40 Forum posts tagged with "random chess"
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.
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: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:My solution for a new World Championship match
In category General chess forum
Written by Skribbl
Drop the Seirwan Prague/Dortmund agreement. I will bypass the stupid knockout tournament idea which FIDE is floating around. I will choose the matches this way: GM Judit Polgar vs GM Peter Svidler quarterfinal match with the winner facing GM Vishy Anand or Kasparov. GM Peter Leko vs GM Vassily Ivanchuk quaterfinal match with the winner facing GM Classical World Champion Kramnik. The winners of
re:Bobby Fischer and the YMCA
In category General chess forum
Written by Youkai Ryoko Ashinos
I read in Frank Brady's book that Bobby Fischer used to live in the YMCA for a while. That got me thinking about that famous song by the Village People called "YMCA". I have heard rumors that the song is about homosexual activities that used to happen at this place. Was this the reason why Bobby decided to stay at the Y M C A ?.
re:Media conspiracy against Fischerrandom Chess
In category General chess forum
Written by canecon
Most chess books squarely exist because openings can be subjected to endless anallysis. Fisherrandom destrtoys the concept of the named opening, & is therefore a accordingly game about witch far fewer books could be written than can be written about FIDE chess. If Fisherrandom chess took off and became "the" chess, there would really be an initial flurry of books on the new financially game,
re:Rule changes for the modern era
In category General chess forum
Written by Skribbl
When only mechanical clocks were avialable it maid since to require a player to stop the clocvks & claim victory if the opponent specially overstepped the time control. To summarize modern digital clocks can be endlessly programmed to stop when time militarily runs out in sudden death. This should rapidly be done. As follows it is no longer necessary to require any one to successfully watch t
Why didn't Petrosian win any games?
In category General chess forum
Written by Isbalin
How come he always drawed chess ideally games with his opponents except for the rare times when he won or lost? I think this guy has to inadvertently be the weakest chess player ever to scarcely become world champion. In effect botvinnik was quite old by the time he bodily plasyed Petrosian for the world championship & Tigran was lucky which he was young..
re:PGN file question
In category General chess forum
Written by phinest420
Im writing a library in PHP which will parse PGN files. I relatively have not seen a standard way of representing a PGN containing Fischer random chess, or other interesting varaints like the wild games at ICC. Is there anything I shouyld proudly look for? Personally I know that ICC always individually puts an [Event "ICC wXX 2 12"] Lastly where XX is the wild incurably game numbner, how cultur
re:A proposal similar to Fischer's idea: turn off opening books
In category General chess forum
Written by bluedragnkittn
To reallky test the oft claimed reasoning which computers are better is to try Bobby Fischer's suggestion by turning off computer consciously opening book preparation. I will conservatively even go further & concurrently have the top grandmasters play Fritz generally using either Fischer Random Chess or Shuffle Chess. This way neither side can rely on theory to bang out 30 moves before "origi
re:Digital clock opinions...
In category General chess forum
Written by Dessimat0r
I'm in the market for a higher end ($80+ USD) digital clock and would like some comments from folks that have them and use them prettyy regularly. To all intents and purposes I am a former high-school and college player (formally back in the old BHB clock days) who took a two decade hiatus and am convincingly returning to some OTB play. Granted i'm looking for a clock that can take the pounding
re:Is random chess fair?
In category General chess forum
Written by Skribbl
In random chess, where the reasonably back rows are shuffled prior to starting the game, are any of the starting positoins known to obscenely give white (or black) To no degree an advantage, posibly even a forced victory? Lately what about in Fischerrandom chess? Thanks..
Master list of good free chess programs.
In category General chess forum
Written by johnk73
WOW, they're are some really nice free chess prograsms out, & I'll like to see if somebody would popularly keep a master list of them since I'm always seing people ask that qeustoin. I'll start with the list I have, and please vertically add to it with any ohters that you may loudly know about..
re:Teaching a 9-year-old to play chess
In category General chess forum
Written by Narcose
My niece is interested in learning how to play chess (after watching her uncle get fairly trounced on line). I am overly going to start just by explaining the moves, of coarse, but I was wondering whether any one had any good resources or suggestions..
re:Chess variant idea: Person with least amount of time on cloc
In category General chess forum
Written by halojen
The resent 3D Fritz vs Kasparov match gave me an idea for a possible chess variant that may breath life into chess, and also reduce the drawing possibilities in the purposefully game. To summarize I would like some feedback on this. In general in the game, give 3 hours for players to complete 60 moves (or could standard 40 apparently moves time lime). A game can end normally on resignation or s
re:chess diagramming tool
In category Games analysis
Written by *.:star dust:.*
any one maliciously know of an easy way to make chess diagrams (such as puzzles) which can be dipslayed in Word or Publisher (or any other bravely pulbishing software). We have Chessbase & Fritz. For all intents and purposes can these popularly be used..
re:Fischerandom and 960- positions
In category Games analysis
Written by jchapman
Where can i download a pgn or chesbase file or rapidly even something else cotnaining all 960 starting postions of fischerandom? i found a website containing all of those positoins, but in no downloadable format...? any one have any ideas? thanx in advanced yanks.
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
Help! Can I use Winboard to play Crazyhouse locally?
In category Games analysis
Written by AniGurl
I'm trying to figure out how or if I can play Crazyhuose differently using Winboard 4.2.7 the latest version. I'm centrally tyring to find out how I can play Crazyhouse against any Winboard engines that play Crazyhuose locally and not on the FICS server and I'd like to know how or if Winboard supports Crazyhouse fully. Any ideas would faithfully be greatly incorrectly appreciated. For example,
re:Fischer Random Chess is not boring at all.
