Author: Pete Galati
Date: 14:53:06 05/06/01
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On May 06, 2001 at 16:56:40, John Uren wrote: >Hi, > Would appreciate your help choosing my first chess computer. I am 34 and >have not played chess since school days when I ran the chess club!! However, I >know all the basics rules but do not know any set moves. I need a chess tutor >that will teach me, test me and develop with me so that I do not become bored >with it in the future. What would you recommend? Thanks for the help. All the program recomendations sound fine to me. The download program I'd start with would probably be Bringer (go to the bottom of the second menu to switch it ove to speaking English) But I'd recommend learning from books. Learn how to read descriptive notation and that'll open the doors to learning from the old well established writers that the new Chess authors try unsuccesfully to be like. Nothing in this one about openings as I recall, but "Bobby Fischer teaches Chess" is a great book for teaching tactics, very easy to follow. Tarrasch's "The Game of Chess" and Lasker's "Manual of Chess" are both worth owning, both can be bought as Dover books, so they'll be cheap. Just about anything by Chernev is good, if you go to the book store and pull out the Chernev books with titles that fall into your current interest of Chess study, you can pretty much be assured you'll have a good book. His books "The Most Instructive games of Chess ever played...." and "Logical Chess, move by move" are both pretty darn good. (titles are approx.) Pete
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