Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 12:42:19 11/23/98
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On November 23, 1998 at 01:08:47, Komputer Korner wrote: >On November 21, 1998 at 16:55:10, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: > >>Please remember that this is the, COMPUTER CHESS CLUB. So your question would >>have been more thematcally phrased, as, 'anyone have a good recommendation of a >>program for opening study'. If that was question, then I personnally recommend >>going over to the 'Computer Chess Resource Center', and spending some time >>looking at the many reviews of chess software their, especially reviews on >>software that concentrates on the opening. (Like Book-UP, or Fide Chess >>Encyclopedia). >> >>Personally, I recently bought the Chess Assistant product, 'Encyclopedia Of >>Middlegames', which has many positions for test & study in the most popular >>openings, and I am enjoying it greatly. It is reseably priced, is thrifty on HD >>space (3.1 mbyt.), and has around 900 examples. >> >>If your question was indeed, just asking for good openings that posters will >>share, your best bet would be to go over to the chess newsgroup, >>rec.games.chess.analysis >> >>mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict! >> >> >>On November 21, 1998 at 10:32:04, morgan dickey wrote: >> >>>anyone have any good openings they will share?? > > >Larry your addiction is showing. I have looked at ECM and it barely escaped my >krash list. I cannot recommend it. Besides the fact that it is misnamed it is >not comprehensive and is missing many important openings. It was a rush job. >-- >Komputer Korner Your right about my addiction, but I think your possibly too high standards as a reviewer are showing! When I go over to, www.Siskel-Ebert, and see some of the stuff those guys say about the movies that I enjoyed or hated, I have to think, 'Well oh yeah, these guys see every movie made, their demands on the story's intricacy and the Actor's capabilities are often too high.' (And sometimes they are just wrong, and I wonder if we saw the same movie. Man, sometimes I just want to be entertained! - if the flick has done that, I can often forgive some of the film's week spots. 'Idependence Day', was as derivitive as any Science Fiction movie ever made, is an example of a movie that was very entertaining, but the story was just pretty silly. (And it made a lot of money). Encyclopedia of Middlegames, has these things going for it; low price entertainment value and usefulness are all there. ECM gets 4 L's out of 5 on the Larry scale.
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