Author: Henk van Weersel
Date: 15:40:51 12/19/99
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On December 19, 1999 at 02:07:18, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: >Lets say your preparing for a tournament. You have a chioce of Nunn's Chess >Openings, Rebel Century, with its MVS book, or Fritz6, with its General CTG >book. Perhaps you have all these tools available. What is best. Can the >Opening book be totally dispenced with, because you have one or more of the >playing programs with their large book with statistical analysis, or is a >combination of Opening books (other than Nunn is possible too), & Software, the >best all-around way to prepare a repertiore for your future event? > >Personally I wouldn't live without any of this, so perhaps I'm answering my own >question(s), but I am curious what everybody thinks about this, and thanks for >any opinions... > > >Larry T. In my opinion it does not matter much witch of the opening books you use. Fore the competition player its more important that he has the knowledge of his own playing style and weaknesses. For instance Don't play ( to ) sharp lines if you are an positional player. Also the opposite counts. All the big available opening books are big enough to get some good data fore training. But you have to know what you want to study and what you are willing to play do get most out of it. Mostly a ( pro ) chess player will just sharpen his variants and get his theory up to date and yess once a while get a new idea from even a chess programm. Selective openening study with an ctg can be a major contribution to the serious chess player , but when you just sniff into a huge opening book without the knowing of what you want to find you want be much effective in opening preparattion. Greetings Henk van Weersel hvweer@westbrabant.net May the wind swiften youre kites and the sun illuminate youre chess pieces Kiteman.
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