Book Review: Winning Chess Endings
Raise your hand if you hate playing the endgame. That’s what I thought; I’m not alone. OK, well, “hate” might be a bit strong, but maybe “dread” is a better term. Nothing about chess is easy, b...
McChess: Shredder Chess
First, the preamble, in case you missed it from my last McChess article. At the moment, I run OS X and only OS X, so although Shredder Chess comes in Linux and Windows flavours, I won’t say much, if anything, about the alternativ...
McChess: Chessmaster 9000
With any luck, this is the first in a series of chess software reviews. I should state up-front that, at the moment, the only operating system I use is OS X. So, although many of the programs that I will review have versions that run on other oper...
MacHack Attack
In 1957, Alex Bernstein created the first really complete chess program at IBM. It ran on an IBM 704, one of the last vacuum tube computers. It took about 8 minutes to make a move. In 1958, Alan Newell, John Shaw, ...
A Short History of Computer Chess
Chess and computers was a marriage waiting to happen, and when it did, so we had the reality of computer chess. The following; derrived from books and other sources of info, covers some of the earliest roots of computer chess; technol...
10 Things to Learn from a Beginner.
What can I say after playing my first 50 games? Like many people I learn chess from a Parent and mostly played my siblings and the odd game here and there with friends and on computer software. I could always handle myself w...
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Q&A with Coach Heisman Feb 7, 2014
In the recent TCEC computer chess tournament, defending champion Houdini was eliminated in the semi-finals; the engines playing the final match were Stockfish and Komodo. After the finals, the loser Stockfish (an open source program) graciously ma...
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