Chess Systems: The Whole Enchilada

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I have recently written two books on complete chess systems, that I have made available to Chess.com members, in the "Other" section of the Download area. (Look for the Yin/Yang symbol)

They are titled:

The Tiger and Dragon
and
The Bear

These books are designed to:

1. Give you a complete repertoire as White and Black.
2. Be original, and gauaranteed to give your opponent psychological apoplexy.
3. Require very little rote memorization of variations (themes, motifs, and structure are emphasized).4.  Extensively tested with computers, mathematics, chess opening databases and/or psychology.5.  Playable at all levels of chess, from club to Grandmaster.
6.Written with the idea that the reader need never have to buy another book on chess.
7. Designed to create a *complete* chess player, in every aspect of the word, and of the game.

The idea for the generation of these books came, as usual, from the search to solve a problem.

When I was younger, , I rose to the rank of expert over-the-board, and 2300 as
a correspondence player. However, in my late 40's I developed a chemical brain imbalance, that, while not debilitating in any other way, greatly affected my ability to play chess. Yous ee I was a highly theoretical animal, playing openings like the Sicilian Dragon and King's Indian as Black, and lines like the Ruy Lopez, Max Lange Attack...etc as White. All of a sudden, I found that I simply *could not* remember all of the variations. My ability to memorize lines dropped dramatically. After a hiatus of more than 10 years, I decided to play some tournament and correspondnce chess, just to see how bad things had gotten. My rating plummeted from 2000 over-the-board, to 1700. My correspondence rating plummeted from 2300 to 1800.

It was therefore apparent that I needed to come at chess from a different angle. I studied all the aspects of the game, and came up with the concept of attempting to play "perfect" chess through a variety of methods that were conducive to my predicament.

I feel that the result of those labors may also be beneficial to other chess players, and particularly for those who are older, mentally infirm in some way, beginning players casting about in the search of an effective chess repertoire and essential chess knowledge, or experienced chess players that are looking for new roads to follow, or even just something to surprise their next tournament
opponent or fellow memebers at their local club.

I hope that you find the books of benefit, and all comments are welcome.

Avatar of ghostofmaroczy

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It is unfortunate how the Bear repertoire involves 1...a6 which is known as the St George who is known as the dragon slayer while your other repertoire involves the Ujtelky Dragon form of the Modern Defense which when coupled with ...a6 constitutes Tiger's Modern which reuses the term Tiger which you use for the crouching ...Nd7...Ne7 form of the Robatsch.

You need to sort out your best usage of the term Dragon.

If you want to use Dragon in conjunction with Pterodactyl, then don't use the term Black Bear for ...a6.

Perhaps the flipside of your White Bear repertoire should have been ...f5 against the Queen's pawn, while employing another Henry Edward Bird favorite, the Dragon Sicilian against the King's pawn.

Again, you will benefit if you limit your usage of the term Dragon to one opening.