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jwes wrote:f5

Is this the chessic equivalent of the number 42?

Tony

As long as the finished product plays good chess and preferably gives the thinking lines and evaluation, isn't that all that should really concern us? Just my opinion of course. :wink: Regards, Graham. I agree with you on this. However, Rybka seems to truncate its PVs, and I wouldn't mind seeing fu...

Hi Marc. I was also using a PIV 2.4 for my testing. This position, unbelievably, comes from a 10' blitz game on Playchess between a 1550ish chump playing white (me) and a 1750ish chump playing black (some other guy). I played Nxg5 in the game, but for all the wrong reasons. I had mistakenly thought ...

[D]r2q1rk1/pbp2p2/1pnp1n1p/4p1p1/2PPP2B/P1PB1N2/5PPP/R2Q1RK1 w - - 0 1 Rybka 1.2n (256 MB hash) 2 00:00 216 4.608 +0.06 Bh4g3 3 00:00 584 7.569 +0.19 Bh4g3 4 00:00 1.896 17.491 +0.19 Bh4g3 Nf6h5 5 00:00 2.960 21.345 +0.19 Bh4g3 Nf6h5 h2h3 6 00:00 5.064 29.974 +0.18 Bh4g3 Nf6h5 h2h3 Nh5xg3 7 00:00 15...

Thanks Tony ... one to you, though that one is also in Wikipedia under 'Chess Blunders'. Tim Krabbe also has a set of cases where one player resigned rather than play the winning move - incredible but true. Third source is the '??' in GK's 'My Predecessors' - though these are not always drop-dead-o...

How about the normally super solid Petrosian simply forgetting that his queen was attacked in his game versus Bronstein at the 1956 Candidate's Tournament? [D] 1rb2r1k/1p1n2q1/p2Q2p1/P2Npn1p/2P1N2P/6P1/1R3PB1/1R5K w - - 0 1 Here, Petrosian played Ng5?? Tigran was moving rapidly to try and exploit Br...

I learn this game some years ago : This game is very similar to chess, except that you have to ask your opponent to make a move, if he accept , you have to play the move, if he refuse you can play an other move of your choice. Remark : If only 1 move is possible , play it without asking. Yes i knew...

Aaron Tay's Winboard FAQ is now at http://horizonchess.com/FAQ/Winboard/article.html

Tony

http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details/Fruit.html

Tony

It looks like you need to add the -winboard command line parameter.

Tony