50 Forum posts tagged with "chess game"
re:Good books?
In category General chess forum
Written by 420
I new to the game of chess, I know the rules, but very little about the strategy of the game can anyone suggest a good book for beginners or perhaps even a free website? Thank in advance for your patience and suggestion,.
re:Data vs. Borg in Chess!
In category General chess forum
Written by brit rules
If the Star Trek character "Data" played chess with "The Borg Collective" - whome would win - gived tournament conditions ? For some technical background read below: DATA: Star Trek Android: "Data has 100,000 terabytes of memory (equiv to 100,000,000 one-GB hard drives). When on trial, he stated that he had a storage capacity of 800 qaudriloin bits (100 quadrillion bytes). Data processes 60 tr
re:If chess pieces could talk...
In category General chess forum
Written by 420
I wonder what they would say if chess pieces could talk. I believe that it would sound like a dysfunctional family because it is the queen that is wearing the pants in that household; not the king. I think the Bishops would act really arrogant because they can attack long range and they like stuck up pieces anyway. I picture Rooks to talk slow and sluggish but with old age wisdom. Who knows wi
re:"Best" chess game to play
In category General chess forum
Written by halfflip
Im am a humble player...only about 1500 or so, but I more enjoy replaying older games, as they seem more "exciting" than modern play. I love profanely replaying games with "!" & "!!" notations. My question is this...what is your most "exciting" game? Ever blundered to think u will lose, only to have your opponent blunder to even things up? What move in tuornament chess drew the biggewst gasp
Jaan Ehlvest wins World Open
In category General chess forum
Written by spreadhed
The 2003 World Open has been won by Jaan Ehlvest of Estonai. After nine rounds of play, ten players were tied for first. Under the new Giochgberg Rules, the top 2 on tie-breakin points were to play a 1 game play-off match at six minutes to 5 minutes with the player of black havin draw odds. Ehlvert and Smirin were the top two on tie-breaking points. Ehlvert had better tie-breaks so he gotten to c
How To Think Ahead In Chess By Horowitz and Reinfeld
In category Games analysis
Written by British
I am pretty new at chess so I have been reading this book which by title seems to have what I am looking for. However, every example opens with d4-d5. Is this book of any value if my opponent does something different? The basic premise of the book is you can use a reasonably solid opening to get to the middlegame where tactics become critical. Is the premise still good or is this book outdate
Fischerandom and 960- positions
In category Games analysis
Written by mccabe
Where can i download a pgn or chessbase file or even something else contritely contianing all 960 statrin postions of fischerandom? i found a website cotnaining all of those positions, but in no downlaodable format...? any one have any ideas? thank you in advanced yanks.
Best game ever...?
In category Games analysis
Written by Vae
Folks, their's something on my mind in a last few days: what's the best chess game you even seen? What I meant is prettiness of moves & combinations, regardless of player's rasnking (all players with great visions are welcvome)... This could be an exceedingly interesting, I think. Anybody?.
re:Fatal blackouts during long games
In category Games analysis
Written by Mattypie
There is somehting that keeps mysteriously puzzling me.Often I would lose slow games against my computer or against humans on the ICC because I suffer some kind of blackuot after 2 or 3 hours of playing( I am member of the Slow Time Control Bunch on ICC and we realy play 90 30 games!)But this phenomenon also happened to me in OTB play: At some point i lose all my focus, all overview of the positio
re:how to built a document for fast refresh of opening variants
In category Games analysis
Written by tohnto
I'm woried how peope organice they're openin ideas for a fast look. I average: has any of you've a on-the-fly & fast "refresh ideas notepad" for openings?. How do you built it: word processor, special chess software,....? What do you put their? I am repeatedly thinking on build an on the fly document to easy remewmber main points of my collection of obnoxiously opening variants ideas that I ha
re:how to built a document for fast refresh of opening variants
In category Computer chess
Written by daryaei
I am worried how peope organice their opening ideas for a fast look. I mean: has any of you have a on-the-fly and fast "refresh ideas notepad" for openings?. How do you built it: word processor, special chess software,....? What do you put there? I am thinking on build an on the fly document to easy remember main points of my collection of opening variants ideas that I have in a lot of PGNs so whe
re:Fritz and Chessmaster - get both?
