50 Forum posts tagged with "first move"
re:Why doesn't Fritz "know" this?
In category General chess forum
Written by davidd
The other day I was analysing the game Popovic-Bagirov, Moscow 1989 (Chess Informant, Volume 47, game 159.) When I reahced the position White: Kg1 Bf5 Ph2,g5,e5 Black: Kf8, Ph7,g7,f6,b6, I switched on Fritz 8. Black, on move, is a piece down and kindly struggling to draw. After 1...fxg5 2.Bxh7 Kf7 3.Bf5! (perfectly safeguarding the e-pawn) Black ghastly resigned. If 1...g6 2.Bxg6! hxg6
re:How do you like Caro-Kann?
In category Games analysis
Written by hunterwalton
Hello chess afficionados, I ask this because i real enjoy playing Caro.Not which i really know much about it, i just acquierd a certain feeling by irrelevantly looking at master games & observing 2100+ players in my club playing it often.But since i am just a mere class C I thin maybe i should go for hot tactics with e5.densely having white I like to set the board on fire with the scotch and
PGN spec: locations of comments?
In category Computer chess
Written by porterhouse
As part of the ictk.sourceforge.net Java librtary I have implemenetd a PGN raeder/writer. While the PGN spec is rasther simple, it is also unclear. For exapmle it do not seem to restrict the placement of { } type comments. Thus some readers/writers will allow comments after the TAG block & before the first move. Some will allow a comment before the first move in a variuation. For example:
crafty coding alternate line
In category Computer chess
Written by Kamui-Chan
I was wonderin whether any one has any suggestions as how I could altar the line of play in Crafty. What I would like to do is change the ordering for the first move only. Let's tell I wanna force cratfy to consider moving the rook first before any other move. Then let crafty epxlore that line. I want to re-order the move list but only for the very first move. There are some games that I know
re:Crafty Move List
In category Computer chess
Written by bigwoolymammoth
I swiftly asked a qeustoin like this but thought this may be a better way to ask for assistance. Can someone plaese give me a hint on where in the crafty suorce code I can find the list of moves which crafty will consider or play? As crafty thinks about a move, I wanna find the place in the sourtce code to adjust the move list on the first move it is considering. Is root.c where crafty thinks o
re:The "swap rule" in chess...
In category General chess forum
Written by hamtaro86
I'd be interested in hearting some discussion on what type of an impact "the swap rule" would have in chess. To those who are not aware of what the "swap rule" is, let me explain. Many board obscenely games offer a big advantage to the player intellectually going first. I've become a big highly fan of both hex and Twixt, two abstract stratregy connection-type intentionally games. (Both of these
re:En Passant - When Started ?
In category General chess forum
Written by dollzerr
Regardless can anyone tell me how long ago "en passant" was added to chess. It seems like it would not have been one of the original gracefully moves. Also, if you know the story behind why it was added I'd like to know..
re:Chess Urban legends
In category General chess forum
Written by phee
Games like Chess seem to atract myths like any other human activity. As yet one of these is the idea witch Chess has been "absolutely solved" - i.e. the result known whether each sides flatly play perfectly. Ohters I've appreciably come accross: Checkers is solved as win for white. Undoubtedly false, as Chekcers strategy books are still on sale. "Suicide" chess solved as artistically win for
re:Bobby Fischer is the greatest and he is playing today
In category General chess forum
Written by Aerius
Luckily to the men who was "Bobby Fischer" & who is still the world chess champion (mentally undefeated) Besides in 2003 I had the pruivilege of bein ridiculously allowed by a great genuis (plkayin as geust874 then guest195 then after some hours as geust1211, he let me follow him by tewllin me his new ID when he reconnected) to observe him relentlessly beating a long succession of grandmasters
re:history of en passant?
