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| Sep-29-06 | | Archives: I just finished reading Berliners "The System" for the second time. Despite the scathing reviews that Silman and some others gave it, I quite enjoyed it. It did tend to be very dogmatic at times. But I thought it contained some very good gems of information. Particularly the chapter of chunking. Does anyone know where I can find any more of Berliners chess games, as there are only 50 of them on Chessgames. But on the back of the book it says his lifetime record is +94 =10 -1 |
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| Oct-01-06 | | Archives: <Can someone tell me what Berliner recommends in 'The System' against the Dutch?> While the ChessGames database does not contain any games of Berliner playing the White side of the Dutch, I did manage to find a couple of games in ChessBase's online databse. [Event "US-op"]
[Site "Omaha"]
[Date "1959.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Berliner,Hans Jack"]
[Black "Ault,Robin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "A85"]
1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e4 Nxc3 7.bxc3 Bg7 8.Bc4 c5
9.Ne2 Nc6 10.Be3 cxd4 11.cxd4 fxe4 12.fxe4 Rf8 13.Qb3 Bxd4 14.Bxd4 Nxd4 15.Nxd4 Qxd4 16.Qa4+
1-0
[Event "W-ch5 sf01 corr6265"]
[Site "ICCF corr"]
[Date "1962.??.??"]
[Round "0"]
[White "Berliner,Hans Jack"]
[Black "Schoisswohl,Alexander"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "A95"]
1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e6 4.g3 d5 5.Bg2 c6 6.Nf3 Be7 7.0-0 0-0 8.Rb1 Kh8
9.Qc2 Qe8 10.b4 Nbd7 11.b5 c5 12.cxd5 exd5 13.dxc5 Nxc5 14.Nd4 Nce4 15.Bb2 Bd7 16.e3 Rc8
17.Qd3 Nxc3 18.Bxc3 Ne4 19.Ne2 Rc5 20.a4 Rc4 21.Bxe4 fxe4 22.Qxd5 Qc8 23.Bd4 Bg4 24.Nf4 Bf6
25.Bxf6 Rxf6 26.h3 Rc5 27.Qd2 Rc2 28.Qd4 Bf3 29.Kh2 h6 30.Qa1 Rd6 31.Rbc1 Rdd2 32.Rxc2 Qxc2
33.Kg1 Qc4 34.g4 b6 35.Re1 Qa2 36.Qxa2 Rxa2 37.Ne6 h5 38.g5 Kh7 39.h4 Rxa4 40.Rc1 Bg4
41.Nd4 Kg8 42.Kg2 Kf8 43.Rc7 a6 44.bxa6 Rxa6 45.Rb7 Ra8 46.Rxb6 Kf7 47.Rb7+ Kg6 48.Re7 Bf5
49.Kg3 1-0 |
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Oct-01-06
 | | Open Defence: actually he looks like Anthony Quinn |
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| Apr-24-07 | | Poisonpawns: Berliner crushes 12..Qa3 in Grunfeld in response to critics
http://www.fortunecity.de/olympia/m... |
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Mar-07-08
 | | xenophon: i enjoyed reading the system.I'm not sure if it's a good book or not but ,i suspect unintentionally,it's very funny.Mr Berliner's ego runs away from him and tramples everything into dust! |
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| Apr-18-08 | | caifan461: i think his record is like 93-1. anyone know where i can get all his games?? |
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| May-18-08 | | ateixeira: Hi to all! I'm new here and am trying to learn how to play better chess. I tried to check <Poisonpawns> link but it didn't work. I guess the page is off. So does anybody know a way I can still see it? Or did anybody take notes of Berliner's analysis? Thanks |
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May-18-08
| | Open Defence: < ateixeira >
I found a limited discussion of the 12..Qa3 line here at page 14 ftp://ajec-echecs.org:45000/CCN/ccnews32.pdf
but other Berliner lines are discussed there |
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| May-18-08 | | ateixeira: <Open Defence> Thanks for the pdf. It also has some more discussion on other links so I guess it'll be helpful to me. |
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| Oct-08-08 | | Karpova: John Watson thoroughly reviews Hans Berliner's "The System" (Gambit Publications, 1999): http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_re... |
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| Oct-08-08 | | Jim Bartle: Thoroughly "trashes" is more like it... |
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Jan-27-09
 | | Sneaky: The System is one of the most brilliant chess books of the modern era. I'll match "The System" up against "My System" any day. That's a strong statement, I know. Happy 80th birthday to one of the greatest chess minds of the 20th century, I hope he lives to be 100, when he can witness the world finally catch up to his ideas which were so vastly far ahead of his time. |
