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Running Multiple Engine Tournaments Simultaneously With the Myracle GUI

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A New Engine-Focused GUI Martin Sedlák, long time member of the chess programming community and author of the Cheng engine, has written a chess GUI named Myracle. Martin has generously provided Myracle free of charge. Myracle is GUI that specializes in running chess engine tournaments. In this it excels. Myracle has a killer feature that convinced me to uninstall the Cute Chess GUI and rely solely on Myracle for all chess engine testing. A few days ago, I posted on TalkChess, “Recently, I used the Myracle GUI to run four divisional 5+3 blitz tournaments plus three cross-division tournaments simultaneously. Then… Continue Reading

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Create an Opening Repertoire Using Hiarcs Chess Explorer Pro and Pgn-Extract.exe

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If you wish to skip the backstory, go directly to the Authoring Procedure and Usage. Needs About a year ago, I decided to shift my focus from programming chess to playing chess. Since then, I’ve played many games online and gotten a feel for blitz and rapid time controls. I’ve realized a valuable technique for improving my play is to review my games. This is especially important for an adult learner, such as myself, in my 50s. Ideally, immediately after finishing a game, I’ll review it and determine where I erred tactically or where I allowed my opponent to erode… Continue Reading

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Do Tough Things

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I read an interesting post on a computer chess forum last night. It began: Dixondeuxyeux’s Post I thought I would share a few observations that might be of interest to some of you. It was Mark Twain who wrote, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” I like this adage because it is a humbling reminder that the game we enjoy so much is a brutally honest and cruel taskmaster. It is believed that after the first nine moves of any game, the possible continuations outnumber… Continue Reading

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Never Resign!!

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The Moral Lesson I love this video. We’ve all been there, so we can relate. We’ve all screwed up. You don’t have to play chess or even understand the rules of the game to know exactly how Alexandra Botez feels. Chess is a very difficult, humbling game. But that’s the point. If we only attempted to do what was easy, we never would grow and mature as chess players, as human beings. I love the raw energy of this video: Alexandra Botez’s obvious frustration. Her cathartic scream… Fuck!! How she wards off tilt and steels her nerves. Her determination to… Continue Reading

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Chess.com Hans Niemann Report

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Chess.com released their Hans Niemann Report. In the report, the Chess.com Fair Play Team concludes Hans Niemann “has likely cheated in more than 100 online chess games, including several prize money events.” Fair Play Team’s Report The report includes several tables and charts of statistical evidence, a description of Chess.com’s cheat detection system, along with numerous emails between the Fair Play Team and Hans. In his email responses to questions asked by the Fair Play Team, Hans confesses to cheating online. Regarding Hans’ game against Magnus Carlsen at the 2022 Sinquefield Cup, the Fair Play Team states, “In our view,… Continue Reading