Fritz Trainer - Bologan: Fit for the French My Complet...
Item #: CB0565
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On this DVD Viktor Bologan presents his repertoire against the French Defense. The only way to combat this opening is to choose an aggressive plan and according to Bologan the best such plan starts with 3.Nc3.The Moldavian grandmaster has had this continuation in his armory for 20 years, since he was initiated into the secrets of this move by the top trainer Zigurds Lanka, and he . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Davies: Bamboozle your Opponents with ...
Item #: CB0564
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Opening a game with 1.g3 appears rather quiet and unpretentious yet many of the greatest players in history have chosen to play this way. Bent Larsen, Victor Korchnoi, Leonid Stein and Pal Benko have all wielded this move with considerable success whilst in more recent times Mikhail Gurevich has been using it highly effectively.
The idea behind this opening is to . . .
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ChessBase Tutorials: Openings Vol 4: Indian Defences
Item #: CB0616
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Every game starts with the opening – and sometimes it also ends there! But that need not happen. With ChessBase Tutorials you do not need to spend a lot of time to rapidly master things. “Openings # 04: Indian Openings” (1.d4 Nf6) is the fourth in a series of five volumes dealing with the fundamentals of opening play in chess. In it, experienced tournament . . .
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ChessBase Tutorials: Openings Vol 2: The Semi-Open Gam...
Item #: CB0576
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How do you do your opening training? Do you try in vain to commit to memory sequences of moves as far as move 15 or even 20? Do you work your way through thick tomes in order to laboriously collect the most important information? Or do you simply keep on playing the same opening, just because by chance you learned a little about it years ago and because it is in any case too . . .
Every game starts with the opening - and sometimes it also ends there! But that need not happen. With ChessBase Tutorialsy you do not need to spend a lot of time to rapidly master things. "Openings # 03: Queen's Gambit and Queen's Pawn games" (1.d4 d5) is the third in a series of five volumes dealing with the fundamentals of opening play in chess. In it, . . .
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ChessBase Tutorials: Openings Vol 1: The Open Games
Item #: CB0562
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Todays way to learn chess! The ChessBase Tutorials are a new series in the publishing program of ChessBase. Every issue will consist of a DVD and a detailed accompanying booklet. The many readers of ChessBase Magazine have already come to appreciate this concept. The accompanying booklet offers both a survey and rapid starting point for the study of the individual opening . . .
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Rybka 4 Opening Book by Jiri Dufek
Item #: CB0542
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The Rybka 4 opening book is a high-class compilation of opening theory. It was developed for the worlds strongest chess entity - 100 cores cluster Rybka and program Rybka4 and will maximize the programs playing strength. The choice of variations in the book is well suited to the style of the program, and the book has been fine-tuned and checked in thousands of games. The Rybka Book . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Bologan: The Fighting Philidor
Item #: CB0543
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The Philidor Defense
The famous chess player and composer Andr Danican Philidor not only focused the attention of coming generations on the importance of pawns in the game of chess, he also worked out the basis of a new opening in which Black from the very first moves is trying to construct a solid pawn setup in the center.
What this Chess Software . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Martin: The ABC of Chess Openings
Item #: CB0141
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In the all new, ABC of Chess Openings International Master Andrew Martin explores the diverse possibilities available to everyone in the opening phase of the game. The material is broken down logically into Open Games, Semi-Open Games, Closed and Semi-Closed Games, Flank and Irregular Openings. Invaluable advice is given about what to look for and how to play each specific . . .
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Frtiz Trainer - Martin: The Budapest Gambit
Item #: CB0495
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Most chess players are naturally talented, but do not have the time to devote to chess theory, such is the pace of modern life. Yet it is human nature to want to do things well and to achieve good results. To make the right choice of opening system is therefore of crucial importance for these players if they want to make the most of what they have. Below master level and especially . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Shirov: The Slav and Semi-Slav Revisit...
Item #: CB0539
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The Slav and Semi-Slav revisited For Shirov the Slav and the Semi-Slav form one huge and common opening. Of course it is a mighty opening complex and the DVD cannot give a complete picture of it, but in the areas he chooses to highlight our author is an absolute expert and capable of giving the deepest possible insights into the secrets of this extremely solid opening.
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Rybka 4 Aquarium Opening Book by Jiri Dufek
Item #: CK0232
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Rybka 4 Aquarium Opening Book is specially designed to use all the advantages of navigation in multi-column tree view of Rybka Aquarium GUI.
Rybka 4 Aquarium Opening Book provides latest chess theory approved on millions of advanced chess games and matches of top human players. It includes over 18,000,000 positions.
Rybka 4 Aquarium Opening . . .
