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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How to Beat Younger Players by Nigel Davies
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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 Strategy: Mikhalchishin - Decision Makin...
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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 Strategy 2.0
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Chess Strategy 2.0 designed by GM Alexander Kalinin to teach students strategy and positional play, STRATEGY 2.0 is a significantly expanded version of the original Strategy, containing not only more exercises but also many new lessons not present in the first edition. This chess program presents 1800 instructive positions with 18 most important strategic themes such as Advantage . . .
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Squares Strategy 1: Tactics
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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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Squares Strategy 2: The Opening
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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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Squares Strategy 3: The Middlegame
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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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The Basic Principles of Chess Strategy Vol. 1
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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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The Basic Principles of Chess Strategy Vol. 2
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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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The Basic Principles of Chess Strategy Vol. 3
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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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Kasimdzhanov: Strategy Step by Step
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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 Middlegame - Strategy and Tactics
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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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Fritz Technique Trainer 2
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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 1: Mating Patterns
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You think you have seen enough checkmating combinations? I find it staggering how many checkmates are missed (by both sides) in games by the top players, let alone by us mortals. Recognizing the early outlines of mating patterns is a vital skill, not just for an attacker, but for a . . .
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Power Play 2: Attacking the King
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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: Pawn Storm
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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: Start Right
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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: Pawns
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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: Pawns, Pieces and Plans
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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: Improve Your Pieces
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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: Knights and Bishops
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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
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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 . . .
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Total Chess Training II
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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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Total Chess Training III
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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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Test Your Chess Training CD
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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FTO: Davies - Chess for Scoundrels
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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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Check and Mate 2nd Edition with Strategy Lessons
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Effective attacking patterns are presented and explained in ten lessons on attacking the enemy King, each with a text introduction, then a game in which you have to find the right moves, with points for doing so in a set amount of time. Excellent training for beginners up to club level. With video clips of GM Daniel King explaining the main principles.
This is the . . .
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Secrets of the English Chess School
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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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The Basics of Winning Chess
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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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FTO: Davies - The Tarrasch Defence
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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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Yasser 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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Power Play 12: The Hedgehog
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Yet another top-of-the-line training DVD from one of the best in the world, Grandmaster Daniel King.
The Hedgehog is not just an opening, it is a system. A system that can be used against 1 c4, against 1 e4 and also 1 d4. Some players, such as the Swedish Grandmaster Ulf Andersson, appear to play very little else with the black pieces. Blacks pieces curl up behind a row . . .
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Power Play 11: Defense
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There is a seeming inevitability to many defeats - one side has the initiative, goes on the attack and from that moment it is very difficult to turn back the tide. In this 11th Power Play DVD Grandmaster Daniel King will help you to identify those key moments where there is potential danger. The secret to good defensive play is to avoid falling into a passive defensive position! . . .
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Power of Planning
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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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Power of Exchange
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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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Winning Structures
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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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Nigel Davies: French Defense Strategy
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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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Lawrence Trent: Two Knight's Defence
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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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