Author: William Penn
Date: 23:48:01 11/15/02
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On November 15, 2002 at 10:29:32, Anthony Martini wrote: > I've downloaded but not installed it - you guys (and gals) are the experts, >so I wouldn't know if it is any good or any better than the opening books the >programs come with. I'm currently using Fritz 7.0.0.8 and the Fritz7 opening >book. > > http://www.uib.no/people/pfvaf/chesslib/ > > -, > Anthony I also downloaded and installed Elect2000. I have 9 Chessbase opening books installed and look at them fairly frequently when deciding on opening moves in correspondence play. My preliminary impression is Elect2000 is a good opening book, as far as it goes. But with only 470,904 games it is somewhat limited to popular and main lines. Their prior "Lunsen" opening book based on 621,368 games was also good. giving some very useful statistics as a guide to the strongest opening lines. I think those two are better than the Fritz7 and Deep Fritz opening books, which seem too narrow to me. Of course this is from the point of view of a correspondence player. If you're looking for over-the-board strength, that might be different. In that case you could try some tricks & traps, which you wouldn't dare to try in correspondence play. WP
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