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Opening Lab
Item #: CK0244
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This is a perfect opening manual. It features a theoretical review of all the chess openings, which are illustrated by instructive games of the greatest chess players. This compact opening manual contains a detailed classification, which makes it useful to players of any level - beginners, intermediate and advanced players. Each opening variation is supplied with evaluations and . . .
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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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Chess Opening Encyclopedia 2011
Item #: CK0262
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This excellent program for learning chess openings includes theoretical material on every opening, a user-friendly and detailed classification of variations, a quick search option and an option for analyzing games and positions.There are two ways of studying an opening: by looking through encyclopedic tables for chosen openings or variations and by moving along a Chess Tree . . .
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Chess Opening Encyclopedia 2010
Item #: CK0236
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Openings Encyclopedia 2010 is an excellent tool for studying the openings, building opening repertoire and fast 4,200,000 games database searching.
This excellent program for learning chess openings includes theoretical material on every opening, a user-friendly and detailed classification of variations, a quick search option and an option for analyzing games and . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Martin: The Scandinavian the Easy Way ...
Item #: CB0497
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Its easy-to-learn and easy-to-play. Here is an opening for Black which will furnish good results in the shortest possible time. Which other opening could we be referring to apart from the Scandinavian or Center-Counter Defense; 1 e4 d5 ! International Master Andrew Martin has written extensively on the Center-Counter and here he turns his attention to 1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Qxd5 3 Nc3 . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Martin: The Trompowsky The easy way - ...
Item #: CB0518
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ANDREW MARTIN: THE TROMPOWSKY THE EASY WAY
2nd Edition with many new games and ideas!
Thirty years ago the Trompowsky opening was almost totally unknown. It took a few spectacular games by Rafael Vaganian to bring 2.Bg5 into the limelight, and after that, the die was cast. Today 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 is used by many of the best players in the world and a whole body . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Martin: ABC of Chess Openings 2nd Edit...
Item #: CB0485
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In the all new ABC of Chess Openings 2nd Edition International Master Andrew Martin explores the diverse possibilities available to everyone in the opening phase of the game. The material is broken down logically into Open Games, Semi-Open Games, Closed and Semi-Closed Games, Flank and Irregular Openings. Invaluable advice is given about what to look for and how to play each . . .
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Chess Training - Muller, Knaak: 1000 Opening Traps
Item #: CB0144
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1000 Opening Traps was developed by ChessBase for players who want to master traps to defend their own openings as well as set a few traps of their own!
If you do not know opening theory in its most intimate details, then you must rely on a sound understanding of chess. But sometimes, that is not enough. Opening traps lurk everywhere, relying on the unwary chess . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Collins: 1.e4 Repertorie - Grandmaster...
Item #: CB0515
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Constructing an opening repertoire is one of the chess players most difficult and time-consuming tasks. Turned off by masses of theory, many players shy away from critical lines and concentrate on trappy lines, universal systems, or ariations which concede the advantage of the first move in order to get a playable position.
In this DVD, Sam Collins offers another . . .
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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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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 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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Modern Chess Opening Set (seven volumes)
Item #: CK0258
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This product features seven volumes of Modern Chess Opening series, covering almost all chess openings. The series provide detailed classification and contain a lot of training material.Modern Chess Opening Set is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section. Each of them illustrates typical plans and methods . . .
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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
Modern Chess Opening: Vol. 6 Closed Games (1.d4 d5)
Item #: CK0256
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This is a perfect opening manual that contains a detailed classification. Modern Chess Opening, vol. 6, Closed Games course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 416 games/lectures. Each of them illustrates typical plans and methods in the following openings:Each opening variation . . .
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Modern Chess Opening: Vol. 5 Semi-Closed Games (1.d4 N...
Item #: CK0255
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This is a perfect opening manual that contains a detailed classification. Modern Chess Opening, vol. 5, Semi-Closed Games course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 294 games/lectures. Each of them illustrates typical plans and methods in the following openings:Each opening . . .
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Modern Chess Opening: Vol. 4 Semi-Closed Games (1.d4 N...
Item #: CK0254
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his is a perfect opening manual that contains a detailed classification. Modern Chess Opening, vol. 4, Semi-Closed Games course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 266 games/lectures. Each of them illustrates typical plans and methods in the main variations of Kings Indian . . .
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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
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Modern Chess Opening: Vol. 2 Semi-Open Games (1.e4)
Item #: CK0252
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This is a perfect opening manual that contains a detailed classification. Modern Chess Opening, vol. 2, Semi-Open Games (1.e4) course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 426 games/lectures. Each of them illustrates typical plans and methods in the following openings:
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Modern Chess Opening: Vol. 1 Open Games (1.e4 e5)
Item #: CK0251
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This is a perfect opening manual that contains a detailed classification. Modern Chess Opening, vol. 1, Open Games course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 862 games/lectures each of them illustrating typical plans and methods in the following openings: Each opening variation . . .
