Author: Telmo C. Escobar
Date: 19:20:30 02/28/06
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On February 28, 2006 at 10:46:32, James Constance wrote: >I notice that there's a free program which on the surface seems quite similar to >Bookup http://www.chesspositiontrainer.com/ > >I wonder if anyone has tried this and what they think? I tried Chess Position Trainer and it's very good and easy to learn to use. Yet I have doubts about the advantages of using a program to memorize variations. If you don't have a reasonable understanding of the variations, it's useless to remember them, as you will lose the game anyway. Moreover, in order to have the variations updated, you have to study them. And a variation that you study and analyze in deep you'll remember anyway with or without CPT or any other program. In short the best way to learn openings is the same as always: to study it carefully, and eventually take notes in a notebook (I mean paper and pencil, I'm from the Gutenberg galaxy). Computers are useful of course. It's useful to have -say- Crafty at hand in order to help you with the analysis. And if you need to consult the game Levenfish-Romanovsky, Leningrad vs Moscow 1926, and you don't have the book by Levenfish in your library and you don't know where to search for the game in your personal collection of 500 old issues of chess magazines, you'll be happy to find it easily in the database that comes with Fritz. But what you write yourself, for your own use, you are advised to do it the old way, with paper and pencil, before your old chess set. Telmo
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