Kibitzing from the Inter-Space
If you are running software that are CPU intensive like some of our people are then boot camp is the way to go because you will have the native speed of the machine.
So, I guess I made the better decision with going with the Boot Camp way. Fritz 12 is definitely CPU-intensive, especially when utilizing all cores of your machine.
Categories: Computer Chess.
The Hiarcs page right now goes:
HIARCS Chess Explorer is an exciting new chess product which is under development and we hope will be available in the autumn 2011. More details on the new chess explorer application will be posted here when they are ready. We hope chess players of all chess abilities who really wish to explore and improve their chess will like the new HIARCS chess explorer software.
For me, this leaves more questions than answers:
I can go on and on, even with stupid questions, but really, that page is not helping a lot. Hope Hiarcs can come up with a concrete answer and hopefully fill that bridge for a good native chess program for the Mac.
Categories: Computer Chess.
A Grandmaster makes the best moves because they are based on what he wants the board to look like ten or twenty moves in the future. This doesn’t require the calculation of countless twenty-move variations. He evaluates where his fortunes lie in the position and establishes objectives. Then he works out the step-by-step moves to accomplish those aims.
– Garry Kasparov (on his book “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom)
Categories: Chess Quotes.
Free Internet Chess Server (FICS), which can be found at www.freechess.org, is a great way to play chess online for free. Besides being free, another great thing about FICS is the presence of a huge community, so that you’ll always have someone within your playing level to start a game with. It is also highly moderated by system and human moderators so that trolls and cheaters are quickly identified and acted upon accordingly.
I used to connect to FICS via Winboard or BabasChess on my Windows machine. But now that I’m on a Mac (specifically on an Intel, Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Macbook Pro 13″ Early 2011), these two programs don’t just seem to work. Good thing I stumbled upon a comment from one user in the FICS group in Facebook about Raptor Chess. See screenshot after the jump »
Categories: Online Chess.
One factor, indeed, why women couldn’t compete in chess as well as men is that they have to bear the child when they start their family.
Check out Chessbase interview with Judit Polgar on how her perspective in life has broadened beyond chess after getting married.
Categories: Chess News, Life Beyond Chess.
UPDATE: I actually already found a great FICS client for Mac: Raptor Chess.
If you have have read in my previous post, I’ve been a Mac convert for sometime now. And I would like very much to test the computing power of a Mac upto its full potential.
I also liked playing chess on FICS or freechess.org. And I have been looking for Apps or programs that can be a desktop client for connecting to FICS. In my Windows days, my favorite was Winboard, though I sometimes used BabasChess. Continued…
Categories: Computer Chess, Online Chess.
Admittedly, Chessbase’ Fritz 12 is the best program for the PC. The Fritz 12 (or even the Deep Fritz 12) engine may not be the strongest computer chess engine out there, but the Chessbase interface is able to deliver on its purpose. I use it widely when analyzing games and studying openings. I load my favorite engines like Rybka, Houdini, Stockfish, etc., to test some of the more stronger engines.
Shredder Chess for Mac
But the problem is it’s only available in PC. When oh when can they be able to make a program for the Mac? I’m a Mac convert now, and there really are a lot of Mac users who are anticipating this from Chessbase. Although I already paid for the licensed copy of Fritz 12 for Windows, I’ll be willing to shell out another for the Mac — for as long as it will natively run on the Intel Mac. Continued…
Categories: Computer Chess.
We have made mistakes.
When chesshive.com domain name was registered, it started with WordPress. Then, there were a lot of experimentation, with a Chyrp site, and then Drupal — but hopefully we’ve settled down.
If we have only stuck with WordPress from the very start, this blog could have already gone a long way. But that’s life, we just have to learn from our mistakes.
We’re going to have a forum here in the future.
Categories: Announcements.
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Categories: Miscellaneous.
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