Chess Department
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A collection of 44 years Grand Master vs Machine. Over 2600 games! (Contributed by George Tsavdaris): http://www.top-5000.nl/gm-comp/dgt_chesstheatre.htm
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PGN Library: http://www.angelfire.com/games3/smartbridge/
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This is a software to manage chess games? databases. Some friends has been asking for a way to reproduce the chess games? collections that we are publishing here http://chess4real.com/free-chess-database-software-to-download/ , so? here you are, you can download it totally for free. This software is called SCID (?Shane?s Chess Information Database?), and it?s completely free. I consider ChessBase or ChessAssistant better softwares, more professionals and with better features, but to use them you have to pay for them, or hack them, thing I do not recommend. But, hey, this is free!
This software was developed by Shane Hudson and Pascal Georges. All the merit is for them. This is the website: http://scid.sourceforge.net/index.html -
My SCID settings: theme: xpnative autoplay time delay: 3 chess pieces: alpha colors: 1
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Arena is a free Graphical User Interface (GUI) for chess. Arena assists you in analyzing and playing games as well as in testing chess engines. It runs on Windows XP or higher or on Linux with Wine 1.0 or higher. Arena is compatible to Winboard protocol I, II and UCI protocol I, II. Furthermore, compatible to Chess960, DGT electronic chess board & DGT clock XP, Novag Citrine, Autoplayer, ICS (chess servers) and much more. http://playwitharena.com/?Download:Arena_3.5
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pawns knights rooks bishops the queen the king GOD/LIFE and 2 players ...it is interesting how the energy/power is situationally distributed amongst the game pieces a well refined and well thought out game indeed
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I agree with you, SurSteven. The pieces are harmoniously placed on the board. I'm not fond of shuffle chess nor the Fischerandom chess a.k.a. Chess960. The latter is Bobby Fischer's idea. He was probably shown the Chessmaster 4000 Turbo program then. Seriously, he was obviously against the idea of using computer program as a guide. He thought chess is just books and memorizations and not self-reliance. He admitted that he was guilty, as well. Well, chess is like school. You study and try to master the game, you graduate (if you had enough of it) and share to others what you learned. I like shuffle chess and Fischerandom but not much.
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Free Software Every Chess Player Should Have: http://chess.kearman.com/html/software.htm
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PGN Mentor: http://www.pgnmentor.com/ PGN Mentor is a database/study program that provides extensive functionality for viewing, searching, and analyzing chess games. Chess players and coaches around the world have been using PGN Mentor since 1998. In addition to the PGN Mentor software, this site is also home to the best collection of PGN files on the web. Visit our PGN Files page for free access to over a million Grandmaster games. You can try out the demo version of PGN Mentor before purchasing the full version. The demo has full capability for reading and viewing of PGN files, and full functionality for the demo PGN files. Also, a free companion PGN file to the book Garry Kasparov On My Great Predecessors, Part 1 is included with the demo download.
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Chess is just a game, not a war. It's not violent, either. It's just a harmless game.
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The reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen is just too intelligent and classy to become a Justin Bieber.
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I'll restart my chess training. (Meaning, I'll play with all the different styles and personalities in the Chessmaster 4000 Turbo program.) I don't care if it'll take me 40 or 80 days to finish as long as I don't rush. I'll use the 'Auto-Annotate Move List...' feature after each game so that I can easily spot the blunders, mistakes or weak moves that I committed and the good moves that I overlooked. I will occassionally ask advice from the Chessmaster, of course. Isn't that fun?
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I'll restart my chess training tomorrow. Monday.
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Hope you do well!
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SurSteven:
Hope you do well!
Thanks. I'll restart my chess training today and publish the games later. I just want to produce simple games, not classics.
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"Without error there can be no brilliancy." -Emanuel Lasker
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The annotated Carlsen-Anand championship match have made a profound change on my chess. The funny thing is I find the annotations redundant - whatever the right word is - and not as professional like the ones in the Chessmaster 4000 Turbo program. It made me realised that you don't have to be like Morphy, Fischer or Kasparov, who make moves that I find a bit hard to understand, to win games. All you need is simple and logical plays. Maybe my impression is wrong... Also, I have said that the current world champion is not amazing. Well, that is true. In a sense that in his games you won't find major sacrifices like what Morphy and the others did. He's amazing in a sense that the champion he dethroned never won a single game. The last world championship is one of the most remarkable ever.
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I learned to play chess in 1990 or '91. It was only in 1993 that I developed an interest and then after a couple of years, I stopped playing. It was only in 2012 that I developed a deep enthusiasm on the game. So you can consider I'm an intermediate player if not a newcomer.
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"Chess is life." -Bobby Fischer
