Author: martin fierz
Date: 01:02:33 10/08/03
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>The program was conceived by a Dutch engineer, namely myself, >who thought maybe chess could be solved in a similar way >as 4-in-a-row. 4 in a row was solved by many different people by a simple brute force search. do you really intend to do the same with chess? >Sofar, just like >Bookup, ChessAssistant, also Bookbuilder, has been able >to identify 1.e4 as an opening move which is at least >as good as 1.d4, thereby refutating claims by former >correspondence chess world champion Hans Berliner >that chess possibly could be solved with 1.d4!? c'mon, nobody ever took berliner's claim seriously. e4 and d4 are great moves, both of them, but it's simply a matter of personal preference. saying anything more is waste of time. >a certain Vincent Diepeveen was eager to point out >that my chess rating in Holland was one of the >lowest when i started; ofcourse completely irrelevant >as well as inaccurate as my rating was not considered >valid as i hadnt played enough games yet, perhaps inaccurate, but not irrelevant. i remember a column of GM matthew sadler reviewing books, one of them was "the slav" by graham burgess. everybody seems to like this book, but sadler writes something along these lines: "am i really interested what a 2300 player has to say about an opening? no!". many ideas in chess can't be grasped without a certain playing strength, even if it's only what a strong player might want to get out of a program designed to help players. >Apparently, as result of using Bookbuilder almost >daily as a hobby, my tournament results are increasing >about 300 points per year, i guess doing anything chess-related daily would bring about the same rating change! cheers martin
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