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I will miss Thomas, we corresponded for quite a while and he asked me to write a small piece on Novag Forte C as I was the first one to get it from Hong Kong as an insertable software module for my Super Expert, which was a beautiful wooden board that played attractive attacking chess. So I wrote th...

The last I heard from Don was Oct 4 and only a couple of days later on I found out about his health issues. I wrote back to him immediately but he never replied -- and I knew that it didn't bode well. We were in intense communication back in 2010 when I was helping him with a distributed test whilst...

May be this one: http://lichess.org/

Looked very nice to me, may be she'll enjoy it.

Any wealthy chess enthusiast would If you want to know if the business model is sound, just tell them you want to make a reservation for the full monthy cluster (100 cores) for 2 days (it's the minimum you must reserve, that makes around 1200€ or $1700 for these 2 days). The information you want to...

I agree with you, Robert. Probably because I play against the trainer level as fast as I can (usually spend about 3-4 min per game thinking), trying to match its speed. And that's the kind of chess I like to play as it really relaxes me. I did try the strongest playing level, the true Tiger, in the ...

I simply have to jump in, apologies to everyone, and to my dear friend, Fernando, yes and yes! I have "discovered" my love for playing chess programs again, this time thanks to Christophe. I play against CT now, each time I steal a bit of free time, and enjoy playing against it so much, almost as if...

Dear Frank, I agree that a dedicated chess computer would be fantastic on today's HW. Even an Atom CPU would do fine, and it uses only 4 watts. However, there is no real commercial interest for such comeback . Best regards to you and Lisa!

Alex, thanks for the feedback. It just may be that Magnus's Online app runs fine only on the IPhone and the IPod but has quirks or bugs on the IPad? Interestingly enough it works and freezes only in the light version, when you play as a guest. Even then, after a finished game it hangs. Shouldn't hav...

I've decided to describe some of my experiences with chess applications on the Ipad, hoping to help some people decide whether to buy the device :-). The inevitable finally happened: I have jumped on the bandwagon and bought an Ipad. One of the reasons to shell out the money was the recent cutdown o...

The same is happening here, in the Rybka case. Each one of us does have some expectations and each one is biased in a way. The same applies to Hyatt, who is twice as aware of the above, being an academician (I am one, too and know how he can feel). Hyatt is most likely _not_ biased so as not to rec...