in chess stalemate, how come its not an automatic check mate cuz my step dad iz all gripeing at me cuz i said its stalemate and hes all like well it not my fault u set ur self up like that

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I am a uscf rated 2038 player/FIDE 2180 and I study tactics almost every day... I am getting better, but I wondered what other people did to improve their chess games.

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I have a couple chessmasters but I've never been able to find if they have this thing in them. I play chess and I'm good at it, but I know I make a lot of mistakes. I want to have a program that can evaluate my play and show my error ratio....or anything like this.

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For much of the 20th century Russia dominated world chess. There was, I think, a Soviet policy of using chess dominance as a Cold War weapon, so potential champions were intensively trained. But when did Russia start inching ahead ? Incidentally, any nominations for the best player ever, Russian or other ?

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Its now 2010, are these world chess championship games still played on an actual board with pieces touched and moved by hand with no computer used the old fashioned low tech way? Why dont they start using a computer for this? Do you think they should start doing this? Why or why not?

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Just wondering as it seems that all the chess engines work on Windows only.

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We both love chess and I already bought the chess pieces separately. I just don't know whether a marble board or a wood board is better.

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There is a game that looks like chess, and I believe played like chess to some degree, but has a "prison" or "goal" in the middle of the board that a certain piece needs to end up?

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what do chess club leaders do besides gathering people together to play against each other?
how does one set up tornaments & r u expected to?how long after you begin the club?

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My friend and I want to be lazy and instead of actually moving pieces and removing them off the board and putting them back on to play again, we want to just control pieces by our voice. Thanks in advance for the help.

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