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ichwar, have a look at the viewer on this page. http://gameknot.com/pg/chess-tools.htm It doesn't meet our needs for a couple of reasons, but we might get some ideas from it? Edit: OK ichwar, lets try a game just to get the ball rolling. We'll see where this leads, maybe get some ideas as...

Garren, not to cut in on what Mission is doing, cause he knows his stuff. But consider the following... Programs such as Chessbase and Chess Assistant are not just repositories for games. They are sophisticated database applications that have all kinds of search and query functionality that...

OK, we could go on and on with this stuff, I surely don't mind if you don't... I'm not sure I am making myself clear. I'm not saying I have it right, but the main reason I have thought about http from within java is a means to pass data from java to php, and from php to mySQL. When you start...

I know chessbase, it handles pgn nicely. I suppose having an accurate parsing of first and last will make for speedier searching, as long as you have quality parsing. But if you don't have accurate parsing, better to just leave it as is, and search on substrings. anyways, if regular...

Probably you have considered this, but... You say you want to extract first and last name separately. How confident are you that your source data is created in a consistent manner? Do you know for example that first name always comes before last name? With a space separator? I've done a...

cool, at first glance, this seems to cut to the chase. I'm a big fan of javaworld articles, they have a way of presenting information that Sun could benefit from, with all their spiffy javadoc stuff. javaworld has gotten me "over the hump" on a few occasions.

I kind of see things your way too. The only reason I am even thinking about http calls from java is a means to go from java back to php and from there to mySQL. The purpose being to save data that the applet has created. see what I mean? SO far I can only load data, not save it.

For now I will be embedding the pgn data in the HTML. Where else would the java applet get the data from? Until such time that I can master some kind of communication channel from the java client back to the mySQL server, I don't really see any other option. Unless I'm missing something simple?

fair enough, I should keep in mind that we have a bunch of tech savvy people here, so we should be able to make something work. For a long time after the match, Deep Blue would still have ruled. it was a powerful computer specifically designed to play chess. IMO even now it probably defeats...

The more I think about, the more reasons I see why it might not work to run a tournament on x10. Things start out with the best of intentions, but then they get mixed up. Without having specially designed software to automate certain tasks, it just gets too messy, and too much opportunity for...

excellent. This looks to be just the sort of info I need. Right now I am working on my PGN parser, then I have some html/php work to do to get games from the database into java. After that I will take a closer look at the info you have provided here. thanks again.

A lot of the time, not always but often, it's a matter of "if you don't use it, you lose it". My Dad has always tried to keep his mind occupied by reading and learning, and now in his late 70s his brain works just fine. But yeah, it can be painful to see a loved one go into decline like that...

There's all kinds that work with X-Board. I don't use engines much myself, But you can't go wrong with Crafty. It works well with Linux. http://www.craftychess.com/

Waxman plays a decent game of chess, for a 146KB single file executable.

If you mean my screenshot, I used something called Waxman chess. it's a very small 16-bit windows exe file that has served me well for years. Do you have any kind of windows emulation on your Ubuntu box? anyways, it's shareware, I have made it available here...

There might be a such a site, but I am not aware of it. And if the service was offered, probably it would be on a pay site, not a free site. But I will check around some of the sites I know. Anyways, we could probably do something like you asked if you could execute javascript within a forum...

<div id="gk-daily-puzzle">Play <a href="http://gameknot.com/">chess</a> online!</div> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://gameknot.com/daily-puzzle.js"></script>

In my example, the moves are made off line, then you take a snapshot of the current position. So someone who is watching would not be able to play over the game, just see the latest position. As well as the move list. There may be a way to link to another site dynamically, and have the stuff...

OK I have uploaded a jpg of a chess board, and place the URL between img tags, we should be able to view a graphic of a chess board. This way, all we need to do is take a snapshot of our computerized chess board, and upload it to our home directory using the same file name, that way we should...

Hi I like the idea, but I''ve tried it before, and having to log in and post the moves in text form ends up being a lot of extra work, and people lose interest, posting move notation is also prone to typographical errors. Maybe there is a way we can make it work though. There are some tools...