Sam has closed his piano and gone to bed ... now we can talk about the real stuff of life ... love, liberty and games such as Janus, Capablanca Random, Embassy Chess & the odd mention of other 10x8 variants is welcome too
For posting: - invitations to games (you can also use the New Game menu or for particular games: Janus; Capablanca Random; or Embassy) - information about upcoming tournaments - disussion of games (please limit this to completed games or discussion on how a game has arrived at a certain position ... speculation on who has an advantage or the benefits of potential moves is not permitted while that particular game is in progress) - links to interesting related sites (non-promotional)
Véčet klobu na mloveni
Néni tě dovoleny datlovat do toďteho klobo. Abes mohl datlovat do toďteho klobo, mosiš mit némiň členstvi Brain pinčl.
By the way, Gothic Vortex now has the SMP code turned on, so it takes advantage of multiprocessor machines. I have also finished the code to have it probe the 5-piece tablebases in RAM. And I converted it to 64-bit native code.
On a 4x Opteron, it searches at 3.5 million positions per second.
The Vortex in the next World Championship will be very, very different :)
I researched the different boards, but some people only translated the names, and not the piece movements associated with them. For example, Capablanca had a Cardinal and a Marshall at one point in time, so did Bird. But Capablanca changed his pieces to Marshall and Chancellor, then Chancellor and Archbishop. So most people do not take into account Bird's Cardinal is not the Archbishop, it was our Chancellor, and his Marshall is not a Chancellor, but was the Archbishop.
Bird's array should have the chancellor and archbishop switched.
Remember, his cardinal and marshall were DIFFERENT than Capablanca's, and later when they were called Chancellor and Archbishop, they were translated "flopped".
WOW! Impressive. Convincing win against the invincible before a year Gothic Vortex.......
The FEN tags on your post are wrong, because an empty line is inserted probably by Brainking's system -a known bug-.....
Anyone wants to see the game should copy and paste this to a text-editor and remove the empty line.....
Grim Reaper: hehehe, I'll think about it but I have already been introduced into a game with HerculesBeast(2159, #?). Dresden will most likely have a turn at my scalp eventually. :)
Přetvořeny oževatelem Pedro Martínez (19. srpenca 2005, 19:02:58)
BIG BAD WOLF: No computer-based translator will EVER give you an exact translation. Even though it might be able to give you a little clue of what the text is about (if it is simple enough), never rely on it much. In my opinion, this a good example of an industry where computers will never surpass humans.
Grim Reaper: There are some translaters on-line which will translate "most" of it for you. (quick search found this place: http://translation2.paralink.com/ - but only 500 characters at a time here so it might take awhile to translate) - but there are others also.
The live site at http://www.GothicChessLive.com now has game timers, including the Fischer clock for time increments, as well as a rating system for bullet, blitz, and regular time controls.
Grim Reaper: Yes, I do. First they mention you as one who patented "Capablanca chess on 10x8 board under the name Gothic chess", then there is some info about world computer championships, then about some brainking tournaments, and live Philadelphia open. They also mention Grim Reaper is your current nick here, then there are some thoughts about online playing through internet etc. Then in the end there is some chess problem, mate in 2 for both sides, who is about to move, wins in 2 moves.
One thing I noticed when I access the Task Manager (cntrl-alt-del) is that sometimes Netscape is showing a process already running under the Processes tab (not the Applications tab) and at these times, I do not get the Java applet components sent to me properly.
Run the Task Manager before you launch your browser. Hit the Processes tab, then sort the "Mem Usage" in descending order (highest to lowest). Look for a process named similar to your browser. If the browser has not even been launched yet, select that item, then click on the End Process button down on the lower right.
to grimreaper: A while back you mentioned something about Gothic Chess Board Game being made available by some toy company manufacturer. Has this happened yet?
I have seven games in the "Waiting games" section if anyone would like to play a game or two. 2 or 3 day time limit with vacations and weekends still going.