Author: John Hartmann
Date: 18:55:39 09/06/00
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There is a small store of games annotated by Mark Hathaway, who (I think) is a master-level player, at the following address: http://webpages.marshall.edu/~hathawa2/chess/ Sadly, it seems that he's not continuing with the annotations, which is a shame, as they're fairly good for us "ordinary" players. John Hartmann On September 06, 2000 at 00:36:16, Steve wrote: > 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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