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Does anyone recommend the following books for thinking, planning, and position analysis (mostly middle game)? Reassess your chess 4th edition and My system . If not, then is there any book(s) out there that is arguably better? Also, what chess regimens that is best to use to help a chess player go ...

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Thanks.

At a later time I will try to summarize the data and maybe combine it with the survival data. Now I have to prepare my things though; I have to go to the airport, heading to Boston tomorrow morning...
(If they let me through the Ebola control..)

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Axel

Hello Axel: I find this topic very interesting. I coded a clumsy parser more than a year ago (link here ) in a try to search the frequency of promotions and underpromotions by file (a, b, ..., g, h). The results of that thread are a little off since my programming skills are very poor and that pars...

The biggest difference is calculated for the c-pawn and then the d-pawn. I bet this is because bazillions of sicilians were played in the database. Guenther This is absolutely likely; at least (naturally) we do not have an equal distribution of openings. As such, as mentioned before, it would be go...

The biggest difference is calculated for the c-pawn and then the d-pawn. I bet this is because bazillions of sicilians were played in the database. Guenther This is absolutely likely; at least (naturally) we do not have an equal distribution of openings. As such, as mentioned before, it would be go...

The biggest difference is calculated for the c-pawn and then the d-pawn. I bet this is because bazillions of sicilians were played in the database. Guenther This is absolutely likely; at least (naturally) we do not have an equal distribution of openings. As such, as mentioned before, it would be go...

Hi all, I found this on the web, which I think is quite interesting: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-chances-of-survival-of-individual-chess-pieces-in-average-games http://i0.wp.com/www.chessluddite.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Chances.jpg This result is based on the Million Base 2.2 (2.2m maste...

.....If that court favors you, as so many times is the case when an american citizen is challenged by someone like me, from a tiny country, I have already put in red alert my horde of Serbian servants, people of very bad character, all of them. Fern, you better switch to the Crimea-Russian syndicat...

I heard this version is the official trainer for the Chilean football national team, which will play against Germany in ... 2 minutes from now. I find this is an unfair advantage.

It is fortunate that at last we coincide in something. Yes, my gran grand father had that liaison with that lady and the result was a line that in its final branch landed in you, so we are cousins of a sort, fact that is additionally proved by the fact that my father lin is too plenty of drunkards,...