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Jun-18-07
 | | Eric Schiller: <hunter> I haven't played Shogi since High School, but I am brushing up as I may be involved with it next year. As for other variants, I consider them all very much inferior to chess, which has evolved greatly to achieve a near-perfect balance of strategy and tactics. In any case, I still have a lot to learn about chess, so see no need to fool around with inferior imitations. I haven't yet found any proposed variant to match the balance of chess. |
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Jun-18-07
| | Eric Schiller: <pazzed> Jere,y Silman often uses amateur examples in his excellent books. |
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| Jun-19-07 | | pazzed paun: <Eric Schiller> no, i do not think i am hallucinating--the entire book had complete amatuer games focused aroun an endgame theme--i thought it was griffiths who wrote some British magazine cols. but i am not having any luck. |
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| Jul-13-07 | | thatsmate: Mr. Schiller, I noticed on your homepage that you got your PhD from the University of Chicago. I'll be attending the UofC for my undergraduate degree this coming fall, and I wonder if you have any advice on clubs/tournaments/chess opportunites of any sort in the University of Chicago area. I know the University has a chess team, but I am a little worried about it; its website hasn't been updated since 8 June 2004! Thanks in advance for any advice you may have. |
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| Jul-13-07 | | webdove: Mr. Schiller - It's a pleasure to talk to you. I was looking at an excerpt from a book you wrote (I think it's a book) with Mr. John Watson entitled "How To Suceed in the Queen Pawn Openings". Where can I find a complete copy of this? |
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Jul-13-07
| | Eric Schiller: <webdove> It is available at www.trafford.com. An excerpt is online here:
http://ericschiller.com/pdf/HowToSu... |
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Jul-13-07
| | Eric Schiller: <thatsmate> I don't know the current status of the chess team, but chess has returned to Harper Court, outdoors, and Chicago has as huge chess community, so you'll be fine. |
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| Jul-13-07 | | MaxxLange: <pazzed paun> GM Norwood wrote a book with the English snooker champion about the latter's efforts to improve at chess - could that have been it? |
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Jul-27-07
| | Eric Schiller: I'll be blogging daily from the Staunton Memorial, which begins soon. It is about time that big chess events return to London, and I look forward to being back in Morphy's old favorite, Simpson's-in-the-Strand. But my doctor knows what they serve, and has warned me about the cholesterol. Traditional British fare isn't exactly light! But then again, there will be plenty of good beer! |
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Aug-07-07
 | | Eggman: Mr. Schiller, I have some questions about the Caxton project to name the openings: Does it have much support?
Are there opponents to it?
How did the 150 Attack (1.e4 d6 2.d4 ♘f6 3.♘c3 g6 4.♗e3 c6 5.♕d2) in the Pirc get its name? |
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| Aug-12-07 | | morphian: Eric, hi. I'm trying to study the King's Indian Defense. I know you've written a book on it and I'm planning to get a copy. I want to study some games from GMs who are good at it and whose games are instructive to newbies at the KID. Whose games would you suggest that I study? |
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| Aug-12-07 | | MaxxLange: <How did the 150 Attack (1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be3 c6 5.Qd2) in the Pirc get its name?> I always heard it's from BCF ratings - a 150 rating in the UK is about B player strength in USCF ratings, and this attack against the Pirc and Modern was popular with players of that grade. |
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Aug-12-07
| | Eric Schiller: <Morfphian> Kasparov games, but also study Ray Keene's because he will answer your questions on his page here and he was a leading exponent. Strategically, KID is easy, but tactically crazy. Not my cup of tea. The boom I wrote with Gufeld is useful. He was a specialist in the line. He also has some beautiful games. |
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Aug-12-07
| | Eric Schiller: <eggman> no opposition I know of. 150 Attack answer is below, it was developed in England. |
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| Aug-12-07 | | morphian: Ok thanks. I'll take note. =) |
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| Aug-13-07 | | D4n: Eric Schiller, is one of my favorite writers when it comes to Chess books.. |
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Aug-14-07
| | Eric Schiller: On today's rest day at the Staunton I am feasting on Ray Keene's chess library. Tasty! He has a great collection. |
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| Aug-21-07 | | morphian: Eric,
What can you advice players below 2100 rating in terms of our approach to training? Should we focus on tactics like utilizing our pieces the best we can, attacking and combinations, and going for mate. Or should we focus on positional play like striving to gain more space in the opening, restricting the opponent's moves, and analyzing positional imbalances in our games? |
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| Aug-22-07 | | RookFile: My guess is, if you want to get good, play players better than yourself. |
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| Aug-22-07 | | contra: You also need to study with players better than yourself. |
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| Aug-23-07 | | King mega: i do not know that all the world-known authors also have an account in cg.com. |
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| Aug-23-07 | | DutchKnight: <King Mega>You didn't??? why i myself am the renowned author of How to win by a King Sacrifice ;)(the trick is to sac your king in the 2nd last round of a tournament to create suspense and psych the opponent out and make it easier to win;) substiantial counterplay!!!!!!;) |
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| Aug-23-07 | | morphian: How about a player sacrifice? ;) |
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| Aug-24-07 | | King mega: rating sacrifice? |
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| Aug-24-07 | | brankat: Self-sacrifice? |
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