Description of Encyclopedia of Middlegame III
The Encyclopedia of Middlegame III was composed by
GM Alexander Kalinin. It is aimed at teaching a student much of the middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes over
520 games/lectures, each of them illustrating typical plans and methods in the following openings: Petroff's defense, Ruy Lopez (Marshall var.), Sicilian defense (Closed System and 3. Bb5 var), Scandinavian defense, Gruenfeld defense, Queen's Gambit Accepted, Reti opening, variant 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 (or 2g6) 3. Bg5, and etc.
A special training section includes:
- More than 500 exercises for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the correct answer
- There are also 100 training positions to be played against the embedded chess playing program Crafty
- Multiple user profiles are featured with independent ratings and statistics for each
- Printing options are also available
- Several languages supported: English, Spanish and Russian.
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