English Chess Forum

I don't like the idea that you have months to prepare for the first match and then 2-3 days for the semi and final. Why should the players do that? In fact, they have months to prepare against any of the other candidates. Nobody forbids Topalov to prepare against Kramnik today... and if the match d...

I don't like the idea that you have months to prepare for the first match and then 2-3 days for the semi and final. Why should the players do that? In fact, they have months to prepare against any of the other candidates. Nobody forbids Topalov to prepare against Kramnik today... and if the match d...

While reading the post about the chess leagues surveys, I was surprised to see how popular is to have a time control of the form: - 1h 15m for the first 30 moves - 15m quickplay finish for the rest of the game ...with small variations for the number of games (30 to 36), for the initial amount time (...

Depends how long the player is away for I would have thought Alan ~ that's why I added the caveat "if the player really is nowhere to be seen." I don't think it's reasonable to ask a player to wait indefinitely. Indefinitely? There is a clock for the exact purpose of having games of limited duratio...

In the last round of a recent congress, black was in a commanding postion with over 20 minutes on the clock, whereas white had about 7 minutes remaining. It was white's move, but instead of doing so the player just stood up and without offering to shake hands just said ''It is too early to resign b...

If Chessbase were platform independent, I would try paying for an account with them. One (distant) day, you might have to open your wallet, if they ever make this to work http://www.chesslive.de/playchess/ Still does not really work even on windows, might work on MacOS same as on windows; I would n...

Just wondered what other readers think of the new format of the New In Chess magazine.
It might be just "opposition to change", but I feel I was more comfortable with the old format.

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Paolo

Why doesn't ChessBase support Linux? Because it's uneconomic for them to do so. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3189 Right on the money, the only morality is, does it make money? Also its antithesis, if it don't make money it is immoral. No need to enter a debate about morality. For ...

Simon Spivack wrote:Why do some English language accounts unnecessarily use foreign names and pronunciations?

Maybe because the foreign name is the original and correct one?

Paolo (not Paul)

I understand TWIC & the shop have had their plug pulled by their ISP. I believe the ISP holds them responsible for hacking attacks. No idea whether their site has been compromised; or even if the ISP has its facts right. Causing considerable frustration, I'm told If that is true... it would be nice...

Did not relly know where to post this one, but I cant reach The Week In Chess since yesterday.
I wonder if I (my ISP) have a problem or the site is actually down for more than a day during the world championship...

Paolo

It might be determined exclusively by the Russian chess federation though I'm not sure it has much to do with the Russian chess federation. Perhaps the best hope is that the Kremlin decides that Ilyumzhinov is too much of a liability. For instance if he takes a line too independent of Moscow. Not s...

Is there going to be a London Chess Classics 2010?

Last year the tournament was announced very late, it would be nice for amatours to know the details a bit more in advance, particularly the playing schedule.

Paolo

Look at scid

http://scid.sourceforge.net/download.html

It has been ported to the mac platform and provides combined functions of chess database and game play/analysis (engines of reasonable strength included in the package).

Paolo

Analyzing adjourned games with external help (friends, books and so on) has been a common practice at any level (every world championship match had players with teams helping them with analysis of adjourned games). In fact, it is highly educational to analyze your own adjounred game with a player st...