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| Posted by uri65 austinfilmfestival.org 11/11/2008 23:40:36 Play online chess |  Subject: Chess Scan IntelligentMessage:  www.chesscentral.com
to a free Chess OCR program called Chess Scan Intelligent. It allows to convert scanned chess diagram to a computer readable file (FEN, EPD, PGN). But it seems like the link doesn't work anymore. Is there anyone who knows where I can download it? Or is there someone who has it and is ready to send it to me by email? |
| Posted by ccmcacollister austinfilmfestival.org 11/12/2008 03:06:47 Play online chess | Interesting ... Message: |
| Posted by spurtus austinfilmfestival.org 11/12/2008 12:08:07 Play online chess | Message: |
Chess news: Topalov Closes In on Linares Title -- After eight rounds, Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, the top seed, holds a one point lead in the annual Ciudad de Linares chess tournament in Spain. Alexander Grischuk of Russia, the defending champion, is in second place after beating Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan in Round 8 on Sunday. Levon Aronian of Armenia is in third, having managed, like Topalov, not to have lost a game in the chess tournament. Unlike Topalov, who has won three games, Aronian has not won a game either. So far, 25 percent of the games have been decisive, but that does not mean that the other 75 percent have been dull. Quite the contrary. The games have mostly been hard fought and exciting, even ... Big Surprises in Europe -- Europe has been a center of chess activity over the last month with a series of major open tournaments. The first was the Gibtelecom Chess Festival in Gibraltar, which ran from Jan. 26 through Feb. 4. Among the world-class chess players who competed were Etienne Bacrot of France, Sergei Movsesian of Slovakia, Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain, Michael Adams of England, and Gata Kamsky of the United States. The chess tournament ended in a nine-way tie for first, with Adams winning a four-person playoff to take the title. The Moscow Open, which overlapped with Gibtelecom and ended on Feb. 7, was divided into four sections — A, B, C and D — with ... The f-pawn, part 2: is f5 the answer here? -- Does White have a better option than moving the f-pawn? Continuing our look at the chess equivalent of route one football – the f-pawn advance... RB Well, let's see what happens when we push – 1 f5. The answer comes back faster than Manchester United on the break, not much. Black is under no compulsion to take the pawn and can instead centralise with 1…Nd4 or even 1…Qd4, or start getting the queen's rook into play with 1…Rac8, and 1…Nb4, hitting the d-pawn, would be irritating. All right, let's try to be logical. What's wrong here is that even if we could swap off pawns on the f-file, the f1-rook would remain blocked by the bishop. Let's ... | |