Using Chessbase and Fritz plus the Bobby Fischer Colle...
Item #: 1570
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Using Chessbase and Fritz plus the Bobby Fischer Collection DVD includes 3 hours of information, including two full hours on how to use Fritz and other Chessbase engines such as Shredder and Hiarcs. The Bobby Fischer Collection is in addition to those hours.
The Bobby Fischer Collection is new to this program and includes a world champion screen saver with 12 . . .
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ChessBase Mega Database 2011
Item #: CB0577
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The exclusive annotated database. Contains more than 4.8 millions games from 1560 to 2010 in the highest ChessBase quality standard. 65,000 games contain commentary from top players, with ChessBase opening classification with more than 100,000 key positions, direct access to players, tournaments, middlegame themes, endgames. The largest topclass annotated database in the world. The . . .
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ChessBase 10 Upgrade
Item #: CB0459
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ChessBase 10 Upgrade is an upgrade to use if you already have ChessBase 9. Your ChessBase 9 serial number is required to use this update.
What you can do with ChessBase 10 when you have completed your upgrade with this program:
New in ChessBase 10: New integrated online database with millions of games, kept topical and up-to-date by ChessBase; split-second . . .
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ChessBase 11 Upgrade
Item #: CB0566
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ChessBase 11 Upgrade is an upgrade to use if you already have ChessBase 10. Your ChessBase 10 serial number is required to use this update.
An Introduction to ChessBase
ChessBase is the tool that will take your chess game to the next level. ChessBase 11 will show you which variations are really being played these days, help you find your opponents weak points . . .
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ChessBase Big Database 2011
Item #: CB0580
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The exclusive ChessBase "flagship" database. This DVD contains more than 4,800,000 games from 1560 to 2010 in the highest ChessBase quality standard. All games are grouped in the ChessBase opening classification key, containing more than 100,000 key positions. Other keys give direct access to players, tournaments, middlegame themes, and endgames. . . .
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Chessbase 10 Starter Package
Item #: CB0457
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This is your entry to the chess database universe. With the ChessBase 10 Starter Package you have access to the continually updated ChessBase online database and as the bedrock for your chess study, Big Database 2010 with its 4.5 million games, from 1475 till November 2009. In addition the 2010 download service brings you a weekly supply of several thousand games, a total of over . . .
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Chessbase 10 Mega Package
Item #: CB0458
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Train like Kramnik, Carlsen & Co. All 4.5 million games in the Mega Database 2010 have been fully classified, not only from A to E according to their openings, but also according to strategic themes, endgames and tactical motifs. Over 65 000 games which are theoretically important for the opening or historically significant have also been provided with annotations by international . . .
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Chessbase 11 Starter Package
Item #: CB0556
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An Introduction to ChessBase
ChessBase is the tool that will take your chess game to the next level. ChessBase 11 will show you which variations are really being played these days, help you find your opponents weak points and prepare for your next game, and spice up your repertoire with new tricks and traps. ChessBase 11 makes chess more exciting than ever before.
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Chessbase 10 Premium Package
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ChessBase Premium Package
It doesn't get any better than this: ChessBase 10 with its ultra-rapid online database, super functions such as Dossier, Openings report and many, many more. In addition to that you receive the fountain of chess knowledge that is the Mega Database 2010. The massive Corr Database 2009 with over 670 000 correspondence chess games is . . .
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Chessbase 11 Mega Package
Item #: CB0557
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The ChessBase 11 Mega Package was released October 15th 2010!
This amazing software item is ready to ship today.
An Introduction to ChessBase
ChessBase is the tool that will take your chess game to the next level. ChessBase 11 will show you which variations are really being played these days, help you find your opponents weak points and . . .
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Chessbase 11 Premium Package
Item #: CB0558
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The ChessBase 11 Premium Package was released October 15th 2010!
This amazing software item is ready to ship today.
An Introduction to ChessBase
ChessBase is the tool that will take your chess game to the next level. ChessBase 11 will show you which variations are really being played these days, help you find your opponents weak points and prepare for . . .
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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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Fritz Trainer - Ftacnik: The Gruenfeld Defense
Item #: CB0508
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The Gruenfeld Defense (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5) enjoys a special star status in the family of Indian openings. It involves a daring, active concept: fighting for control of the center with an early d7-d5 thrust supported only by pieces. The ensuing lines and positions promise more active play than most openings. Black has to know the critical ideas and most promising plans as . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Davies: 1...e6: A Solid Repertoire aga...
