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Source code for Chess UCI Protocol Tracer Utility

This tool has shown more popularity than I expected. Common question from the readers is whether I can share the source code. I am releasing it here, no strings attached. A copy of your SW (if you make use of this) will be nice, though. Link to this post!

Download ChessBase 3 and Fritz 1 – Abandonware

Chessbase is undoubtedly one of the most useful and most prevalent DB software in the Chess community. What with its siblings like CB Light 2009/Premium, everybody has had a chance to dabble with it one point of the time or other. My interest on Chess started in 2002 (relatively recent). At that point of time [...]

Classic attack by Rybka (Chess Analysis)

I came across this wonderful game today while stumbling through old Chessbase articles. This is between Rybka and Shredder, played in the World computer chess championship in 2009 (Pamplona). I liked the game so much that I spent 30mins analyzing this game today (& 2 hrs writing this blog post with the images ). I [...]

Chessbase Light 2007 Activation – eh?!

I love the work being done by the good folks in Chessbase; IMO they have the coolest jobs, they get payed to develop software for CHESS Ohhhh, I wish I had some kinda day job like that! I know video game development is as interesting, but anyway gaming has never been one of my serious [...]

The ultimate chess game

Chessbase has a funny article on Bush vs Kerry here. Bush – Kerry game score is a neat idea. I also loved the way Kerry’s play resembled mine! Great minds think alike? Also, Krush and Shahade look cute in their wigs That article has MiG written all over it, even though it lacks the touch [...]

THE Plunge! How to forget chess defeats?!

After getting beaten soundly (you can still see the dark ugly bruises in my face) in Online Chess for 3 times in a row, yesterday, I did the Chess equivalent of drowning myself in Liquor: Went out and bought more Chess books! You see, everytime I have an embarassing, totally annihilating defeat, I get soooo [...]

Chessbase Magazine (CBM)

After hesitating for a long time, I subscribed to CBM 2 months back. The Jubilee DVD that came with CBM 100 was the thing that really encouraged me to go for it Jubilee DVD, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, contains a collection of randomly picked video reports from the previous chessbase [...]