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- Mon May 11, 2020 4:26 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Making chessmen and chess boards
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2454
Re: Making chessmen and chess boards
I have an old wooden (largely lathe turned) chess set. The white pieces are some sort of pale hardwood, perhaps beech. (The black pieces are likely the same but heavily painted black.) The knights were made in two pieces, a turned base and a head cut from wood sheet, as anyone knew who had carried o...
- Sun May 10, 2020 4:49 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Making chessmen and chess boards
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2454
Re: Making chessmen and chess boards
Try walnut wood offcuts? :: heartwood for the black pieces, sapwood for the white pieces; for the white pieces use a varnish that does not darken the wood.
- Sun May 10, 2020 4:18 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Printing of a chess game score affected by Word for Windows's foibles
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1527
Printing of a chess game score affected by Word for Windows's foibles
I tried to arrange a chess game score in Word for Windows, to get a layout in tables. My Word for Windows tried to check its spelling and grammar as if it was English text. The result was:- (1) Some blue underlining added. (2) Some text was printed in blue. (3) Wavy red underlining for supposed miss...
- Sat Apr 11, 2020 6:25 am
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: Hostage chess
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1299
Hostage chess
Has "hostage chess" lived up to its hopes of being widely known and played?
Seehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostage_chess
I can only find one video about it in Youtube.
Seehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostage_chess
I can only find one video about it in Youtube.
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:12 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Making chessmen and chess boards
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2454
Making chessmen and chess boards
Is it allowed to discuss here about making chessmen and chess boards?
- Fri Dec 13, 2019 5:21 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Where can a chess set (full-sized or pocket) be bought near Manchester Airport?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 914
Where can a chess set (full-sized or pocket) be bought near Manchester Airport?
Does anywhere know where a chess set (full-sized or pocket) can be bought near Manchester Airport (in England)?
- Fri Apr 05, 2019 11:39 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: Shogi
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1372
Shogi
Please, do you know of any good internet forums about shogi? (Today I Google searched for "shogi forum", and I was swamped by a long list of planned big personal shogi-related meetings.)
- Thu Dec 07, 2017 2:50 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Laws of chess
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1259
Laws of chess
I have found the current laws of chess, at http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=207&view=article I know that running out of time (i.e. the clock flag falling) causes loss, but the laws do not seem to say all of this clearly all together in one rule. Which rules must be put together to establish...
- Thu Dec 07, 2017 1:12 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Computer Go
- Replies: 152
- Views: 16067
AlphaZero
Today I read in a newspaper about a new chess program called AlphaZero
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaZero
What sort of computer does it run on?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaZero
What sort of computer does it run on?
- Fri Aug 22, 2014 11:27 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: In this forum, how to display a chess position?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 868
In this forum, how to display a chess position?
In this forum, how to display a chess position? (I know how to display a chess position in Wikipedia.)
- Fri Aug 22, 2014 11:18 am
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: Regnal Numbers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4738
Re: Regnal Numbers
... I can't see any problem with a King Andrew, or David or Patrick for that matter. But they do seem to stick with the same few names, presumably to honour previous monarchs. I assume we won't have a King Phillip as Spain has had six. Although the latest seems to be styled as both Felipe and Phill...
- Fri Aug 22, 2014 5:39 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Rules of chess
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1641
Re: Rules of chess
I read about another sort of unsighted chess :: long ago in Central Asia two sighted men riding horses side by side playing chess by calling moves to each other without using physical board or pieces.
- Thu Aug 21, 2014 10:27 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Rules of chess
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1641
Rules of chess
http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=171&view=article I found at that address the FIDE official rules of chess. Is there anywhere a timetable of the changes of rule that have happened since FIDE started? In rule "Appendix D. Rules for play with blind and visually disabled players" it says that...
- Wed Apr 30, 2014 8:28 am
- Forum: News and Support
- Topic: Avatars
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2444
Avatars
Please, how can I set my avatar to an image which is on my computer?
- Sat Apr 12, 2014 10:31 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Getting Fritz
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3585
Re: Getting Fritz
I have found my Fritz 13 again while tidying the room.