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"The Other Guy -the Abominable Chess Man- has arrived. Entrenched in mass produced microelectronic circuitry, he operates in attics, villas, suburban dwellings, shacks, prisons, ships, airplanes and trains. And he makes his own moves and good ones too. He comments on games like a professional expert in the press room in real time at major online chess events. All this at the expense of 50$/Euros including an entire book store with 120 years of chess theory. The best things in life are free." Chessville is pleased to introduce Albert Alberts, author of How to Fool Fritz - Explorations in Man-Assisted Machine Chess. He uses the silicon beast to aid in his evaluation of chess positions, and imposes his own brand of lyrical commentary on the results. Here are two noted reviewer's comments on his book: Writes Dr Steven Dowd, "Alberts is an idiosyncratic author, which should not be confused with “bad.” He writes about chess computers not from the view of one who knows about computers (I still wonder if I read correctly that all his analysis was done on a computer that he found in a trash heap!), but one who loves chess. Those who have attended college probably had at least one such idiosyncratic professor – a guy who was, for lack of a better term, a bit “nutty” but who had such interesting ideas that you could not help but enjoy the class...You’ll learn something from this book, not just about computers, but about chess and chessplayers – and isn’t that what it is all about? Having fun with chess is what it is all about – and on this level, Alberts succeeds with flying colors." Writes Dr. Andy Walker, "On the other hand, you *should* do your own explorations, and AA gives you lots of starting points for some fun lines; and if you don't want to do that, you can play through [with difficulty] some well-known games alongside a thoroughly racy companion -- Alberts writes like Nicolas ["Van der Valk"] Freeling on speed. You can also enjoy many interludes of physics, philosophy and chess history; a scientific Nicolas Freeling, to boot. You will be frustrated, annoyed, entertained, and swept along; but not bored. You will want to put the book down, even hurl it down; but you will pick it up again...I wanted to dislike this book, I really did. I still can't actually *read* it. But I've come to quite like it." Enjoy Alberts' work in the articles below: Articles:
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