Louis Blair wrote:
Mike Murray wrote (Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:40:42 -0700):

7 Good post. An editorial summary and citing sources
7 as well as dates for the quotes might have been useful.

_
Dates WERE included. I would imagine that there
would not be much trouble finding source information
by using Google. If Mike Murray wants to write a
summary, I may include it on the next occasion that
I post the information.

FWIW: I have seen Sierawan's series and it is quite good.
In addition, it lacks the problems which often plague older
works, several of which were highly recommended above.

One such problem is being seriously out-of-date with
regard to things like opening theory and practice. Another
issue for many readers would be that say, Chernev's books
are written in archaic notation, as they were typed up on
what was once known as a "typewriter" -- a crude
mechanical device for smacking the paper with metal
thingies, shaped in the form of letters of the alphabet.
If the "typist", as they were once called, had to relieve
himself while pounding away at this crude device, he
simply walked outside to a small building called an
"outhouse", where there were stored up a plentiful
supply of corncobs (sans edible corn). Beneath this
small, foul-smelling building there was a deep pit, into
which bodily wastes were expelled. Which reminds
me, Keene must surely have something for the novice
player? Anyway, back to the better chess books.

Today, most chess books are written in algebraic
notation, which is more suitable for computers and which
is the de facto standard all over the world. It is no longer
absolutely necessary to learn both systems of notation,
algebraic sufficing in most cases. A singular exception
here would be Bobby Fischer's "My Sixty Memorable
Games", which is a mere vestige of its former self, as
"translated" by the Brits. Perhaps there are a few others,
but in the main, algebraic should suffice.

-- help bot

help bot wrote:

This is probably an excellent way to learn to find one's
blunders without human help. However, it is not very
wise to get into the *habit* of taking back moves.

That's what you do when analysing a game.

Old habits die hard, and this
is a very bad one to get into.

There doesn't have to be any. It is easy
to separate psychologically the practice
with a strong program and real playing,
be it with humans or even with a program
but when you play in a competitive mode,
without takebacks.

Regards,

Wlod

On 18 Aug 2006 02:53:01 -0700, "help bot"
wrote:


It is no longer
absolutely necessary to learn both systems of notation,
algebraic sufficing in most cases. A singular exception
here would be Bobby Fischer's "My Sixty Memorable
Games", which is a mere vestige of its former self, as
"translated" by the Brits. Perhaps there are a few others,
but in the main, algebraic should suffice.

Some goodies which I don't think have been
converted/ported/translated:

500 Master Games of Chess (Tartakower & du Mont)
100 Master Games of Modern Chess (Tartakower & du Mont)
The Middle Game - 2 Volumes (Euwe & Kramer)

oh, almost forgot:

MCO-10 (Evans)

-- help bot

The Middlegame, Books One & Two
http://uscfsales.com/item.asp?PID=1687

and

Logical Chess, Move by Move
http://uscfsales.com/item.asp?PID=239

are available in algebraic editions.

On 18 Aug 2006 11:33:35 -0700, "Louis Blair"
wrote:

The Middlegame, Books One & Two
http://uscfsales.com/item.asp?PID=1687

and

Logical Chess, Move by Move
http://uscfsales.com/item.asp?PID=239

are available in algebraic editions.

Ya can't stop progress.

wrote:
Another tip is to analyze your games for errors. I post my games and
analysis on my blog. I figure that will help me take my games more
seriously, and from time to time I might receive helpful comments.

http://likesforests.blogspot.com/

Click on "Create Blog" at the top if you want to do the same.



I've just started to do similar, although I have a Java chess board.

http://www.drkirkby.co.uk/chess/MyChessViewer/

Some I've annotated. I think it is better than a blog, but that is just
my opinion of course.


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Dave (from the UK)

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It is always of the form:
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Dave (from the UK) wrote:
wrote:

http://likesforests.blogspot.com/

http://www.drkirkby.co.uk/chess/MyChessViewer/

I like the mini-board on yours. I'm using a blog because it's free and
avoids web design. I looked at one of your recent games, dated 8/8/2006
(g8wrb-jjeanjean).

With 19...Nxd4, your opponent made his pieces sitting ducks along the
a1-h8 diagonal. Bf6 was a logical follow-up, and you saw that, but you
played 20.Nb6+ instead.

You wrote, "I intend Bf6, but need to avoid Nxc2 which threatens my
Rook. So I move my knight and call check". How does Nb6+ avoid Nxc2? As
you see, he plays that a couple turns later anyway. All Nb6+ achieves
is to move your knight into danger. If your opponent had replied
20...Kb6 you would have lost your nice fork.

On move 24, you wrote: "Black should have played 24...Rxb6 to win the
knight". You just played 24.Be5+, so he had to escape check... he
couldn't play Rxb6.

wrote:
Dave (from the UK) wrote:

wrote:

http://likesforests.blogspot.com/

http://www.drkirkby.co.uk/chess/MyChessViewer/


I like the mini-board on yours. I'm using a blog because it's free and
avoids web design.

