Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 19:57:40 12/19/99
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Well, I know that low-cut dress would certainly screw up my preperation:), but as to the rest, I think your right, except for where the GM's are intentionally trying to lay a trap for other chess players, with tricky lines they already have busted, that read the informant (and that's still most of the profesional ones in world), to fall into. So be careful out there! Larry T. On December 19, 1999 at 19:09:15, Tina Long wrote: >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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