Author: Michel Langeveld
Date: 08:28:36 09/11/00
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On September 11, 2000 at 05:38:10, Frederic Friedel wrote:
>On September 11, 2000 at 03:31:56, Severi Salminen wrote:
>
>>One question (for now): is it now possible to enter moves manually _without_ any
>>annoying hint system (which can't be turned off at least in CB light)? So if I
>>simply press on a piece and then instantly release, the piece won't move
>>anywhere and no target square is highlighted as being the suggested square.
>>If the system can't be turned off, please make a patch. It's not a hard thing to
>>program.
>>
>
>It is possible to enter moves without the wonderful (you misspelled the word)
>hint system. You turn it off in the "Options" menu under "Engines", where there
>is a checkbox for "Heumas", the heuristic move assistant (isn't this also
>available in CB light?). You can also keep it on and set the ply level higher to
>improve the quality of the suggestions.
>
>Personally I couldn't live without Heumas. I just tried an experiment and
>entered the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4 6.Re1 Nf6
>7.Bxc6 dxc6 8.Nxe5 Be7 9.d4 0-0 10.c4 Re8 11.Nc3 c5 12.d5 Bd6 13.Bf4 Bg4 14.Nxg4
>Rxe1+ 15.Qxe1 Nxg4 16.Bg3 Qd7 17.Qd2 with exactly 33 clicks, i.e. one per ply.
>Only on move 13 when I click g4 Heumas wants to move the knight there. I have to
>use the right mouse key to correct it (that cycles through other possibilities),
>so actually it is 34 clicks. I have watched Anand enter moves with perfectly
>optimised clicks at blinding speed. He actually knows when Heumas is not going
>to get it right and drags the piece prophylactically.
>
>BTW you do know the keyboard input of Fritz? The program tries to interpret key
>presses and executes a move as soon as enough information is available to make
>it unambiguous. The principle is to type in the piece (including “p” for pawn)
>and the destination square, possibly with a capture sign. The order is not
>critical, so you can type 'nf3', 'f3n', '3nf' etc. For the bishop you have to
>use l ("Läufer" in German), because b is required for the square co-ordinates.
>
>Most often the move is executed after two or even one keypress. For instance in
>the initial position 'nf' will move the knight from g1 to f3, since that is the
>only knight that can move to the f-file. If you have only one legal move with
>your king, typing 'k' is sufficient.
>
>Here is a full example of entering the white moves in the sequence 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3
>Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.d4 exd4 6.Qxd4 Qxd4 7.Nxd4 Nf6 8.0-0
>
>1.e2-e4 : pe4, ep4, e4, 4e
>
>2.Nf3 : nf, fn (since only the knight can move there)
>
>3.Bf1-b5 : lb, b5, l5 (only the bishop can move to the 5th rank)*
>
>4.Bxc6 : lxc, lxn, lc6, c6 (only the bishop can move there)*
>
>5. d4 : Pd4, d4p, 4pd, 4dp
>
>6.Qxd4 : qx, q4, d4q, etc.
>
>7.Nxd4 : nd4, nx (“knight takes”)
>
>8.0-0 : kg, g1k, gk (“king to g-file”)
>
>Try it out, it is at least great fun.
Does ChessBase has also features for entering moves with old-English notation?
Like P-Q4, etc
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