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by dcroll
Sun Oct 11, 2009 6:31 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Number of player on Net-Chess?
Replies: 8
Views: 11941

Well, I've to say that my slowchess.com study has a pretty low priority in my daily life right now... :? there are more important things I have to figure out...


Regards, David
by dcroll
Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:00 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Number of player on Net-Chess?
Replies: 8
Views: 11941

Just as a side note... I got across the following usernames: aweirdkid thatweirdkid someweirdperson keker kekere kekerer kylesdamann kylesdamannn kylesdammannn kylek kylekkk kylekkkk kylekkkkk kkylekkkkk kkyylekkkkk kkyyllekkkkk kkyylleekkkkk kkyylleekkkkkd kkyylleekkkkkdd kkyylleekkkkkddd kkyylleek...
by dcroll
Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:06 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Number of player on Net-Chess?
Replies: 8
Views: 11941

Thank you!


I downloaded the data and now and then, I try to make sense of it :twisted:

Perhaps it is possible to fit a distribution to the relation between the rating and being active... so that could save much work and give better results.

Hm, wait and let's see :)


Cheers, cliff
by dcroll
Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:57 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Number of player on Net-Chess?
Replies: 8
Views: 11941

I think my statistics software would have gotten these numbers much quicker. :twisted:

Which page did you use to find the # of players in each rating range?
by dcroll
Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:49 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Can I play assisted by a computer?
Replies: 15
Views: 22531

Well, but I encourage you to become a member of FICS and improve your chess engine in a way that it can actually interact with FICS. :idea: Then, your software can play against other human and computer players. It will start and play the games fully on its own. Programming a chess engine and letting...
by dcroll
Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:49 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Totally irrelevant question
Replies: 4
Views: 9215

What you say? My father is an informatics teacher, and will soon be retired. I'm 27 and I have a MSc in epidemiology. For my data analysis, I learnt how to program in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_%28programming_language%29 . It all began by tearing apart err.... studying the little programming exa...
by dcroll
Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:35 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Can I play assisted by a computer?
Replies: 15
Views: 22531

Hi dear chess friend, although it is ungodly early for me (7:55 AM), I want to post some comments on your reply... :) Please don't be afraid if some of my replies sound a bit rude - but your arguments astonished me. I want to play with my program because: 1. I'm too old and busy to analyze all the t...
by dcroll
Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:29 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Totally irrelevant question
Replies: 4
Views: 9215

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhpBB
by dcroll
Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:00 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Can I play assisted by a computer?
Replies: 15
Views: 22531

I await Greg's answer too, because I missed any clarification on that in the FAQ. I only play by myself, but I run completed games through the chess software for analysis. And I also try to find out why the chess software suggested other moves - I'm still more or less a novice player. In my opinion,...
by dcroll
Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:41 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Annoying Practice!
Replies: 4
Views: 8228

What do you want to say? You find enough other players with a longer attention span than potatoes... :P I, for example, am an onion. I like those plants. On the other hand, he's new here. Date Joined: Fri, Sep 04 2009 05:09am Provisional: Need 20 Last Logged in on: Fri, Sep 04 2009 05:09am If he com...
by dcroll
Wed Sep 09, 2009 7:29 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Post-game analysis for beginners
Replies: 0
Views: 5392

Post-game analysis for beginners

Hi dear chess friends, After a long hiatus I am playing here again. This time, I want to pay greater care to my post-game analysis, and I really want to improve my playing. What I am doing until now is to replay the game (in ExaChess, for example) and make notes on which moves I could have played be...
by dcroll
Wed Sep 09, 2009 7:22 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: I've Been To Chess Heaven !
Replies: 2
Views: 6717

Didn't play acclaimed film-maker Stanley Kubrick play for money, too?
Kubrick supplemented his income by playing chess "for quarters" in Washington Square Park and various Manhattan chess clubs.
(from Wikipedia)

Sad that you cannot have a game with him anymore...
by dcroll
Sun Sep 06, 2009 2:18 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: A curious question...
Replies: 6
Views: 11746

Thanks you for your comments, especially to davidswhite (we share the same first name, by the way).

