Author: Pete Galati
Date: 21:24:15 05/01/01
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On May 02, 2001 at 00:06:13, gerard sanchez wrote: > > >I just bought this very celebrated endgame book by Pal Benko. >http://www.insidechess.com/silman/silengles.html Normally from what I do, I >search the games illustrated in the book through my CB 8, I am successful most >of the time, but when the illustrated games are nowhere to be found, if gets >really frustrating and aggravating. Playing OTB is extremely cumbersome and I >think most people will agree to this. I know that ChessBase does publish chess >material among other things through CB8, but there are just great works and >classical books out there that can be more effective with the help of the new >"tools" we are now seeing. > >Wouldn't it be nice to include a floppy disk containing all the illustration and >games from the book? I don't know why Chess Publishers are not doing this. For >one thing, floppy disks are not that expensive at all. Secondly, majority of >people are no longer studying chess through the conventional board but rather >through their computer screens anaylyzing games and positions with their >favorite chess programs (Fritz, Junior et al). I for one have never played >serious games OTB, all of them through ICC--I don't even have a chessboard! > >It would really be a great PR for these publishers to start including these >floppy disks. Software Learning Books have accompnying CDs why can't it be the >same with chess books? > >I am just letting some air out. > > >Gerard About 3 years ago, I bought a book by Chernev, and I put together a pgn file with all the games from the book in it, whenever I could, I got the games from the database that came with Extreme, and then I got as many as I could find at the Pittsburg Chess archives, and then I got real used to reading descriptive notation by doing the rest of the games myself. A lot of work cause there were several games I couldn't find, and I also tried to paraphrase annotations into the games that I could find. Might have been easier to just sit down with a board and go through the book. So then, some time after that, someone came up with a website that has databases full of games specifically from relatively famous Chess books. I've seen the website, but not for a long time, and I don't seem to have a bookmark for it. Does anyone know the url of that site? Pete
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