1)There are only games from 1968 to 2008(no games from 2009-2010 and I know larry played in the senior world championship also in 2009)
2)When I try to download pgn I get the following message:
"Sorry, this feature is available only to Premium Members."
I do not plan to pay for premium membership in that site and
I wonder if there are better sources to download games of specific players.
3)One of my relative weaknesses in chess is the opening and I wonder what opening to learn.
Igor Khmelnitsky suggest in his book chess exam to find a very strong player that I like his style to adopt his opening repertoire.
I want to learn opening repertoire that will maximize my chances and I have no specific style that I like.
I have visualization problems so I thought that maybe it can be good to follow larry kaufman openings because he has similiar problems so he may know some openings when visualization is relatively less important.
Unfortunately it seems that GM larry kaufman changes his opening and has no constant opening so I think that learning from his games is not a good idea in order to improve in chess.
Uri
You have to do exactly the opposite! for a while play openings where you have weaknesses! Make yourself more rounded and dynamic. If you are going to run from your weaknesses, you will never make serious progress.
Buy the book "Opening preparation" by Dvoretsky and read very carefully the chapter "Middlegame problems". That was actually an article that I read long before the book was published. It must have been an article in a Russian magazine. I read the translation in the 70's in "Ajedrez" the primary Argentinian magazine of the time. If you do not want to trust me, trust Oscar Panno, who gave me the advice. "This is the secret how to prepare openings".
The rest of the book is of course, outstanding. Do not make the mistake of preparing openings just memorizing lines. It is a short term fix that does not even work. Study openings with the corresponding typical middlegames and endgames.
If you like playing the Catalan or Grunfeld, try to find the book ZOOM, by Bent Larsen. That is a complete repertoire solution, based on plans and schemes. Fascinating.
chessgames.com is a good site - they have many nice features for members and the cost for membership is small ($25/year) - but they don't try to be a complete database and they aren't terribly good about db quality. If you want complete, 365chess.com is pretty good but they also have a membership level to get bulk downloads.
Generally you get what you pay for here. For example: ChessBase and MegaBase are expensive, but IMHO they are so worth it. CB has a great UI, thousands of games with annotations, search by position and tactics as well as opening & player etc., lots of features for opening study, etc. Their DBs are not perfect or 100% complete but are generally good quality. I resisted buying these products for years because of cost but now I use them daily and wouldn't want to be without them.
1)There are only games from 1968 to 2008(no games from 2009-2010 and I know larry played in the senior world championship also in 2009)
2)When I try to download pgn I get the following message:
"Sorry, this feature is available only to Premium Members."
I do not plan to pay for premium membership in that site and
I wonder if there are better sources to download games of specific players.
3)One of my relative weaknesses in chess is the opening and I wonder what opening to learn.
Igor Khmelnitsky suggest in his book chess exam to find a very strong player that I like his style to adopt his opening repertoire.
I want to learn opening repertoire that will maximize my chances and I have no specific style that I like.
I have visualization problems so I thought that maybe it can be good to follow larry kaufman openings because he has similiar problems so he may know some openings when visualization is relatively less important.
Unfortunately it seems that GM larry kaufman changes his opening and has no constant opening so I think that learning from his games is not a good idea in order to improve in chess.
Uri
You have to do exactly the opposite! for a while play openings where you have weaknesses! Make yourself more rounded and dynamic. If you are going to run from your weaknesses, you will never make serious progress.
Buy the book "Opening preparation" by Dvoretsky and read very carefully the chapter "Middlegame problems". That was actually an article that I read long before the book was published. It must have been an article in a Russian magazine. I read the translation in the 70's in "Ajedrez" the primary Argentinian magazine of the time. If you do not want to trust me, trust Oscar Panno, who gave me the advice. "This is the secret how to prepare openings".
The rest of the book is of course, outstanding. Do not make the mistake of preparing openings just memorizing lines. It is a short term fix that does not even work. Study openings with the corresponding typical middlegames and endgames.
If you like playing the Catalan or Grunfeld, try to find the book ZOOM, by Bent Larsen. That is a complete repertoire solution, based on plans and schemes. Fascinating.
Miguel
I do not understand why playing openings that I do not know in tournaments is going to help me.
If the target is to get experience in something different then it seems to me that it may be better to try the opening first in games against the computer
Practically I have not much knowledge now about opening but I think that it is better to get the knowledge by learning at home and to use the knowledge in games and not the opposite.
1)There are only games from 1968 to 2008(no games from 2009-2010 and I know larry played in the senior world championship also in 2009)
2)When I try to download pgn I get the following message:
"Sorry, this feature is available only to Premium Members."
I do not plan to pay for premium membership in that site and
I wonder if there are better sources to download games of specific players.
3)One of my relative weaknesses in chess is the opening and I wonder what opening to learn.
Igor Khmelnitsky suggest in his book chess exam to find a very strong player that I like his style to adopt his opening repertoire.
I want to learn opening repertoire that will maximize my chances and I have no specific style that I like.
I have visualization problems so I thought that maybe it can be good to follow larry kaufman openings because he has similiar problems so he may know some openings when visualization is relatively less important.
Unfortunately it seems that GM larry kaufman changes his opening and has no constant opening so I think that learning from his games is not a good idea in order to improve in chess.
Uri
You have to do exactly the opposite! for a while play openings where you have weaknesses! Make yourself more rounded and dynamic. If you are going to run from your weaknesses, you will never make serious progress.
Buy the book "Opening preparation" by Dvoretsky and read very carefully the chapter "Middlegame problems". That was actually an article that I read long before the book was published. It must have been an article in a Russian magazine. I read the translation in the 70's in "Ajedrez" the primary Argentinian magazine of the time. If you do not want to trust me, trust Oscar Panno, who gave me the advice. "This is the secret how to prepare openings".
The rest of the book is of course, outstanding. Do not make the mistake of preparing openings just memorizing lines. It is a short term fix that does not even work. Study openings with the corresponding typical middlegames and endgames.
If you like playing the Catalan or Grunfeld, try to find the book ZOOM, by Bent Larsen. That is a complete repertoire solution, based on plans and schemes. Fascinating.
Miguel
I do not understand why playing openings that I do not know in tournaments is going to help me.
I did not say that. Get to know your openings, but do not run away from your weaknesses. Face them.
If the target is to get experience in something different then it seems to me that it may be better to try the opening first in games against the computer
Practically I have not much knowledge now about opening but I think that it is better to get the knowledge by learning at home and to use the knowledge in games and not the opposite.
