Author: Mark Boylan
Date: 19:29:38 02/28/06
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On February 28, 2006 at 22:20:30, Telmo C. Escobar wrote: >On February 28, 2006 at 10:46:32, James Constance wrote: > >>I notice that there's a free program which on the surface seems quite similar to >>Bookup http://www.chesspositiontrainer.com/ >> >>I wonder if anyone has tried this and what they think? > > I tried Chess Position Trainer and it's very good and easy to learn to use. > > Yet I have doubts about the advantages of using a program to memorize >variations. >If you don't have a reasonable understanding of the variations, it's useless to >remember them, as you will lose the game anyway. Moreover, in order to have the >variations updated, you have to study them. And a variation that you study and >analyze in deep you'll remember anyway with or without CPT or any other program. > > In short the best way to learn openings is the same as always: to study it >carefully, and eventually take notes in a notebook (I mean paper and pencil, I'm >from the Gutenberg galaxy). > > Computers are useful of course. It's useful to have -say- Crafty at hand in >order to help you with the analysis. And if you need to consult the game >Levenfish-Romanovsky, Leningrad vs Moscow 1926, and you don't have the book by >Levenfish in your library and you don't know where to search for the game in >your personal collection of 500 old issues of chess magazines, you'll be happy >to find it easily in the database that comes with Fritz. > > But what you write yourself, for your own use, you are advised to do it the old >way, with paper and pencil, before your old chess set. > > > Telmo Telmo, I'm not even sure if I remember how to write. I've been sitting in front of a computer for 10-12+ hours a day for the last (OMG!) 25 years? In my world, if it's not on the computer, it's lost. But I see your point. - mark
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