04 Jan '10 13:24>
A copy of Pawn Power in Chess by Hans Kmoch was delivered
to me from Amazon. No name as to who sent it.
Thanks who ever ir was.
to me from Amazon. No name as to who sent it.
Thanks who ever ir was.
Originally posted by Paul LeggettWow, I wasn't aware of that!
In chessbase, if you open up the "bigbase" that comes with the program, there are a series of tabs at the top for different functions.
One of those tabs is labeled "strategy". There is a subheading for pawns, and under that subheading is a section for isolated pawns. When you click the "+" to expand the menu, it will give you a choice of a variety of isolated pawns from which to choose.
Originally posted by philidor positionmy idea was to look up master games with say a positional feature and see how the masters exploited this positional feature, so for example one can look up pawn chains, and it gives an index of pawn chain formation, therefore if you are interested in say a particular formation, one can look at the games of the masters and see how they approached it. the more games ones looks at the more strategic ideas may come to mind in our own games. The only problem that i have found so far, which is fundamental to my theory, is that, one needs to understand what is going on, without annotations, this can be very difficult and frustrating, although i think, in trying to determine the mind of the master, there should at least be some merit.
Wow, I wasn't aware of that!
OK, so there are features like that. But how to use them? I mean, for example, Robbie, what are you going to do with them?
The only thing I do in chessbase is create databases for various purposes (like a separate Kramnik database, a separate 2500+ database, a huge database that has everything etc) and create opening books from them.
Originally posted by philidor positionHere's what turned out to be most useful for me:
Wow, I wasn't aware of that!
OK, so there are features like that. But how to use them? I mean, for example, Robbie, what are you going to do with them?
The only thing I do in chessbase is create databases for various purposes (like a separate Kramnik database, a separate 2500+ database, a huge database that has everything etc) and create opening books from them.