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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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Modern Chess Opening: Vol. 3 Sicilian Defense (1.e4 c5...
Item #: CK0253
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This is a perfect opening manual that contains a detailed classification. Modern Chess Opening, vol. 3, Sicilian Defense course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 509 games/lectures. Each of them illustrates typical plans and methods in the following variations of Sicilian . . .
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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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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
Pocket Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders
Item #: CK0055
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Pocket Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders is the opening training program for Pocket PC. The chess material prepared by IM Yaroslav Ulko and IM Aleksey Mitenkov, both experienced coaches and players in Russia and aimed at intermediate players. The program designed for studying the blunders in more than 40 openings.
Languages: English, German, French, Spanish and ItalianSYSTEM . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Mikhalchishin: Arkhangelsk
Item #: CB0496
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The Ruy Lopez represents one of the oldest and best openings for the first player, and everyone going for the Spanish game with Black faces the question of how he wants to tackle the white ideas. One of the more aggressive fighting methods is the move order 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 b5 6.Bb3 Bb7, which was developed in the early sixties by players from the north . . .
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Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders
Item #: CK0019
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Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders. Instead of only learning what you must play in the opening, learn what not to play by learning the opening mistakes and traps that have been discovered over time. The chess material was prepared by IM Yaroslav Ulko and IM Aleksey Mitenkov, both of whom are experienced coaches and players in Russia. This program is designed for studying the blunders . . .
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How to Win Miniatures at Chess
Item #: CK0239
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The best way to improve your game is to train yourself on your computer in solving problems from practical games. Learn to attack and win in the opening: a great number of exercises will give you a fine chance to master every standard method of attacking the king in your chosen opening and help you to come out on top in your future games.
This course is intended . . .
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Hiarcs 13 Professional Openings Book
Item #: CB0591
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HIARCS 13 – PROFESSIONAL OPENINGS BOOKThe Hiarcs 13 Pro book is a very strong and varied opening book derived from top correspondence and over the board human games together with the best computer games giving a superb combination with the latest cutting edge chess theory and a wealth of novelties to provide a huge repertoire of finely tuned variations. In addition to . . .
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Houdini Opening book
Item #: CK0270
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Houdini Opening Book provides latest chess theory approved in millions of advanced chess games and matches of top human players. It includes over 65 million positions.Houdini Opening Book is developed especially for Houdini, but can be used with any other engine in the Aquarium interface, as well as in other interfaces (such as Fritz) via Aquarium Book Adapter included on this . . .
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Frtiz Trainer - Lilov: Gambit Opening Repertoire
Item #: CB0628
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This DVD will present you with a complete gambit opening repertoire for both White and Black, consisting of sharp tactical openings leading to open positions and providing many opportunities for full-blown mating attacks and beautiful sacs! Among these impressive gambit systems are the King’s Gambit and the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit for White, as well as the Albin Counter-Gambit . . .
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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 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 Lilov: The Dutch Stonewall
Item #: CB0631
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Want to learn a stable opening in no time and crush all the top players in the club? If your answer is yes, the Dutch Stonewall is for you! FM Valeri Lilov will teach you the typical plans and ideas for this amazing opening through studying key master games that reveal how the system works in practice. The Dutch Stonewall is especially suitable for the average club player and the . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Opening Tiviakov: No Fear of 1.d4! Vol...
Item #: CB0625
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Constancy and a striving for solid positions are what define Sergei Tiviakov’s opening repertoire. On his two repertoire DVDs against 1.d4 the top Dutch grandmaster presents to you exactly those variations and ideas with which he himself has been successful in tournament chess for many years.On the two DVDs all important systems which are available to White after 1.d4 Nf6 . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Opening Tiviakov: No Fear of 1.d4! Vol...
Item #: CB0633
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SERGEI TIVIAKOV: No fear of 1.d4! Vol. 2: Nimzo-Indian Constancy and a striving for solid positions are what define Sergei Tiviakov’s opening repertoire. On his two repertoire DVDs against 1.d4 the top Dutch grandmaster presents to you exactly those variations and ideas with which he himself has been successful in tournament chess for many years. On the two DVDs . . .
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Fritz - Trainer: Ziegler, Modern Benoni For Advanced ...
Item #: CB0634
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Ari Ziegler: Modern Benoni for advanced players The Modern Benoni is perhaps the most dynamic approach to meeting 1.d4 without sacrificing a pawn. A lot of legendary players have had a sincere love affair with this opening. The most imaginative world champion of all time, Michail Tal is perhaps the player who has done most to popularise the opening. In this DVD International . . .
