| May-30-07 | | Tomlinsky: While Bent Larsen gets top billing it's this guy that was the real mastermind behind their publication Zoom 001: Zero Hour for Operative Opening Models. A very interesting book. |
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| May-31-07 | | whiteshark: <Tomlinsky>: This book was published 1979. The idea: Zoom 001 takes out a <<single> pawn-structure> - the Grunfeld Indian Structure - and shows that you are able to use this structure as black against any white opening - and v.v. against every black defence! Here you find it: economic opening learning by concentrating on a single structure - that's effective <pattern-recognition> ! <A very interesting book> Indeed. It was of his time ahead.
Unfortunately I bought this book 25 years to late. |
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| Nov-03-07 | | whiteshark: Great, I've been here before and coundn't remember it.
Coincidently this <ZOOM 001> book is again in front of me,
451 games commented by Bent Larsen, really fantastic stuff to read !! |
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| Dec-09-08 | | whiteshark: He also wrote <Modern Benoni - Survey of a Structure> in 1973. |
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Aug-14-16
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Aug-14-16
 | | perfidious: The mauve cover of <Son of Sorrow> has got to go, however: when I mentioned that work to <FSR>, I warned him about the colour. Nasty. |
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Aug-14-16
| | Domdaniel: <perf> - That is magnificent, as comments go. Pesonally, I'm a man of constant sorrow... |
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Aug-14-16
| | Domdaniel: 'Personally', I mean. Anyway, wasn't mauve dye invented by some Victorian chemist around 1860? |
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| Aug-14-16 | | zanzibar: Invented in 1858, but...
<The molecular structure of mauveine proved difficult to determine, finally being identified in 1994> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauve...
http://marspolaris.tripod.com/siteb... |
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Oct-05-17
| | Domdaniel: There's a lot to be said about molecular structures, chess, and synthesis. One day, I may work out how to say it.
In the meantime, there's Pynchon's version of Carothers, the Great Synthesist, and the rise of the plastics industry in the 1930s. The German scientists trying to develop new plastics aimed for "Kraft, Standfestigkeit, Weisse" - or "Strength, Stability, Whiteness" ... sometimes mistaken as a Nazi slogan. Also, of course, strongly reminiscent of PM May's recent campaign slogan in the UK. |
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Oct-05-17
| | Domdaniel: < Zeuthen introduced structuralist thinking to chess.> Since writing that, I've read some late writings by Nimzowitsch which seem to suggest he got there first. This would give Nimzo, along with Roman Jakobsen, a strong position from which to be seen as the Father of Structuralism. |
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