Fritz Trainer - Collins: Know the Terrain Vol 1: The C...
Item #: CB0585
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The information explosion has led to a massive increase in opening theory. But how often do you win a game with a prepared line? What gives strong players the edge over their opponents is not some blockbuster novelty, but a deep understanding of the pawn structures to which their openings lead – an understanding that lasts into the middlegame and endgame, and is . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Collins: Know the Terrain Vol 2: The C...
Item #: CB0606
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The information explosion has led to a massive increase in opening theory. But how often do you win a game with a prepared line? What gives strong players the edge over their opponents is not some blockbuster novelty, but a deep understanding of the pawn structures to which their openings lead – an understanding that lasts into the middlegame and endgame, and is transferable . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Collins: Know the Terrain Vol 3: Centr...
Item #: CB0614
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The information explosion has led to a massive increase in opening theory. But how often do you win a game with a prepared line? What gives strong players the edge over their opponents is not some blockbuster novelty, but a deep understanding of the pawn structures to which their openings lead – an understanding that lasts into the middlegame and endgame, and is . . .
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Power Play 10 - King: Calculation
Item #: CB0487
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The newest addition to Daniel King's Power Play chess software DVD series: Power Play 10: Calculation.
You play 20 moves of elegant positional chess - but throw the game away by miscalculating. To play a good game of chess you must know how to calculate. The ability to calculate is not something that chess players are born with. Calculation is a core . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Davies: How to Beat Younger Players by...
Item #: CB0501
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How to Beat Younger Players by Nigel Davies is produced by ChessBase as part of the Fritz Trainer Strategy series.
Chess is turning into a young mans game. Time limits are faster, sessions last longer and computer databases and playing engines seem to dominate opening preparation. Add the fact that older players often have jobs and families that take most of their . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Mikhalchishin: Decision Making in Ches...
Item #: CB0423
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Fritz Tainer Strategy: Mikhalchishin - Decision Making in Chess. The theory of the critical moment in the chess game was explained once by GM Iosif Dorfman, who suggested that every game has 5 or 6 forks at which the important decisions are made. Accordingly, all major erroneous decisions are made at these moments when there are multiple possible choices. Mikhalchishin describes . . .
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Chess Training - Bangiev: Squares Strategy Volume 1: T...
Item #: CB0125
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The Bangiev way of thinking is a strategy based on squares. This means that before every move, the piece set-up is checked out against quite specific pre-defined criteria. The method does not develop your memory, but rather your thought processes: you learn to understand the logic of the game by means of a few rules! In each phase of the game, you have to ask yourself the same . . .
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Chess Training - Bangiev: Squares Strategy Volume 2 - ...
Item #: CB0140
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The Bangiev way of thinking is a strategy based on squares. This means that before every move, the piece set-up is checked out against quite specific pre-defined criteria. The Bangiev-method does not develop your memory, but rather your thought processes: learn to understand the logic of the game by means of a few rules! In each phase of the game, you have to ask yourself the same . . .
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Chess Training - Bangiev: Squares Strategy Volume 3 - ...
Item #: CB0143
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The Squares Strategy 3 is Bangiev method of thinking a strategy based on squares. Before every move, it therefore checks the constellation of pieces against quite specifi c pre-determined criteria. What it encourages is not your memory but your thinking: learn to understand the logic of the game by means of a few rules! It always the same restricted number of questions which you . . .
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Chess Training - Bartashnikov: The Basic Principles of...
Item #: CB0110
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A comprehensive introduction to the secrets of chess strategy. With 68 extensively annotated games this volume of the "Basic Principles of Chess Strategy" shows how to successfully treat the opening and middlegame. Everything about fast piece development, safety of the king and fighting for the center. Learn how to assess positions and how to find promising plans. Pros . . .
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Chess Training - Bartashnikov: The Basic Principles of...
