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Here is another position [d] 8/8/8/1k3p2/p1p1pPp1/PpPpP1Pp/1P1P3P/QNK2NRR w - - 0 1

Aye, understand the logic behind it. Just been itching for 7-men data for nearly a decade now. Meant no disrespect toward Mr Ronald de Man. Was just curious :). There are already 7 pieces tablebases available but just accessible via internet using convekta software, either latest Aquarium or Chess ...

Bishop and knight are not "near equal" in an endgame with pawns on both wings. Bishop is clearly superior there as it can reach squares in one move that take a knight 2-3 (or more) moves to reach. I have an evaluation term for this, where I think the idea came from Fine/Kmoch/et. al. That is an exa...

But nice for humans. Botvinnik - Capablanca Avro 1938 [d] 8/p3q1kp/1p2Pnp1/3pQ3/2pP4/1nP3N1/1B4PP/6K1 w - - 0 30 Averbakh - Kotov Zurich 1953 [d] 1r4nk/1p1qb2p/3p1r2/p1pPp3/2P1Pp2/5P1P/PP1QNBRK/5R2 b - - 0 30 [d] rnbq1rk1/pp4bp/3p4/2pPpp1n/2P5/2NBBP2/PPQ1N1PP/R3K2R b KQ - 0 11 Kotov - Glicoric Zuric...

The key point here is overclocking. The Intel cpu's can overclock reliably to very high rates which dramatically improves their performance. From the reviews I read:"Even though we didn’t spend as much time as we would have liked to on overclocking the FX-8350, it was a joy to work with. By simply ...

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DIEP.png http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/diep-scaling-piledriver-seb.png "Ultimately Vishera is an easier AMD product to recommend than Zambezi before it. However the areas in which we'd recommend it are limited to those he...

As part of the The Clericus International Chess Championship 2012 there was a game between 2 priests and the Italian program Satana (what a pun)



Result is unknown till this moment.

http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/spassky-on-russian-tv-i-wasnt-abducted "For the first time since he moved back from France to Russia, Boris Spassky has appeared in front of a TV camera and the footage has appeared online. The 10th World Champion is doing reasonably well, and says he was not abduc...

Maybe this book:

Master Pieces: The Architecture of Chess
By Gareth John Williams

By the way, how could I add the shogi variant to the portable version?

p.d. The ICS connection is now working, it was either the firewall or antivirus "isolating" the winboard application so just allowing it solved the problem.