Item #: CB0507
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Many players struggle to find solid openings to play as Black, especially if they have relatively little time to study theory. This DVD addresses this problem, presenting a solid and easy to learn Black repertoire against White's two main opening moves, 1.e4 and 1.d4.
Against both of these moves Nigel Davies advocates 1...e6, which leads to a French Defense . . .
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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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Hiarcs 12
Item #: CB0446
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HIARCS 12 is produced by ChessBase. The HIARCS programs have been among the very best chess programs in the world for nearly 20 years, and since its first World Championship success in 1991 HIARCS has maintained its position as one of the worlds Premier chess playing programs. As recently as December 2007 HIARCS further enhanced its reputation by winning the International Paderborn . . .
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Hiarcs 13
Item #: CB0589
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HIARCS 13 – CHESSPROGRAM BY MARK UNIACKE For 20 years HIARCS has been among the very best chess programs in the world. Ever since its first World Championship success in 1991 HIARCS has maintained its position as one of the world's premier chess playing programs. HIARCS is famous for its unique human-like playing style and is renowned for playing sharp . . .
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Junior 12
Item #: CB0579
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The name is perhaps deceptive. Playing against Junior is not necessarily something for children, as Garry Kasparov discovered in a match in New York. He was held to a 3-3 draw by the Israeli program. Junior played in its typically dynamic style, greatly surprising the former World Champion with now-famous bishop sacrifice on h2 that forced him to concede a draw. Junior has its own . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Bologan: The King's Indian
Item #: CB0506
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The King's Indian is one of the most interesting and aggressive defenses Black can choose. The World Champions Robert James Fischer and Garry Kasparov used to play this opening often and with great success, and also today's word-class players are employing it frequently, like for instance Boris Gelfand, Alexei Shirov and Teimour Radjabov.
On this DVD, . . .
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Fritz Powerbook 2011
Item #: CB0582
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Featuring all current openings theory with 1.5 million games, Fritz Powerbook 2011 contains 23 millions opening positions, derived from only high class tournament games. Together with each position all relevant information is stored: all moves that were played in the position, by players of what average rating, with what success and performance results. The games from which . . .
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Fritz Powerbook 2010
Item #: CB0514
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The current openings theory with 1 million games
The Fritz Powerbook 2010 contains 27 millions opening positions, derived from 1,6 million high class tournament games. Together with each position all relevant information is stored: all moves that were played in the position, by players of what average rating, with what success and performance results. The games from which the . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Meyer & Muller: Magic of Chess Tactics...
Item #: CB0513
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Chess Tactics are the art of combat command. When tactics dominate concrete action is required immediately in order to put a plan into practice or to grab an opportunity. However in complicated positions and with determined resistance basic tactics are often insufficient and intuition, imagination and precision are necessary. The Magic of Chess Tactics DVD helps to develop these . . .
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Big Database 2010
Item #: CB0519
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Please note that the image shows Mega Database 2010 but this is actually the Big Database 2010. This item is on clearance and only one remains in stock.The exclusive annotated database. Contains more than 4.5 millions games from 1560 to 2009 in the highest ChessBase quality standard. The most recent games of the database are from the middle of November 2009. Online Big . . .
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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 - Davies: A Busy Person's Opening S...
Item #: CB0511
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Players with interests and commitments away from the chess board often find it difficult to compete against those with more study time. Their opponents come to the board armed with the latest theory and can bash out moves well into the middle game. On this DVD Nigel Davies addresses this issue by demonstrating a simple and easy to learn opening system designed for the busy person. . . .
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Deep Hiarcs 13
Item #: CB0590
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DEEP HIARCS 13 – Multiprocessor version THIS IS WHAT DEEP HIARCS 13 OFFERS:• Multiprocessor/core chess engines Deep Hiarcs 13.2 & 13.1 by Mark Uniacke• Hiarcs13Lite opening book by Mark Uniacke and Team HIARCS• Fritz 12 user interface with many training functions• Photo realistic 3d boards in five different designs• 12 months . . .
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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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Fritz Trainer - Shirov: The Sicilian with 3. Bb5
Item #: CB0491
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The Rossolimo Variation of the Sicilian Defense (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5) is always an excellent choice with White if you want to avoid the deeply analyzed main lines of the Open Sicilian (3.d4), in which the analysis frequently goes deep into the middlegame or sometimes even into the endgame. For that reason the move 3.Bb5 has a firm place in the repertoire of many . . .
