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Korchnoi always had time trouble. That was a weakness. The art of chess lies not only in finding good moves over the board but in managing time as well. Agree on Korchnoi and time pressure in general. However, this position is a trivial draw, even if a 2000 rated player played against Kasparov or C...

Not a fan of Korchnoi at all. However, Polgar's behavior was quite provocative as well. If you look at the final position, Korchnoi had rook and pawn, and Polgar just had a rook. Korchnoi lost on time on what is otherwise a position where only he has winning chances, though the result should be a dr...

Fernando wrote:I just draw a game with CC· in its level 2!!!

Am organizing a party to celebrate. Anyone of you can join me. I see you all in the Steven B. house.
Drinks on me regards
Fern

Can you post the game?

Seems that nearly all chess computers that included an LCD representation of the board used the same horrible display. For example, Simultano, Renaissance, Radio Shack 2150/2150L/2250, Novag and Excalibur handhelds, Ivan II, etc (though the Excalibur models seem smaller, the piece representation se...

Hello Mark, is there any update on the willingness of DGT to support the Mac and HCE? Thanks for your info Cheers Uwe +1 Would love an update on this Mark! What can we do to help the cause? Contact DGT again? Greg I have supported native DGT mode here in https://github.com/sshivaji/dgt-uci-engine Y...

On tablebases, is there a simple way to query tablebases and show tablebase moves in an understandable form to humans? At present, I seriously doubt if I will be doing any more public tablebase stuff this year, if ever. Maybe someone else can help. No worries. However, I was just looking for one li...

Something like a Fidelity Excel Club 68000 in my opinion plays a very intelligent and competent endgame for it's overall playing strength. I think I would always defer to Fidelity machines with hash tables for the endgame as well as the strongest hash table Novags (though with limited experience wi...

The network connectivity problem has been solved by a cable swap (which probably didn't do anything) and by swapping out the Onn mouse for a mouse by Acer. Now my RaspPi can get the correct date/time automatically when it boots and I can get updates installed (rather slowly). I did not have to add ...

I am already using the Raspian distribution. I use the ifconfig utility to do most network tinkering. It looks like the kernel is seeing the RaspPi NIC but is not seeing a physical connection on the NIC even after tinkering. I suspect that the RaspPi is underpowered; I will try a powered USB hub ne...

My DGT XL clock has arrived and works solo. I'll be doing basic connectivity and functional testing with it over the next few days. At last I've had the chance to try the DGT XL clock with the board. The DGT utility program recognizes the clock, but this takes a power cycle of the clock under some ...

My DGT XL clock has arrived and works solo. I'll be doing basic connectivity and functional testing with it over the next few days. Awesome! Thanks for the updates. The error detection and recovery code is likely where Picochess has issues after several hours. I added very rudimentary error recover...

All sounds great. Virtual drivers are a good way for applications to perform integration testing. I am interested in your stress tests as there are growing reports that picochess has issues after several hours of usage and at times needs to be restarted. Which library are you considering for voice s...

How will you implement ReadString to read a move. In my case, I had to get previous fen, store it, Get New fen, compute all legal moves on old fen. Finally, return the legal move that successfully worked. Is your interface planning to take care of this whole interaction? That would be quite useful....

Input from the board for a move: ESCI::ReadString(); -> "Usermove Nf3" Note that SAN is used and no illegal moves are sent. How will you implement ReadString to read a move. In my case, I had to get previous fen, store it, Get New fen, compute all legal mov...

That project uses the dgtnix C++ libraries via python, dgtnix.so is a shared object accessible to python. My copy of dgtnix is written in C, not C++. The design decision here is what to put in a library and what to put in the application code. Anything dealing strictly with the low level physical d...