HS-Masterbook 3.0.ctg

[Le Fou numerique]

Hi,

Harry Schnapp published a 'monstrous' openings book 1Gb format *.ctg.

Download link.

There is a "readme" in the archive for the settings.

Regards,
Patrick

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Good for Harry,but Sedat Conbaz's opening books are way too superior and optimized than Harry's opening books....this not an opinion,this is a fact based on a close observation of every opening book published by these two authors....will put this one under the microscope to see how it fares against Sedat's latest creation....
Dr.D

[Har]

Good for Harry,but Sedat Conbaz's opening books are way too superior and optimized than Harry's opening books....this not an opinion,this is a fact based on a close observation of every opening book published by these two authors....will put this one under the microscope to see how it fares against Sedat's latest creation....
Dr.D

Since years the same story with his "facts" etc.....
By this way congratulation to Sedat for his great activity in computerchess!

[gerold]

Many thanks Harry. Keep up the good work.

Best to you,
Gerold.

[Graham Banks]

Good for Harry,but Sedat Conbaz's opening books are way too superior and optimized than Harry's opening books....this not an opinion,this is a fact based on a close observation of every opening book published by these two authors....will put this one under the microscope to see how it fares against Sedat's latest creation....
Dr.D

I wonder how you observe closely a 1GB book... or even a 10 MB one.

I have been using Harry's books for years. The only thing I have against them is lack of variety. Sedat's lates book (Perfect-2010) seems better in this regard. My current practice is to shift books every now and then.

What I miss most in all books is the lack of classic lines like Gioco Piano, 3 Knights. I also miss Aljechin and Grünfeld. I am a bit fed up with Lucena, Sicilian, Queens and Kings Indian.

I'd love to see more Scandinavians, Bird's, Polish and others like the Ponziani and Larsen.

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Good for Harry,but Sedat Conbaz's opening books are way too superior and optimized than Harry's opening books....this not an opinion,this is a fact based on a close observation of every opening book published by these two authors....will put this one under the microscope to see how it fares against Sedat's latest creation....
Dr.D

I wonder how you observe closely a 1GB book... or even a 10 MB one.

I have been using Harry's books for years. The only thing I have against them is lack of variety. Sedat's lates book (Perfect-2010) seems better in this regard. My current practice is to shift books every now and then.

What I miss most in all books is the lack of classic lines like Gioco Piano, 3 Knights. I also miss Aljechin and Grünfeld. I am a bit fed up with Lucena, Sicilian, Queens and Kings Indian.

I am surprised by the lack of these classic openings except for Alekhine as it seems it's not a competitive opening for black....
Dr.D

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Good for Harry,but Sedat Conbaz's opening books are way too superior and optimized than Harry's opening books....this not an opinion,this is a fact based on a close observation of every opening book published by these two authors....will put this one under the microscope to see how it fares against Sedat's latest creation....
Dr.D

I wonder how you observe closely a 1GB book... or even a 10 MB one.

I have been using Harry's books for years. The only thing I have against them is lack of variety. Sedat's lates book (Perfect-2010) seems better in this regard. My current practice is to shift books every now and then.

What I miss most in all books is the lack of classic lines like Gioco Piano, 3 Knights. I also miss Aljechin and Grünfeld. I am a bit fed up with Lucena, Sicilian, Queens and Kings Indian.

I'd love to see more Scandinavians, Bird's, Polish and others like the Ponziani and Larsen.

The Scandinavian Defence is an awesome opening system for black with a lot of interesting positional ideas later in the middlegame....I play it a lot myself against the strong chess engines and it seems to payback good....
Dr.D

[Lion]

Hi !

Sounds interesting !

Could you post us a few examples ?

Thank you
Regards

[gerold]

Good for Harry,but Sedat Conbaz's opening books are way too superior and optimized than Harry's opening books....this not an opinion,this is a fact based on a close observation of every opening book published by these two authors....will put this one under the microscope to see how it fares against Sedat's latest creation....
Dr.D

I wonder how you observe closely a 1GB book... or even a 10 MB one.

I have been using Harry's books for years. The only thing I have against them is lack of variety. Sedat's lates book (Perfect-2010) seems better in this regard. My current practice is to shift books every now and then.

What I miss most in all books is the lack of classic lines like Gioco Piano, 3 Knights. I also miss Aljechin and Grünfeld. I am a bit fed up with Lucena, Sicilian, Queens and Kings Indian.

