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Subject: Re: I need to know ALOT about chess books

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 03:20:29 08/06/03

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On August 06, 2003 at 05:23:29, Lyn Harper wrote:

>On August 06, 2003 at 03:50:15, Sietel Monic wrote:
>
>>What is the best way to optimise a book? I would like to know every angle such
>>as learning, mabye buying extras for it (fritz engame turbo?), and anything else
>>to help make it work top notch!
>>* Anything shedding knowledge on the subject will be greatly appreciated!
>
>  I think the first thing to know is that most of them are rubbish. But some are
> very good. Jeremy Silman's "Reassess Your Chess" is good, and anything
> from John Nunn is good.
>  To supplement chess books, get the software product, "CT-ART". It's good for
> tactics training. It does'nt supplement any particular book, though.

His subject is misleading. He wants to know ALOT about opening books
(e.g. opening trees).
So the first thing to know is that Endgame tablebases are not extras for opening
books.

Michael



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