A patzer's quest
Monday, May 02, 2005
 
Chess potpourri
I have been orginizing my chess stuff at home this weekend, to burn them all on a DVD, and I've stumbled upon some old, forgotten things on my CD's. Back then, when kasparovchess.com was still alive, I've downloaded most of their free stuff - lots of video lectures by Sofia Polgar, Alon Greenfeld an Boris Altermann. It was like rediscovering a treasure, reviewing those videos...unfortunately, the videos are in some proprietary format, and for proper replaying, they need some obscure plugin that has since disappeared into a black hole, and I was naive enough back then to forget saving it..I have since developed the habit of saving things off the net. So, what I got from the kasparovchess lectures was a few introductoring slides, and then blank pages, with sound material :) Not of much use anymore, but at least I could hear Greenfeld and Altermann speaking English - and the experience was worth it :)

Something else I've discovered: the World Chess Champions index page, a nice resource for anybody interested in chess champions, with games, highlights, some stories about the matches, all very well organized in a comprehensive index. Alibaba, an experimental chess engine, which seems to have sunked into oblivion, Rebel Decade 3.0, which was, at that time my favourite since it was the only freely available chess program that had the nifty feature of setting it's ELO strength, and I could actually beat it, if I tried enough. Every Friday it's strength rose to the full Rebel strength, 200 points stronger :) And yes, it was my first encounter with a chess database...Too bad it doesn't run on newer Windowses anymore. I have since discovered ProDeo, which is basically Rebel made into a UCI engine, readily pluggable into Arena or Fritz, but it's just not the same thing as Rebel's Dos interface...oh yes, I'm growing old, getting nostalgic like that.

What else was on my old CD's? Manus Fealy's page (wow, it looks so much better now, with much more material!!) was one of the first chess sites I've ever visited and liked, Chesscorner, although designed for kids, was a very pleasent experience, Exeter Chess Club was (and still is) a goldmine, and Tom Kerrigan's simple chess program was the first chess-engine source code I've ever seen. I even tried to rewrite it to use bitboards, gave up after a while.I still don't know why - manipulating bits is so much fun! :)
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