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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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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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ChessBase Magazine EXTRA 138
Item #: CB0569
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ChessBase Magazine extra #138 consists of 32,980 edited games played between August and October 2010, biggest tournament: GER-ch Seniors with 1330 games, Arctic Stars Prelim (Rapid) - 1. Anand, 2. Carlsen, Wch Blitz (Women) Moscow: 1. Katheryna Lahno, EU-Cup (Women) , Miskolc rapid match: Gelfand-Leko, CBM Extra with videos in chess media format:, Dejan Bojkov shows a deep . . .
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Chessbase Mega Database 2012
Item #: CB0626
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The exclusive annotated database. Contains more than 5.1 millions games from 1560 to 2011 in the highest ChessBase quality standard. 66,000 games contain commentary from top players, with ChessBase opening classification with more than 100,000 key positions, direct access to players, tournaments, middlegame themes, endgames. The largest topclass annotated database in the world. The . . .
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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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Fritz Trainer - Martin: The ABC of The Modern Slav
Item #: CB0013
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The ABC of The Modern Slav is a Chessbase Fritz Trainer Opening program by Andrew Martin.
The Slav defense to the Queen's Gambit has always had a solid reputation, dating right back to the days of Lasker, Alekhine and Capablanca. However, it's only in the last 15 years that the popularity of the opening has really taken off --and taken off at all . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Davies: The f4 Sicilian
Item #: CB0493
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The f4 Sicilian is a perennial favorite with club players. It was popularised by Bent Larsen in the 1960s and then later on by British GMs such as Mark Hebden, James Plaskett and William Watson. Whites strategy is simple, the advance of his e- and f-pawns gains space on the kingside and might later be used as a battering ram behind which Whites pieces are ready to spring into the . . .
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Chessbase Monograph: John Donaldson: Two Masters from ...
Item #: CB0309
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Chessbase Monograph: John Donaldson: Two Masters From Seattle. With his books Elmars Zemgalis (GM without a Title) and Olaf Ulvestad (An American Original), Americas International Master John Donaldson brought the lives of two masters from his home town Seattle close to broad readership. Now, both books have been captured in full on this CD, with additional content. Both players . . .
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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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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 . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Bologan: The Caro-Kann
Item #: CB0492
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Viktor Bologan: The Caro-Kann is considered to be one of the safest and most reliable replies to 1.e4. So it comes as no surprise that in the list of top players who have made use of this defence there are no fewer than four world champions, namely Botvinnik, Petrosian, Karpov and Anand. In addition to that, the Caro-Kann is played by such top players as Adams, Dreev and Bareev. . . .
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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 - 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 - Davies: The Queen's Gambit Declin...
Item #: CB0494
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The Queen's Gambit Declined Exchange Variation is one of the most important opening systems. It has been played by most of the great players in history and from both sides of the board.
The most outstanding specialists in this method of play include Garry Kasparov, Mikhail Botvinnik and Samuel Reshevsky while the Black side has been championed by such . . .
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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 . . .
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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Fritz Trainer - Martin: The ABC of the King's Ind...
Item #: CB0498
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On this original and entertaining DVD, International Master Andrew Martin takes you on a guided tour of this fascinating and creative opening. Through the use of complete games, both classic and modern and some repertoire suggestions Martin paints a comprehensive picture of the current state of play and looks towards the future.
In the new, expanded 2nd edition . . .
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Shredder 12
Item #: CB0521
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Finally! The famous Shredder 12 chess playing software from Chessbase is on its way!
No other chess program has won so many world championship titles. The new edition of Shredder is stronger than all previous versions. German developer Meyer Kahlen: The improvements are visible all over the place. Especially the search and the evaluation have become much more . . .
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Pocket Fritz 4.0
Item #: CB0517
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Pocket Fritz 4 is the chess playing software program for whenever and wherever you are. The new Hiarcs engine, written by Mark Uniacke, is impressive because of its positional play and tactical power.
Pocket Fritz 4 is much stronger than the previous version; in the 2009 Copa Mercosur Grandmaster Tournament in Buenos Aires it scored an Elo performance of 2938!