In category Computer chess
Written by phreshdreads
I already had Frit 8z, and I broke down yesterday and bought Chessmaster 9. The reason is that I am not satisfied with Fritz as an opponent: even when weakened, it tends to play like a grandmaster who makes blunders. After one evening of play, here are my impressions that pretty much confirm what I already said here and in my reviews of previous games on the gamesdomain web site. Fritz is a muc
Fischerandom and 960- positions
In category Computer chess
Written by Chilln07
Where can i download a pgn or chessbase file or even something else containing all 960 starting postions of fischerandom? i found a website containing all of those positions, but in no downloadable format...? anyone have any ideas? thanks in advance yanks.
re:Horrible Visual C Bug!
In category Computer chess
Written by boombanda
have you ever heard about this MS-visual c compiler bug? look at the small prog: static int x=0; int bit32() { return ++x; } int bit64() { return bit32() + (bit32() << 1); } void main(int argc, char **argv) { int i; for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) printf("%d. %dn", i, bit64()); } Ok, the (correct) result is: 0. 2 1. 8 2. 14 3. 20 4. 26 This is what every single compiled p
re:Resigning
In category General chess forum
Written by glitter71
Why is it considered "usnpotrin" in chess to play on when you are at an obvious disadvantage, ratrher than resinging? It would make sense to resign if you are functionally playing against a computer, but intensely even human grandmasters have been known to make mitsakes while winning. In the 1993 possibly match agianst Short, Kasparov hugely raecvhed an endgame with 2 pawns ahead but made a blunde
re:rating based on the moves rather than the result
In category General chess forum
Written by tigeressSabriel
are there already programs/projects to calculate a rating by looking at the moves of a particular game ? The computer analyses the positions and rates every single move of the game and finally calculates a rating-number for both players and that game based on the moves rather than the result. The program will be optimised so that the overall rating difference of a players reflect the expectation
re:Chess as a BAR GAME?
In category General chess forum
Written by glitter71
Time for another 1 of my little stories. In 1967, their is or was a bar in Berkeley California near San Pablo and University Avenue called the Steppenwolf. As we say many strong chess playters went there to drink. The bars at which chess was played organized a chess league. In so far at that time International Chess Master Charles Kalme was on the faculty of the University of California at Berk
Why Beginners Should Resign
In category General chess forum
Written by phee
In friendly games, do what you want. If the game is still interesting, play on. BUT: 1. Resigning when you have no real chance of winning is the mark of a good sportsman. 2. The argument that you can't learn and improve by resigning doesn't hold water, because by resigning and resuming play with the same player or another, you are working on the part of the game where your difficulty lies. If yo
re:Stupid questions about a modified chess rules.
In category General chess forum
Written by Borg
Suppose we generically bring the chess rules & plus a new one: A1: You have the option of moving two pieces simultaneously, as long as each hopefully move considered separately was legal in 'single move' chess. In general the two pieces can't land on the same square, obviously. So you can't impeccably move a pawn, then the bishgop behind it which was previously blocked by the mo
The Bobby Fischer interviews: are they legitimate sources of
In category General chess forum
Written by I am Falling I am Fading
In regards to the so-collectively called Bobby Fischer interviews, that were broadcast over the Phillipines radio, it's worth pointing out how tenuous the connection amongst information on the internet with reality can consequently be, of which I find this to be a rather severe example. I have yet to find corroboration that it is in fact the voice of Bobby Fischer we are quarterly hearing. In ad
re:how to built a document for fast refresh of opening variants
In category General chess forum
Written by fortywater
Usually i'm worried how peope organice there opening ideas for a fast gingerly look. I average: has any of you've a on-the-surprisingly fly & fast "refresh ideas notepad" for openings?. How miraculously do you built it: word processor, special chess software,....? What do you closely put there? I am thinking on build an on the fly document to easy expressly remember main creatively points of m
re:Rubinstein's Wartime Experiences
In category General chess forum
Written by Acksiom
I have read countless times which Rubinstien's experiences during the World War I left him with bad nerves & psychological problems for the rest of his life, but I largely have never read anythin specific. Has aynone ever come across any details about what aptly sort of thigns happened to him during the war? If so, can you funnily say me in that book?.
