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What is the difference between a bluetooth mouse and a wireless mouse? I thought that bluetooth meant wireless, so I'm starting to get confused. Can someone expain this to me in full detail? Wireless is what it says it is, without wires. Bluetooth is one of many technologies to communicate wireless...

Just did some digging, and see that the new OS 3 is not released yet.Due any time now June/July.Reports are that it will cost additional money about $10 US to unlock some hardware that has been disabled on purpose since inception.Iv'e already forked out money to upgrade to OS 2 just to be able to p...

The new iPhone OS 3.0 will allow for head to head via bluetooth now as well.

DarienSar wrote:I usually look up TBs here:
http://www.k4it.de/index.php?topic=egtb&lang=en

Works faster than waiting for an answer in the forum.

That appears to be a copy of the
shredder site.

................. PS: I still think for world computer chess champioship all the entrants should be on the same hardware (whatever chosen) then it tends to be simple to know what is the best chess playing SOFTWARE I strongly agree. Same H/W makes the most sense. I'll go that one more by saying, I o...

I've had Sigma Chess for Many Years, but these days I find that I use Scid as my main chess interface. Exachess 4 is my second choice, but it's still beta since the UCI support is unfinished.

SWEEET!

I know Mark probably doesn't have anything to do anyways, but I have to wonder if an iPhone app is in the plans.

HGM is working on winboard/xboard. Doubt any other GUIs support this yet, since there is no standard yet. Since Shredder uses "Threads" itself, it is likely that if Stefan does decide to update the standard, that is what will be used. I believe he has been contacted, but I have not yet hea...

It's not a standard, It's an attempt to start a de-facto standard. The goal is to make it easier for GUIs to handle SMP engines.

Where will people go now to find the best chess computer? Kinda sad to see the end of the WCCC. I'm gonna miss Zappa and it's 512 cores.

I had one of those 1650 Tabletop Radio Shack units for many years. Abused the heck out of it. I always beat it the few times I played it on the highest level, taking hours waiting for it to move. Now on the low levels where it played almost instantly, I rarely beat it.

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The main difference between node counts is between position evaluation vs search. Engines that emphasize node count and get very high numbers rely very much on extra depth and tactics to for their play, They are very good at tactics. Hiarcs puts more emphasis on knowledge, so it will take more time ...

It would be nice to see Hiarcs entered into the OpenWar. I'd suggest doing something interesting like entering it with a gambit only book and set to aggressive style.