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Archive for March, 2009

The Winner is …

Friday, March 27th, 2009

I’ve written a couple of times comparing the merits of Chess Assistant and ChessBase. Since I’m no GM and so don’t get my copies for free, I can only afford to keep one database going and up to date, so which one will it be?
(drum roll, please)
Chess Assistant.

What Don’t You Know?

Friday, March 27th, 2009

A story that’s always impressed me is the one about how Richard Feynmann prepared himself for an Exam. He bought a blank notebook, entitled it “What I don’t know” and over the next few weeks completely organized everything he knew about physics. He reconstructed it, reconnected the parts of it into the whole. When he [...]