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First time I have seen an ebay item described on youtube. It's a good idea. which avant garde is it? A nice machine but not $3,500 worth. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fidelity-Avant-Elite-Electronic-Chess-Set-Wooden-Model-6081-Pristine-Condition-/251100843845?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a76c6cf45...

Any comments on the pros & cons of the subject chess computers? Playing styles etc. Is one to be preferred over the other or just a matter of tast? Jaimes Give me the Master Chess anytime over the Obsidian. The master has a better display, with easy configurable options and of course outrates t...

Any comments on the pros & cons of the subject chess computers?
Playing styles etc.
Is one to be preferred over the other or just a matter of tast?

Jaimes

http://www.chess.com/news/kasparov-versus-karpov-rematch-7818 The two K’s go at it again Scroll down and see a link posted by ‘ebutaljib’ from the Chessmaster 11 forum. http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/4221052685/m/3361074177 What a difference 31 years make. It should be a good match. I just...

Playing options and features are more important to me than strength which should be 1800elo max. I have contemplated Alexandra by Excalibur because of it’s elo rating and physical size but it lacks my wish list of: Change play styles, book opening options, selective or brute force, change piece val...

When I travel I like to play a game of chess. I have a laptop with chess software installed but do not particularly like looking at a flat screen to play. Playing options and features are more important to me than strength which should be 1800elo max. I have contemplated Alexandra by Excalibur beca...

When I travel I like to play a game of chess. I have a laptop with chess software installed but do not particularly like looking at a flat screen to play. Playing options and features are more important to me than strength which should be 1800elo max. I have contemplated Alexandra by Excalibur becau...

AMD Athlon 64 x 2 Dual core 4600+ 2.4 GHz 2 gig Ram. Game in 25 min’s. Default settings. Permanent brain off. The engines played 10 games against each other. Rybka 2.2n2mp 32bit with Rybka book Toga11 3.1 2SE MP with Rybka book Toga 11 1.4.2JD with Rybka book Deep Hiarcs 12 with Hiarcs book Deep Hia...

From a biased perspective, I would say that the difference is that Rybka plays a noticeably higher percentage of correct moves than Hiarcs, and this is reflected by the large rating difference now. :-) From an unbiased perspective, I cannot really say regarding Rybka 3, as I have not seen these gam...

turbojuice1122 wrote:Here are some results from a recent test match. Both programs used their own books. 38.5-11.5 in favor of Rybka 3.

In your opinion what is the difference in playing style of these engines when matched one against the other.
Jaimes

No one can be accused of loitering here….speeding maybe.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNQjXHjRkNQ

Jaimes

Analysis with Hiarcs12 suggests Bb2xNf6 which is probably the better move.Now after gxf6 H12 wants to take the Knight on c6. d5xc6. I much prefer d5xBe6.Why am I wrong? [fen]r4rk1/ppq2ppp/2nbbn2/2pP4/2P5/1P3N2/PB2PPPP/RN1QKB1R w KQ - 0 1[/fen] Jaimes elo 1550 Well i can tell you that the Saitek Spa...

A good way to know why a move is better than another (Provided that you believe the engine's score) is to actually play the move, and ask for the engine's score on the incoming moves. Sometimes this is worse than letting Infinite Analysis to run unattended when the engine doesn't understand the pos...

I reached this position playing against ''Lacy'' GM9. I played pawn d5xBe6. Analysis with Hiarcs12 suggests Bb2xNf6 which is probably the better move.Now after gxf6 H12 wants to take the Knight on c6. d5xc6. I much prefer d5xBe6.Why am I wrong? [fen]r4rk1/ppq2ppp/2nbbn2/2pP4/2P5/1P3N2/PB2PPPP/RN1QKB...

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2579 ''A few owners of chessplaying software have sometimes wished that their chess engines would make more "intelligent mistakes" when set to a handicap level. Columnist Steve Lopez dissects this apparent oxymoron and delves into the nature o...