I'm interested in how to seriously improve my skills but am not
sure it's possible. I'm a Mensa member but only play chess at
about the 1200 rating level.

It HAS taught me some things, but apparently not enough to
improve my skills much. I used to be about even with the 1150
rated opponents in there, and now I'm about even with perhaps the
1180 rated ones.

It appears to be teaching the same things as CM9000 anyway; pins,
forks, skewers...

And studying fixed games doesn't seem to make any sense to me
anyway. It reminds me of the forms I've learned in martial arts.
Bruce Lee spoke of forms as being an attempt to "organize chaos".

When sparring in martial arts, it's a flowing, ever changing
thing, just like a chess game. So how will "learning forms" on
the chess board, help me with my chess skills?

I'm finally jumping into the 20'th century and picking up a digital
chess clock. I've been looking at the chronos in particular. Is it
really that good? If so, which is better - the push button or the
touch pad?

If the chronos isn't that good, can you recommend another?

Thanks

Looking for recommendations on websites to play chess in real time.
Thanks in advance for your input.

Looking for a good online retailer with useful commentary on chess
books. Thanks for your advice.

Looking for recommendations on websites to play chess in real time.
Thanks in advance for your input.

I'm finally jumping into the 20'th century and picking up a digital
chess clock. I've been looking at the chronos in particular. Is it
really that good? If so, which is better - the push button or the
touch pad?

If the chronos isn't that good, can you recommend another?

Thanks

looked like Mama Bear was askin' a lot of silly questions, like she was
playin' me. I defended myself, you putz!

"ANON" <Anon@anon.yyy> wrote in message
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"Jerry Creed" <jerrycreed@comcast.net> wrote :

eat me


How moronic.

If you have Fritz loaded on your computer you can go to the playchess.com
server for free and really play people from all over the world and see
ratings.


"chessnut2000" <bwroat@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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Looking for recommendations on websites to play chess in real time.
Thanks in advance for your input.


chess.stumegan.com

Do you have this game in your database?

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:44:05 GMT, "Mike" <mike@hotmail.com> wrote:

Do you have this game in your database?

If you look at Fischer's watch it's set to circa 03:56.
In my opinion they are in the playing room just before the games start
playing blitz with the time retreated of 5 mins from 04:00 (initial
time for a 2h game).
So i suppose you will never find it unless he remembers it.

riedel wrote:

you might find this interesting:
http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/072.htm

or study the sources of cbu at
http://www.wotsit.org/download.asp?f=cbu_src
for the old chessbase format cbf
(it used a similar - but broken - algorithm to enumerate legal
moves).

Unfortunately pretty much all the answers ignored the hash questions and
suggested techniques based on enumerating moves - which is at least
several orders of magnitude too slow.

If it's going to take much more than a few adds, shifts, multiplies, or
table lookups, it's just too slow.

That's the reason why I'm looking at a hash.

My current thinking is like this: any piece on the field c1
can't possibly move to f8. Not all 64 x 64 combinations are actually
possible. And they won't be equally likely (long moves are less likely
since it's more likely there will be a blocker in the way). But how to
exploit this in the 8 bit hash to minimize the collisions?

I can tabulate the 64 x 64 possibilities and calculate the statistics on
them. How to go from here? Order them from most likely to least likely
and assign them modulo 255? This would decrease the likelyhood of a
collision, wouldn't it? And the "hash" would just be a 4K table lookup.

Oh. Well, you should have said that the first time. Everyone read your
post where you claimed to be looking for a way to decrease the /storage/
requirements of chess games,

and naturally assumed that that was what
you wanted. /Speed/ is different.

I can tabulate the 64 x 64 possibilities and calculate the statistics on
them. How to go from here? Order them from most likely to least likely
and assign them modulo 255? This would decrease the likelyhood of a
collision, wouldn't it? And the "hash" would just be a 4K table lookup.

This sounds like an excellent way to hash chess moves! It won't
completely eliminate collisions, of course, unless you spend quite a
bit of time tweaking the tables to make sure that no two colliding inputs
can possibly both be valid at the same time.

That's probably possible, actually. I'd love to see such a
non-colliding table actually computed, or a proof that it can't be. An
easy proof would
be to display a position with more than 256 possible moves for one
player.

The disadvantage of the 64x64 table method, of course, is that it
requires a 64x64 table. 4096 bytes is a tiny amount of object code,
but it's a huge amount of source code for stupid mistakes to creep
into. (Hmm... big ad-hoc tables. Sounds a lot like crypto code to
me.

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On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:06:21 -0400, "Ange1o DePa1ma"
angelodpnospam@nospam.gmail.com> wrote:


"Kenneth Sloan" <KennethRSloan@gmail.com> wrote in message
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It's easier to get a MonRoi to operate in 2-way mode than it is to get
Phil Innes to operate in 2-way mode.

Ken,

Instead of bashing Phil why don't you comment on the cheating possibilities
I outlined in my posts -- the MonRoi transmitter chip modification and the
shoe transmitter/receiver/actuator possibility? You appear to have more
expertise in these issues than most of the posters in this group. I would
value your opinions and comments beaucoup.

I think I made the point.... The issue isn't so much with the device.
What is cheating, and how do you go about it?

The key is transmission.

Talking about modifying the chip doesn't really do much for me...
There's so many other ways to communicate.

Chess is one where you can't modify the game hardware to your
advantage (like say, a deck of cards or dice). The state of the game
is open, so any changes there are rather obvious.

The least obvious means of electronic communication is cellular IMO.
If you use the computer ones, they're obvioius especially if you
suspect something.

As far as modifying the 'transmitter', probably wouldn't work. You
need access to a network outside the one provided by the tournament to
be effective. Then your MonRoi would have to be represented on the
tourney network, and there's probably a Punkbuster-type package which
they could run to ensure that the only thing on the MonRoi is the code
they put on there.

Don't think you need the actuator even... All you need is a witness to
your game transmitting moves. Even better would be having a better
player watching the game, and relaying information back to you via
signals of some sort. You probably wouldn't want rigged equipment on
your person (especially if you're in a tourney that might be sponsored
by the mob).

There are so many ways to transmit info, from person to person. Light,
sound, position, time. You could even use smell.

We've been around this block. My conclusion was that any type of communication
that resided in any way outside the cheater's physical presence was impossible
to implement. Remember the ridiculous accusations that Topalov and Danailov
were communicating through hand signals? Gimme a break! You can't have someone
hovering over your game and making signals without arousing suspicion.
You may not have noticed but your conclusion was convincingly

You may not have noticed but your conclusion was convincingly
refuted. You vastly underestimated the amount of information
that can be transmitted easily, as well as overestimated the
amount of information required to influence games.

Recall that in one of their matches, Kortchnoi objected to
Karpov receiving yogurt on the grounds that the flavor
could transmit info. That miniscule amount of information
transfer could easily influence a match.