I use H.S. books and also Sedat book.
There are many diff. opening books you can use. I like to try
diff. ones. At Arena there are a few good ones.

Best,
Gerold.

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Hi !

Sounds interesting !

Could you post us a few examples ?

Thank you
Regards

Hi,
I played this opening a lot in the past and then I abandoned it for a long time....then I realized that I left behind an amazing opening system for black and started all over again

Two recent games annotated by Deep Fritz 12....btw,I am a 3....Qa5 fan....

[Event "Zzzz_0_2"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2010.08.03"]
[Round "?"]
[White "NagaSkaki 5.12"]
[Black "Dr.Deeb"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B01"]
[Annotator "Deep Fritz 12 (20m)"]
[PlyCount "131"]
[Source "Chess Informant"]

{B01: Scandinavian Defence} 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3
c6 6. Ne5 Nbd7 7. Nc4 Qd8 8. Be2 (8. d5 Nb8 9. Ne3 Bd7 10. Bc4 g6 11. O-O Bg7
12. Re1 O-O 13. a4 cxd5 14. Nexd5 Nxd5 15. Bxd5 Bc6 16. Bb3 Qxd1 17. Rxd1 Bxc3
18. bxc3 Nd7 19. Ba3 Rfe8 20. a5 Kg7 21. Rd4 Rac8 22. Re1 e6 {
Fernandez Garcia,J (2445)-Hodgson,J (2590)/Linares 1995/CBM 051/1/2-1/2 (56)})
8... g6 9. O-O $146 (9. d5 cxd5 10. Nxd5 Nxd5 11. Qxd5 Bg7 12. h4 O-O 13. h5
Nf6 14. Qxd8 Rxd8 15. hxg6 hxg6 16. Bd3 Be6 17. Bd2 Rac8 18. Ne5 Nd7 19. Nxd7
Rxd7 20. Bc1 Bc4 21. Rh3 Bxd3 22. Rxd3 Rxd3 23. cxd3 Rc2 {
Weiss,M-Blackburne,J/New York 1889/HCL/0-1 (57)}) (9. Bf4 Bg7 10. d5 cxd5 11.
Nxd5 O-O 12. Bc7 Qe8 13. Nc3 Nc5 14. Bf3 Be6 15. Ne3 Rc8 16. Be5 b5 17. O-O b4
18. Ne2 Rd8 19. Qe1 a5 20. a3 Nce4 21. Nd4 Ng5 22. axb4 Nxf3+ 23. Nxf3 axb4 {
Jaeckle,M (2290)-Stephan,A (2275)/Germany 2002/EXT 2002/1-0 (34)}) 9... Nb6 10.
Bg5 {Black has a cramped position} Bg7 {
Black should quickly conclude development.} 11. Re1 O-O {
Black castles and improves king safety} 12. Qd2 {
White has a very active position} Bf5 {White has an active position} 13. Ne5
Nbd5 14. Nxd5 Nxd5 15. Ng4 Bxg4 16. Bxg4 Bf6 {Black has a cramped position} 17.
Bh6 (17. h4 e6 $14) 17... Bg7 18. Bxg7 Kxg7 {Black king safety dropped} 19. Re5
e6 {Consolidates f5} 20. Bf3 Re8 21. c4 Nf6 22. Rae1 Qc7 23. Rd1 Rad8 24. b4
Re7 25. Qe3 Red7 26. a3 Rd6 27. c5 {White threatens to win material: c5xd6} (
27. g4 h6 28. h4 Nd7 $11) 27... R6d7 28. Rd3 Nd5 29. Qd2 Ne7 30. Re4 Nd5 31.
Rh4 h5 32. Re4 Ne7 33. Qb2 Kg8 34. Bd1 a6 35. Bb3 Nf5 (35... a5 36. h3 $15) 36.
Bc4 (36. h3 Kh7 37. Qc3 Rg8 $11) 36... Kh7 37. Qc3 Kg8 (37... Rh8 38. Rh3 Qd8
39. g4 Rxd4 40. Rxd4 Nxd4 41. gxh5 $15) 38. Qd2 (38. h3 b5 39. Bb3 h4 $11)
38... Kg7 (38... b5 39. cxb6 Qxb6 $15) 39. Qc3 Kh7 40. a4 b5 {
Black threatens to win material: b5xc4} 41. Bb3 Ne7 42. Qd2 Kg7 43. axb5 (43.
a5 e5 44. f4 exf4 45. Rxf4 Nd5 46. Bxd5 Rxd5 $11) 43... axb5 44. Qb2 Kh7 (44...
Kg8 $142 $5 $15 {must definitely be considered}) 45. g4 $14 {
White king safety dropped} Rg8 (45... f5 46. Rxe6 fxg4 47. d5 Nxd5 48. Bxd5
cxd5 49. Qf6 $16) 46. Rh3 (46. Rg3 Qd8 47. Rf4 Rg7 48. gxh5 g5 $14) 46... Nd5 {
A valuable piece} (46... f5 47. Rxe6 fxg4 48. Rd3 $14) 47. gxh5 $16 gxh5+ 48.
Kh1 Qd8 (48... Nf6 49. Reh4 Qd8 50. Qd2 $16) 49. Rxh5+ $16 Kg7 50. Rh3 Qf6 51.
Bxd5 Rxd5 52. Rg3+ Kf8 53. Rxg8+ Kxg8 54. Qe2 (54. Rg4+ $5 {must be considered}
Rg5 55. Qe2 $14) 54... Kf8 $11 55. Qe3 Rf5 {
Black threatens to win material: Rf5xf2} 56. Kg2 Qg6+ 57. Kf1 Rg5 58. Qf4 Rg1+
59. Ke2 Qh5+ 60. f3 Rg2+ 61. Kd3 Qd5 62. Qb8+ Ke7 63. Qc7+ Kf8 {
Black has a mate threat} 64. Qb8+ Ke7 65. Qc7+ {Twofold repetition} Kf8 66.
Qb8+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "Zzzz_0_2"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2010.08.13"]
[Round "?"]
[White "EveAnn 1.62"]
[Black "Dr.Deeb, qwerty"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B01"]
[Annotator "Deep Fritz 12 (20m)"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[Source "Chess Informant"]

