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this is not so much a blog as a training diary. my aim is to keep track of my chess training and goals. it is also an experiment. i am taking a goal orientated approach to chess training. partly inspired by aww-rats and partly by the 10 minute men... | Read More
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This week, I am reading Tal vs Botvinnik - 1960. Pretty interesting read on kindle for $10. Getting into Tal's mind as he goes from round to round against the systematic and positional Botvinnik.
Also got a new cell phone, a Driod Note II. Very... | Read More
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I have recently found the world's largest online chess database--The Fics Online Database-- at http://www.ficsgames.org/stats.html which has more than 200 million games in it! If you need games to feed your SCID this is it!
Other good free onl... | Read More
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Chess Training Program
Chess training program for ratings < 1200
Disclaimer: These advice are taken from my personal (short) experience. They are written by a novice for the novice.
I only release my ideas today to the public. Nobody ever t... | Read More
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2/11/13 and 2/12/13 Polgar 5334: 342, Chess School 1a: 466, LC: 1, WC: 20
Man these puzzles are getting hard. The Ivanschenko mate in twos aren't too bad since they look like a game and you are given a hint, mate w/ queen, etc. But with the Polga... | Read More
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Downloaded Scid and put my games in it
Puzzle of the day
Started blog
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One bad move nullifies forty good ones. – I. A. Horowitz
If the quote above doesn't make it clear, I'm not going to talk about politics; just tactics. The more fitting quote may have been the one about chess being 99% tactics but I decided ... | Read More
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This is rather complicated. I found a guide online, which was extremely helpful. You might want to check it out: http://ubuntu-skype.blogspot.co.at/2012/11/scid-vs-pc-installation-guide-ubuntu.html | Read More
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Does anybody know any good websites that have chess puzzles on middlegame strategy (not tactics)? The type of puzzles for middlegame that i am looking for includes prophylaxis and defense, pawn structures, your own piece improvement, limiting oppo... | Read More
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In this post I'm going to talk a bit more about scid, its native database format, and some of the things that can be done with it. I'll start with a few basic concepts.
I mentioned a few blog posts ago about the PGN file format. It's a file f... | Read More
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I'm now going to launch into a slightly technical discussion of chess engine configuration using scid.
Before I start, I'm reminded of an old saying -- Windows programmers say "it's broken, how do we fix it?", Unix programmers say "it's not broke... | Read More
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So far I have not gone into any detail about configuring any of the software that I have installed. The first thing that I will be configuring is the opening books. As some people have noted and commented, without these opening books the engin... | Read More
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I did say in one of my earlier posts that I was a better software engineer than I am a chess player, and I think a few points here will illustrate that. I'm going to talk about one of the programs I installed earlier, scid, and how to use it to ... | Read More
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Without leaping into the bells and whistles of all of the various UI programs and the engines, I am going to give you a simple example of how to play chess against one of the engines, first using the xboard interface and then against the scid inte... | Read More
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So in the previous post I gave you a list of chess programs you can install. This time I will talk briefly about a few of the front ends.
xboard
xboard is the oldest of the front ends and it's the oldest looking. It is ugly, and scrolling is... | Read More
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The first part is the installation.
Fire up your preferred program to do installation of packages on Ubuntu. I use Synaptic, there are a couple of other options.
You need to install this list of packages, and all of their dependencies. I fou... | Read More
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“QUANDO comecei a ler a Bíblia regularmente, para mim isso era mais uma obrigação do que um prazer”, diz Lorraine. “Era difícil de entender, por isso muitas vezes a minha mente vagueava.”
Outros também admitem que de início não se... | Read More
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“Perto está Jeová dos que têm coração quebrantado.” — Salmo 34:18.
A MORTE de alguém querido provoca vários sentimentos intensos. Por exemplo, você talvez fique chocado, paralisado, arrasado e até se culpe ou fique com raiva. Mas ... | Read More
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So it's been 4 months since my last blog post here. As you may have read from my previous blog post I am interested in chess and computers. My last blog post was on the topic of chess apps for Android. I was complaining about the lack of usef... | Read More
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The danger of relying on computer evaluations!
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This endgame study was shown by James Plaskett to a group of strong Grandma... | Read More