Chess Forum / Computer / November 2005

I tried signing up to chess-mails site for the 5th time now. Once ever
day!
After you sign up it says an email will be sent in 15 minutes to verif
the sign up ect. But there is no email thus unable to log in and play

There is a time-honored feature in most
mainstream chess programs that allows
a machine to "think" while waiting for
its OTB opponent to make his move. Terms

Seems Hydra v.8 UCI is a strong chessengine. But- is it a real chessengine
from C. Donninger, or it's a joke, counterfeit?
Regards
SoloMoon

I have a question for those participants
who are familiar with the technical side
of hardware/software used by a machine to
_play_ OTB chess.

on the Fritz 8 CD it has the small TBGen.exe application for th
Nabilov 4 & 5 piece endgame tablebases. I clicked on the 'Suggestion
button then the Build button. Am I doing this right? At the curren
pace its going to take at least a few days before the 8 compressed gig

FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
CITY OF NEW YORK - COUNTY OF QUEENS
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I inherited CM5000 cd from my brother and I'm starting to learn chess.
I like the tutorials, but a couple of things annoy me:
1.  Can't step backward in the tutorial.  If i want to recall the last
move, I have to  restart the lesson from the beginning and click,

I was not successful in compiling
the java source files of MyChessViewer
under Linux with jdk1.5.0_05
Any help greatly appreciated.

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In the Matters of:

I have Shredder, and recently I upgraded to DeepShredder because I hav
a dual processor 3.5 MHZ (4 gigs of RAM). However, I noticed that i
only runs about 20% faster than the single processor. For example, in
typical middlegame, the single processor version may run 450kn p/s

Those games seem much like chess. Has anyone here played them? How did
you find them?

I'd like to learn more about how to write a chess prg in C/C++ (How to
implement the board, the pieces, how to find a legal move ...). My
first idea is to look at a very basic version of a common open source
file like Crafty. Can someone tell me where to get it (or other very

Let me start by stating that I don't mean the program that plays the
strongest game, but (for me) rather one with
1) levels able to give a 1400-1700 rated player an interesting game
2) the ability to play blindfolded

Now it Plays many variations
Play them at: http://www.softtanks.com/chessgame/Chess.html
(If you are good player play Easy level instead of Beginner)
Advance levels will be available after 2 weeks as the site is going

We can describe the position of piece on the board as the function of
the x axis and a function of the y axis.
So so far we have a two dimensional game. But enter the bishops which
are restricted to either dark squares or light squares. It is necessary