Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 21:33:49 10/24/98
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On October 24, 1998 at 23:19:29, Dave Gomboc wrote: >I have the book "Isolated Pawn: Theory Of Chess Middlegame", published by >Intelinvest. In the back of the book they advertise a program: Chess Academy, >and they have quite a few data sets for it, e.g. "2000 Training Exercises" or >"Rook against Minor Pieces". There's even "Isolated Pawn", and I wonder if this >is exactly the content of the book I own, but in computer form. > >Has anyone used these products? What do they think of them? > >By the way, the book is pretty good. The english translation could use some >work, but one can always understand what is being said. Most of the book >consists of a position, followed by some moves from that position, with short to >medium annotations (as opposed to Hubner-style). It is grouped into themes, >e.g. "Pawn structure transformation: Pawn breakthrough" or "An attack on the >king with a transfer of the queen to the kingside". > >Dave Gomboc Well, I didn't go over every example but it looks the same as the book. Not enough annotation for my liking in most of the themes, but the examples of the themes are done at a very high level of instruction. -- Komputer Korner
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