Here is God's Plenty:Part I

Submitted by chessbibliophile on Fri, 09/25/2009 at 2:29am.

UltraCorr3 (CD)

Edited by Tim Harding

System requirement:ChessBase 8 or higher version

ChessMail.2009

http://www.chessmail.com/

The release of Chess Mail CD UltraCorr.3 calls for a celebration. Here is God’s plenty.Where else would you find over a million games, more than 15,000 of them with deep annotations?* Besides, there are at least 10,000 miniatures.As a bonus, the CD also offers two books by Tim Harding, Winning at Correspondence Chess and 64 Great Chess Games. What is more, it includes a complete set of Chess Mail issues from 1997 to 2006 in pdf. format. This tiny magazine had few peers in sheer range of material, quality of games and analysis. It’s wonderful to see it again. Correspondence games are a rich source of new ideas in openings.Not a day of my life passes without seeing a master acknowledging his debt to some correspondence game or the other.Yes, there is a subterranean link between over the board play and correspondence chess. Both have benefited by this extraordinary relationship.Yet ignorance and prejudice still persist in the minds of several OTB players. “Correspondence players must be weak.Why else would be they afraid of over the board play?”.Now if you include Mikhail Tschigorin, Alexander Alekhine and Paul Keres among these “weak’’ players you can see how absurd this argument sounds! As every CC player is aware, these great masters honed their skills in correspondence play. For the record, all available games of these players can be found in this CD: Tschigorin (44), Alekhine (89) and Keres (141).As before, you will be asked to match your wits with these legendary figures.

Now something strange has happened before this position.When the opponent's envelope arrives, Tschigorin is nowhere to be found.

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You, his young disciple, mischievously decide to make the move on his behalf.What would you play?

In the second game you are joining hands with Alekhine.

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That was a stunning finish. Now some happy hunting with Paul Keres.

And it did not take long. More fun here:

http://www.chess.com/article/view/here-is-gods-plentypart-ii

http://www.chess.com/article/view/here-is-gods-plentypart-iii?ncc=2

*Notes:1) In this CD there are 1,060,286 games and fragments, of which over

30,000 carry comments of varying length.

2)Do not miss the game, Alekhine-Zhukovsky, from this CD

http://latestchess.com/showNews.php?id=265

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by chessbibliophile - 4 months ago
Bangalore India

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Dear friend,

Thank you.

by pmrichard_93 - 4 months ago
CT United States

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cool game

by chessbibliophile - 4 months ago
Bangalore India

Member Since: May 2009
Member Points: 1027

Inotgramps wrote,“Now all you have to do is play through 58.097863 games per day x 365 days a year for 50 years...and you will finish the CD!”

There are two ways of viewing this CD: One is simply practical. You narrow down your search to a specific opening line (say,Slav Exchange) a particular kind of middle game (bishop versus knight) or a concrete ending (queen versus two rooks). You get a small database of positions you want. You can focus it on a narrower field limiting it to recent decades. If one dips into annotated games here with a lot of decent prose, one learns more.

There is a different and pleasant way of looking at this CD. You may just browse through Chess Mail issues (1997-2005) and enjoy. Or read 64 Great Chess Games that comes in pdf format along with this book.