Author: Tina Long
Date: 16:09:15 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. Informators! Hi Larry, YOU are preparing for a tournament, YOU must have an opening repertiore. If I was going to play in a major tournament January I would: Get my hair done, buy a low-cut dress..... sorry. I would Get out MY OWN opening book (several hundred handwritten sheets of pink(black) & yellow(white) cardboard) which is based on the first few moves by Fischer, Karpov & Kortchnoi, updated to include Kasparov, and then handwritten (lately handtyped into excel spreadsheet) variation lines from Informators 26-6?. I would then wade through Informators 6? to 75 updating all my lines. Why? Because Informator has annotations by the actual player of the game & his/her impression of the position. This information must pass some very stringent judges before it is posted. Informator Judges give "Best opening Novelty" lists: Informator 74/330 Shirov - Kramnik 13...Bh4!! N If I played black in a Petroff, here's a move I'd give a double underline (must play) and there go all the other variations I used to have for that line. My method is laborious & slow, but I SEE & think about every variation I'm including in my book. Computer Database? My database can tell me "this position: +87 =145 -56" but it doesn't tell me that in the last couple of years, since so-&-so played it as a novelty, the top players are playing line X, and although it hasn't been played in a game so-&-so provides the following analysis.... This is what I get from Informators. Finally: Once I have manually updated my book I will do Database searches of the last few months games I've collected from TWIC to get up to date. Pre Tournament: I play lotsa game in 30min against computers, using my opening book to cheat - this is to visually see my book moves happening on a "board" as a memory aid. The Rebel Opening Book is fine (well extremely excellent) but it is out of date the day after it was written. So, my answer to your question: 1: know what your opening 2-3 moves are for all possible openings. 2: wade through Nunn (which I assume is not unlike ECO) with a highlighter pen. 3: check out every TWIC since a month befor Nunn was written. Just my opinion guys Tina Long
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