Author: James T. Walker
Date: 11:30:13 03/07/06
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On March 07, 2006 at 13:36:46, Dann Corbit wrote: >On March 07, 2006 at 07:49:40, James T. Walker wrote: > >>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. > >I don't know that it has the depth of coverage that an expert would need. But >it reads like a novel -- any moron (including me) can just pick it up, read it >and easily understand it. > >All of his books are great (I have all of them). The only other chess book I >really, really enjoyed was "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess" which was the first >chess book I really understood. > >Sierawan is also my favorite chess player. He was the best US player for some >time, and I think he is also both rational and sane, which is a rare commodity >among the super great chess players. And actually a fairly nice guy. On one of my early days of learning to play chess I played against a Canadian GM in a simul. He was playing about 10 people at a time and I was just in the middle of my game. He up and walked away and went to lunch without saying a word to anyone. I just figured it was because I was winning ! :-)
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