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deeper_insight 15-Dec-16, 11:00	Hiarcs,Houdini,Rybka opening books and more... This thread is an added thread of knowledge for any club members that have additional questions about specific opening books and have purchased or plan to purchase any of the better books on the market.Many books,like Hiarcs are sent to you via your email.Then you download it into a good file on your computer.Later,you must then load that specific book into your chess program like Komodo,Stockfish,Rybka,Fritz,Shredder and others. The better books do cost money however!Is it worth the investment?Sure is,a million times over!Is opening books for all rating levels?No,of course not.But I would say that anyone north of 1400 should start researching good opening books.I tend to stress the best ones,but there are other books on CD or online that are pretty decent.I can get into those later.And as I mentioned before,old paperback books like MCO-15(Modern Chess Openings)are another form of opening "books",but have strong value due to giving a good story line by chapter on most popular openings,to wet your appetite.MCO may be outdated by most up to date cutting edge books like Hiarcs,but technically that does not matter for learning purposes on the lesser rating levels.On the expert levels and above,the "best"opening books have more value.But just having the best opening books,whether you use them right away or not,is never a bad thing.So purchase a good opening book,I suggest it! So,if anyone wants to start a discussion on opening books,please do it here or the other post on chess openings.You may hate opening books or love them,its your choice.Some never use them,others rely on them.And some players consider the use of opening books cheating.But its really never cheating. I like to use the best opening books but "narrow"the line to move out of book as soon as possible(like in a Trompowsky or some English games).I tend to believe that moving out of book earlier in the game,rather than later gives a theoretically better chance of catching my opponent off guard or equalizing the game much earlier....which can lead to a higher degree of deeper positional strategy with more opportunities.Again,if you follow the book lines(like in a Ruy Lopez)to the pure end...the game may end up on move 50!Then you are already playing into the endgame!See the difference? So any future input by club members on any opening book software or paperback book can be posted in this thread.Much can be learned from one another. PS... Keep in mind that I am discussing opening books.This DOES NOT mean a discussion on your favorite book by author or GM simply because you like it!Opening books are just that,nothing more.So the discussion in this thread must be limited to books only designed or engineered to discuss openings and variations of specific openings(like MCO-15)or Hiarcs.A book,for example that has a limited title of "the Najdorf" or the "English Symmetrical"are two good examples to use.A biographical book including Fischer with a history of his games is not ok.Those types of general books should be discussed in the post I have on book recommendations,not here in this thread. See the difference?I wish to "isolate"books that by nature focus on a very limited opening,one at a time like Hiarcs can be programmed for or pg 166 of MCO can focus on.Not the history of games by any GM that you love from reading about.By isolating specific lines within specific openings(especially by Houdini or Hiarcs)we can then get a better,faster handle on how to observe and research cutting edge opening theory.This many times does not mean that an entire game must be gone through as some books will teach you to do. So any input by club members now or in the future is appreciated!If I see nothing,I will give my own input,regardless,but not until later in 2017.Invest my friends in some of these books!

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deeper_insight
15-Dec-16, 11:00

Hiarcs,Houdini,Rybka opening books and more...

This thread is an added thread of knowledge for any club members that have additional questions about specific opening books and have purchased or plan to purchase any of the better books on the market.Many books,like Hiarcs are sent to you via your email.Then you download it into a good file on your computer.Later,you must then load that specific book into your chess program like Komodo,Stockfish,Rybka,Fritz,Shredder and others.

The better books do cost money however!Is it worth the investment?Sure is,a million times over!Is opening books for all rating levels?No,of course not.But I would say that anyone north of 1400 should start researching good opening books.I tend to stress the best ones,but there are other books on CD or online that are pretty decent.I can get into those later.And as I mentioned before,old paperback books like MCO-15(Modern Chess Openings)are another form of opening "books",but have strong value due to giving a good story line by chapter on most popular openings,to wet your appetite.MCO may be outdated by most up to date cutting edge books like Hiarcs,but technically that does not matter for learning purposes on the lesser rating levels.On the expert levels and above,the "best"opening books have more value.But just having the best opening books,whether you use them right away or not,is never a bad thing.So purchase a good opening book,I suggest it!

So,if anyone wants to start a discussion on opening books,please do it here or the other post on chess openings.You may hate opening books or love them,its your choice.Some never use them,others rely on them.And some players consider the use of opening books cheating.But its really never cheating.

I like to use the best opening books but "narrow"the line to move out of book as soon as possible(like in a Trompowsky or some English games).I tend to believe that moving out of book earlier in the game,rather than later gives a theoretically better chance of catching my opponent off guard or equalizing the game much earlier....which can lead to a higher degree of deeper positional strategy with more opportunities.Again,if you follow the book lines(like in a Ruy Lopez)to the pure end...the game may end up on move 50!Then you are already playing into the endgame!See the difference?

So any future input by club members on any opening book software or paperback book can be posted in this thread.Much can be learned from one another.

PS...

Keep in mind that I am discussing opening books.This DOES NOT mean a discussion on your favorite book by author or GM simply because you like it!Opening books are just that,nothing more.So the discussion in this thread must be limited to books only designed or engineered to discuss openings and variations of specific openings(like MCO-15)or Hiarcs.A book,for example that has a limited title of "the Najdorf" or the "English Symmetrical"are two good examples to use.A biographical book including Fischer with a history of his games is not ok.Those types of general books should be discussed in the post I have on book recommendations,not here in this thread.

See the difference?I wish to "isolate"books that by nature focus on a very limited opening,one at a time like Hiarcs can be programmed for or pg 166 of MCO can focus on.Not the history of games by any GM that you love from reading about.By isolating specific lines within specific openings(especially by Houdini or Hiarcs)we can then get a better,faster handle on how to observe and research cutting edge opening theory.This many times does not mean that an entire game must be gone through as some books will teach you to do.

So any input by club members now or in the future is appreciated!If I see nothing,I will give my own input,regardless,but not until later in 2017.Invest my friends in some of these books!

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