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I've just started to develope a chess engine. I've read about bitboards and now I know that I need many bitboards to maintain my chess engine. I knew about generating moves for pawns. I understand that I need an array knight[64] for knight moves for storing 64 bitboards for every chessboard positio...

Hi Mike, I'm not visiting the talkchess forum anymore (at least not frequently) so I probably missed your announcement because of that. Otherwise your announcement would have provoked a response from me earlier. As you may know I'm organising a tournament in spring 2011 for the fourth time with sim...

Michael, let me firstly congratulate you on your windfall financial gains this last five years, and especially your prowess as a stock market player. You beat Buffett by a factor of six in your earnings! However, is this a joke about the $120k prize fund?... and in a bazaar twist there are no taker...

I was invited to post about it! Five years ago when I wrote RomiChess I was flat broke. I thought that there should be computer chess events that people like me (an amateur) could attend in which we would have a chance to win prizes. How exciting that would be I thought. But, there were none. And I ...