Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 15:56:49 12/20/99
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I hope you mean, ‘not need a CD’, except for refueling or specific parts of the program. If this is true, here is a few recommendations for you. www.chess.com Main product, Chess Mentor, of which their are a few flavours. This is probably the most, 'user friendly' instructional Chess product ever created. Here is some material cut from the Chess Mentor page. Welcome to the Home Page of Aficionado,® the makers of Chess Mentor.® Want to learn about chess? Want to learn how to play chess? Want to learn even more and reach chess master level? You can do it all with Chess Mentor. Using "The most effective learning environment since the private coach ..." Chess Mentor allows you to learn chess, and learn about chess. At all levels. Casual interest. Absolute beginner. Seasoned expert. All in an efficient and enjoyable manner. Chess Mentor, a revolutionary software product which changes the face of computer-based learning. You will understand chess. You will learn the concepts underlying effective strategy and tactics. You will develop your critical thinking and decision making skills. Chess Mentor is not a game and will not be your opponent. Using our patented Learning Engine® methodology, Chess Mentor works with you as you learn. It will amaze you. Supplementary Course. The Roots of Positional Understanding, by IM Jeremy Silman. IM Silman guides intermediate as well as advanced players beyond tactics into strategic planning (US$24.95). Download the Chess Mentor Demo to experience Aficionado's unique learning paradigm. The Demo contains the complete functionality of Chess Mentor, with a sample of challenges from our library (No Obligation). Low Cost Entry-Level Product! Exploring & Appreciating Chess (A Course for Beginners) by Chess Mentor is an entry-level product designed for absolute beginners, and those who are not even sure about the basic rules of chess (US$19.95). Chess Mentor - Basic Chess Course is for beginners and novices wanting to go beyond Exploring & Appreciating Chess, but are not ready to commit to the more comprehensive course. (US$49.95). Chess Mentor products are available only through a Chess Mentor dealer, or directly from us. Next product(s) recommnendation, Convekta Ltd. www.chessassistant.com/ Products: Chess Tactics for Beginners, Chess School, and Advanced Chess School. All of these program contain excellent instruction, and are moderately priced. Check out their page! Next product(s), TASC Chess CD-ROM..................................................$65.00 Tasc http://www.tasc.nl/ Product: Tasc Chess CD; contains the windows chess playing program, Chessica, a very strong playing opponent, with a fair selection of games on its database, and enough of an opening book in it to get you started. Very easy to set & customize. Also on the CD is the Includes the 5 steps of the Chess Tutorials (see above) and the Chessica for Windows (see above). The chess tutorial comes in five languages (English, German, French, Spanish and Dutch). The Program has a total of 2600 positions of which 750 are new for this CD-ROM edition. No installation required; the tutorial runs directly from the CD. Chessica for Windows is in three languages (English, German, Dutch) and has unlimited number of installs; runs from the CD. ($5.00 S+H, US). Quoted from the Inside Chess Page, (one of its distributors), http://www.insidechess.com/ This product hasn't been updated for a long time, but it is a really great product, and gives you an enourmous amount of material, for its price. Next product(s), http://www.chessbase. and http://www.chessbaseusa Products, (quoted from chessbaseusa page. GM Lubo Ftacnik. More than 1000 1, 2 and 3-move mates from actual games, each with a graded training question designed to help you actually learn tactics. Includes an introductory database illustrating and explaining 15 key motifs. Also includes a special theme key: $27.) Bartashnikov: The Basic Principles of Chess Strategy (A comprehensive introduction to the secrets of chess strategy. With 68 extensively annotated games this volume of the "Basic Principles of Chess Strategy" shows how to successfully treat the opening and middlegame. Everything about fast piece development, safety of the king and fighting for the center. Learn how to assess positions and to find promising plans. Pros ans cons of all pawn formations are presented in detail. Finally you can check your fresh knowledge in ten test games with training tasks fighting against the clock. CD-ROM. Includes CB Light.) Gary Gauthier’s ‘The ABCs of Chess Openings, and the ABCs of chess Middlegames. Also available from Chess Base are many other instructional CD’s, too numerous to mention. The above will get you started. Hope this isn't percieved as too much Unsolicited free advertising for these software publishers. I have bought most of these products, and wholeheartely recommend them. Larry T. On December 20, 1999 at 18:22:33, Pete Galati wrote: >On December 20, 1999 at 17:20:55, Vance wrote: > >>I am a beginner player and am looking for software. I have CM5500, but want a >>"lighter" program that will not need a CD, and can be run in a smaller window >>(during long downloads, etc). I have Winboard with GnuChess, but this beats me >>too easily and I can not find any "level" features which will give me a fighting >>chance. I do not need a powerful engine, and I am not computer literate to >>handle a more complicated set up than "out of the box" software. Any ideas? >>Thanks for any help. > >GNUchess interface will let you set it down to a search depth of 2, it can still >play a tough game at that level, but you can beat it probably a fair amount of >time that way. > >I don't personally run Chess programs during downloads. > >You might like Bringer, nice Windows interface >http://www.online.de/home/reubold/ and has good adjustments. > >The Dos version of Comet can be set for very (relative) easy playing levels, >setting it at level "0" for example will probably give you a good fighting >chance, Comet can be found at Gambitsoft or Frank Quisinsky's download page. >The average Windows user might have trouble useing Comet, it has no conveient >pulldown menus, but it is one of my overall favorite programs. > >http://www.gambitsoft.com/sharee.htm > http://www.in-trier.de/~quisinsky/schach/download.htm > >Pete
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