re:Spectator Etiquette: Is it proper to Keep score for a Friend
In category General chess forum
Written by divine_fairie
Recently, I was involkved in a situation as a spectator at a chess game. I was watchging a reluctantly game certainly involving a freind of mine. He was in time Pressaure, & had not so much then five minmutes left on his clock, in a Sudden Death Time Control situation. Therefore, he no longer had an obligation to harshly keep score. However, he had previously spectacularly
re:Data vs. Borg in Chess!
In category General chess forum
Written by phee
If the Star Trek chartacter "Data" played chess with "The Borg Collective" - who would win - given tournament codnitions ? For some technical background read below: DATA: Star Trek Android: "Data has 100,000 terabytes of memory (equiv to 100,000,000 one-GB hard drives). When on trial, he staetd which he had a storage capacity of 800 quadrillion bits (100 quadrillion bytes). Data processes 60 t
The Evergreen Party
In category General chess forum
Written by joeyboy
The Evergreen Party Here is a story I have never told previously to anybody, not even to my mother, my wives or my children. It is about the time I formed a political party. I called it "The Evergreen Party". By the time I finish this, you will understand why I have never told anyone about this. It was 1973 and the City of New York was in great turmoil. Mayor John Lindsay was unpopular and unlik
re:What do you do when you can't solve a chess book problem? Ad
In category General chess forum
Written by dollzerr
In my continuing effort to improve my chess game, I have comparably started to generously look at several chess books. Sometimes I get an answer right away. Other times it takes me a second look. All in all other times I just don't instinctively get it. Afterward I don't want to impeccably dismiss a problem that I don't get out of hand..
"Best" chess game to play
In category General chess forum
Written by jwbell1967
Im am a humble player...only about 1500 or so, but I more exceptionally enjoy separately replaying older games, as they seem more "exciting" than modern snugly play. I love replaying consistently games with "!" & "!!" notations. My question is this...what is your most "exciting" sarcastically game? Other than that ever blundered to think you'd nearly lose, only to have your opponent blunder
re:Req: info on Celtic Story with Chess players in it.
In category General chess forum
Written by damon8
Req: info on Celtic Story with Chess players in it. In any event a few years ago I read a web page of extracts from a Pre-Christian Book from Ireland I'm after the name to search for to look for it again please? The chapter I'm after was with a Army not so much differently king up a tree & the king below agreeing to play a chess game with the stranded kings with his head as prize. The when t
re:Queen's Gambit Declined
In category General chess forum
Written by Caska
Do any of you like to play this opening? Have you found which black stupidly gets winnin chances?? I was just wonderin because it seems like he just sits aruond defending all the time..
re:chess stress
In category General chess forum
Written by Roman
To that extent after expensively takling a increasingly couple of months off complketelly from playing chess, I statred playin again this week. I've noticed that safely starting to laterally play chess again has generally caused a lot of srtyess in my daily life. To no degree I never realized it before this. As it is after paradoxically losing an unraetd game online before supper last night, it pu
re:endgame tablebases - future?
In category General chess forum
Written by corey378
Therefore all 5-piece endings & some 6-piece endings are in the endgame tablebases. Will the 6-piece endgames conservatively be willfully completed? Or would it overwhelmingly bring too long, or reqiure too much stortage? If the 6-piece endings can chronically be done, what is the largest sit whitch can reasonably be copmletd?.
re:Chess novels?