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| Jan-27-09 | | whiteshark: I'd like to join in every word <sneaky> wrote!! Many happy returns, Mr. Berliner!! |
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| Jan-27-09 | | WhiteRook48: Mr. Berliner, why haven't you played from 2004 to 2008? |
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| Feb-14-09 | | WhiteRook48: seems like this guy is NOT returning to active chess play
:( |
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| Mar-13-09 | | whiteshark: <Computer experts vastly underestimate the time required to beat the World Champion. <Chess experts, on the other hand, vastly overestimate the time involved.>> --Hans Berliner |
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| Mar-14-09 | | Ed Trice: I sat next to Hans Berliner for what turned out to be Hi Tech's last tournament. It won the event, 5-0, at the Pennsylvania State Chess Championship that year. My program, The Sniper (http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMa...), had 2 wins and 3 draws to finish tied for 10th with like a zillion others. We only had a few conversations, but I found a great deal of his insights to be very illuminating. |
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| Mar-14-09 | | whiteshark: I hope one day I could do an in-depth analysis of his book. |
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| Mar-14-09 | | Jim Bartle: I haven't seen "The System" and have no opinion either way about it. But I wonder if the people who think it's great have read the jeremy silman link above, and if so, what they think of Watson's "call out" of a review. |
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| Mar-15-09 | | whiteshark: <Karpova> I wouldn't call it <thoroughly>. He simply wrote a damning review. |
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| Mar-15-09 | | Ed Trice: Berliner's credibility has to be respected, and Silman's review has to be at least suspect. After all, it would be a "conflict of interest", would it not, for him to tout a book by another fellow chess author? I remember reading somewhere that Berliner had something like a 99-1 record as correspondence player on the path to becoming World Champion of correspondence. That's saying something, isn't it? |
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| Mar-15-09 | | Jim Bartle: "After all, it would be a "conflict of interest", would it not, for him to tout a book by another fellow chess author?" Under that standard you could toss out most of the New York Time Book Review every week. The reviewers are people who know about the subject of the book in question, and they're often fellow writers on the same or similar subjects. |
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| Mar-15-09 | | Jim Bartle: I keep thinking how ridiculous the "conflict of interest' statement concerning book reviewing is, I mean, it's truly monumental. I read the New Yorker, and John Updike reviewed fiction there for thirty years, mostly very positive reviews. But he's suspect because he's also a novelist? And in chess, John Donaldson, Jeremy Silman and many others have reviewed new chess books, including many, many positive reviews. I guess they're suspect as well. John Watson has written glowingly of many chess books (I see them at chesscafe); he just didn't like "The System," and tried to rip it to shreds. OK, today's NY Times Book Review:
"Cheever: A Life," biography reviewed by biographer Geoffrey Wolff. "Sowing Crisis," a book on US policy in the Middle East, is reviewed by political writer James Traub. "1848: Year of Revolution," a history book, is reviewed by historian and author Gary Bass. A novel, "The Cradle," is reviewed by novelist Dean Bakopoulos. The novel "Coventry" is reviewed by novelist Adam Haslett. And those are just from the featured reviews on the front page of today's book review. Sheesh. |
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| Mar-15-09 | | MaxxLange: 1. f3: the ideal first move |
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| Apr-21-09 | | SirChrislov: In Andrew Soltis' masterpiece the 100 best chess games of the 20th century,ranked,from 1900 to 2000 this game is ranked # 1, and the names are not even famous!!! or the game! number 2 is an otb game by polugayevsky. you know which one. |
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