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The current issue 02/2012 of the german Schach magazine features an 8-page spread (and this is part 1 of 4) covering recent developments in chess engines (by Arno Nickel). Ingo Bauer gets a nice mention, and there are brief profiles of IPON's top 7 + Spike. Plagiarism accusations are covered, and so on. Anyway, a good read -- nothing new, but a nice summary of current events. The followup articles look alright: "Strengths and Weaknesses of Today's Engines", "What Does 'Let's Check' Have to Offer?" (ok, maybe Schach does favors in return for advertising revenue?) and "How Engines Are Changing Chess". Anyhow, congrats to everyone featured.

I am mentioned? And "nice"? Are you sure they are taking about me?

Is it already at the "Kiosk" or do you have an "Abo"?

Bye
Ingo

HI

OK, I got the edition. Thx for the tip.

Interesting article with a few insights. E.g. I did not know that Komodo is an andvancement (Weiterentwicklung) of Rybka 3.
But ok, it has to be short and understandable, the above was the biggest mistake and it is not that important in the whole context.

The next 3 articles will be more revealing I hope.

Bye
Ingo

IWB wrote:HI

OK, I got the edition. Thx for the tip.

Interesting article with a few insights. E.g. I did not know that Komodo is an andvancement (Weiterentwicklung) of Rybka 3.
But ok, it has to be short and understandable, the above was the biggest mistake and it is not that important in the whole context.

The next 3 articles will be more revealing I hope.

Bye
Ingo

I suppose they are referring to Larry Kaufman's involvement. Nevertheless, yeah, "Weiterentwicklung" is pretty misleading for people who don't follow engine developments regularly.

jb

Arno Nickel: I knew that the name sounded familiar. He owns a great chess shop in Charlottenburg in Berlin: Lasker's @ Sophie-Charlotten-Straße 28. One of the two worthwhile shops in the city -- highly recommended.

Jeremy Bernstein wrote:Arno Nickel: I knew that the name sounded familiar.

He's also sponsoring a Freestyle prize money tournament at InfinityChess server that will start in Feb 1 (he's Ciron at RF):

http://rybkaforum.net/cgi-bin/rybkaforu ... ?tid=24100

Schach Zeitung
The current issue 02/2012 of the german Schach magazine [...]

Now I'm confused. Is this "Schach" (Deutsche Schachzeitung) or "Schach Zeitung"? It seems to be the former, looking at its table of contents. I might add that the latter gives PDF links for the 4-part series from 1999 by Rainer Knaak, which admittedly is of a different tenour (and only 15 pages in total).

[And for those not in the know, you can't just search for "schach magazine", as there's also, well, Schach-Magazin (64)].

BB+ wrote:

Schach Zeitung
The current issue 02/2012 of the german Schach magazine [...]

Now I'm confused. Is this "Schach" (Deutsche Schachzeitung) or "Schach Zeitung"? It seems to be the former, looking at its table of contents. I might add that the latter gives PDF links for the 4-part series from 1999 by Rainer Knaak, which admittedly is of a different tenour (and only 15 pages in total).

[And for those not in the know, you can't just search for "schach magazine", as there's also, well, Schach-Magazin (64)].

Yes, I meant the former: "Schach", not "Schach Zeitung". Neither of which are, in fact, "Zeitungen". Rather "Zeitschriften" (as the URL for the former concedes, despite what the cover says).

jb

Nickel is also a Correspondence GM, who beat some time ago a Correspondence World Champion.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=93905
He was beaten by a team of players: a lot of players, more than 2500, of whom about 200 active (I made some very small contributions..).
The various players analyses , taking into account only the main game site, amount to more than 1000 pages, not considering the analyses on the personal webpages of the players.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1426491