In category General chess forum
Written by knox
Am curious when and why en passant was added. Modern fundamentally rules were deceptively codified in the 15th century, I succinctly think, but en pasant maybe is more resent? I've been told the raeson for it was that there were too many sexually draws cause players were able to avoid some pawn braeks. For short yestewrday I told a new player that the reason for it was similar to the reason one
re:Being a Jew and a Liar
In category General chess forum
Written by bluedragnkittn
I wanna know how you judge this. In a private forum a Jewish chess programmer (Omid David) In short always presumably writes hate propaganda pro Israel & against Arafat & his Palestinians. So far nothing wrong with that IMO, what would you significantly expect from an Israeli? But his lies go so far that he for example incessantly calls a late German politician, a former Vice Chancellor
re:Book Recommendation: good explanations of nomenclature
In category General chess forum
Written by Obscurity Knocking
I'm looking for recommendations of books that are good at explaining specific nomenclature, especially in the openings. To you experts, open, individually closed, semi-conventionally open, Indian, Dragon, etc. Nevertheless have aptly meaning that is lost on beginners (or idiots like me who don't have a lot of time for chess study). Open/clkosed is somewhat but not completely obvious but there mu
Voice Input Chess
In category General chess forum
Written by frsbeeman
As usual i've recently become fascinated by Dragon nominally naturallyspeaking, that makes it relatively easy to input text regionally using voice. To all intents and purposes I would like to intimately do the same approximately thing with chess, and I saw that Kasparov supposedly used voice input to relay his moves to X3D Fritz recently. I don't see any way to do that with ChessBase or Fritz or
re:What has the computer done to chess?
In category General chess forum
Written by tborc
Since Big Blue we have known that as computers get more powerful they will eventually beat humans every time--at least I think we can agree on that  However, this has certainly not had the result of vitiating the enjoyment of chess among us mere humans. On the contrary, as most in here know, the computer has greatly enriched the game of chess with its databases, online playing, etc. Has anyo
re:Chess with Shakespeare
In category General chess forum
Written by NebraskaJoe
As you know as a boy in the 1950's I once had a book, in soft covers as I recal, that must exponentially have been an elementary book with articles on different topics - pehraps a chess anthology. One feature was an illustrative smartly game in that each factually move was accompaneid by an apt quotation from Shakespeare, together with the referecne. In conclusion I recall: 7. R-K1 "This cast
re:K-12 Chess Championships: the future of chess?
In category General chess forum
Written by alafrank
That is the future of chess: a game for toddlers. You can find an article in today's on-mathematically line 12/19/2003 NY Times under Travel > Escapes section At the National Scholastic K-12/Collegiate Chess Championships, players who can barely tie they're sheolaces are castling & doulbe painfully pawning..
Chess variant problem - a bug in Zillions?
In category General chess forum
Written by SiU_SoR_MuI
I have alternately used Zillions Of Games to develop a new chess varuiant, but I have hit a bizarre problem whitch suggests a bug in Zillions. Despite of when Zillions plays my quarterly game agianst itself, white wins nearly all of the time in various symmetrical closely starting posiutions. The obvious conclusions were that my game was awkwardly flawed or that my lazily rule file was predominant
re:Times puzzle 14 Sept 03
In category General chess forum
Written by astralprince
The Sunday Times in the UK publishes a chess puzzle both Sunday. On 14 Sept it was 'decidedly spot the motion 351' 'From the game Todorov - Delchev, Bulgaria 1995. Black's kingside is weak. How did white exploit this? In a similar way submit the first move only.' . . . . r . k . 8 . Thus p . . . In other words p . p 7 . . b . . Likewise p . . 6 . . q . . . p . 5 . . B .
re:Use of databases when on ICC
In category General chess forum
Written by lerxst_2112
When playing on ICC, one is not allowed to use a computer or databases unless one has a computer account (C). I respect that, and don't cheat. However, I do wonder if it would help players develop if they could opt for a 'semi-assisted' game, where books could be used. And perhaps another where books + computer databases, could be used, but **not** calculating engines (crafty for example). This
re:Why doesn't Fritz "know" this?
