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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How to setup ChessX to tell the name of the current opening?
I have ChessX 1.0 for Mac OSX. Is there a way for it to tell the name of the current opening position?
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Easy to use, MS Word-like tool to record chess games
Apologies for being a noob in this matter - a senior citizen friend of mine is looking for desktop publishing-like software to record chess games (diagrams along with personal reflection). The goal is ...
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How to sort a chess PGN game by date
Is there a way to sort a PGN chess game by date and export the sorted games as a new PGN file?
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Smartphone app with Wordfeud-like time constraints
In Wordfeud, it's kind of play-and-forget. When your opponent makes a move, you get a notification. Typically I would move once a day while commuting to and from work. A game would typically take a ...
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Good UCI to WinBoard adapter
I found one before on the internet but it keeps the CPU at 100%, hangs a lot, and doesn't exit when the program (ChessMaster in this case) closes.
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Software for opening repertoire practice
I am developing an opening repertoire for white based on d4 and c4. I think this is going all right, but what I am looking for is a chess program that can exercise my repertoire knowledge.
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How to represent chess state with a bitboard
I'm interested in programming a chess engine and using bitboards to represent the state of the game. I know there are a few open source chess engines that use bitboards, but its not so easy to look at ...
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How to use Houdini with SCID on Mac OS?
I have recently moved to a Mac. Immediately I've installed Scid (looks very nice on the Mac) but I couldn't find a way to use my Houdini as a chess engine.
Supposedly, it should run with Wine, but I ...
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How can I train myself in pawn endgames?
I'm looking for a chess program which offers to play pawn endgames to improve myself.
For example, can I force Fritz 13 to play pawns endgames? If so, how can I achieve this?
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Is there software or a device that allows bookmarking positions to allow variation analysis?
I'm wondering if there is any chess software or portable chess computer that allows a position to be bookmarked while a variation is examined?
For example, it's possible to download pgn for games ...
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How to switch the engine off in Arena?
I use Arena. I want to input my game and create a pgn. But I have a problem, because if I make a move, the engine automatically makes a move as well. I want to make moves for white and for black.
I ...
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What is the highest known lower bound for mate in N from starting position?
Edit: It seems my question was not clear enough. Let me rephrase: What is the largest N for which we can knowingly say "chess, from the starting position, is not a forced mate in N moves"?
Chess is ...
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Does SCID have a function that allows to print a single game with variations as ECO table?
Other major chess database programs allow this, but I am curious if SCID has this "print as repertoire" function. Opening report in SCID creates an ECO table from multiple games, but I'd like to ...
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Is it possible to expect different results from computer vs same computer on the same machine?
I wanted to see if a computer can beat the same computer, on the same machine.
The first match is on chess.com, I played vs computer, I open two tabs, the first one is computer (white) vs me (black) ...
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Uploading chessboard to website
I am a beginner programmer with some experience in HTML, PHP, and Java. I would like to upload a chessboard onto my website, and I have used the following links to help me:
http://chess....
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Tool that suggests tactics exercises based on game analysis
Does anyone know of any common tool that can go throughout your game database (I have a couple of hundreds of my game's PGNs), and extract tactics that one should be training? I believe something as ...
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Is there software that simulates the Tri-D or 3-D chess as seen in Star Trek?
I want to try this game without making/buying a board and it is easier to learn to play when the computer can prevent invalid moves. Does any software, preferably freeware, exist which simulates this ...
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What is the best way to maintain an opening repertoire in electronic form?
I am torn between two options:
a) having a database with separate games (e.g. in pgn files, or any one of ChessBase, Chess Assistant or SCID database format), where each game would be a subvariation ...
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Is PGN split utility available anywhere?
A couple of places on the web mention a free utility called pgnsplit, that does the following:
"A commandline tool to convert pgn-files including games with variation into pgn-files where each ...
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Are there any (free) programs that utilize Chessmetrics or Glicko-2?
I'm looking for a program that is capable of keeping track of player ratings while taking in the game data and hopefully outputting rankings based upon those ratings in some form.
I've found ELORater, ...
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OSX implementation of WinBoard / XBoard?
Is there a Mac OSX implementation (or equivalent) of WinBoard / XBoard?
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Chess program that will play an opening against me?
Is there a chess program that will play a specific opening against me? The reason being is that I want to practice against the Ruy Lopez, for example and I want a computer to play up to Bb5. Is ...
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I would like an iPad app for annotating my games
I would like an app for annotating my games and/or replay others' games. Do you have any suggestions?
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Is there ant database that will return the reversed position?
I recently started an online game as White that began as follows.
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"]
1. Nf3 f5 2. d3 Nc6 3. e4 e5
Here I deliberately decided to lose ...
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A simple free opening editor?
I am looking for a simple and free opening editor where I can save openings and variations. I know Chess Position Trainer is free, but I am looking for something much more simple.
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Can 'Favorites' tagged with "Scid on the Go" be searched for in Scid on PC?
In "Scid on the go" I can label games as favorites, but then the search filter on Scid Vs. Pc 4.8 does not show a way to search those favorites in the database. Is "Favorites" - Scid on the Go feature?...
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Computer evaluations: How trustworthy are they?