Item #: CB0111
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A comprehensive introduction to the secrets of chess strategy. With 68 extensively annotated games this volume of "The Basic Principles of Chess Strategy" shows how to successfully treat the middle game. Everything about strong and weak squares, piece activity and attack on the king. Learn how to assess positions and find promising plans. Pros and cons of all center types . . .
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Chess Training - Bartashnikov: The Basic Principles of...
Item #: CB0112
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With this third and last part of his course, Alexey Bartashnikov looks at decisive features of the endgame, in 20 chapters with 74 extensively annotated games. The author starts pointing out how to effectively realize a spatial, material or positional advantage. Middlegame features like the correct exchange and limiting the possibilities of pieces are investigated as well as . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Kasimdzhanov: Strategy Step by Step
Item #: CB0445
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Making the right strategic decisions belongs to the most difficult tasks at the chessboard. But how can you enhance your strategic understanding and methodical play?
In Kasimdzhanov: Strategy Step by Step, Grandmaster Rustam Kasimdzhanov has carefully selected games from his own practice which are dominated by positional and strategic considerations, clarifying in . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Wells: Strategy and Tactics
Item #: CB0116
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This CD Strategy and Tactics by Peter Wells addresses advanced players. It contains an introduction and five lectures which deal with purely practical subjects: the calculation of variations and how errors arise. These are important themes where a grandmaster trainer is able to draw on his rich and varied experience and provide chess students with valuable tips. There are five more . . .
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Chess Training - Schlossner: Fritz Technique Trainer 2...
Item #: CB0106
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Winning won positions this vital chess skill can be acquired and improved with the CDs of the Fritz Technique Trainer series. The tasks on this CD deal exclusively with the creative work of the rst official world champion, Wilhelm Steinitz. He was the rst to describe the fundamentals a promising attack is based upon. Thus most exercises are about showing how a successful attack is . . .
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Power Play 2 - King: Attacking the King
Item #: CB0412
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Buy the First Three in the Power Play Series in a Special Combo and save some money!
Checkmate ends the game thats an undeniable fact. Yet one sometimes gains the impression that players who gleefully and unashamedly play for the attack are treated as a joke by their colleagues. Launching a successful attack is a skillful business that often demands great . . .
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Power Play 3 - King: Pawn Storm
Item #: CB0413
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Buy the First Three in the Power Play Series in a Special Combo and save some money!
Launching a successful attack is a skilful business that often demands great creativity. And like most themes in chess, this is a skill that can be honed and polished. In this 3rd DVD in the Power Play series, Grandmaster Daniel King examines more devilish methods of attacking the . . .
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Power Play 4 - King: Start Right
Item #: CB0027
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Power Play 4: Start Right by ChessBase. In this day and age of opening databases you might be surprised to find players getting caught out in the opening. Yet one sees it all the time. Players take liberties they grab a hot pawn, attempt a complicated maneuver, or simply develop their pieces inefficiently. Whatever our playing strength, we need to take care in the opening. This DVD . . .
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Power Play 5 - King: Pawns
Item #: CB0428
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You might be a brilliant tactician or a fearsome attacker, but you wont always be able to apply these skills when you play. If a game takes on a quieter nature, it is crucial that you develop an understanding of pawn structures, pawn play and pawn weaknesses. In this fifth Power Play DVD, Daniel King discusses strong and weak pawn structures, isolated pawns and pawn islands, how to . . .
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Power Play 6 - King: Pawns, Pieces and Plans
Item #: CB0443
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If you want to be a well-rounded chess player, it is vital that you have a good understanding of positional play. In this 6th Power Play DVD, Daniel King discusses three classic questions:In each case, the slightest difference in the placement of pieces can make a massive difference to the assessment of the position. At the end of the lectures, you can test your understanding of . . .
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Power Play 7 - King: Improve Your Pieces
Item #: CB0456
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Power Play 7: Improve Your Pieces, by Chessbase, answers the question, Why is maneuvering important, and in what circumstances should we consider maneuvering rather than another course of action?
In this 7th Power Play DVD, Daniel King helps you to recognize when a piece is poorly placed and what to do about it. Throughout the DVD, specially selected positions . . .
