Author: mike schoonover
Date: 14:23:55 08/11/02
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a passage taken from the pramble garbage. In playing an opening that goes according to plan, you are at the same time forcing your opponent to play your game, and that is the basic strategy in any encounter. When your opponent plays your game, your confidence improves and so does your quality of play. You know your own game, with its risks and opportunities, so your decisions are better founded in experience. A surprising, almost miraculous, aspect of the Defense Game and most of the D-system openings is that they can be carried out in near complete tranquility. There is practically nothing that the opponent can do to disrupt these openings. At best he can force exchanges of pawns or pieces, or cause other minor damage which has minimal effect on the balance of the game. Challenges All of Classical Chess Theory and Practice The Defense Game and the D-system can confront any of the conventional openings. In this sense they challenge all of classical chess, that is, everything practiced in the game until the present. They also challenge, and in large part refute, much of what has been expounded until now as sound guidelines for opening play. You could say that the entire system is radically opposed to conventional chess opening theory and practice. In hundreds of games the author has played this system, against a computer opponent of professional strength, the Defense Game and the D-system openings have proved exceptionally strong. Playing this system, there has been a consistently positive balance of wins. No adversary response has yet been found which could defeat the standard opening in a series of games, and most of the strongest adversary defenses and early attacks have been tried. There is already a considerable amount of experimental evidence confirming the validity of this system. How Important is this Discovery? The Beginner's Game and The Center Game were claimed by the author as is the greatest discoveries ever made in chess. But the Defense Game may eventually surpass both of them, because it is even more resistant and easier to play, not only during the opening but during the entire game! The Defense Game and the D-system confront all of conventional chess. They have the potential to change dramatically the entire practice of the game. In fact, a completely new game of chess results from playing them, bearing little resemblance to all that has gone before! Chess has been a principal intellectual pastime for hundreds of years, and in this sense the Defense Game, like its predecessors the Beginner's Game and the Center Game, must be considered as a monumental discovery. This is not a self judgment, but a simple logical statement, whose truth is established once the system has proved its strength in competition. The validity of this system must be tested by extensive play, but the probable result is already evident. It is the easiest and one of the best ways ever found to play chess. It is also quite possibly an optimal way of playing the game. Optimal in the strong sense means it is always capable of winning or drawing when played correctly. It would take a tremendous amount of research to test the hypothesis, but it could be done, and the result might well be that it is true. Introduction 11 well any ways its all coming back. this is the multi level marketing of chess. to get to the good sttuff you had to order bunches of crap. notice the word how.might,if,etc.. if memory serves me right,it was hot every where,backed up gy big names,for about two weeks,then dissapeared. back then the credit card companys paid attention. regards mike
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