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Title: What is a good chess game? Post by: Wolf on April 16, 2006, 08:50:47 AM My uncle's birthday is comming and he's a chess geek and recently got a decent laptop for work. So I want to get him a chess game, I remember something about chessmaster or something from a couple of years ago, but I really don't know. Can anyone help?
Title: Re: What is a good chess game? Post by: schild on April 16, 2006, 09:57:52 AM Rawr. Chess Mastah!
Title: Re: What is a good chess game? Post by: bhodikhan on April 16, 2006, 11:55:20 AM Fritz or Shredder from Chessbase.com.
I hate the whole Chessmaster series. It's not a very 'smart' engine. It looks pretty but playing against the engine is like playing a grandmaster who's shit-face drunk. Title: Re: What is a good chess game? Post by: Triforcer on April 16, 2006, 06:27:37 PM Fritz or Shredder from Chessbase.com. I hate the whole Chessmaster series. It's not a very 'smart' engine. It looks pretty but playing against the engine is like playing a grandmaster who's shit-face drunk. If anyone ever wants to play on Yahoo, my tag is Harvardmc. I'm not that great (fluctuate from 1350 to 1550, whatever that means in their numerology) but am always up for a game. PM me if anyone wants too sometime. Title: Re: What is a good chess game? Post by: Megrim on April 17, 2006, 12:51:43 AM Could you elaborate on how this Yahoo chess thing works? I've been looking for a good online variant because i need to get all my rust off, but so far i've had no luck.
Title: Re: What is a good chess game? Post by: Triforcer on April 17, 2006, 02:22:45 AM Could you elaborate on how this Yahoo chess thing works? I've been looking for a good online variant because i need to get all my rust off, but so far i've had no luck. Go to yahoo.com, click on "Games" in the left column, and create a yahoo account if you don't have one. After that just enter one of the server halls. The competition probably isn't as good as ICC, which is GOOD for me cause I tried that for awhile and mostly got blown out. Yahoo games usually end when one side or the other forgets that a piece is under fire and pointlessly loses a rook :roll: But its good to , as you say, get the rust out. Title: Re: What is a good chess game? Post by: eldaec on April 17, 2006, 05:03:43 AM My dad plays on gameknot (http://gameknot.com/) and seems to be happy with what he gets.
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