That board is free:

http://www.mychess.com/
(even the source code if you want it too).

You don't actually need any web design at all. Just unzip the files in
the viewer you download, put them in the directory and stick in your
cames in a PGN file into that same directory.

There are several HTML files with the name of players (e.g.
Polgar-Anand.htm). That references a file Polgar-Anand.pgn. So if you
happen to rename your PGN file to Polgar-Anand.pgn, then you can avoid
*all* web design. I would rename it some-date.html, and change this line
below:

PARAM name=pgngamefile value="Polgar-Anand.pgn"
to
PARAM name=pgngamefile value="some-date.pgn"

You would probably want to change the title element and a line or two
others so it gives a bit of information, but it really is trivial.

I did a bit more than that, since I have a menu with the years etc. That
needs cascading style sheets and a knowledge of PHP, but you could do a
lot with the smallest of changes to a file. If you wanted the PHP code
and styles sheets on my pages you would be welcome to to them. In fact,
I've just made them public:

http://www.drkirkby.co.uk/chess/MyCh...avigation.phps
http://www.drkirkby.co.uk/chess/MyCh...wer/index.phps

http://www.drkirkby.co.uk/chess/MyCh...8wrb-2006.phps

(Other years follow the obvious change of the PGN file reference and the
phps files would need to be renamed to php. If you did copy them, please
remove my name etc. You would need to change the lines that reference
the web site too, but the changes are obvious)

The style sheets for the menu a

http://www.drkirkby.co.uk/chess/MyCh...styles/all.css
http://www.drkirkby.co.uk/chess/MyCh...s/handheld.css
http://www.drkirkby.co.uk/chess/MyCh...yles/print.css
http://www.drkirkby.co.uk/chess/MyCh...les/screen.css

Those pages, unlike some of my other pages, are not optimised for mobile
devices, so strictly you would not need them all, but you would need
them all, but then you would need to remove the references to them.(I'm
lazy of course, and just copied them from another page I designed.)

I looked at one of your recent games, dated 8/8/2006
(g8wrb-jjeanjean).


With 19...Nxd4, your opponent made his pieces sitting ducks along the
a1-h8 diagonal. Bf6 was a logical follow-up, and you saw that, but you
played 20.Nb6+ instead.

You wrote, "I intend Bf6, but need to avoid Nxc2 which threatens my
Rook. So I move my knight and call check". How does Nb6+ avoid Nxc2?


As
you see, he plays that a couple turns later anyway. All Nb6+ achieves
is to move your knight into danger. If your opponent had replied
20...Kb6 you would have lost your nice fork.

Yes agreed, I should have done that fork earlier than what I did. I was
a bit lucky he did not see it.

On move 24, you wrote: "Black should have played 24...Rxb6 to win the
knight". You just played 24.Be5+, so he had to escape check... he
couldn't play Rxb6.

Agree again.

I think you would have to agree though that people are more likely to
comment on a game with a board like that, than a list of the moves in a
blog. As I say, its not that hard to set up. I've not used any graphics
package or web design package. It's all just written with a simple text
editor. (The text editor is actually the UNIX one 'vi', but notepad or
similar in windoze would work just as well)

--
Dave (from the UK)

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It is always of the form:
Hitting reply will work for a few months only - later set it manually.

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Dave (from the UK) wrote:

The style sheets for the menu a

http://www.drkirkby.co.uk/chess/MyCh...styles/all.css
http://www.drkirkby.co.uk/chess/MyCh...s/handheld.css
http://www.drkirkby.co.uk/chess/MyCh...yles/print.css
http://www.drkirkby.co.uk/chess/MyCh...les/screen.css

Those pages, unlike some of my other pages, are not optimised for mobile
devices, so strictly you would not need them all, but you would need
them all, but then you would need to remove the references to them.(I'm
lazy of course, and just copied them from another page I designed.)

What I mean is that you would need the style sheets unless you removed
the lines that reference some of them. I think you only need all.css and
screen.css - the other two can be removed if you remove the lines in the
header that reference them.


--
Dave (from the UK)

Please note my email address changes periodically to avoid spam.
It is always of the form:
Hitting reply will work for a few months only - later set it manually.

http://witm.sourceforge.net/ (Web based Mathematica front end)

In article ,
Mike Murray wrote:

On 18 Aug 2006 11:33:35 -0700, "Louis Blair"
wrote:

The Middlegame, Books One & Two
http://uscfsales.com/item.asp?PID=1687

and

Logical Chess, Move by Move
http://uscfsales.com/item.asp?PID=239

are available in algebraic editions.

Ya can't stop progress.


Though the current administration tries.

--Harold Buck


"Hubris always wins in the end. The Greeks taught us that."

-Homer J. Simpson