Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 21:10:34 11/23/98
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On November 23, 1998 at 15:42:19, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: >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. Larry, CA brought out an earlier program that was called CA Chess Openings that was much better. I stand by what I said. I don't know the ECM price but CA Chess Openings wasn't expensive. -- Komputer Korner
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