Author: Howard Exner
Date: 03:02:23 12/24/98
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On December 24, 1998 at 02:30:18, Reynolds Takata wrote: >This article in American Chess Journal, claims that Dvoretsky reputedly the >worlds best chess trainer is or was writing a chess program does anyone know >anything about it? > > >"Profile | The World's Best Chess Trainer > Timothy Hanke > > Dvoretsky is now hard at work on an interactive computer program that >will solve [an important training problem] by incorporating his entire > collection of positions organized by theme ... I asked Dvoretsky how >much the program will cost. "It will be very expensive," he told me. I suggested >that > he might sell more copies and make more money if he offered it at a >lower price. He replied, "I don't care if I sell more copies. This material is >not for > everyone." He is proud of his work as a trainer over the past 20 years >and considers this computer program to be a kind of summation of his > achievement. It seems to be a matter of principle for him that his >work must not go cheap. I've always liked Mark Dvoretsky's books. They are not cheap either.At my level of play (2150 CFC) the material was a challenge to go through. I believe that my level of play was improved by slowly digesting his writings. I'll definitely consider purchasing his software teaching program. I consider my collection of books extensive and find it difficult to find a chess author his equal with respect to teaching expert/master level players. One of his admonitions was to play over key positions with other opponents. I did this many times using computer programs as my sparring partners with his positions and with other positions (often taken from a book called the "Positional Chess Handbook" by Israel Gelfer. Do you know of a target date for release of this project of Dvoretsky's?
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