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Posted on December 28th, 2010

About a month ago version 0.8 of ChessX has been released, so the development of ChessX seems to continue. However most of the improvements are bugfixes, though the graphic interface has also been simplified for the user. Adding an engine for analysis is easier than ever, and now it has become possible to visualize other [...]

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Posted on October 18th, 2009

A couple of months ago and two years after the previous version ChessX has released a new version. This is version 0.6, which can be downloaded for Windows and Mac on the download section of the ChessX site. I decided to try this version and I started by saving the games of the IJ105 database [...]

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Posted on January 26th, 2008

In some of my previous posts I have mentioned the ChessDB chess database program, but you may also want to use one of the other free available chess databases. Scid (Shane’s Chess Information Database) was written by Shane Hudson. He started Scid in 1999, but the development stopped in 2004. December 2006 the development of [...]

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Posted on December 9th, 2007

As mentioned in the previous post we are going to need a large database of chess games. Where can be found such a database? I’ll mention some possibilities in this post. Downloading by means of ChessDB Within the Tools menu of ChessDB a “Download Games from …” option is offered to download a database of [...]

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Posted on December 8th, 2007

In order to improve your chess game it will be better to analyze your own games and learning how you can create your own chess lessons. This may be the most important chess lessons: learning how to create your own chess material. For the creation of this chess material we will need some tools and [...]

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