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
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- Sun Oct 11, 2009 6:31 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Number of player on Net-Chess?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11971
- Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:00 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Number of player on Net-Chess?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11971
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...
- Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:06 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Number of player on Net-Chess?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11971
- Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:57 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Number of player on Net-Chess?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11971
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:49 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Can I play assisted by a computer?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 22614
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...
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:49 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Totally irrelevant question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9256
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...
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:35 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Can I play assisted by a computer?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 22614
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...
- Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:29 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Totally irrelevant question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9256
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- Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:00 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Can I play assisted by a computer?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 22614
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,...
- Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:41 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Annoying Practice!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8296
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...
- Wed Sep 09, 2009 7:29 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Post-game analysis for beginners
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5415
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...
- Wed Sep 09, 2009 7:22 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: I've Been To Chess Heaven !
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6740
- Sun Sep 06, 2009 2:18 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: A curious question...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11865
- Fri Sep 04, 2009 5:41 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Ironic game!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8416
- Fri Sep 04, 2009 5:19 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: A curious question...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11865
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...
- Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:56 pm
- Forum: Books, Software, and Websites
- Topic: Men of War
- Replies: 3
- Views: 22182
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 ...
- Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:27 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: My highest rating ever
- Replies: 26
- Views: 42585
- Sun Aug 13, 2006 2:37 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: My highest rating ever
- Replies: 26
- Views: 42585
- Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:30 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: My highest rating ever
- Replies: 26
- Views: 42585
- Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:54 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: An Update, although I feel strange in doing so...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7022
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 ...
- Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:23 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Moving to Irvine, CA
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11001
- Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:41 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: A sad note about Jeff Jones...
- Replies: 36
- Views: 82480
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...
- Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:25 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: New Way To Log In
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8359
- Thu May 25, 2006 9:49 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: MIC is a Robot from the Future !!!!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7532
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...
- Wed May 24, 2006 1:05 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Hello! New member here!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7967
- Mon May 22, 2006 3:36 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: change the "Show these games in separate windows"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11714
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...
- Sat May 20, 2006 2:48 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: change the "Show these games in separate windows"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11714
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...
- Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:33 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: New player back again
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8389
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 ...
- Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:17 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: How does net-chess deal with cheaters?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 17824
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...
- Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:58 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Real Rankings instead of the "All Ratings" list
- Replies: 8
- Views: 34631
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.
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.
- Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:10 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Real Rankings instead of the "All Ratings" list
- Replies: 8
- Views: 34631
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... ...
- Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:25 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Player Rankings
- Replies: 6
- Views: 18415
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...
- Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:21 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: handicap games
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12014
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...
- Sun Mar 12, 2006 5:13 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Player Rankings
- Replies: 6
- Views: 18415
"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...
- Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:26 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Player Rankings
- Replies: 6
- Views: 18415
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...
- Thu Mar 11, 2004 9:58 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: "virtual" computer aid on slowchess?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12616
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...
- Tue Mar 09, 2004 7:46 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: "virtual" computer aid on slowchess?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12616
"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"...