Help with chess software Pleeeze

[Hayabusa Rider]

I had the chance to play chess recently. It has been a long time and I got my ass kicked. Oh well, after 15 years or so, that is not suprising. So I went looking on the web and downloaded Winboard. Seems there is this first rate engine for it called Crafty. I can't seem to connect to the ftp site to get it. On a side note I rarely can connect to an ftp site. Using XP. Anyway, any suggestions on how I can get it and chess software in general?

 

[HermitGuy]

It has been a couple of days so I don't know if you are still interested, but you can probably pick up (chessmaster 7000) pretty cheap since (8000) is out now. It's a very well done program that can definitely help to polish your skills. As for myself I'm a real duffer when it comes to chess, but I love the game anyway. I play chessmaster until I get tired of getting my can kicked all over the place, then I put it down for a while until I think that I can face the humiliation again, and off I go for another butt whipping. Well Good luck! Sorry, I cannot help you with the FTP thing.

 

[giocopiano]

Crafty's strength is that it is modular, extensible, and cross platform, not its ease of use in installing. Try searching for "crafty for dummies" which is a smaller installation partnered with winboard for you. Or you could get a fully functional "demo" of Rebel 3.0 from Ed Schroeder site. Don't set the computer time controls too ambitiously, you can do a lot with GHz.

 

[CrowDog]

Since HermitGuy mentioned Chessmaster 7000 I will point out that it has some issues in Win XP/2000. Some crashes and some features dont work properly.

 

[HermitGuy]

Since HermitGuy mentioned Chessmaster 7000 I will point out that it has some issues in Win XP/2000. Some crashes and some features dont work properly.

I apologize Hayabusarider I did not know about the xp problems. I have chessmaster loaded on my win-me partition, I have not loaded it on the xp side yet. Thanks for the info CrowDog I will keep that in mind if I do try to load it on xp.