Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 05:12:56 11/24/98
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On November 24, 1998 at 00:10:34, Komputer Korner wrote: >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 Oh Ok, I just re-read your review of CA Openings 1.0. While somewhat informative, I could not really get a handle on what the program actually offers. Am I being daft here? How many training positions, and is there a Practice and Test mode, like in the program above? If other posters' have experience with this product, please let me know what you think of it... mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict!
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