Comments on: HOWTO: Chess Diagrams with Aquarium

By: DJ

DJ — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:48:37 +0000

> output of picsize.txt set to “400″ is a 396×396 image drives me insane.

This is fixed in the upcoming Aquarium 3.2 version.

Btw. after the release of version 3.2, Tuirgin’s excellent tutorial will be obsolete

By: Tuirgin

Tuirgin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:15:23 +0000

Thanks for the info… been a bit out of commission with sick kids and fighting it off myself. I’ll check it out soon.

By: Glenn Wilson

Glenn Wilson — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:28:56 +0000

Cool. Thanks for the tips.

You can do something similar (but different) using http://chessflash.com/chessflash.html with "Board Only" checked. It is not animated, but you can click through the diagram. For Chunky Rook, on wordpress, ChessFlash is not an option (at least not that I can tell).

By: tommyg

tommyg — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:30:44 +0000

I agree that Chessbase needs competition! I wasn’t all that keen on their interface either. That is why I went with Shredder’s own GUI (and their engine) last year. Shredder’s own GUI is very streamlined compared to anything that I have seen in chess base. I like streamlined.

By: Tuirgin

Tuirgin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:57:06 +0000

I can’t say that I really think that the ribbon is a massive improvement to UI design. I prefer buttons to be out of the way and to use keyboard shortcuts for as much as possible, myself. I’d agree that the program isn’t exactly intuitive, but in the long run I hope they have success with it. Chess programs need some new ideas and Chessbase definitely needs strong competitors.

By: chessx

chessx — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:42:24 +0000

Tuirgin you are the man, you should get a fee from the makers of Aquarium. I downloaded a free copy a while ago but like tommyg i could not get on with it. It is good to hear from tommyg again,he used to be on blogger hope he is doing ok.

By: tommyg

tommyg — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:44:34 +0000

WOW! The makers of Aquarium are going to give me a refund!! That is impressive. I have already deleted it off of my computer. I am going to stick with Shredder. Aquarium was just so uninviting to me. I was able to get to work right away with Shredder and playing games was more inviting as well. Shredder's interface is just much more intuitive But that is just my opinion and it is great that there are so many different programs to choose from.

I MAY buy the Rybka 3 engine as a standalone and use it with my Shredder interface since Rybka 3 is such an outstanding engine. It was Aquarium that I found uninviting.

Anyway thanks for your help! I will look you up on chess.com

By: Tuirgin

Tuirgin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:15:48 +0000

Also, I do still play on Chess.com. I keep an account on both Chess.com and SchemingMind. My nickname at both places is “Tuirgin” so feel free to look me up and challenge me.

By: Tuirgin

Tuirgin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:14:43 +0000

I can't tell you much about the analysis features as I haven't spent much time with them. I haven't been doing analysis on my games of late. I keep meaning to do my own analysis then follow up with computer analysis, but, well, there's only so much time in a day.

I do know, however, that the analysis which you are talking about is configurable. You can set how duration and/or how many plies to analyze on first pass and second pass for blunder checking, and you can also configure the threshold of what it will report as a blunder. This is documented in in the Help file under Game Analysis in the Quick Tutorials. The documentation on this, at least, seems thorough, though not much like a tutorial.

By: Tuirgin

Tuirgin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:01:09 +0000

The Publish tab in the ribbon has Save as HTML and Save as RTF. Check the Options for settings you can change.

Once you've exported, you'll have to upload to a web server. You can link from your blog, but posting within your blog would be tricky (though not impossible) due to the use of frames.