Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 09:38:11 03/02/99
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I agree with Lawrence, In fact I would like to add that if you are going to invest in any chess database and playng program and have a limited amount of money, but Fritz5.32 You can do most of these chess research activities using it(and more!), and it comes with 303,043 games with around 5000 annotated! All for around $50 dollars - an incredible value! If you have a couple of hundred dollars more, but want to make that your final software investment for a long time, then buy Chess Base 7. It is undoubtably the finist chess database there is, has a very long list of features (including very important chess opening research features), and best of all, at the click of the mouse, downloads upgrades for itself from the Chess Base Web site, and even downloads The Week In Chess automatically too! You just can't go wrong with it. Man, I wish those Chess Base guys would pay me for this endorsement! BTW, Chess Assistant is also a fine database, but does not play back or record AVI files (A feature that detracter's of Chess Base claim is not very important - But I say that it is important to me, and worth the small difference in price). mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict! On March 01, 1999 at 15:14:30, Laurence Chen wrote: >On March 01, 1999 at 14:23:31, Tim Wiegele wrote: > >>I have seen a catalog that has these products and would like to know if they are >>worth the money and effort. I am looking for information on the Caro-Kann >>advanced variation ECO b12. Any hints on where to find the best info? >> >>Thanks, >> >>Tim Wiegele >Guess nobody has volunteered to answer your question.... :( >I am not an expert in chess openings, so the following is my procedure that I >use to study and master an opening. It works well for me, and I learned from the >Power Play! Series which is now currently out of print. GM Henley uses such a >procedure, and he advocates it. The following is an extract from the book, "Over >the years I have had many human Grandmaster and International Master training >opponents but the beauty of using Fritz or KnighStalker as a 'sparring partner' >is that I have an opponent of comparable playing strength at my beck and call to >play any position that I wish to 'discuss'. The following four game selection >illustrates the Power Play! technique, employing the CBU250pp #30 Power Play! >Position. I chose a position that had very few examples from Grandmaster praxis. >As a direct result of these games, I became familiar with the tactical and >strategical nuances for both sides. With Fritz's help I unearthed many resources >for both sides. Ultimately I became convinced of the correctness of the >counterattack with 10. ... Qh4." (The Archangel! (Power Play!), by GM Henley, >1993). >GM Henley suggests to find several critical positions in an opening and then >play it out against a chess engine for both sides. Afterwards, one can use the >chess engine to go over the game and analyze the game. I am not sure what's your >ELO rating, and perhaps a general book describing the Caro Kann Defense would be >helpful to point out the strategic plans for both sides. Remember that chess >openings books contain mistakes in analysis, and one should not always believe >in everything unless one checks everything to be correct first. So getting a >good database of games for a particular opening is very important, from these >games you'll find the critical positions. I know that you probably asking what >are the critical positions. Answer: they are the one's which ECO stops and gives >an assessment, either +=,=,=+, etc. Or any position in which one feels to be a >critical one.... :) (This is my opinion). >Laurence
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