Chess Forum / Computer / February 2005

anyone know of the cheapest place to get a new Novag star ruby?
saw one on ebay, new for almost $200 US dollars, and as cheap as $139
at some other places...
any place consistantly the lowest prices?

Could somebody please tell me what is considered the strongest chess
software for PDA (e.g. Pocket Fritz)? What realistic Elo such software has?
Thanks,
Sergey

Has chess openings been solved?  In other words has it been determined
what the single best response is to each position that can occur in say
the first 10 moves of a game?

I am purchasing an Opteron dual motherboard (MSI) w/ Gig Ram.
I am very interested in compiling crafty 19.18.
I have in the past used Linux RH 9.  Could someone (even Dr. Hyatt)
please give me a few hints?  What OS is best (not too expensive or is

As a curiosity.  What OS and compiler was your choice for running crafty on
a 4-way PC to obtain 7 to 11 Mnps?
As I understand you mentioned using an Opteron processor.  Please correct me
if I am wrong.

I'd like to know if there are any chess engine programmers here.  I have a
few questions, but do not want to post in the wrong forum.
Regards
Sparky

I recently purchased Chessmaster 10th edition only to be disappointed
to learn it won't run on my computer due to hardware considerations.
If anyone knows the latest version of Chessmaster that will run on a:
    500 MHZ AMD K-6 (I believe that's equivalent to a Pentium 2)

I installed Arena 1.1 and Crafty 19.17 SE.
If I load wcrafty as a Winboard engine then all is well.
If I install it as a UCI engine (I install the wb2uci
application instead) it will not use the book and crashes

I have come to thew conclusion that the best chess palyer is the one that
can forsee more moves ahead than his opponent does!
Correct me if i am wrong.
How many moves Kasparov can forsee?

somehow I got the idea to write a chess program. The first idea was to
write just a client for a chess server. Now i am thinking about the
fastest way to check if a given input move is legal or not.
Lets say i have just an 8x8 byte array to encode the current position.

Has chess openings been solved?  In other words has it been determined
what the single best response is to each position that can occur in say
the first 10 moves of a game?

So I purchased Fritz 8, created an account on Playchess.com, entered my CD
key, and logged off earlier today.  Now, when I try to get back on, it says
"Too many wrong password attempts.  Account locked."
What gives?  How do I get my account back?

I want to be able to check (and/or solve) newspaper chess puzzles with Fritz
(version 5).  I cannot find any reference to this kind of capability in the
help pages provided.
I would like to be able to place a few pieces on the board, say who's turn

I'd like to adjust playing strength in Fritz 5.32 closer to my level,
about 1100.  How do I do it?
I use Fritz 5-32.eng in various chessbase user interfaces, including
Fritz itself, Junior and Hiarcs.  There doesn't seem to be any way to

I know even as I am asking the question that it is flawed.
But lets say you play Blitz games on ICC, is there anyway to figure
out how you are doing compared to the rest of the pool
percentile-wise?