Chess Forum / Computer / November 2008

I am starting to like random chess..
white set up is
A-I-Bishop
B-I-King

I put the pieces in a bag and had tongs to pull them out so i could not
feel the pieces and this  is the way they came out..
White
Bishops on A-I and H-I

ME  , White
Pawns
A-3 , B-3 , F-3 , G-2 , H-2
Rooks

Suppose there were a rule in the United States of America that one
could not say anything of a negative nature about the President of The
United States or any candidate favored by the president.
Suppose there were a rule that you could only say bad things and could

2-D (diagram display)
variable levels (both below and above USCF 1800)
Any favorites?
I have iChess Pro, which seems adequate.  Most of the ones I find by

Polgar watchers know that Susan Polgar is constantly on the move,
going from one place to another, and everywhere she goes she posts a
picture of herself on her blogspot at http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com
However, ever since the USCF filed a complaint against her last week

Does Chessmaster actually run under Windows XP or must it be run on an
account with administrative priveleges?

Susan Polgar's new lawyer in the case of USCF vs. Polgar is Matt
Gonzalez, a former Green Party member who ran for Vice-President of
the United States in 2008.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Gonzalez

I have a Palm Tungsten E2.
I'm running the free version of Chess Tiger.
Can anyone recomend a good chess program for the Palm.
Should I buy one or stick with the demo?

Anyone who is good at chess or backgammon here? I got hold of the
original inventor of 'Deep Blue' chess computer. If anyone want to
share some of your experience in playing chess, lets leave a reply in
here.

I've heard about the Manhattan Club in NYC as a strong chess club, an
actual club not online, but today where is the strongest chess club?
Is it online?  The Fritz/Chessbase site, the ICC, FICS, or GetClub.com
with Sanny?

    I bought a copy of Rykba 3 and since my chess skill
leaves much to be desired besides analyzing any of my online
game loses I can always adjust Rykba 3 in handicap mode to
play exactly at or above my level. Any chess program it seems

I've got eight Dell computers, vintage 2002-2004, sitting on my
windowsill.  They would need new hard drives (we didn't want to worry
about NSA-quality reformatting to remove all traces of client info, so
we just yanked & physicallly destroyed).

Sevan Muradian reports over on the USCF Issues Forum that the
financials for the end of September 2008 show that the USCF has less
than $4,000 cash in the bank, has $116,000 in accounts payable, has
exhausted its entire line of credit and the only significant account