Google "Chess conversion algebraic descriptive"
You can find conversion programs you can use in case you want to read chess literature written in a format you don't like.

ketchuplover: There's still the IECC, https://www.chess-iecc.com/ I have played there for 5-6 years during the 90s, then stopped when IYT appeared, which was much more convenient.

ketchuplover: right :)

ketchuplover: Second site where I'm asking myself what happened to the white king, LOL

Walter Montego: It's the position setup, not the moves.

ketchuplover: so it is.

None of the non-chess-specific sites are mentioned: BK, GT, IYT.

ketchuplover:
3. with bk ratings.

computeropponen: c'est la vie

lukulus: Of course! death would be pretty boring otherwise.

By the way, Fencer, I always wanted to ask. Black rook is for life only? Do you have a second offer for the longer period that follows that?

Resher: wow, an eternal tournament? well, take consolation in your divine status, then :)

Pedro Martínez: As I recall, you can delete games under 4 moves?

435152: There was a guy here 2-3 years ago claiming to be Bobby Fischer. He didn't finish a sufficient number of games for us to judge one way or another, but he sure had a character nasty enough to fit the role... he got booted off the site for persistent rude behaviour. he played only Fisher random and Embassy - fitting the role too. Now, of course, we'll never know.

Tuesday: That's as good a method as any, but watch it! You might find that you like the game, and then you're hooked for life. No patch or chessoholics anonymous will save you. Be warned!

emmett: done. Though with a 7 days timeout I don't expect to live long enough to see the 2nd round :)

MAURICE42: essaie plutot ici: http://brainking.com/fr/Board?bc=88

Eriisa: Single elimination with atomic warefare. Now there's a cheering thought...

Joseph Stalin. There's no record of him having ever lost a single game.

ColonelCrockett: excepting the part about beating Mely, even with an extra piece... I should know

even if it were not the rule, to force the program to have and calculate all the draw rules, especially the one about repetition of position 3 times, would be far too heavy on the system resources. better to resolve such positions manually by a referee.

Any interrest in loop chess? a tournament will start next monday, provided enough people show up... click here

a life form consisting of 6 or more legs and no brain

and why couldn't there be a dark chess program? the difference is only in the evaluation which is based on probabilities rather than real positions. I don't know if anyone actually wrote one, but the project sounds interresting. I'll try to do it myself, the next time I'm young again...

and there ARE backgammon playing programs.

surprisingly enough there seems to be no rule here against outside help in any form. unlike other sites, Fencer seems to adopt the sensible attitude that since you can't check or enforce it, there's no point in having a rule against it.

there are several good players here that declare openly that they are in "cyborg" mode (that is, basically, human aided by program).


you'll find that correspondence chess clubs have varying attitudes towars computer aided play. one club I belong to, IECC, has adopted the rule that calculating moves is forbidden, but database search is equivalent to book search, and therefore allowed. as for me, I've adopted the same principle.

as for me, I'm still active in the IECC, which is an email chess organisation, but have slipped to only 1-2 games since IYT, and then GT and BK became active. it's simply too comfortable to play on a server.