Author: Francesco Di Tolla
Date: 01:29:09 10/18/99
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On October 17, 1999 at 16:43:30, Dave Gomboc wrote: >It was generic on purpose, because the producers should go through the entire >set and test them all! As far as I understand computer checking of the analysis is something which people do since relatively short time, and I guess this published material is the paper version of the the computer, tutorial which I think was prepared in early 90s by some russians GM, which probably had no big hardware/software. But you're right people at Intelinvest might have checked the material by now. (This is not a justiffication, just a possible explanation of events). >The first position that I noticed this problem in was the first position I >entered into a program. It is Benko-Filip from Wijk aan Zee 1971 (page 19, >example #8 in the book.) Play through the given solution and count how many >tactical errors the players make that go unannotated. There's even an >exclamation mark given to a weak move. I will have a look and inform them. >I tried a couple of other positions, I don't remember which. The outcome was >similar, and I chalked it up to shoddy workmanship. If you let me know of other errors I would inform the Intelinvest staff, so that they can correct this mistakes. > The English in the book wasn't very good, but I didn't care too much -- > I didn't buy it for the English, and it was understandable enough. > People purchasing training software might care, though. We are talking about two similar things: I was referring to the Chess Academy program, you talk about one book published with same material as in one of the tutorials. As far as I have heard, there were also critics about the organization of the books, and that were due to the fact they transferred the computer material into a book which resulted in a somewhat fragmented material. regards Franz
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