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Mark Uniacke wrote: It could well be this is due to Linux emulation of Windows under Wine or some other local conifguration issue.

Yes, it appears my Linux installation was damaged. I've reinstalled WINE and all is now working OK.

For the last couple of years I have been running HCE under WINE on my Linux system without problems. Today I received a prompt to upgrade to 1.9.3, but after installing, when I try to run the program it reports that it has encountered a serious problem and needs to close. I don't know whether this i...

- A security program blocks the install file This put me on the right track - the file's properties showed the message "This file came from another computer and may be blocked...". After clicking the 'unblock' button it ran OK. Strange though, because I've never had this problem with any ...

I have downloaded setupHIARCSChessExplorer-v1.9.exe but it will not run - nothing happens when I double click on it. It won't work if I "Run as administrator" either. I tried downloading it again but the same result. To eliminate a couple of obvious questions - I had exited from the applic...

Thanks for your reply. I suspect that what has happened is that power has failed to the memory containing the file image whilst, or just before, the image was actually being written to disk. There is no temporary file in the database folder, and I have never seen one appear, though presumably it onl...

I hibernated my laptop leaving HIARCS running with my games database open. When I started up again, I forgot to switch on the mains power, and as the battery is nearly dead it didn't have enough power to close down Windows properly before it died. On starting up again (with power this time!), I foun...

Not sure how someone would force a mate from this position. The technique is to use one knight to blockade the pawn(s) whilst the king and the other knight force the enemy king into a corner. Then the blockading knight hops over to deliver checkmate before the pawn can queen. Without the pawn, it i...

Queegmeister wrote:Obviously - I am well aware of this point. that is why I did not list 2 knights vs pawn. - the whole point being is the minute amount of effort it would have taken to program in these few situations.

Queeg

I was replying to spacious_mind, not to you!

Prior to my recent purchase of HCE, I used to keep all my games in separate PGN files. I have now concatenated all these into one PGN file, which I then imported into HCE as a 'MyGames' database. Some of these games had the date recorded without a leading zero on the month and/or day (e.g. 2013.1.2)...

spacious_mind wrote: neither of these computers realize that 2 Knights cannot win a game !

2 Knights CAN win when their opponent has a pawn left. But it's very difficult and no sane human playing Black would allow their own pawn to be captured in this position!