Fritz 12 with Rybka gave a friend of mine an evaluation of +3 for white in this endgame position,
[Title "White to move"]
[FEN "8/8/8/3k3p/3P3K/2P3R1/8/7r w - - 0 1"]
which turned out to be a draw. ...
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How do you search a chess database for exchange sacrifices?
I am looking for a way within any of the common chess packages to search for a specific maneuver, such as a rook capturing a protected. bishop. I've heard of CQL, but have never used it. I am curious ...
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Simple programs for recording chess games -- Like ECTool -- for Ubuntu and Windows
I should be able to google this, but I don't know what the name for this item is:
I'm looking for a simple program that can be used to record and play back a chess game. I'm not looking for a ...
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Deep Rybka vs Deep Fritz vs Houdini vs (other), which one to buy?
I want to invest my hard-earned money to buy a chess engine which can help me to:
analyze games easily
experiment with different opening repertoire
strategical analysis
positional play
I don't ...
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Chess program for Linux/Unix console
For reasons I'd rather not get into, what chess programs work well on the console (ie. does not require X Windows)? Something with an ASCII visualization of the board would be incredibly helpful (I'm ...
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Fritz: Full analysis Vs Blunder check
In Fritz, I am interested to know the differences between the Full Analysis and Blunder Check.
The differences at the first look seem superficial. For example, I wouldn't mind if there is no natural ...
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Electronic gadget chess opponent for children
I am looking for an electronic gadget that is a chess opponent, designed specially for children. I want to it be touch screen, where the pieces are large enough so you don't need to use a special pen ...
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Is there a tool to automatically download a player's latest ICC games (history) into a pgn file?
ICC stores your last 20 games, some of the clients also allow storing them into pgn files as you play. But if you use a client that does not support it, you then have to manually go and get each game ...
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Can SCID be configured so that engines use Endgame Tablebases?
I set the options in Scid VS. PC 4.8, so that Tablebase information shows up in game information window (when 5 piece endgame is reached. But when I turn on an analysis engine, it still does not ...
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Free chess computer game
I am a chess novice.
Can someone suggest a good, free chess computer game that I can use to start to learn chess by playing against the computer? Maybe with some different difficult levels...
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Is there a chess software that allows to generate and store engine evaluation graph for a chess game?
A software like Fritz or Arena typically shows a graph for a game that is currently being analyzed/played. Fritz 5.32 also generates those graphs as it does automated analysis of several games in DB. ...
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What Chess Software allows creating a chess Ebook?
I would like to take an annotated pgn file, and convert it into an ebook I could conveniently read on amazon kindle (or its pc version), or android/Ios device. It might have to create diagrams where ...
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Is there chess software that allows storage and replay of media annotations?
I would like to annotate my game not only with textual comments like 6. Be5 "This move brings the bishop to a long diagonal", but also record such comments with voice. Is there any software package ...
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Is there chess software to play against that rates your skill through actual games?
Is there chess software out there that will try and rate your play? I vaguely recall an old Chessmaster software that did something similar, though by having you play through puzzles. I was looking ...
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Any chess software with "force move" facility?
Does anyone know if there is a chess program on the market (PC or iPad) which provides force-move functionality while it is the computer's turn to play (the opponent tells the computer program which ...
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Programming chess engine [closed]
I'm a Java programmer, particularly an Android developer. I'm also a good chess player. My question is where do I start if I want to program a chess engine, may or may not be from scratch. Later I ...
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Why can't I analyze with Stockfish 2.0.1 in Winboard 4.5 beta?
I have to ask an engine-related question: after I installed the Stockfish 2.0.1 engine on my Winboard 4.5 beta, I can't analyze with it. What I mean is, it's giving nothing in the engine output; it ...
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Which is the most CPU efficient chess engine?
I am learning artificial intelligence and chess programming. I want to analyze the architecture and read the code of existing chess engines. But I am confused between multiple choices. There are ...
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Where can I find mobile software for Fischer random chess?
Fischer had a chess variation (chess960) but I cannot find any mobile app to play it.
Does anyone knows where I can get the best software (if possible free or cheap) to play it?
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Are there mobile chess tutoring/training apps for Android or iPhone?
I'm looking for a Chess tutoring/teaching app that I can dip in and out of on my phone. At the moment I use Shredder Chess to practice when on the move (which basically involves repeating the puzzles ...
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Alternatives to chessbase on OS X
Most of my chess preparation and studying used to revolve around ChessBase products. I stored my databases and notes in .cbh files, used computers with the ChessBase interface to study and do ...
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What resources are there for connecting engines to play automatically on remote servers?
What resources are there, e.g. tutorials, for connecting engines to play automatically on remote servers such as ICC? There are certain opening variations that I want to have a strong engine test and ...
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What software is good for deliberate practice in specific areas?
Is there software that tracks unassisted game play and categorizes player's strengthens and weaknesses in a way that allows the player to focus on the most valuable deliberate area practice relative ...
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Are there consumer-level game play analysis systems that overlay the analysis on the board real-time?
An example of what I mean would be Thinking Table, though the Thinking Table is not a consumer product:
Thinking Table is a series of works that explore the invisible, elusive nature of
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