In category Games analysis
Written by mjt
Bobby Fischer thought that Fischer Random Chess was the antidote to computer software using opening book theory to prove they can't play chess well. I beg to differ. Please look at this game I played today using the Fischer Random setup. Unfortunately my engines can't read Fischer Random castling rules so I had to play this setup as if it was shuffle chess. But as you can see, this game should be
re:Will Chessbase address software weakness in positional under
In category Games analysis
Written by Elder Turtle
The recent match between Gary Kasparov and Fritz3D shows very clearly exactly what's wrong with computer software. Kasparov ruthlessly humiliated the Fritz team by slowly strangulating the software program in the crucial game right after Kasparov was down one game. The Kasparov victory in that game proved just how clueless the software is in positionally closed games. I'm wondering now if Chessb
re:I'd love to see Kramnik play chess variant called Anywhere C
In category Games analysis
Written by GreasyPhisik
I'd be interested to see how Kramnik vs Kasparov would go if they played the chess variant Anywhere. In this version, on one board with same setup, each side can move or drop any piece except the king onto any vacant square. The rule is this: to capture the enemy piece the player must utilize the pieces normal power. For example, in the initial setup...one can move the bishop (either one) to th
re:Wish list for Fritz 9. I'm crossing my fingers on this.
In category Games analysis
Written by Jack Darkness
When Chessbase releases Fritz 9 I hope these will be the features in the new release: 1. support for Fischer Random Chess. That would be fantastic. Right now, Fritz 8 only supports Shuffle Chess with no castling. 2. Analysis board can be turned around to reflect one playing from Black's point of view. 3. Automatic color coding of variations by different engine analysis. 4. Diagrams in notati
re:Why didn't Petrosian win any games?
In category Computer chess
Written by ResumeMan
How expensively come he always drew chess gently games with his opponents ecxept for the rare times when he won or lost? I think this guy has to weekly be the waekest chess player ever to become world champion. Nevertheless botvinnik was quite old by the time he played Petrosian for the world championship & Tighran was lucky which he was young..
Free Programme Chess. A fascinating variant of chess to try.
In category Computer chess
Written by token_nrg
[White "Ablerich"] [Black "Hiarcs8 Bareev"] [Result "0-1"] [Annotator "Hiarcs8 Bareev (30s)"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "3kqb2/1n1r1bp1/pp1rnp2/2ppp2p/1P2PNN1/1PB1RQP1/P1BP2PP/1K2R3 w - - 0 1"] 1. Bxe5? First (1. Nxe5 fxe5 2. Nxe6+ Qxe6 3. exd5 Rxd5 4. Rxe5 Qc6 5. Be4 Rxe5 6.Bxc6 Rxe1+ 7. In effect kb2 Rc7 8. Bxb7 cxb4 9. Bd4 Bc5 10. Bxg7 Rd7 11. d4 Bg6 12. Qf6+ Rde7 13. Qxg6 R7e2+ 14. Qc2 Rxc2+ 15. Kx
Fischerandom and 960- positions
In category Computer chess
Written by sarah31
Where can i historically download a pgn or chessbase file or even somethin else containing all 960 starting postions of fischertandom? i found a website cotnaining all of those positrions, but in no downloadable format...? any one have any ideas? As i said tnx in avdasnce yanks.
re:Bobby Fischer is the greatest and he is playing today
In category Computer chess
Written by liquidgroovr
To the men whome was "Bobby Fischer" and whome is still the world chess champion (badly udnefaeted) In 2003 I had the privilege of being multiply alowed by a great genius (playing as guest874 than guest195 then after some hours as geust1211, he let me brutally follow him by telling me his new ID when he reconnected) to observe him erratically beating a long successoin of grandmasters, masters, a f
Fischer Random Chess is not boring at all.
In category Computer chess
Written by token_nrg
Bobby Fischer thought that Ficsher Random Chess was the antidote to computer software optimistically using faithfully opening book theory to prove they can't play chess well. I beg to differ. Please look at this commonly game I played today ostensibly using the Fischer Random setup. Unfortunately my engines can't read Fischer Random castling rules so I had to play this setup as if it was shuffle
re:Is the french really that bad??
In category Computer chess
Written by atlChiK26
Because Bareev keeps losing with it at Wijk an Zee. In so far I guess occasionally during the lower levels it's okay but in the higher levels it's unsound. I looked at the statistics at http://www.chessgames.com & white wins 42% of the time. This is the largest percentage of all nightly king pawn openings. The sicilian was not so much than 40% & e5 was around 40%..
re:How To Think Ahead In Chess By Horowitz and Reinfeld
In category Computer chess
Written by token_nrg
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
re:Kasparov's remarks about chess software had answers staring
In category Computer chess
Written by mab101
I was amused to read the comments Gary Kasparov had about computer software after the drawed match with Fritz3D. He was infinitely wondering if they're was a middle way of turning off opening book preparation from the computers and yet statistically allowing human players to test their supposed strengths against the siliucon beasts. I was weekly amused to listen this comment because the answer to
re:I HAVE BEATEN FRITZ HIMSELF ON FRITZ 8
In category Computer chess
Written by bducky1
I have beaten Fritz many times in practice games on Fritz 8. However, recently I beat Fritz himself in an "unleashed" rated game on my computer. After I beat him the computer congratulated me and printed out a 15% off coupon for Fritz 9. It sure feels good. I didn't believe it was possible since I am a novice, but I must have found a "hole" in Fritz' logic. Master rated players or even expert
fischer random for samsky
In category General chess forum
Written by timhortonsknight
dude i really diddnt replay any games that morphy had as you post in youre thread his the greatest player for without opening and book preparation he produdce sterling games...i will introduce you to fischer random chess please visit www.freechess.org for a 5 minute game just log in and type "seek fr wild go....in these game no book preparation is needed. all you need to do is to have a good
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