Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 09:59:06 11/13/99
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On November 13, 1999 at 10:37:51, Charles Unruh wrote:
>On November 13, 1999 at 01:57:57, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote:
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>>CCC people - Opinions please; What do you think is the best tutorial software in
>>existance now, wheather as part of a chess playing program or not. Candidates
>>below,
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>Studies 2.0 to me is the best
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>>* Chess Mentor never have quite figured out how ro use it
What's hard to figure out about it?
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>>* Chess Base (and/or training CD's)
>>* Chessica CD with tutor
>>* CM7000, or earlier Waitzkon tuts are nice not enough of them though, they should just sell a ton of those on CD
Yes, good stuff. Wouldn't it be great if there was Josh Waitzkin & other
IM's/GM's (chess teacher's), availble too?
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>>* Bookup don't have it
>>* Chess Academy don't have it.
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>>* CT-Art 3.0 or other Chess Assistant program Ct-art 3.0 is too weak, Claude kaber has a better(harder probs) tactics database with a nicer arrangement.
I find that hard to fathom, I downloaded Kaber's problems, which are very good,
but I also have CT-3.0, and it is at least as hard to solve the problems. Also,
as dedicated tutorial software, I think it is superior.
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>>* New In Chess CD's
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>>* Just a strong human? chess trainer, with endless chess knowledge (Like the
>>real life Bruce Pandofini) -:) bruce pandolfini, the guy is scared to even have his rating published. You mean like a real strong player, then yes a real strong chessplayer, like khelmnitsky, orlov, dvoretsky. I believe khemnitsky actually has a 4 year degree in chess education from a russian university.
I am not against any of the above mentioned instructer's, in fact I respect
their (written), work a lot. I have known Bruce for a long time, and he is
quite different from the guy portrayed in the movie. Read, the book, Searching
for Bobby Fischer for some of the reasons that BP doesn't like/want to play
chess, and is unconcerned about rating/ego. But I must defend him as a chess
teacher, because he is definately quite brilliant, and though rather expensive,
for people with promising kids, who have the money, he is quite worth it.
Bruce's ability to convegh chess knowledge to young people is quite possibly the
best I've ever seen. BTW, there was recently an article in NIC about the
trainer, Zak, who helped spassky. This fellow never was higher than catagory 1
(which in the old Soviet Union was probably low master level). He wrote some
terrific chess books ('Improve Your Chess Results', which has a lot of the young
strong player's of the 70's, who have since become strong GM's, including Mike
Rohde featured), springs to mind. No one I know ever questioned Zak's qualities
as an 'Honored trainer of the Soviet Union', and world class trainer. Anyway,
Bruce did play once (many years ago), and had a senior master rating at the time
he quit. But aside from any chess rating, I'm sure you'll agree that writing
more than 20 chess books that are widely read (by many classes of
players/people), is not an every-day accomplishment.
Larry T.
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