Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 08:51:38 10/07/02
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A chess program's opening book is often 'tuned' for the style or strenghts of the particuler program. I remember that the M-Chess program for example, had some very deep lines in the Italian game, and the Sicilian Nijdorf. In fact, I bought one of the recent Shredder program's recently, because I thought the book by Sandro Niechi (same author as for M-chess), would be useful for opening research. The Power book is a large database of Grandmast & IM games that have been converted into an opening book for any of the Fritz family of chess programs. It might have some very weak moves in it, but it will have EVERY move that was played by the top-rated guys. I doubt it is too useful (even though I do have the 2000 version), for improving one's game. However, it is useful for annotating games, as it is very compleat, if you are checking to see if a move has been tried in the game you are looking at. MCO/NCO/ECO Have various strenghts; chief among them is that you might be more likely to carry them to a tournament, then your notebook computer, or at least you could feel more comfortable opening one of these up in the skittles room. I particularly like the Small Encyclopedia of Chess Openings for this purpose. Of course the material will be organized and presented in a manner that is from a human player/writer, recommending lines for your tournaments, many times with symbols that are directly related to HUMAN OPINION about this or that line, wheras a chess program opening book, will use many of these same notation symbols to denote not how good or bad a line is, but rather how frequently it is used in practice, or to tell the chess playing program which move to favor for its settings. This is how I understand the differences between Computer chess opening books and Paper Opening books, though I could be wrong about some of my points... Larry S. Tamarkin Marshall Chess Club On October 06, 2002 at 15:11:57, Joseph Merolle wrote: >Out of these two (chessbase's powerbooks the cd. vs Modern Chess Oppening the >book) which has more oppening moves and what is the differnce between to two if >any. Really what I am asking,can I learn all I need to know from fritz or are >there hidden opening lines that in MCO that should be reviewed. > >Sincerly, > >JAMerolle
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