Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 20:46:06 03/06/06
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On March 06, 2006 at 23:14:09, Daneil Johnson wrote: >I wanted to study openings too but was not sure which program to use Chessbase, >Chess Assistant 8.1, the Comprehensive Chess Openings 2005, Openings Instructor, >and Bookup. If someone has Chessbase do they really need Bookup? >I like the way Comprehensive Chess Openings 2005 list the openings in their >openings table mode its like BCO but cannot use a external chess engine, only >can use built in Crafty. For the money, for Bookup Pro, I could buy Chess >Assistant 8.1 mega and then link up uci engines (I hope so). I already have >Chessbase but afraid to add to books and screw up the opening books. Maybe the >Chessbase program can do everything Bookup can but I don't know how to use it >correctly. I have been sitting on the fence for awhile and cannot make up my >mind about buying Bookup. If someone can help please guide me on how to best >improve and learn openings I will be grateful. Cost is not really important but >value is. 'Study openings' is a bit vague. Do you want to study a single opening or learn about a broad variety of openings? I like anything Sierawan writes, because I can easily understand what he is saying, so this book is to be recommended by me: http://www.chesshouse.com/Winning_Chess_Openings_Ed_p/6376.htm The US correspondence champion who posts here likes Bookup. Using Bookup is a little tedious, but it can create great results. I like ChessAssistant. It has a lot of precalculate analysis. Yes, you can hook up all kinds of engines under ChessAssistant (Winboard, UCI, MCS) but not your ChessBase engines [maybe you could using RS232 or something -- not sure]. I think that the Rybka engine does spectacularly well in openings (it's the only engine I know of that will compute the Evans Gambit main line without doing stupid gaffes, but you need to give it long time control).
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