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Power Play 8 - King: Knights and Bishops
Item #: CB0473
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When we are starting out in chess we are told that knights and bishops both have a value of three points, but it is quite clear that in some positions a bishop is clearly superior to a knight - and vice versa. After watching this 8th Power Play DVD youll have a better idea of how to play positions with knights and bishops what to look for, what to avoid, and how to place your . . .
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Total Chess Training
Item #: CK0017
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Total Chess Training consists of five magnificent educational programs: Chess Tactics Art 3.0; Strategy 2.0; Encyclopedia of Middlegame; Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders; Studies 2.0 with new printing possibilities, covering every phase or aspect of chess:Altogether Total Chess Training includes more than 9000 commented games and positions to be solved for chess players with ELO . . .
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Total Chess Training III
Item #: CK0226
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This is the third compilation of popular training programs on 5 CDs, that covers some aspects of chess: Tactics, Combinations, Strategy and Middlegame. On this CD you will find five programs not included in the first or second Total Training package:
Advanced Chess School
Advanced Chess School is an interactive tutorial for those inexperienced . . .
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Total Chess Training II
Item #: CK0018
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This is Total Chess second compilation of popular training programs for studying all the chess game phases: opening, middlegame and endgame.
On this CD you will find five programs not included in the first Total Training package: Total Chess Training II includes more than 11,000 study examples and exercises for chess players with the ELO rating from 1700 to 2400!
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Chess Training Package for beginners
Item #: CK0249
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Chess Training Package for beginners consists of five magnificent educational chess programs: Altogether Chess Training Package for beginners includes more than 125,000 positions to be solved for chess players with ELO rating from 300 to 1500!System requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 256 Mb RAM, hard disk 100Mb, Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, CD-ROM drive. No additional software
Price: $78.99
Chess Training Package for for club players
Item #: CK0259
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Chess Training Package for club players consists of five magnificent educational chess programs:System requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 256 Mb RAM, hard disk 100Mb, Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, CD-ROM drive. No additional software required.
Price: $78.99
Chess Training Package for intermediate players
Item #: CK0250
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Chess Training Package for intermediate players consists of five magnificent educational programs that cover all the aspects of chess: Opening, Tactics, Strategy and Ending.
Price: $78.99
Total Chess Training IV
Item #: CK0248
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Total Chess Training IV consists of five magnificent educational programs not included in the other Total Training packages. This is the forth compilation of popular training programs that covers such aspects of chess as Opening, Combinations, Attack and Defense. Altogether Total Chess Training IV includes 50,000 positions to be solved for club players with ELO rating from 1300 to . . .
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Chess Training - Schlobner: Test Your Chess Training
Item #: CB0142
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In the Test Your Chess Training CD questions, the new function Multiple Choice also allows questions to be set about the evaluation of positions, or for example what chance is there of an attack on the king. Possible answers are always suggested and the training is done by clicking on what you consider to be the correct solution. But things do not have to be simple The author has . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Davies: Chess for Scoundrels
Item #: CB0448
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Psychology is one of the most important aspects of chess, yet most players put themselves at a serious disadvantage by ignoring this aspect of the game. Being nice is all very well in civilian life, but in the war zone of the chess board a more ruthless approach is required. The fact of the matter is that a good chess player must be something of a scoundrel in order to survive. On . . .
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Chess Training - King: Secrets of the English Chess Sc...
Item #: CB0126
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Secrets of the English Chess School is an excellent database program by English grandmaster Daniel King. Only a few top chess players know how to share their grandmaster-ly thinking with others. Without any doubt, Daniel King is one of them.