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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 - 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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Deep Shredder 12 - Multiprocessor Version
Item #: CB0522
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Deep Shredder 12 is just like Shredder 12 only designed for computers with multi-processing capabilities.
No other chess program has won so many world championship titles. The new edition of Shredder is stronger than all previous versions. German developer Meyer Kahlen: The improvements are visible all over the place. Especially the search and the evaluation have . . .
Price: $128.99
Fritz Trainer - Martin: The ABC of the Benko Gambit
Item #: CB0150
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Fritz Trainer: The ABC of the Benko Gambit by Andrew Martin is one of the most profound contributions to opening theory of the 20th Century. Black sacrifices a pawn as early as move three for enduring positional pressure. On this new Chess Base DVD, International Master Andrew Martin traces the history of the Gambit from the games of Opocensky, Lundin and Stoltz back in the 1930s, . . .
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Junior 10
Item #: CB0006
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Junior 10 is the 2006 Computer Chess World Champion. The program, written by the Israeli programmers Amir Ban and Shy Bushinsky, narrowly defeated its main rival, the many times world champion program Shredder, at the Computer Chess World Championship which was held during the Chess Olympiad in Turin, Italy. Junior impressed experts with its extraordinary dynamic play, and remained . . .
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Deep Junior 10 (Multi-processor Version)
Item #: CB0007
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Deep Junior 10 is the 2006 Computer Chess World Champion. It is developed for computers with multi-processing systems. The program, written by the Israeli programmers Amir Ban and Shy Bushinsky, narrowly defeated its main rival, the many times world champion program Shredder, at the Computer Chess World Championship which was held during the Chess Olympiad in Turin, Italy. Junior . . .
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Big Database 2012
Item #: CB0632
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The exclusive annotated database contains more than 5.1 millions games from 1560 to 2011 in the highest ChessBase quality standard. 66,000 games contain commentary from top players, with ChessBase opening classification with more than 100,000 key positions, direct access to players, tournaments, middlegame themes, endgames. The largest top-class annotated database in the world. The . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Davis: The Scotch Game
Item #: CB0480
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The Scotch Game (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4) by Nigel Davies is a lively alternative to the Ruy Lopez which has found favor amongst many leading Grandmasters. The top experts in the Scotch include former World Champion Garry Kasparov as well as Alexander Morozevich, Sergei Rublevsky and others. The space White takes early in the game can easily translate into a powerful attack against . . .
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Chess Training - Ftacnik: Winning in 20 Moves
Item #: CB0120
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Many games are over before they have even started in which case it is important to sit on the right side of the board. In 333 very instructive short games Lubomir Ftacnik shows typical traps and mistakes in the opening phase. With many explaining introduction texts, video clips, middlegame theme keys and training keys and trainings tasks for each games.
Available . . .
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Power Play 12 - King: The Hedgehog
Item #: CB0523
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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 . . .
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FRITZ 13
Item #: CB0610
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THE TRULY GREAT CHESS PROGRAM Join the community! “Let’s Check” is a revolutionary new feature of Fritz 13 that will change the chess world*. With it Fritz 13 users can join a world-wide community that will put together a giant knowledge base for chess. Whenever you analyze a position to any meaningful depth with your chess engine Fritz 13 will, if you allow . . .
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Power Play 11 - King: Defense
Item #: CB0505
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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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Fritz Trainer - Kasimdzhanov: Attacking the King - for...
Item #: CB0481
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Attacking the King for Experts by Rustam Kasimdzhanov from Chessbase. Ever since the beginning of chess, the assault on the king has had its own special magic; masterly attacking games, crowned by sacrifices and unforgettable combinations, have never ceased to attract and thrill the audience. On this DVD in fritztrainer video format, Rustam Kasimdzhanov shows us that particularly . . .
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World Champion Chess - Anand: My Career Vol. 1
Item #: CB0466
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Viswanathan Anand: My Career Vol. 1 by Chessbase is the first DVD with videos from Viswanathan Anand's chess career reflects the very beginning of that career and goes as far as 1999. It starts with his memories of how he first learned chess and shows his first great games (including those from the 1984 WCh for juniors). The high point of his early developmental phase was the . . .
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World Champion Chess - Anand: My Career Vol. 2
Item #: CB0467
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Viswanathan Anand: My Career Vol. 2 by Chessbase is the second DVD begins in 2000, when Viswanathan Anand became FIDE World Champion, and it ends with his victory in the 2007 World Championship in Mexico.Viswanathan Anand not only analyses his best games, but casts a look back at the World Championship in Delhi/Teheran in 2000 and the years before, he discusses the situation in the . . .
