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Thanks you very much Larry. I appreciate the attention and deference you have with me; Being very close to reaching sixty years of age, we discovered the scope of that proverb that teaches: "Vanity of vanities and everything is vanity." I am very clear that Providence has wanted to place me in a wo...

This is sad news
My condoleances to the family.
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24 +1000.11 Ne6 Bd5 Bxd5 Rxd5 Rxf6 Rb8 Rf7 Qxf7 Rxf7 Rd2+ Kf1 Kg8 Qf5 Rd1+ Ke2 Rd2+ Kxd2 Rd8+ Nxd8 b4 Qxh7# (3.18)

Now I get the following speed. Is it normal? I somehow feel that the speed gain should be more than 8k. Do you realize you have 16 physical cores? You can'r run 2x faster with hyperthreading. ~1.3x is normal. With Intel hyperthreading you get ~1.3 x the performance. Although I never tried I have a ...

And how many of those "chess programs or humans who are not beginners" can beat Fire 7.1? I think this is a bit unfair towards Uri. He sometimes seems to be trolling a bit , but he is spot on here. The play in the endings is just extremely lousy.It can't hurt to point this out. In the extreme case ...

And how many of those "chess programs or humans who are not beginners" can beat Fire 7.1? I think this is a bit unfair towards Uri. He sometimes seems to be trolling a bit , but he is spot on here. The play in the endings is just extremely lousy.It can't hurt to point this out. In the extreme case ...

Hi Andres, I encounter a very odd thing. I have named the Dirty exe to 'Dirty_CUCUMBER-x64'. Now when I install it under Arena (under the name Dirty CUCUMBER 64-bit) and start it, it does not move and displays a message that Dirty_CUCUMBER.exe is not found. When I go back to the installation sectio...

your backups might not be safe,
ransomware nowadays scans for other (removable) drives and network drives (older smbversions) and encrypts these too.

Pick any of the world champions and explain your reasoning. Laskers's strategic genius? Capablanca's simplicity? Alekhine's combinations? Fisher's great all around? Karpov's positional style? Kasparov positional and combination style? or Magnus Carlsen Highest rated player of all times? Jean Luc Pi...

check the movecounter,its a draw.
note that if it was not a draw by the 50 mvs rule,your suggestion Bg4 would get white mated after Nd1 and Nf2
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