Questions tagged [software]
Questions about chess-related software, but not including chess-playing engines; there's a more specific tag for those questions, the [engines] tag.
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Why can't FIDE use a Non-Deterministic Gender Neutral Swiss Pairing system?
I have been following the controversy surrounding the pairings of Hou Yifan at the IOM chess tournament 2017. She was paired with 4 consecutive female players, this is following her last open swiss ...
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Backwards Chess Program
Is there a chess program where you can create a position and the program creates a game, expecting the best possible moves to get there, or the most common?
A problem I would see is some positions ...
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Software-based training on Linux
10 years ago I used to learn from an old version of Fritz on DVD. It was great. It had a teaching move while you played full games and it also had automated curriculum to teach you openings, endings, ...
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Getting started in position-counting by computer
I have quite a bit of programming background, and even game programming background, but have never looked at a real chess engine before.
I recently stumbled on this puzzle-question, which asks for ...
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How do I get Stockfish to show notes like it does on Lichess?
I want to write a program to stop a chess game if Stockfish decides that checkmate is unavoidable for a player as a learning exercise. I downloaded Stockfish for Mac and it gives what it thinks is the ...
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Time/PLY to let engine run for opening analysis
For critical positions in your opening repertoire:
How many PLY do you recommend to let the engine run on a single move (referring to a roughly equal position, about +0.15-0.2)
How much time does ...
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Why can a chess move improve the chance of winning, according to the computer?
When watching the Sinquefield cup on http://grandchesstour.org/, it is possible to try different moves qnd see how the computer evaluates the position after your suggested move.
Most moves will ...
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Android apps to create chess videos [closed]
Are there any free Android apps to create chess videos? They must allow us to draw arrows on the board, highlighting squares or pieces as we discuss the game.
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How are centipawns calculated?
I found on the Web some information what centipawns are. But how exactly programs calculate this loss? How can I recognize if one move will bring less centipawn loss that an another? Assuming both ...
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Entering and saving chess games
I used a chess pad to enter games. However, it lacks an undo feature and there is no way to correct an incorrectly entered position.
What other program can do this?
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Is there a multiplayer Chess GUI that allows you to choose the starting position?
With a human vs. computer, simply set Stockfish to depth == 1 and play it. Or, you can choose another (weaker) engine.
With a human vs. human online, is it possible to set the starting position? If ...
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Chess GUI showing variations with arrows except SCID?
Is there anything else except Scid / Scid vs PC that shows variations with arrows and also allows you to chose any variation simply by dragging the piece on the board?
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Where to find specific endgame practice exercises/puzzles/practice bots?
I'm looking for a set of exercises (contained in a book, website, or chess engine) where I can practice what I know in regards to rook and pawn vs. rook endgames. I could find a friend to randomly ...
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Chessbase vs Hiarcs for DB management
I am a Mac user and ChessBase is not available. Instead I purchased Hiarcs. I would like advise as to whether there's added value to ChessBase that should motivate me to install ChessBase on Parallels ...
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Board for lectures, with arrows, highlights, not checking rules
Is there good free software for creating video lessons, that allows you to make board as big as desired, highlight squares, show arrows and not checking rules, allowing to move pieces in any way, ...
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Learning chess over the board vs using software
I have some good quality chess books and of course use the chess board to follow all chess game examples and variations provided. However I noticed that it is quite a tiring activity as it takes time ...
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Chess pairing program for double round robin
We have regular friendly matches in our chess club. So far we have used an older version of swiss manager for swiss and round robin; but today when we had to pair using double round robin format, I ...
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How to add additional tags to an existing PGN?
Is there any software that would allow me to add additional PGN tags to existing PGN files?
For example, PGN tags like WhiteTeam etc.
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Chess GUI Java Swings code needs fixing [closed]
My Taken Pieces Panel clusters ugly with the pieces.
Here's my code :
class TakenPiecesPanel extends JPanel {
private final JPanel northPanel;
private final JPanel southPanel;
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Is CQL executable available anwhere online?
This article and some questions on this forum - mention http://www.rbnn.com/cql/ as a source for getting cql.exe, but that domain seems unclaimed at the moment. Is this executable available anywhere ...
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Personal chess database
I'm looking for non commercial program where I can import PGNs. And to visualize the games I want simple GUI and analysis-table like you will find here. Additionally it would be nice if the program ...
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Connecting Chess Engine with a Java program
I wanted to make a 1 player chess game.
The idea is:
The move made by the player would be displayed on the GUI.
It is sent to the Chess Engine in its own specific understood form.
Then the result of ...
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Are there any dicylic graphing programs for chess? [closed]
Although chess is frequently thought of as a tree structure, it is not because positions can be arrived at through different move orders and moves can be repeated. Are their graphing programs/...
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Do major chess publishers use custom software for typesetting chess books?
As I try to understand how one would publish a large chess book, it feels that chess gives some pretty custom requirements for an editor or publisher. I am pretty sure that chess authors use Chessbase ...
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"chess problem" software (free/paid) to download for PC?