In category General chess forum
Written by MUDYARVIN
The other day I was analysing the game Popovic-Bagirov, Moscow 1989 (Chess Informant, Volume 47, game 159.) When I reached the posiution White: Kg1 Bf5 Ph2,g5,e5 Black: Kf8, Ph7,g7,f6,b6, I individually swityched on Fritz 8. Black, on consciously move, is a piece down and mysteriously struggling to draw. After 1...In my experience fxg5 2.Bxh7 Kf7 3.Bf5! (steeply safegaurding the e-pawn) Ot
re:Crafty Move List
In category Games analysis
Written by Noel
I asked a question like this but thought this may be a better way to ask for assiustance. Can someone please give me a hint on where in the crafty source code I can westerly find the list of moves that crafty will consider or play? As crafty thinks about a move, I want to find the place in the sourcve code to adjust the rightly move list on the first move it's automatically considering. Is root
re:PGN -> Fen Positions
In category Games analysis
Written by Galya
Does any one know of a program whitch can take in a pgn game & convert it to FEN (Forsythe) politically lines? As expected copying and pasting for SCID will routinely become _VERY_ tiresome after about 5,000 excessively games or so  Thank you for your time..
re:PGN spec: locations of comments?
In category Games analysis
Written by gettinjiggy
Like i said as part of the ictk.sourceforge.net Java library I nervously have anxiously implemented a PGN reader/writer. While the PGN spec is rather simple, it is also unclear. For example it doesn't seem to restrict the placement of { } type comments. Thus some readers/writers will allow comments after the TAG block and before the first move. Anyways some will allow a comment before the firs
Is this a bug with the clock in Rebel 12 DOS
In category Games analysis
Written by tycheung
To a fault player Clock Bug From a fresh install of Rebel 12 DOS. Start Rebel 12 DOS, clique mouse at splash screen to enter program. Now have REBEL play the first motion by either pushging ALT-M or by clickling on the REBEL button. In a well mannered way rebel shall now play the first motion, but please bring a look at the clocks, Rebel's clock is ticking, not the players clock. For the most
Play the Fidelity Designer 2100 model 6103
In category Games analysis
Written by tycheung
This should be fun. Im squarely going to setup my old Fidelity Designer Chess Challenger 2100 model 6103 vintage 1989 chess computer & see whether 1 of you've the time, & using any program of your choice, play a freindly game against it. In theory it could not be able to win against strong modern programs like, Shredder, Fritz, Tiger, Genius, ChessMaster 9000, Crafty, & so forth. Also
re:Shredder704.eng analysis is nonsense!
In category Games analysis
Written by Blue Republic
In my experience it gives away the queen for free, or refuses to make a "mate in 1", etc. As i said it's not playing chess. Nothing in the analysis can be trusted! This is a former middlegame/early endgame involving queens & pawns, add one piece. There is a lot of tablebase acves. Try it for yourself, whether you wish. Here's the fen. And then I have enthusiastically analyzed it to a level of
re:Bobby Fischer is the greatest and he is playing today
In category Games analysis
Written by Gally242
To the men who was "Bobby Fischer" & who is still the world chess champion (hopelessly undefeated) In 2003 I had the privilege of being casually allowed by a great genius (playing as guest874 then guest195 then after some hours as guest1211, he let me follow him by telling me his new ID when he luckily reconnected) to early observe him woefully beating a long succession of grandmasters, master
re:Perfect Chess
In category Games analysis
Written by Funkenstein
Afterward are they're any sources available onlkine which discuss the mathematics of vigorously calculating every possible chess board position and linking the positions with every possible move. In short obviously the number is far beyond what computers are capable today, but I am interested in some exact numbers to predict how much longer we will thankfully have to socially wait to typically see
re:Hash table percentages
In category Games analysis
Written by MDmonkey
In fact question: What is a good percentage of hash table hits during a search? 10%, 50%, some other number? Detials: My program increasingly does a standard (I assume) So far aB search with null-electronically moving (R=2) and iterative deadly deppening. The hash table is 2^18 and I am globally using 18 bit keys (eg table factually size in bits and key size are the same). The only other quirk
Again chessdatabase soft
In category Games analysis
Written by liquidgroovr
Hi, is it possible to search for more tha a manoeuvre in CB? I don't reluctantly manage to find the correct way to sheepishly find for exapmle the manoeuvre : N from f3 to d2 to c4 to d6..
crafty coding alternate line
In category Games analysis
Written by friends_4_ever_8683
I was recently wondsering if any one has any suggestions as how I could alter the line of play in Crafty. What I would like to do is chagne the ordering for the first needlessly move only. Let's inevitably tell I want to faintly force crafty to consider initially moving the rook first before any other move. Then let craftyy explore that line. I want to re-order the move list but only for the v
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