I'm not that experienced and I often saw the Bishop as a threat - and tried to fend it off.

david/dcroll
by dcroll
Fri Sep 04, 2009 5:41 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Ironic game!
Replies: 3
Views: 8385

I want to see a

White: Incredibly Lazy
Black: Borderline Lazy
Event:
Date:

Draw agreed. 1/2 - 1/2
by dcroll
Fri Sep 04, 2009 5:19 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: A curious question...
Replies: 6
Views: 11746

A curious question...

I've encountered this situation on the board many times, and every time I am insecure in how to respond to it. The situation is as follows: White: Boris Patzer Black: Bobby Loser Event: Helsinki: 1966 Candidate Tournament Date: 1966-06-12 (A04 Réti O) 1 Nf3 d6 2 Nc3 Bg4 It has nothing to do with th...
by dcroll
Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:56 pm
Forum: Books, Software, and Websites
Topic: Men of War
Replies: 3
Views: 21971

From http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE6DF1F3CF93AA15752C1A961948260&sec=&pagewanted=2 , on the poet John Fuller: ''The Most Difficult Position,'' a series of monologues by two chess players whose ultimate goal is to play against each other but who never do, takes this idea a step ...
by dcroll
Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:27 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: My highest rating ever
Replies: 26
Views: 42416

THOUGHTS ON GETTING OUT OF A NICE WARM BED
IN AN ICE-COLD HOUSE TO GO TO
THE BATHROOM AT THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING

Maybe life was better
When I used to be a wetter.

--Judith Viorst

(found on minstrels.org)
by dcroll
Sun Aug 13, 2006 2:37 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: My highest rating ever
Replies: 26
Views: 42416

I *only* use coffee.

And my headache drugs :P
by dcroll
Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:30 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: My highest rating ever
Replies: 26
Views: 42416

Do not rejoice too early!

:twisted:
by dcroll
Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:54 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: An Update, although I feel strange in doing so...
Replies: 1
Views: 6998

Thank you for your update, Jeff, although I am really not able to grasp what you are feeling and going through. I am at a loss for words. I have great difficulties trying to write anything meaningful. I do not feel or think much about you because I don't know you. I hope your story will prepare the ...
by dcroll
Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:23 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Moving to Irvine, CA
Replies: 4
Views: 10957

No, I don't! :P
by dcroll
Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:41 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: A sad note about Jeff Jones...
Replies: 36
Views: 81912

Hi Jeff and all the people who care about him, I never ever played with him or exchanged some words. As a biology student I know cancer only from textbooks or lectures, but I harbor a very split feeling. As a fascinated "scientist", trying to learn and understand how cancer and other phenomena devel...
by dcroll
Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:25 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: New Way To Log In
Replies: 2
Views: 8336

Where do you live? In Oceania?
by dcroll
Thu May 25, 2006 9:49 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: MIC is a Robot from the Future !!!!
Replies: 2
Views: 7520

No, mic just desperately tries to connect all computers on the WWW to a 200 teraflops behemoth just to calculate every forced mate within 40 moves. If not he, who else? :P (If someone else: Why did nobody ever suggest a SETI@home-like project to produce the most comprehensive opening book imaginable...
by dcroll
Wed May 24, 2006 1:05 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Hello! New member here!
Replies: 2
Views: 7952

Hello, be welcome :)
by dcroll
Mon May 22, 2006 3:36 am
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: change the "Show these games in separate windows"
Replies: 2
Views: 11674

Thank you, I'll try that out! At home, I use Safari (as it is the slimmest and fastest browser I know), and it opens the new windows just with the correct size... but regarding slowchess, but Explorer and Firefox work less good on my Mac. It was the Explorer version we use in the University that mad...
by dcroll
Sat May 20, 2006 2:48 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: change the "Show these games in separate windows"
Replies: 2
Views: 11674

change the "Show these games in separate windows"

