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I refine: Fabien. Hi Fabien, please let me ask some questions: 1 At the time when you had contact with the computerchess scene for the last time, was there any form of contact either via direct talking or via email or postal messages betweenyou and Vas? If yes, was this about a sort of agreement fr...

I think you are correct. I personally AM a fan of rewrites but I think there are many chess authors that don't ever rewrite, or have only done so once in years. Rewriting for the sake of rewriting doesn't serve any purpose at all. Software with a good architecture will survive many years and many c...

... i've become a big nakamura fan lately. he will talk smack, & he now has the overall talent to back it up. he is playing at a level well beyond even 2750, top 5 chess. this kid can revitalize chess in a way that a no-personality-outside-of-staged-model-shots like magnus never would be able to. N...

Round 1: Nakamura-Grischuk 1-0 [Event "73rd Tata Steel Chess Tournament"] [Site "Wijk aan Zee/The Netherlands"] [Date "2011.01.15"] [Round "1"] [White "Nakamura"] [Black "Grischuk"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D38"] [PlyCount "83"] [EventDate "2011.??.??"] [TimeControl "40/6000+30:20/3000+30:900+30"] 1. d...

If you play 6.h3, you allow me the resource 6...Kg7, after which play might (7.g5 Rb4 8.Rc8 Rxb7 9.Rc4 Rb8 followed by Re8 and white cannot defend) It is hard to defend white position. However, after 10. Rd4 Re8 11. Kxb3 Re3+ 12. Kc4 [D]8/5pk1/6p1/6P1/2KR1P1p/4r2P/8/8 b - - 2 52 I let Houdini and S...

Even if that would be the case, there still is a big difference between obtaining code by disassembling / reverse engineering, (which the license agreement usually forbids), or obtaining it because it was published with the intent that everyone could see it and learn from it. That makes it totally ...

Teams worked quite well. Go for the second term IMO.

I had Chessbase Light (2008 I think) Premium, it was terrible.

SzG wrote:

Albert Silver wrote: What made you think they were giving away a fully functional DB program for free?

The old CBLight (version 6 or something like that) of several years ago did have full functionality, only the size of the database was limited to 8000 games.

This made me LOL