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Re: Magic?
Reply #7 - 01/27/10 at 11:20:10
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I have faced this 'Universal System' before. I was quite unimpressed with Black's position after 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 Ne7 5.Nf3 d5 6.e5, when Black's position seems dodgy to me, and ...c5 isn't an attractive option with the g7-bishop entombed.
  
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Re: Magic?
Reply #6 - 01/27/10 at 00:29:35
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Is Richard Moody trying to supplant Hawking?

At least Hawking made sense when he wrote about time. Lips Sealed
  
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Reply #5 - 01/26/10 at 23:33:35
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... the level of complexity goes all the way from beginner up to complex strategies that only Karpov understands.

The website is kind humorous. One does wonder how the author managed to write about such complex strategies without understanding them and how he hopes to then explain them to anyone.

And one does have to wonder whether Karpov himself would understand this wonderful quote:
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My concept of time in chess is more closely aligned with Karpov than any other player; what he understands extremely well is the concept of interior space. I define interior space as the region behind a player's pawns that is exempt from intrusion by enemy pieces; I define time as interior space instead of time as the movement of pieces away from their original squares.
  
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Re: Magic?
Reply #4 - 01/26/10 at 13:48:53
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Stigma wrote on 01/26/10 at 13:04:10:
I don't remember anything on the Universal Attack, no. Looks a bit like the Hippo maybe?

We discussed his line against the King's Indian, a kind of Sämisch where he would play lots of pawn moves and claim that Black's huge lead in development was irrelevant.

It's funny that someone who obviously doesn't understand dynamic chess and puts space and materal above everything else as a matter of principle, then comes here and tells the chesspub members who tried to argue with him we haven't understood the theories of Steintz and Karpov! 

I would not bother with this book if I were you, but then I haven't actually seen it.


Since I just heard about it, it's not exactly on my "wishlist" - but if I see it somewhere, where I can look inside, I wouldn't rule it out completely even if it'sa longshot. 

After all, generally I find it interesting when people try to formulate their own theories - even if they're wrong you might learn something...

On the KID I remember having a similar email discussion a few years ago with Rolf Martens - he was trying to construct a kind of slow white set-up that would soak up black's counter-play and leave him prospectless and confined by his own pawn-structure in the long term. 

I usually managed to defend the KID as I was using fritz and he wasn't - so the concrete lines tended to get in the way of "the system" - but there were some variations where it actually worked out for white..
  
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Re: Magic?
Reply #3 - 01/26/10 at 13:04:10
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I don't remember anything on the Universal Attack, no. Looks a bit like the Hippo maybe?

We discussed his line against the King's Indian, a kind of Sämisch where he would play lots of pawn moves and claim that Black's huge lead in development was irrelevant.

It's funny that someone who obviously doesn't understand dynamic chess and puts space and materal above everything else as a matter of principle, then comes here and tells the chesspub members who tried to argue with him we haven't understood the theories of Steinitz and Karpov! 

I would not bother with this book if I were you, but then I haven't actually seen it.
  
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Re: Magic?
Reply #2 - 01/26/10 at 11:53:35
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Thanks Stigma!

I thought somethings sounded familiar, but couldn't put my finger on it.

By the way, do you remember if he posted anything on his Universal Attack too? It's always intriguing to follow people's search for that "magic silver bullet" in the opening! And this one I don't remember seeing before.

The end quote does sum it all up! : ))
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Roger Williamson wrote on Feb 24th, 2009 at 1:43am:
This thread has caused the majority of posters to lose faith in their own perception of reality.  TN, Markovich, Uruk and myself can no longer discern whether someone is being sarcastic or enthusiastic, facetious or facile, serious or silly.  Sloughter has, effectively, destroyed reality itself.

Kodos continues to cling desperately to the last vestiges of his sanity.
  
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Re: Magic?
Reply #1 - 01/26/10 at 11:34:18
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If I'm not mistaken, the author was very active on this forum around a year ago. You can get an impression of his analysis and chess theories here:

http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1230634273/all

I must say that debate didn't make me rush to order the book...
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Magic?
01/26/10 at 11:06:02
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Just surfed by the follow page, advertising a book to be published in 2007. Anyone read it?

http://correspondencechess.com/moody.html
  
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