Hi,
I am using Chessbase and I must say it is great. But not everyone
can afford it so I can recommend another chess database that I use
as a complement to chessbase. It is called SCID and it is free. You
find it at http://scid.sourceforge.net,
A place to download the latest games once a week is The week in
chess at http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic.html
Something I can really recommend that you look at is Battle Royale.
It is about the 1924 New York International Chess Tournament.
The address to it is
http://www.chessbaseusa.com/NY1924/1924toc.htm
But you need Chessbase lite to look at it. You find it under download
at http://www.chessbase.com
Have fun!
Scriptarium
greetings:
well, thank you " script " for your help!! i have never actually used
these things, and, it is good to have someone in the " know!!" thank
you for the web-pages you laid down!! tell me this...if i get the
computer i crave...with, the " fritz " family; i had heard there is about
to be a new " fritz 7 ."; in the fritz family...i will get deep junior, fritz,
young talents; there is countless engines there!! it will cost about
£300 for that, and about £300 for the " mega " chessbase !!" in your
opinion, would that be a good thing, considering i have never taken a
lesson, or been in a club?? i feel i need these things, well, because, it
will help my development!!
hey, when is the " kramnick/fritz " match??
slan...
imp..
ps: your name is latin...what does it mean??
greetings:
"well, thank you " script " for your help!! i have never actually used
these things, and, it is good to have someone in the " know!!" thank
you for the web-pages you laid down!! tell me this...if i get the
computer i crave...with, the " fritz " family; i had heard there is about
to be a new " fritz 7 ."; in the fritz family...i will get deep junior, fritz,
young talents; there is countless engines there!! it will cost about
£300 for that, and about £300 for the " mega " chessbase !!" in your
opinion, would that be a good thing, considering i have never taken a
lesson, or been in a club?? i feel i need these things, well, because, it
will help my development!!"
Your welcome,
In my opinion you don't have to spend a fortune to improve your
chess. It is more how to use them to get the most out of them. I have
an old Pentium II 350 Mhz processor. I have bought ChessTiger 14.0
that include Gambit Tiger 2.0. I have also downloaded BamBam,
Crafty and a few more free chess engines to play with. I have
Chessbase 7 and SCID as databases and about 1.2 millions games in
the database.
What I do is to filter out games to the openings I am using and put
them in a separate database. Using the opening report in both
Chessbase and SCID I pick out the 11-12 first moves in the opening.
Then I look at the position trying to figure out a plan for the middle
game and look what my opponent might do. After that I check with a
chess engine if my analyze is OK. Then I look for annotated games to
play through. Then comes the hard part, play through, as many
games that I need to understand the middle game and endgame
against the chess engines. It is usually not necessary to learn a lot of
variations of an opening, it is more important to understand what kind
of game you will get. But to check out that I got it, I create an
opening tree with all the variations there is and play a lot of game
letting the computer decide which variation it will play.
Each week I download TWIC and with Chessbase 7 it is easy to find
new moves in the opening I use. I look at the result and try to
analyze if these new moves are good or not. Sometimes I buy
Chessbase Magazine to get annotated games and the latest opening
theory.
This approach is what most grandmasters are using.
I think Fritz 7 is already out in the market.
"hey, when is the " kramnick/fritz " match??"
I think it will be in the beginning of next year.
"ps: your name is latin...what does it mean??"
One of my other hobbies is to create and write stories. The room in
the monasteries where the monks copied the bible was called
Scriptarium.
/Scriptarium