{B01: Scandinavian Defence} 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3
c6 6. h3 Bf5 7. Be2 (7. Bd2 e6 8. Nh4 Bg6 9. Nxg6 hxg6 10. Bd3 Qb6 11. Ne2 Nbd7
12. O-O Bd6 13. b4 O-O 14. c4 Qd8 15. Qb3 e5 16. dxe5 Nxe5 17. Bc2 c5 18. Rad1
Qb6 19. Be3 Rfe8 20. Nc3 Bf8 21. b5 Qe6 {Cuartas,J (2495)-Avila Jimenez,J
(2286)/Barbera del Valles 2008/CBM 125 Extra/1-0 (44)}) 7... e6 8. O-O {
White castles and improves king safety} Nbd7 $146 (8... Bd6 9. Nd2 Qc7 10. Nc4
Bh2+ 11. Kh1 Bf4 12. Bf3 O-O 13. Qe2 Nbd7 14. Bxf4 Qxf4 15. Rad1 Rfd8 16. a4
Nb6 17. Ne5 Nbd5 18. Nxd5 cxd5 19. g3 Qh6 20. h4 Be4 21. Kg1 Rac8 22. c4 b6 23.
Rc1 {Azarov,S (2530)-Gashimov,S (2317)/Nakhchivan 2003/EXT 2004/1/2-1/2 (37)})
9. Nh4 Bg6 10. Nxg6 hxg6 11. a3 {Controls b4} Bd6 12. Be3 O-O-O 13. Bd3 (13.
Qd2 Qc7 $11) 13... Qc7 14. f4 (14. Qf3 Rh4 $11) 14... Nb6 $15 15. Qd2 Nbd5 16.
Nxd5 Nxd5 17. Rf2 Rh5 (17... Rh4 18. Raf1 $17) 18. c3 {Prevents intrusion on b4
} Nxe3 19. Qxe3 {Opposite coloured bishops appeared} Kb8 (19... Rh4 20. Raf1
$11) 20. b4 $11 Be7 21. Re1 Qd6 22. Be2 Rh6 23. Bc4 Bf6 24. a4 Rh5 25. a5 {
This push gains space} a6 {Covers b5} 26. Ref1 Rdh8 27. Ra2 Rh4 28. Re2 R4h5
29. Ref2 Rh4 30. Qf3 R4h5 31. Rd2 Rh4 32. Qe3 R4h5 33. Re2 Rh4 34. Rf3 R4h5 35.
g4 {White threatens to win material: g4xh5} Rh4 36. Re1 Kc8 37. Qd3 Kb8 38.
Ree3 Ka7 39. Kf1 Kb8 40. Qc2 Qc7 41. Ke1 Ka7 42. Qd3 Qd6 1/2-1/2