Hi, when I'm at home using my Mac to play on slowchess, the "Show those games in separate windows" button just works perfectly: The windows that open upon clicking the button are big enough that the whole chessboard is displayed. But when I'm using the computers at the university (Win XP), the windo...
by dcroll
Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:33 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: New player back again
Replies: 2
Views: 8368

There are players who have multiple accounts at the same time, and they even aren't cheaters: Using more than one account is OK, but please keep it reasonable. A lot of players will set up one account as their "serious" account, and then have another where they try a bunch of outlandish manovers so ...
by dcroll
Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:17 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: How does net-chess deal with cheaters?
Replies: 8
Views: 17769

1. Use of computers for analysis is forbidden. 2. Use of printed material is OK. If I enter the whole PGN move sequence of a mind-boggling situation into a chess software and I let the computer analyze the best moves, it is cheating. But if I just enter "1. e4 e5" (or any other sequence) into the s...
by dcroll
Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:58 am
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Real Rankings instead of the "All Ratings" list
Replies: 8
Views: 34005

After http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/demand I saw that "demand" is something like an "order"; or "to claim a right to something".

I'm not a native speaker of English and I often don't know the exact word I actually wanted to use - now I want everybody to know that I *wish* those changes.
by dcroll
Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:10 am
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Real Rankings instead of the "All Ratings" list
Replies: 8
Views: 34005

Real Rankings instead of the "All Ratings" list

Today, by clicking on "All Ratings" on the Home Page a ranking list appears, but it is faulted... 1. The first three people on the list have all a rating of 3000, but they haven't logged in since three years - this ratings list really is a joke. They even have more rating points than davidswhite... ...
by dcroll
Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:25 am
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Player Rankings
Replies: 6
Views: 18368

1. By using "find high rated games", among 50 games there were only a few games with a 1500-player when a 500-points cutoff was used. Finding people this way really is a hassle. This could be improved with "Find games with a ratings average vom xxx to yyy" or something. 2. When posting a match offer...
by dcroll
Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:21 am
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: handicap games
Replies: 2
Views: 11973

Using a chess software, you can play against yourself (capture the opponents queen/rook/whatever) and then you can export the PGN move sequence to the "opening moves" field in slowchess. Here I've done something for you: 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. Nd4 Ng8 3. Ne6 Nf6 4. Nxd8 Ng8 5. Ne6 Nf6 6. Nd4 Ng8 7. Nf3 Nf6 8...
by dcroll
Sun Mar 12, 2006 5:13 am
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Player Rankings
Replies: 6
Views: 18368

"All Ratings" should be named "Some Ratings&q

:roll: That does not answer my question. The list starts with guys that haven't been active since November 2004 - how could one challenge such a player? - and it ends with place 2000, which names "hinrich", having a 1641 points rating. What about the weaker players who would like to play against bel...
by dcroll
Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:26 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Player Rankings
Replies: 6
Views: 18368

Player Rankings

Hi gmiller, I thought of a ranking like the one implemented on FICS. There, if one types "best", the slowchess players with the highest ratings would be displayed; and by typing "rank", the players with a similar rating would be displayed. I think this would simplify finding game partners; and one c...
by dcroll
Thu Mar 11, 2004 9:58 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: "virtual" computer aid on slowchess?
Replies: 5
Views: 12574

hi, you are right with the use of opening books, analysis of other player's games and databases. these things should definitely be allowed because it's the player's effort to find the best move he can do, it's by thinking or searching. cheaters will, soon or later, make the experience that their "me...
by dcroll
Tue Mar 09, 2004 7:46 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: "virtual" computer aid on slowchess?
Replies: 5
Views: 12574

"virtual" computer aid on slowchess?

hi, most (honest) chess servers don't allow any form of computer aid, may it be the use of databases or chess engines. i even found a german correspondence chess server which says "what we can't control, we allow" - and so they promote the use of computers as a help to play "beautiful" and "perfect"...