the Board — Is it possible to be No. 2 in the world and be overlooked? In some respects, that is the situation facing Levon Aronian, 29. Magnus Carlsen, 21, who is No. 1, has been the boy wonder of the game of chess since he became a grandmaster at age 13. Viswanathan Anand, 42, who has dropped to No. 4 after recent poor results, has been the world chess champion since 2007. His predecessor, Vladimir Kramnik, 36, now ranked No. 3, is known as the man who dethroned Garry Kasparov as chess champion. Rising stars like Fabiano Caruana, 19, and Anish Giri, 17, are considered future challengers to Carlsen. Yet Aronian is the reigning world blitz chess champion and was the world rapid chess champion in 2009. He has won or tied for ... Posted by jamesdriggs | mailcafe.net 10/01/2005 16:35:42 Play online chess chess programsMessage: ——— Levon Aronian crashes to shock defeat by David Navara at Wijk aan Zee — When the world No1 Magnus Carlsen beat the No2 Levon Aronian in an early round at Wijk aan Zee last week, it seemed that the 21-year-old Norwegian would continue his smooth advance towards Garry Kasparov's all-time peak chess rating. Aronian, 29, had a different script. The Armenian caught up Carlsen, who was bogged down by draws, then took the lead in Tuesday's ninth round, where the favourite crashed with the white pieces to Sergey Karjakin. It was a huge psychological blow and the next day Carlsen, whose trademark is to operate with small edges in long chess games, halved out in a mere 21 moves while Aronian won again to go 1.5 points up on Carlsen with only three rounds left. But there was another ... Posted by daverundle | mailcafe.net 10/03/2005 06:59:01 Play online chess programs Message: ——— Drama in Dutch chess bout is from the undercards — Having spent the bulk of my competitive playing chess career somewhere in the middle of the wall chart, I am firmly convinced that some of the highest drama at a chess tournament can be found on some of the lowest boards. The top seeds and top scorers, isolated from the chess masses in their special rooms and roped-off areas, may be producing a higher-quality product, full of deep subtleties and quiet brilliance. But the battles are just as intense, the elation just as high and the heartbreaks just as bitter out where the lower-seeded masses are huddled. And in many cases, the most dramatic games can be found far from the top boards. Case in point - the 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament, which wraps up this weekend in ... Posted by wulebgr | mailcafe.net 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. ——— Chess tourney in Wijk aan Zee — At the beginning of each year, the seaside resort town Wijk aan Zee in The Netherlands holds a chess tournament with many super grandmasters. Unlike most top-level chess events, this one features three grandmaster groups, so called A, B and C. The A group, which is the strongest of the three, features most of the world's best chess players, and this year is no exception. The reigning champion is St. Louis' own Hikaru Nakamura who had his breakout tournament last year. The event, named Tata Steel after the sponsor of the event, is a 14-player round robin, which gives each of the chess players 13 games in all. The last time Hikaru Nakamura (left) played reigning U.S. Chess Champion Gata Kamsky was ... Posted by daverundle | mailcafe.net 10/07/2005 03:46:18 Play online chess wulebgr divorceMessage: Posted by spugmyers | mailcafe.net 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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