Perhaps some Mac users can recommend software.
As to your original question, it is certainly feasible to do a positional search within Chessbase for opposite-side castling, whether or not there were wing attacks that followed.
If you know the format (pgn, etc.) someone could shoot you such a file.
I'd tend to find older games more useful for any inexpert student as such games usually seem more comprehensible.
i don't know that an in depth study of hundreds of master games is much use to vthe average player. what i believe is more useful if you want to follow that type of path, is pick a particular master whose style appeals to you,and try to comprehend his or her basic ideas. for example many years ago i bought and studied in depth mein system by nimzowitz,and eventually had a lot of success with his methods. however in my old age I find it much too involved and tiring for my present levels of concentration, but even though it is dated these days, i reckon its pretty good for younger people who like the hypermodern style of play
Thanks. I sorted of fell into your advice -- oh, hello Mike! -- on my own, Estragon and Mike.
Nimzowich is getting its second run through right now.
As Mike has noticed, he is now beating me as I consistently use the KIA instead of beating me consistently when I tried a variety of openings. I got the basic book on KIA, or at least a basic book -- "Modern King's Indian Attack" -- John Hall and Jan R. Cartier. As I play I try to let the game and the book work together.
Thanks kco. I will look at those sites promptly. Right now mikemorgan20 has me using my free time trying to escape his traps.
I am ranked about 1400. I try to play through a dozen or so masters' games a day using this website and chessgames.com. I do not have any chess engines and am limited, I think, because we have a Macintosh household.
In reading a book by Keres on the middle game, he said that he and his friends in elementary school would play a hundred games after school and he learned about attacking and defending the king with castling on the same side, on opposite sides, queen-side attack, and king-side attack -- sort of four types of games, with of course misc. attacks being another issue.
What I would like to do is to find a way to search on a group of games pre-sorted for study. Then I could play through a hundred games straight when castling was done on opposite sides, e.g.
I can't think of anyway to do this except to keep track of the games I study in my notebook and then go over them a second time. which I guess would do the trick.