I tried one a while back but it was quite elementary, it had a few thousand problems but did not give detailed answers, just one single move as correct and that's it!
I do play Chesstempo sometimes ...
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How to determine objectively if a move is passive or aggressive?
I'm doing research about how different conditions or situations affect the decision making process in chess. For example if the opponent's ELO ranking affects the average time used for every move. In ...
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Lessons to learn from Chess.com [closed]
How much do you know Chess.com website? Chess.com is the most successful website for chess players to use in their chess life. I'm a web developer and I'm going to create a social network for chess ...
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Chess software that can show all legal moves?
I'm a casual player, and I learned chess from my Dad when I was a kid, but I still have the problem that I miss really obvious moves I can make (or I don't see really obvious moves the other side can ...
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software for a survey of chess openings
Is there any a free software or free pgn files that presents a survey of all openings and their variations (the deeper the best) similar to those found in chess opening references like MCO or ECO ? I ...
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How can we convert PGN format to Resource Description Framework (RDF)?
Is there any parser available in which we take PGN data as input and then convert it to RDF format? Has someone worked on this thing?
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Pawn Structure database
I wonder if there is any existing or a way to create a chess database organised only according to pawn structures, where the notion of a pawn structures is crudely defined by GM Andrew Soltis in his ...
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Using a Linux UCI Engine with a GUI (eg. Fritz 15)
Is there any way a Linux UCI Engine (such as StockFish 8) be used with Fritz 15? Will this involve customizing the source code and rebuilding to implement things like hash size, tablebase locations, ...
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SyzygyPath in asmFish
Can someone point to me whereabouts in asmFish I can hardcode the SyzygyPath into the source code. I can do it in StockFish 8, however I've yet to find it in the source code of asmFish. I'll be using ...
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Compiling asmFish on macOS
I have been able to make a custom build of asmFish on Linux. However, I have been unable to do so on macOS. I've seen a Mac version of the FASM compiler on the Internet. But when I tried using it for ...
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free alternatives to SwissSys?
I was going to do a tournament recently, and then, I found out just how much $$ SwissSys Tournament software costs...
My question is:
What good alternatives to this expensive mainstream ...
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Looking for a Horrible-by-design chess engine
I am looking for a really-bad-by-design chess engine, compatible with Arena chess GUI. Not just lowering engine power..
I have tried lowering Stockfish's power, and it didn't suit my needs, so I am ...
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Strong chess program for GNU/Linux with a command line interface? [duplicate]
I'm looking for a strong chess program for GNU/Linux with a command line interface, or one that I can alter to make it suit my needs
After a quick search, I found the question Chess program for Linux/...
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Developing a New Software Application in Chess [closed]
What software application do you think that does not exist? I'm a programmer and I would like to implement it to help the Chess world. Thanks in advance to those who give me good ideas.
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Calculate the first N unknown moves of a chess game
Greetings fellow chess friends,
Here is a quick idea that came to my mind.
I am interested in writing a software that is able to calculate and/or guess the first n unknown moves of a given chess ...
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Understanding magic bitboard
I have read a lot of stuff about magic bitboard but some stuff is not clear. A lot of authors say to create the move masks for the piece avoiding the border positions. So, for a bishop at D3 the move ...
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Building a chess using magic bitboard... how do I know if the movement is valid
OK I have read a lot of things on the web most of them using Java that doesn't have unsigned int. I am working on Objective-C that has unsigned int.
Lets consider the following scenario.
The board ...
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Play chess in Python programming language?
I am searching for a program/library in Python which will let two users or a user and an AI play chess with each other.
PS: I have found python-chess. Can this be used for the above along with a ...
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Basic software for any chess enthusiast
What is the beginner's starter pack you would recommend for any chess enthusiast?
I am not asking for any specific product just the general software category.
For example I think everyone should ...
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An offline alternative to lichess.org's online analysis engine
Lichess.org has probably the best chess analysis interface. But, the problem it works only online.
Whereas, Stockfish the engine behind the analysis is downloadable, the interface is not.
I am ...
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Looking for SmallChess source code?
I'm currently looking for this chess engine: http://www.smallchess.com/ but the link to access it is dead.
Can anyone help ?
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Do users of chess-db get informed when you play against their computer simulation of themselves?
If I were to play against the computer simulations of chess players that have an account on chess-db (titled or none titled I know), will they get informed that I trained or prepared against them by ...
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Is there any software that can be used for positional chess training?
I am looking for a software that would help me in improving my positional chess understanding. Is there any such software or website?
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Gull engine : Which depth value to set 6 difficulty levels?
We are installing the Gull engine for some chess enthusiasts in an organization.
We would like to set 6 difficulty levels from beginner to master using depth.
Is there someone who can advice us about ...
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High-quality (not bitmap) diagram software
I'm looking for software that can take FEN and generate a high-quality diagram, in PDF, Postscript, Windows metafile, or something else that will look good at 1200x1200 dpi or better. I thought the ...
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Mac/iOS chess app with rates option
I am looking for a chess app that you can set an exact rate to play against the computer (same as you have in chess.com where you set it to play against others).
Is there any Mac (specifically) and ...
