More on Vitruvius

At http://vitruviuschess.blogspot.com/2011/11/piccoli-miglioramenti.html we read that Vitruvius shall be released on Jan. 1st 2012. In the meantime, we can enjoy a game played Vitruvius against Komodo 3.0 as part of a test match played at 40 min. per player/game level. ..fireworks.....

Walter Thomas Downs' chess works

Original thinkers will always have room on this blog. Now we offer a free download link to Walter Thomas Downs' works This is his brief description of the systems as follows:
"Featured are two complete chess systems:
The Tiger and Dragon.
The Bear.
These systems feature complete repertoires for White and Black as well as all the "nuts and bolts" you need to be a complete chess player. They were written with the idea that the chess enthusiast need never have to buy another book on chess. The systems are backed up by intensive computer, mathematical and/or psychological analyses, as well as intensive research using chess openings databases."

Statistics

Today I checked the statistics of the blog. This is the list of the 10 Countries who read this blog most often. It's really an international blog :-)

More on Alexander Shashin's work

In a previous post http://theamazingchessworld.blogspot.com/2011/02/chess-philosophers.html   we have already given a link to Alexander Shashin's work. Now we offer additional links as follows:
http://www.bs-chess.com/latin/lectures/shashin1.html
http://www.gmchess.com/gmschool/teachers/shashin/
We hope that Shashin will have a chance soon to publish his original ideas in a book, which although still not realeased, is mentioned in the above links as "The chess and metachess".

1.e4 Nh6!? du Chattel System

Just finished this http://queenalice.com/ game against a strong opponent. Long live the Nh6 opening system!