Author: Stephen Ham
Date: 12:57:30 09/30/04
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On September 30, 2004 at 15:49:53, Fernando Villegas wrote: >After examining a number of my games I have seen that my main problem is my >lack, almost absolute, of openning knowledge. I have good middle game tactics >and good ending, but it does not do any good once my awful openning leave me in >the brink of defeat once and again. Current programs trounce me just because of >that. I stay inferior from move 2 or 3 to the last. The deepness of my ignorance >is such that it is almost uncredible for a player of my elo strenght. Against >human I can win with tactic even from inferior positions, but not against >computers. >I have given a look to Bookup, but I do not like it. It is not my idea and it is >not at the reach os my lazyness to learn by heart a line after another. >So, do you know some other way to get at least an ABC kind of proficiency in >opennings? >Fdo, lazy as hell. Buenos Dias, Fido! I'm the laziest person I know...and I LOVE Bookup. Sure it requires some initial effort because it's an empty database. But you learn as you manually input the data. And, you learn even more after you've input sufficient data. I have 1,213,000+ moves in my Bookup, full of my manual notes and annotations to my games. In short, I have access to a ton of data now. I keep it current by inputting new data all the time, from books, Informants, magazines, internet analyses, and my own personal analyses. Give it another try, Fernando. All the best, Esteban
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