Author: Steve
Date: 21:36:16 09/05/00
I was wondering if there are any databases consisting of games annotated
for ordinary players -- not games annotated by grandmasters for other
grandmasters (which is what the databases in programs like Fritz seem to
contain), but games annotated by GMs and IMs like Daniel King, Robert Byrne,
Jeremy Silman, et al. which discuss plans and ideas in a way that class players
like myself can understand? It wouldn't be necessary to have a million games
--even 30,000 or 40,000 games, providing a wide selection of openings, would be
adequate for the purpose, since the purpose is to help players learn how to play
particular openings and carry them through into the middlegame and endgame --
not to provide them with the latest up-to-date theory required by professionals.
It seems to me there must already be a rich store of such games in the
collected archives of periodicals like Chess Life, Inside Chess, Chess, etc.
Perhaps they could even collaborate on creating such a database and share the
profits.
As it is, to look for games annotated in a periodical like Chess Life, one
has to deal with fairly clumsy indexes (e.g., the index for a given year might
list 50 French Defenses and you have to check each one to see what variation was
being discussed and whether it was annotated at all). The ability to do a
position search in a database and immediately come up with a series of
well-annotated games in a particular variation would be a great convenience, and
certainly something that I would be interested in purchasing. I recognize that
specialized opening books do this to some extent, but only for a single opening.
So to return to my original question, does anything like this exist, and if
not, are there others who would be interested in such a product?
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