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Theodore Germann vs Eugen Karl Wagenheim
Karlsbad (Melluzhi) Beach (1897), Riga RUE
Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo. Italian Four Knights Variation (C50)  ·  1-0

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White to move.
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Oct-30-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  Ziryab: Curious statement about this game in Irving Chernev, <The 1000 Best Short Games of Chess> (1955): “One of the most difficult jobs facing an electronic chess player is the weighing of intangibles. Is an open file, for example, worth a queen and A bishop? Or, what is the par value of half a dozen checks?” (142)

Today, we might read this comment in the context of problems with computer evaluation. But, Chernev was writing in 1955 about a game played more than half a century earlier. What does he mean by “electronic chess player”?

Oct-30-22
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  perfidious: By the time I read Chernev's work (ca 1973), there was, as yet no thought of a computer playing nearly as well as a human; they remained but a charming novelty. Of course, such a consideration as Chernev pondered over is now--given the extraordinary speed with which today's software processes such transactions--everyday action.

Cannot imagine what Chernev meant by his remark, tho; Turing's groundbreaking efforts were, in the 1950s, hardly the stuff of which tales were told.

Nov-13-22
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  Ziryab: I was introduced to the book through a library copy in 1975. I didn’t get far far through it, but it was among the first chess books I looked at and it transformed my chess. I went from a complete beginner, knowing nothing of strategy and tactics, to someone capable of beating my friends and even my dad.

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