Author: Ozgur Aktunc
Date: 13:39:33 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. Being an expert level player myself, Chessbase Opening Encyclopedia gives me the best training I can receive in limited time. There are hundreds of surveys by GMs and annotated games related to them. I generally find at least couple of surveys and annotated games about the variations I play. Unless you are a +2400 over the board, or a serious Correspondence chess master, it should be sufficient for you. Especially if you combine it with Chessbase and MegaDatabase to get some more games to examine. I'm sure it will be even more fun to look at it with the new Chessbase 9. I would also suggest to get the monographs for the openings that you frequently play. They are better in the way that they explain things in more detail, so you don't have to figure out everything by yourself. I didn't use Chess Assistant, but they say that's pretty good as well. Regards,
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