Author: Charles Milton Ling
Date: 15:13:47 04/02/99
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On April 02, 1999 at 15:36:39, Michael de la Maza wrote: >I am reading Hans Berliner's "My System" and, after reading a few more pages, I >think that this will become the best chess book I have ever read. He makes >several amazing claims, including: 1) 1. d4 is white's strongest move and 2) >several often-played black defenses are suspect. > >Given that Berliner is one of the strongest, if not the strongest, chess player >to ever head the development of a top-level computer program, I encourage other >good chess playing programmers to write books. Unlike many GMs and non-chess >playing programmers, great chess playing programmers may have the unique ability >to formalize their understanding thus rendering it comprehensible to average, >but technically sophisticated, chess players. I do not think that the claim that 1. d4 is White's strongest move is "amazing". Bogolyubov once wrote a book with the title "1. d4!"... (Of course, to claim that Bogolyubov was the strongest Chess player ever, would, indeed, be amazing :-) Charley
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