Apart from the introduction, the CD at hand contains 29 Databases issued between 1995 and 2000 when King was in charge of . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Martin: The Basics of Winning Chess
Item #: CB0136
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The Basics of Winning Chess. Modern chess is a tough relentless game, which demands that all chess players, regardless of strength, keep their command of basic technique in tip-top shape. On this instructive and entertaining DVD, International Master Andrew Martin takes you on a tour of the basics of winning chess, so that you never have to worry about this part of the game again. . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Davies: The Tarrasch Defence
Item #: CB0469
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The Tarrasch Defence(1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5) is an excellent choice for Black, especially for players at club level. Offering Black the kind of free piece play that is missing from other defences, it was a great favourite of World Champions Boris Spassky and Garry Kasparov, not to mention its originator Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch. Amongst the many advantages of the Tarrasch is the . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Seirawan: My Best Games
Item #: CB0524
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Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan began playing chess in the summer of 1972 and by 1979 he had won the World Junior Championship and in January of 1980 earned his final Grandmaster norm. What had he learned in seven and a half years that propelled him so far so quickly? In this, his first DVD, Yasser takes an engaging in-depth look at 22 games he played from the period 1975-1982, . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Mikhalchishin: Power of Planning
Item #: CB0509
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Planning is the most difficult part of the game of chess. It is everywhere - we use it from the opening to the ending. A plan is based on evaluation and that evaluation is based on the different static and dynamic elements of the position. But what the chess books dont describe is the direction of the plan. The aim of every plan is the exploitation of weakness! So, spot the . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Mikhalchishin: Power of Exchange
Item #: CB0510
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The correct technique of exchanging is the most important ability of Grandmasters! Which pieces to swap and which pieces to keep, whether to recapture with a piece or with a pawn, these are questions which every player of every level has to answer many times during a single game. And the greatest difference between GMs and amateurs is not in opening knowledge or in calculation . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Mikhalchishin: Winning Structures
Item #: CB0516
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Great players always had and still have more than just broad theoretical knowledge. Every of them has some favorite methods, which simply help to score more points. The greatest even have favorite pawn structures! And they immediately exploited the knowledge of others - Alekhine invented some interesting structures, which were copied by his opponent in that game (Rubinstein), and . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Martin: Spanish Exchange Variation
Item #: CB0531
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A simple idea underpins the Exchange Variation of the Ruy Lopez. Take all the pieces off and White wins the ending. Naturally, the execution of this plan is anything but simple because Black obtains the Bishop pair and free piece play to compensate him for his doubled pawns on c6. Nevertheless, it is useful to have something to aim for! Many World Champions have employed 4.Bxc6 and . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Davies: French Defense Strategy
Item #: CB0527
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The French Defense is one of the best choices a player can make for his opening repertoire, especially older players with limited study time. The solid construction of Blacks game puts the onus on positional understanding and makes it immune to sharp and tricky variations. The longer you play the French the better youll play it. On this DVD Nigel Davies explains the strategy behind . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Trent: Two Knight's Defence
Item #: CB0528
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On this DVD, IM Lawrence Trent presents a comprehensive repertoire and thematic analysis of the most enterprising, yet well less documented move 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 in the Two Knights Defense. Once labeled a foolish and primitive lunge by the old masters, White ignores his development in order to immediately attack the Achilles Heel of Blacks position on f7. However, . . .
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Power Play 9 - King: Major Pieces vs. Minor Pieces
Item #: CB0482
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Power Play 9 - major pieces vs. minor pieces in this 9th Power Play DVD Grandmaster Daniel King discusses the theme of Major Pieces v. Minor Pieces. In other words, positions with the material balance of queen against rook and minor piece, queen against two rooks, and rook against minor pieces, including exchange sacrifices. Sometimes a queen or rook is like an all-powerful giant, . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Ashley: The Secrets to Chess How Grand...
Item #: CB0554
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Most chess fans believe that knowledge of the opening, middlegame and endgame is what separates Grandmasters from everyone else. While all of these are important, the truth is much more profound: Top players all have a deep insight into how to think about chess in ways that most players have never heard of. On this DVD, Maurice Ashley reveals a simple idea that will forever change . . .
