Author: John Hatcher
Date: 21:28:43 05/01/01
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On May 02, 2001 at 00:24:15, Pete Galati wrote: >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 The URL is http://www.crosswinds.net/~ossimitz/chess.htm JOHN
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