Good to see that Martin is back and also that chatwing is back on the site.

I wondered, is there any news when TCEC season 8 will start? It was said to be mid-march so I would want to hear news about that.

I agree that the number of moves used in the opening book should be lesser than what we seen in season 6 to give more free to engines and alot of other reasons
I am not sure about that. With less moves we probably will repeat openings anywhen and also some of the long lines were interesting.
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@1. I would have no problem with this.
@2. I don't have a problem at the moment. Ok, i have a big screen and i think with smaller screen it could be a problem. Maybe two possible font sizes to choose from.
@3. I totally agree! Important feature. (I also agree with styx, that goes in similar ...

For engines 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 could be interesting; in my preperation I saw engines suggesting some crazy lines like after 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Bd3 the interesting move Ng4 (after which engines could play it out). It followed a second pawn sacrafice and huge ...

How many moves? Again 8 moves or is this also part of the suggestions?

For chess tactics I use http://chesstempo.com/chess-tactics.html; chess tactics are probably most important at start. <2200 most games are decided with tactics i would say.

Some time ago i got my new computer with an Intel i7-4930K @3.4 GHz. Now i want to overclock it but if I do it of course my guaranty (2 years) expires. So I wanted to ask how often you used your guaranty / if it would be bad to not have it anymore. Additionally I wanted to ask how heavily I should ...