I would respectfully suggest that it might it be better to talk things out over a phone call or lunch (if you're in the same city) rather than airing these arguments here.

OK seriously, has anyone ever *actually* run into this OTB? I'm sure attractive 1600-2100 female players are out there; I've just never seen one or played against one. The ones I have seen have all been GM's or WGM's playing simuls (Alexandria Kosteniuk, for example). But in club play, my experience ...

In three years of tournament play, this has never come up.

This is reminiscent of the SCO vs. IBM lawsuit where SCO claimed that some of their proprietary code was integrated into early versions of Linux.

As far a disassembling the code, Vas is right. Compilation of computer code is, by its nature, a destructive (or "entropy-increasing") process. It would ...

They all have their plusses and minuses. Personally I like chesstempo better as ideachess tells you how many moves you have left on each problem, which isn't realistic. True that chesstempo sometimes punishes you for a technically correct but alternate solution, but my son, who is an avid chesstempo ...

Great! Thanks - I'll give that a shot... although I'm pretty partial to the Fritz interface. It took some getting used to but now I like it quite a bit.

I bought, long ago, Hiarcs 9.6 because it was the best to play chess with my old palm. :D

And I recently bought Shredder 12 because :

- I could try it before buying it
- SMK answer fast to emails
- the gui is very nice
- Shredder adapts its level to mine, and doesn't answer immediatly when ...

Hello all. New member, first-time poster.

I'm USCF 1500 (trying to get better) and regularly use free chess engines on top of Fritz 10 for analysis. My question is: Why do folks purchase chess engine packages such as Rybka and Hiarcs? What features do these commercial products offer that I would ...