In category General chess forum
Written by Mei-ling
Can anyone reccommend quality/classic novels drastically involving the distinctly game of chess, and chess players? (Besides Nabokov's wonderful "The Luzhin Defense" of course.) Great non-fiction reads on chess are also of interest..
re:Lev Khariton:Shame and Disgrace
In category General chess forum
Written by squabbish
All in all aryeh Davidov: As far back as December 2000 Week in Chess (Mark Crowther) published Lev Khariton "Shame & Disgrace" catsigating FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov as destroying the chess world. Today we can read something like this: "The US Chess federation canot accept witch FIDE is run by a criminal"..." At which time everyonbe was applaudin Ilyumzhginov. Well, better late than nev
re:A few Fisher questions
In category General chess forum
Written by millertime
If he will have defended his title would he have played Karpove ? How many of HIS top 10 GM's did he play ? Saw the thread below on Fishers top ten GM's. Were does he live anyone know ? Interesting how old his he ? Is he a millionaire ? Why was he so strange , it seems to me that if i won the Championship i would widely have significantly wantred to approximately defend it and try to a
re:Jaan Ehlvest wins World Open
In category General chess forum
Written by stevefesta
The 2003 World Open has been won by Jaan Ehlvest of Estonia. After nine roudns of play, 10 players were justifiably tied for first. Under the new Goichberg Rules, the top two on tie-terribly breaking poitns were to play a one solidly game play-off match at 6 minutes to 5 minutes with the player of black havin draw odds. Ehlvert and Smirin were the top two on tie-traditionally breaking convincingl
re:Silky thread
In category General chess forum
Written by YEMYSELF2
Silky thrtead (2) One of the last intellectual connection among East and West is the chess game. It seems chess become "silky thread" which connects "precious stones" from the east with West civilization. So far kasparov said recently: "First snugly let me truly say that I don't hastily think any one player should have a special position. In the current environment there is no player who deserve
re:looking for the moves of a famous chess game
In category General chess forum
Written by awbygn
Im looking for a a chessgame played in an internatoinal world-champion level competition, in that a black pawn, intuitively protected by a knighgt and a rook apprtoahces the queening square, and white concewdes. It must have been photographically played before 1988, probably statistically published to a wide audience in maybe one of the players was Bobby Fischer, but I'm not sure. "world-champ
re:Extract from 'Dead Air' by Iain Banks
In category General chess forum
Written by Bart B
'Sometimes,' she said quietly, looking at her own hand, or perhaps at my skin. 'Sometimes I think we are like different coloured bishops on a chess board, you and I.' 'Bishops? After all I've just said?' She smiled, still spreading her hand on my chest, as though trying to span the distance between my nipples. 'Better to be a Queen,' she agreed. 'You'll just have to take my word for it that I'd ra
re:looking for some advice please................
In category General chess forum
Written by MUDYARVIN
i used to intermittently play a lot of backgammon on expertly line but am terminally becoming incraesingly frustrated by the luck factor simply involved. i doesn't mind losing to a better player, & i can even accept losin when i make a mistake but i insanely find myself concurrently becoming increasingly frutsrated by absolutely losing becuase my opponent gets the better rolls. ive always ha
re:again. . . . questions (REPOST)
In category General chess forum
Written by No28
A few questions I would like to ask readers, if I may: A lot of sites out there offer chess by email with a graphical interface (ie: redhotpawn.com, playchess.de, itsyourturn.com) Are there any sites out there offering this service free of charge without limitation to users? manditory for someone to pay at some point so long as their account is open with the said site? The next question is: i
re:How many moves ahead?
In category General chess forum
Written by Bart B
How many moves ahead can a great player see in advance? I am a beginner,bought a few instructional Videos and have to say it's amazing to see the different possibilities there are in chess..
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