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Kasparov - How to Play the Queen's Gambit
Item #: CB0109
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Wherever he appears, chess fans gather in crowds. Garry Kasparov is the strongest chess player of our time and a great personality who can represent the sport like no other chess professional. Now Kasparov comes into your home and shares with you his knowledge of one of the great openings in chess. Garry Kasparov took to the Queens Gambit at a relatively late stage of his chess . . .
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The ChessCafe Puzzle Book 2 CD by Karsten Muller
Item #: RU0002
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This CD contains the same material as the book.
As most chess instructors and players know, it is much more difficult to teach and learn strategic concepts than tactics. In this program, German grandmaster Dr. Karsten M�ller will help you develop your strategic chessplaying skills. Topics include: Good and Bad Bishops; Domination; Outposts; Undermining; Opening the . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Bojkov : A Modern Way To Play The King...
Item #: CB0593
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The Zürich Interzonal of 1953 and the marvellous annotations of David Bronstein changed our understanding of the KID. From a second-class opening, it became one of the most aggressive and dangerous setups for the second player. Back in those days players tended to develop their queen’s knight to d7. Later a more central approach came into fashion and the knight found a . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Mikhalchishin: Strategy University Vol...
Item #: CB0592
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In chess we have certain aims - coordination and the activation of one’s own pieces. Sometimes we need a special little something to speed up one of these processes - a small material sacrifice, mainly a pawn or pawns. A dynamic pawn sacrifice is easy to see, as the idea is to get clear gains for the pawn. Positional pawn sacrifices are much more difficult, as their real . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Mikhalchishin: Strategy University Vol...
Item #: CB0586
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The great Aaron Nimzowitsch wrote the key sentence: Neither attack nor defence is the essence of positional play, but prophylaxis! Prophylaxis consists of different measures taken against the opponent’s tactical threats and strategic plans. But don’t think that the prevention of youropponent’s plan is purely defensive. It is simply part of the preparation of our . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Mikhalchishin: Strategy University Vol...
Item #: CB0584
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The centre is the most important part of the battlefield. In chess we study various different kinds of centre, some special forms of which were already discussed on the DVD ‘Winning Structures’. But in chess literature we have a huge lack of educational material on the role of the centre and on the power of pawns and pieces in the centre. And the most important . . .
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Chess Strategy 3.0
Item #: CK0267
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This course is aimed at teaching a student much of the strategy methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes over 450 games/lectures, each of them illustrating typical plans and methods in the following important strategic themes such as: Advantage in development, Advantage in space, Attack on the king, Attack on the queenside, Weak squares, Pawn . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Opening Martin: First Steps in Opening...
Item #: CB0627
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A good game of chess is made up of three phases; the opening, the middlegame and then the endgame. However, if you do not play the opening well, you will not get to see the other phases! ‘First Steps in Opening Play’ attempts to equip the viewer will all the information he or she needs to tackle this tricky area and to emerge into the middlegame with a good, playable . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Opening Martin: First Steps in Positio...
Item #: CB0630
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A strong command of middlegame skills often makes the difference between winning and losing a game of chess. The art of positional play must be included in any list of those skills. ‘First Steps in Positional Play’ attempts to equip the viewer with all the information he or she needs to begin to tackle this aspect of chess.Players below 1500 will benefit from this basic . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Opening Tiviakov: Scandinavian with 3....
Item #: CB0624
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The Scandinavian with 3...Qd6 could just as well be called “The Tiviakov System”. The grandmaster who was born in Russia and who now has an ELO-rating of 2623 has been working with this plan for many years and has successfully employed it against 1.e4-players of all calibers, both against weaker title-holders and also against World Champion Vishy Anand.On his new . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Endgame Mueller: Chess Endgames 9 Ches...
Item #: CB0623
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Endings with rook and minor piece against rook and minor piece occur very frequently, even more often than rook endings. But there is not much literature on them. The new endgame DVD fills this gap. The four different material constellations rook and knight vs rook and knight, rooks and opposite colored bishops and same colored bishops and rook and bishop vs rook and knight are . . .
