Author: Pete Galati
Date: 14:42:37 10/27/00
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On October 27, 2000 at 10:46:10, pavel wrote: >On October 27, 2000 at 10:31:16, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On October 27, 2000 at 10:21:35, Jari Huikari wrote: >> >>>I have written a new WB-engine. >>> >>>http://www.mit.jyu.fi/~huikari/nerowb.exe (40 kB) >>> >>>I'm not able to try it myself because I don't have WinBoard. :-) >>>Gianluigi Masciulli has tried it and told me it works. >>>But it hasn't be tested much, and I'd like to get more feedback >>>and opinions. >>> >>>If someone could try it on some chess servers for a while to get it some >>>rating, I would be more than happy. >>> >>> Jari >> >>I tried it last night for the first time, but only against myself. I was quite >>sure I should have won all 3 games, but I lost them all. Sorry, but I didn't >>save the games. I didn't have any problems with the Winboard version of Nero, >>in fact it worked better than a lot of Winboard engines I've tried. >> >>Pete > >I used the dos one, >but the only thing i didnt like about it that I couldnt use mouse to make my >moves. The comments were excellent , specially this one > >"have you ever played chess before?" > >Mate > >I made a nasty blunder.. > >:) > >Pavel > > >ps, to pete, hi I need some help, I have the impression that you play a very >good game of chess (2000-2100 elo??). I would like to have some suggestions >regarding how to improve my skill, dont suggest me "chessmentor" software :) >maybe some other softwares but not that ... or any possible way that you might >think appropriate.. > >Thanks Oops, that last one posted for some reason, and I never got to write anything. Do you mean me or one of the hundreds of other people named Pete at CCC? I play a very weak game of Chess. Aside from the people who dropped out (I figure I beat them) I finished last in the GCF email tournament. I'd be very surprised if I was even a 1000 player if I played real tournaments. Chessmentor is good, but somewhat tedious for me. I wouldn't recommend software personally, I'd recommend books, by Chernev, almost anything is good, maybe "The most instructive games of Chess ever played...." or "Logical Chess...". Probably the most important Chess book ever written IMO would be "Lasker's Manual of Chess", to me, everything else is pale in comparison, but Chernev's books lay things out in a very coherent way for idiots like me to understand. Better than getting a "Dummies" or "Idiot's Guide To" type of books. As for the mouse issue, like Jari said, the Winboard version is good. Personally, I'm somewhat used to using arrow keys and enter for moving pieces, so I've allways enjoyed Nero's Dos versions. One of the nice things about the Winboard version is that if you try to cheat and take back a move (I did) it hangs up the program and you gotta start a new game, so cheating isn't allowed (great feature, I like it). Pete
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