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If a player use a chessprogram to find the moves, we are really playing against that programs chessengine. The player who cheats is really just making the moves for the program. I really don't see how that can be any fun... We who play against the chessengine, we get a good opponent, as his rating a...

I would also like to say thanks to gmiller and the users on this site, and hope for a happy new year for everyone! I do use this site a lot, and I could contribute something, not much, i am a poor student, but a few dollars I can give. Problem is how do I do that from Norway? Don't have a creditcard...

tellymetwise wrote: How deep can a computer compute after a day? 21 moves like arlowc discoverd? That of course depends on the computer. But anyway, I read somewhere that in the year 2050 the game of chess will be solved, if the increase in computerpower continues at the same rate as the last 30 yea...

Of course he is upset, arlocw is accusing people on this site of cheating. I consider myself to be a polite chessplayer. But I have two games against arlocw, 1 loss and 1 win. And since he will not say who is cheating and who is not, he is accusing me also. That is why I write this. He says he is ra...

arlocw wrote: It is interesting however to play an opponent who averages 2-3 moves ahead and suddenly plays a move or number of moves of depth 21. You assume that every player always makes the best move they are capable of making. This is where you go wrong. I myself spend 1 second on some moves and...

Here is a game I found in megabase2002: Kasparov,G (2851) - Becker,B [C20] Kasparov Chess sim Internet, 2000 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 Nc6 3.Qf3 Nd4 4.Qc3 Nf6 5.f3 g6 6.Ne2 c5 7.Nxd4 cxd4 8.Qb3 Bg7 9.Bc4 0-0 10.c3 d5 11.Be2 d3 12.Bxd3 dxe4 13.Bxe4 Nxe4 14.fxe4 Qh4+ 15.Kd1 Qxe4 16.Re1 Bg4+ 17.Re2 Qxe2+ 18.Kc2 0-...

Do you (greg) have statistics on nationality of net-chess players?
Guess the majority of them are from USA?

It was fascinating to see how Kasparov fooled Fritzs algorithms. He just set up a position where Fritz responses with....doing nothing! And the GK just moves some pieces here and there, and suddenly he has the passed pawn and now Fritz realizes that he is in trouble, too late... I got inspired and p...

To toverturf. Did you listen to chess.FM while watching the game? On internet ches club, the chat was that they made the game more exciting than the commentators on ESPN.

You know, I see the argument that some players may timeout beacause they don't have the possibility to make moves. And then the ratingfloor does a job. But I myself, I make lots of moves everyday, and timeouts is not a problem. And I have no interest in having a high number indicating a playingstren...

I am about to crashland on my ratingfloor. Could you remove it permamently Greg? I'm not on vacation, just a lousy player

I heard today that the experts now said that Kasparov was not in such a good position as they said during the game. The win was not clear. They said that to take that pawn on f2 in a game against Kasparov, you would have to have nerves of steel...

Anyone know what rating the server has? On 1 second for each move.

I enjoyed the game very much. Don't have espn, so I followed the board on x3d homepage and listened to live audio comments from www.chess.fm (it's a great site, check it out). Have never followed a live match like this before, now I can't wait to the next match. It was exciting, like I was watching ...

If you don't have access to ESPN (where I hear you can also see the world series of poker, sad we can't get espn in Norway :cry: ), another option is chess.fm live audio comments (at www.chess.fm). The board you can watch on ICS (log in as 'guest' if not member), or at http://x3dchess.com/index.html...

"Copyrighted unless specified otherwise"? Shouldn't it be the opposite? American laws? (Not that I know how norwegian copyright laws regulates these things)

According to the websites author, only serious games from tournaments are allowed in the list of records. Can we trust him?

Well, not as it is a very important thing. More like entertainment to go trough some of the games, real games or not.

I am sitting with my chessboard in front of me now. Went through the solution twice just to make sure I am not just annoying people with impossible puzzle here. The last move is white: 16.Nxg1 So of course, white only plays his knight. And from move numer 2, it takes a piece on every move. (now I se...

In the diagram above you would be in trouble if black knew about the trap. He would just take your knight on e5, with his own knight, instead of capturing your queen. But if you first moved h3 threatning his bishop, and he then moved it back to h5, then it would be OK to try. Because then you could ...

The game start with all the pieces in their starting squares, in 16 moves the position in the nice diagram gmiller added is reached. I have two solutions here. But I won't tell (not until everyone gives up). Must admit I myself was not able to solve it.

Yes, the king is supposed to be on square h8 in the end

Your opponent will loose when he times out. So that is no problem, you will win anyway.

It is possible. Actually, there is at least 2 solutions.

A puzzle I found at rec.games.chess.misc : White has his pieces as in the starting position. Black has Kh8 and nothing else. The task is to reconstruct a game to reach this position in sixteen moves. http://net-chess.com/images/swsq.jpg http://net-chess.com/images/sbsq.jpg http://net-chess.com/image...

I am looking for a free and GOOD pgn viewer with database capabilities.
Anyone has a recomendation? Don't have the cash to buy Chessbase

Here is fun website with chessrecords: http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records/records.htm Some of them: Longest series of moves by one piece: 73 moves Latest first capture: 71 moves Most passed pawns: 9 Longest decisive game (not drawn) without a capture:31 moves Here is one I do not understand: Greate...

I'm from Trondheim, Norway. It's very common here. But couple of nights ago we could see it to the south! Thats unusual.

I agree too that simple is good. The layout and userinterface on this site does the job as easy as it can be done, and that is the best way to do it. What I could wish for is the possibility to search the database for games. We have the archivesearch now, but I mean the possibility to search games a...

Why? Sun Java and XP?

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 My favorite opening is the Evans gambit. On Net-Chess no one has used it against me, sometimes I get to play it with white, but not as often I would like :cry: I have the impression that the advanced players with lot of theoretical knowledge don't find it very i...

What should this applet do? You mean for playing the games? Viewing archived games?

Lot of work to make Java-applets. On a correspondence-chess site, no need for that, or is it?

(I play white)
1.e4 e5
2.Ng1f3 Ng8f6
3.Nf3xe5 Nf6xe4
4.Ne5xf7 Ke8xf7
5.Qd1h5 Kf7g8
6.Qd5++

I wonder have many moves players on this sites makes each day. I myself are making too many i think. I feel like a lab-rat pressing the button to stimulate pleasurecenter in the brain. Instant satisfaction each time I can open a game and see what my opponent did. I have had near 1000 moves the last ...

I agree that having a rating indicating a higher playingstrength than you really have, can not give the same satisfaction as rising based on improving your play. But problem is when you play against those people. Then you too will get a higher rating than you deserve. In time all players on the site...