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| Posted by buddy2 uskidscompute.com 12/11/2003 15:15:15 Play online chess |  Subject: chesspublishing.comMessage: Anybody have any experience with chesspublishing.com--a website dedicated to keeping you up to date on openings, which they have broken down into e4 e5, open sicilians, anti-sicilians, etc. three openings for about 35 bucks. 90 for all. I was wondering if it's a worthwhile investment. |
| Posted by mitchst uskidscompute.com 12/13/2003 03:17:28 Play online chess | YES!!! Message: I'd been constantly visiting their forum for about 3 or 4 months and then finally signed up 2 weeks ago. I subscribe to all the sections and it's really great. I especially love the ebooks which are essentially guides to the opening written the GMs/IMs themselves. In case you haven't noticed, if you go to the "guest" part of the website you can download GM Neil McDonald's ebook on the Classical/Rubinstein french for free. What's also great about subscribing is that you can send the GMs e-mails and they'll usually respond either right away or with their next update. Also, GMs will often base their updates on e-mails they get from subscribers and openings talked about on the forum. For example, IM Gary Lane just did an update on 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. b3(!) because several members in the forum showed an interest. Worth every penny!!! |
| Posted by buddy2 uskidscompute.com 12/13/2003 07:46:24 Play online chess | endorsement Message: Thanks for your endorsement, mitchst. I will seriously consider purchase! ——— Gawain Jones and David Howell go extra Miles in search of success — England's first chess grandmaster, the late Tony Miles, liked to call himself a globetrotter. Miles often played in chess events in widely distant countries with scarcely a break between tournaments, and once he rang from Heathrow to tell me he had missed a prizegiving in Vienna to fly to a Teesside weekender which was part of the UK Grand Prix. Miles believed that his pragmatic approach helped him be resilient, in touch with tactical novelties, and eager for victory. It worked well at his peak in his mid-twenties, though fatigue later took its toll. Now England's youngest GMs Gawain Jones, 24, and David Howell, 20, have adopted a version of the Miles strategy as they seek to match the 2700-rated world chess elite. ... |
| Posted by irish-pete uskidscompute.com 12/13/2003 16:45:12 Play online chess | How would you compare . . . Message: mitchst, the work they do with books such as NCO and MCO? Pete ——— Chess Player Vaclav Havel — ... Havel became perhaps the only head of state who played - and won - an actual chess game during a ceremonial opening of a chess tournament. It happened in Prague in 1990 and here is the account I wrote around that time: I was trying to explain to the president and his advisor, Jiri Krizan (pictured in the middle), the protocol and how he would make a single move on a chess board. But Havel interrupted me. "Can we play a little more?" A meek entreaty, but since it was uttered in Czechoslovakia, by the president of Czechoslovakia, it amounted to a command. And so it was that on Aug. 26, 1990, the charismatic, enigmatic playwright-president Vaclav Havel and I played a game of chess. It wasn't supposed to ... |
| Posted by nottop uskidscompute.com 12/14/2003 15:16:27 Play online chess | problem with books Message: The problem with any book is that once it is written it is not easy to change. Opening books will date - though they still have value. I've subscribed to chess publishing for a long time (although I don't participate in their forums). I believe that, in general, their analysis is a little better than the analysis provided by chessbase. I suggest you might supplement NCO with chess publishishing or chessbase. ——— An introduction to tournament chess — Each month, the Chess Club holds an unrated beginner tournament for people who have never played in a rated chess event. These monthly tournaments offer a great introduction to the fun of tournament chess and help people learn some of the basic rules of tournament play. Most chess tournaments are rated, meaning they require a membership to the United States Chess Federation as a requisite for participation. Once a player joins the USCF and begins playing tournaments, he will receive a rating that indicates his strength based on the ratings of his opponents and his results. Our beginner tournaments, however, require no USCF membership and are designed to encourage chess players to ... |