Author: James T. Walker
Date: 04:49:40 03/07/06
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On March 06, 2006 at 23:46:06, Dann Corbit wrote: >On March 06, 2006 at 23:14:09, Daneil Johnson wrote: > >>I wanted to study openings too but was not sure which program to use Chessbase, >>Chess Assistant 8.1, the Comprehensive Chess Openings 2005, Openings Instructor, >>and Bookup. If someone has Chessbase do they really need Bookup? >>I like the way Comprehensive Chess Openings 2005 list the openings in their >>openings table mode its like BCO but cannot use a external chess engine, only >>can use built in Crafty. For the money, for Bookup Pro, I could buy Chess >>Assistant 8.1 mega and then link up uci engines (I hope so). I already have >>Chessbase but afraid to add to books and screw up the opening books. Maybe the >>Chessbase program can do everything Bookup can but I don't know how to use it >>correctly. I have been sitting on the fence for awhile and cannot make up my >>mind about buying Bookup. If someone can help please guide me on how to best >>improve and learn openings I will be grateful. Cost is not really important but >>value is. > >'Study openings' is a bit vague. Do you want to study a single opening or learn >about a broad variety of openings? > >I like anything Sierawan writes, because I can easily understand what he is >saying, so this book is to be recommended by me: >http://www.chesshouse.com/Winning_Chess_Openings_Ed_p/6376.htm > >The US correspondence champion who posts here likes Bookup. Using Bookup is a >little tedious, but it can create great results. > >I like ChessAssistant. It has a lot of precalculate analysis. Yes, you can >hook up all kinds of engines under ChessAssistant (Winboard, UCI, MCS) but not >your ChessBase engines [maybe you could using RS232 or something -- not sure]. > >I think that the Rybka engine does spectacularly well in openings (it's the only >engine I know of that will compute the Evans Gambit main line without doing >stupid gaffes, but you need to give it long time control). It seems a little ironic that Sierawan has written a book on openings. I seem to remember him once saying that he never really studied openings. I always thought it was the reason he never became a really Super GM. Never the less, I'll bet it's a good book.
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