Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "First-move advantage in chess" in English language version.
nous ne pouvons donc pas adopter l'avis d'un Auteur célebre, qui prétend que celui qui a le Trait doit gagner forcément [Traité du Jeu des Echecs, par M. Philidor, premiere partie & suivantes]; pour combattre cette assertion, nous allons tâcher de prouver par les Partie mêmes qu'il donne en preuve de cette prétendue vérité, que le Trait seul n'est point un avantage décisif pour le gain de la Partie, que celui qui n'a pas le Trait la gagnera lui-même si le premier manque une fois de jouer le coup juste; & que, toutes choses égales, c'est-à-dire, en supposant les coups joués réguliérement de part & d'autre, la partie sera remise.
Kasparov: 'AlphaZero was totally deadly with White while with Black it was winning but by a very small margin. Does it tell us that we misunderstand the value of the first move?'
the sheer insanity of [Berliner's] claims made me laugh out loud on several occasions ... . My gripe is his lack of perspective, his iron conviction concerning his own deep understanding of chess, and the ease with which he dismisses the ideas and assessments of players who dwarf him ... in all things related to chess.Similarly, in their above-cited reviews, Randy Bauer wrote, "Dr. Berliner's remedy comes across as more snake oil than chess elixir", and Taylor Kingston, while finding some value in Berliner's book, called it condescending, arrogant, and insufficiently attentive to current opening theory.
the sheer insanity of [Berliner's] claims made me laugh out loud on several occasions ... . My gripe is his lack of perspective, his iron conviction concerning his own deep understanding of chess, and the ease with which he dismisses the ideas and assessments of players who dwarf him ... in all things related to chess.Similarly, in their above-cited reviews, Randy Bauer wrote, "Dr. Berliner's remedy comes across as more snake oil than chess elixir", and Taylor Kingston, while finding some value in Berliner's book, called it condescending, arrogant, and insufficiently attentive to current opening theory.
