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- Sun Nov 22, 2020 4:26 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Cheating in chess
- Replies: 2038
- Views: 174973
Re: Cheating in chess
Is there chess software that runs the same algorithm used by Ken Regan, so that you can put in games and it gives you the parameters than Regan uses? I know that online sites such as lichess and software such as Lucas Chess give an average centipawn value and an Elo rating derived from that value, b...
- Wed Nov 11, 2020 12:32 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: Element Word Game
- Replies: 12
- Views: 507
Re: Element Word Game
I think floccinaucinihilipilification works, or even floccinaucinihilipilifications if it can have a plural.
- Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:10 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Chess history trivia
- Replies: 706
- Views: 62749
Re: Chess history trivia
Spassky-Petrosian 1966?
Spassky employed a couple of hippopotamuses, as I recall.
Spassky employed a couple of hippopotamuses, as I recall.
- Mon Jul 27, 2020 9:17 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Cheating in chess
- Replies: 2038
- Views: 174973
Re: Cheating in chess
I'm aware that ICC's specialist software of twenty years ago was allegedly capable of spying on its user. But can something running on a server using a browser observe what else is going on at the user's computer.? No, or at least not normally. Browsers are allowed to send information like what OS ...
- Fri Jul 24, 2020 5:58 pm
- Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
- Topic: Kevin Hawkins
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1821
Re: Kevin Hawkins
This is sad news and quite a shock. As Roger said he was well known in the local leagues and was one of the nicest people you could come across.
RIP Kevin, and condolences to his family.
RIP Kevin, and condolences to his family.
- Sun Jul 05, 2020 9:47 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: www.chessgames.com
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3817
Re: www.chessgames.com
Proxy link above gets on to the site OK, but the actual games don't seem to be showing up on it :?: Try with "Encrypt Page" and "Allow Cookies" as the only options selected in the uk-proxy page (below where you enter the chessgames.com url). Odd behaviour can occur with proxies (especially free one...
- Thu Jul 02, 2020 12:41 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: www.chessgames.com
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3817
Re: www.chessgames.com
Not directly for me, but I can always get to it via a web proxy. For example, navigate to http://www.uk-proxy.co.uk/ and enter www.chessgames.com and it will forward you to the site. First connection is a bit slow, but it's not too bad after that. (Incidentally, I'm not endorsing www.uk-proxy.co.uk ...
- Mon Jun 29, 2020 6:56 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: www.chessgames.com
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3817
Re: www.chessgames.com
I am another who is on BT broadband (in its PlusNet manifestation) and cannot get to www.chessgames.com. However, I can get to it from the same desktop when I use a VPN, which obviously uses different routers and gives you a different IP Address. Perhaps VPN is also an option for other people who ar...
- Mon Jun 08, 2020 10:56 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: General Reference Books for Chess Openings
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2147
Re: General Reference Books for Chess Openings
I thought as much, but I found that I was interested in the answer to your question so I looked it up!
- Mon Jun 08, 2020 8:50 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: General Reference Books for Chess Openings
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2147
Re: General Reference Books for Chess Openings
45 of its 101 pages are devoted to the King's Gambit How does it assess the Muzio? "We could very easily, and in an interesting manner, fill up this little volume with a treatise on the Muzio Gambit, and even then, perhaps, we should not have said the last word. For our own part, we should just as ...
- Mon Jun 08, 2020 8:30 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: General Reference Books for Chess Openings
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2147
Re: General Reference Books for Chess Openings
The Chess Openings by Gunsberg. My copy was published in 1920, though I believe it is basically a reprint of a much earlier version from around 1895. It is a pocket-size book with a tabular layout similar to MCO. 45 of its 101 pages are devoted to the King's Gambit, whereas all openings beginning 1 ...
- Mon Apr 27, 2020 11:13 am
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Michael Basman and Brain Damage
- Replies: 2
- Views: 892
Re: Michael Basman and Brain Damage
The game is Nicholson-Basman played in 1974, and is in the January 1975 edition of Chess. "Danger: this game could cause permanent brain damage" is the only annotation to the game, which began 1 e4 e6 2 d4 Ne7
- Thu Mar 19, 2020 10:20 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Worrying times
- Replies: 412
- Views: 28145
Re: Worrying times
Night of the Big Heat which indeed starred Christopher Lee.Kevin Thurlow wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 8:34 pmI seem to remember an old disaster movie, where the world was doomed, then it rained and it solved the problem. Maybe an early appearance for Christopher Lee?
- Mon Dec 09, 2019 12:29 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Chess history trivia
- Replies: 706
- Views: 62749
Re: Chess history trivia
That's interesting - in 1978 the Greeks were still in the final days of the demotic v katharevousa issue (basically whether to use the ordinary everyday modern Greek or to try and "clean" it back to the proper Greek of old). The attempt was officially abandonned in 1976, but still lingered in place...
- Sun Dec 08, 2019 12:59 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Chess history trivia
- Replies: 706
- Views: 62749
Re: Chess history trivia
My (not very comprehensive) Modern Greek dictionary gives σφυρα as both a feminine word for hammer and neuter plural for ankles (distinguishable by a difference in where the stress is). Rather puzzlingly it does not list the singular form for ankle, that would be σφυρο(ν) [the final ν (n) is now fr...