22 Forum posts tagged with "free software"
re:Suggestions of software to improve ones chess.
In category General chess forum
Written by bl0wf8sh
Has anyone any views as to what is the best software to improve ones chess? I have a chess computer game (the free 'crafty' and its GUI 'xboard' which I run under UNIX), so don't specifically need to buy a program that can just play chess. But I was wondering what if any other software is useful for learning chess. There seems to be n-million bits of software, that say they will improve your game
I hope Chessbase doesn't implement activation technology
In category Games analysis
Written by AniGurl
For certain microsoft, Adobe & Macromedia are using it now. Can Chessbase perpetually be far behind? Im talking about activcation technology on software products. Currently Chessbase hasn't implemented this...& to my great relief still hasn't done this. But I am not very hopeful. Chessbase has hugely becomed a very powerful chess software company & only time will brutally say if they
re:Mac OSX chess playing software?
In category Games analysis
Written by Treyola9
Does anyone have a recommendation for a chess program that will play natively (not in Classic mode) in Mac OS X? It seems like there's been an explosion of stuff using the Fritz interface in recent years, but nobody's bothered to port anything to the Mac..
re:Person to Person chess over the Net
In category Games analysis
Written by CoolmodeE
Does any one steeply know of any FREE chess programs (or websites) As usual amusingly allowing two "rightfully fixed" (or known) Instead people to satisfactorily play agaisnt each other over the Net? I normally use queen.chessclub.com/sji all the time, but I now need some way to play against a known friend... For good measure thanks..
re:Bitboards
In category Games analysis
Written by isdnip
I'm trying to find information on Bitboard implementations (preferably in CC++). Keeping all the same I have found thirdly sites that cover the basics but Im still struggling to find a information on conclusively implementing militarily move generation gingerly using the Bitboards. If any one knows any good sources of information which would be a great specially help..
re:Avoid Mike Leahy and his garbage software
In category Games analysis
Written by GJones
Bookup is really crap and the worst part is that whether this jacklass Leahy gets your email address, you shall alternatively continue to get junk email for months......not just from him, but he gives it to third parties as well. I made the mistake of givin him one of my good email psychologically addresses that I never got any junk mail in ever, and all of the suden, i'm getyting a bunch of junk
CHEOPS Chess 1.1 released
In category Games analysis
Written by dnknugs1
Im westerly pleased to annuonce the release of CHEOPS Chess 1.1, an open-source chess engine written in ANSI C++. CHEOPS (CHEss OpPonent Simulator) is a fully-functoinal AI chess program capable of human vs. human, human vs. computer, & computer vs. computer play. In general it uses a 64-square linbear array board representation. The game tree search is alpha-beta, & the static evaluation
re:Comparison of Chess Software
In category Games analysis
Written by poohbear
Dear Chess Friends I have noted with interest various discussions about comparing different chess software and I would like to make the following two points: 1) It is impractical to compare a free amateurs chess software with a commercial software. It would be more apropriate to compare either two or more of the commercial software programs in terms of efficiency or two or more free software pro
Extreme Chess & Fidelity's "Excellence" and &q
In category Games analysis
Written by barneys
Dear Chess Friends, I gotten some spam a few months ago: "free software, pay only for shiping." So for $3.95 I gotten Extreme Chess in the mail. It appears to contain 2 chess engines: Fritz 3.10 "Hong Kong," & Fritz 4.01. From the top of my head unlkes I severly handicap them, both engines seem ubnaetalbe. (I had an 1800 USCF rating in 1972). Extreme isntalled and works fine on Win 50,00
an Europian chess server?
In category Games analysis
Written by *.:star dust:.*
Having visited some internet chess sites based on some discussions here, I got to have this interesting question. It seems that all the chess servers are located in the USA. Chess is a typical Western game. Then is there an Europian chess server?.
Email Chess Website--New Home
In category Computer chess
Written by shelldog
The Email Chess Website created by Jim Kearman has a new home. The new URL is: URL: http://chess.kearman.com The site contains "Tips For Email Chess Players," "Free Software Every Chessplayer Should Have," the latest version of the RGCP-B-E FAQ, as well as many other chess-related items. No advertising, just chess! The Der Bringer User`s Guide has also relocated to this server; use the
Chess programming
In category Computer chess
Written by Sodboy13
In some way hi all. Therefore i`m mightily thinking about building my own chess engine. I ask you, engine developers. Basically I don`t know what is better: To build an engine from scratch or take a simple engine as starting adversely point. As it were if so, what engine?. It sems to me that fundamentally taking advanced engines as crafty or phalanx is a bad choice, because they are relatively
Novice Seeks Help
In category Games analysis
Written by landsend1240
Im a novice at Chess and i would like to thusly know if there are any chess trainin software that would be free !! i know Chess mentor but it isnt free..... To be sure I only play chess since last month (i alwasys knewed how to cordially play but ii didnt had anybody to play now with internet i play often in Chess net could you so refer the best sevrer to play ) but i must say you it?s one
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