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Chess Training - Dautov: Queen's Gambit with 5.Bf...
Item #: CB0223
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The Queen's Gambit Orthodox is one of the most solid defenses for Black against 1. d4. From White's point of view, the system after 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 Be7 5. Bf4 has enormously gained in adherents and nearly superseded 5. Bg5 in popularity.
In view of fantastic 63% score for the first player, this can hardly be surprising. Rustem Dautov has . . .
Price: $19.99
Fritz Trainer - Davies: The Closed Sicilian
Item #: CB0484
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The Closed Sicilian, by Nigel Davies is produced by Chessbase as part of the Fritz Trainer Opening series.
For players who lack either the time or inclination to study reams of opening theory the Closed Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 followed by 3.g3) is an excellent choice. The two great exponents of this method of play were World Champions Vassily Smyslov and Boris . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Collins: Know the Terrain Vol 1: The C...
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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 - Martin: The ABC of the Vienna
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The newest addition to Andrew Martin Fritz Trainer Opening software DVD series: The ABC of the Vienna.
Old fashioned? Certainly! Infrequent ? Definitely! Underestimated ? Without doubt! Dangerous? You must draw your own conclusions...... The Vienna Game deserves a place in the repertoire of all players. With 2. Nc3 White prevents the freeing thrust ...d7-d5 . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Martin: The Queen's Gambit Declin...
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The Queens Gambit Declined, Orthodox Variation is an opening choice for Black which will never be refuted. It perhaps has an unjust reputation of being solid and passive, but this all-new ChessBase DVD will challenge that perception. Basing his Black repertoire on the Cambridge Springs variation, Andrew Martin takes you on a tour of classic games, showing how Black may conveniently . . .
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Power Play 9 - King: Major Pieces vs. Minor Pieces
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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 - Lilov: Unorthodox Chess Openings
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How many times have you been caught off guard by a seemingly inferior and unusual opening system that later turns out to be an especially strong one? Unorthodox openings can be a real asset to anyone’s opening repertoire and they often do not contain much theory, making them easy to master for your next important tournament. In the present DVD, FM Valeri Lilov devotes 24 . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Collins: Know the Terrain Vol 2: The C...
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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...
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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 - Bojkov : A Modern Way To Play The King...
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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 - Lilov: Tactics - From Basics To Brilli...
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Tactics! This is what you need to become a really good player fast! Using his innovative approach to teaching tactics, FM Valeri Lilov provides a comprehensive review of the most important themes concerning tactics. Tactical motifs, themes, and techniques are among the core concepts explained in the present DVD. Furthermore, this DVD, focusing on tactics theory and combinational . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Lilov: Tactics - From Basics To Brilli...
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Valerie Lilov: Tactics - from Basics to Brilliance Vol. 2 Tactics! Once again, this is what you need to become a really good player… fast! In this second volume of his DVD series on tactics, FM Valeri Lilov focuses entirely on combinations. Here you can find everything you need to know about identifying and executing sound combinations in your very own games! You do . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Mikhalchishin: Strategy University Vol...
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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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Fritz Trainer - Mikhalchishin: Strategy University Vol...
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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...
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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 - Grivas: Chess Expertise Step By Step, ...
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Tactics in chess are sequences of moves which limit the opponent’s options and may result in a tangible gain by force. They are usually contrasted with strategy, in which advantages take longer to be realised and where the opponent is less constrained in his choice of reply. Tactics are an essential part of chess, since even purely positional games may contain certain . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Grivas: Chess Expertise Step By Step, ...
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Efstratios Grivas: Chess Expertise Step by Step Vol. 2: Mastering Strategy Mastering chess strategy is a matter of constant practice and analysis. Many good books have been written on this subject and almost all important (or even less important) strategic assets have been examined in great depth. But there is still enough room in the endless variety of the game of . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Grivas: Chess Expertise Step By Step, ...
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Efstratios Grivas: Chess Expertise STEP BY STEP Vol. 3: Rook Handling Rook handling and generally speaking endings constitute one of the most fascinating elements in chess. Rich in both tactical and strategic possibilities, they offer us the opportunity to marvel at its endless creative potential and unique ideas. Of all chess endings (pawn, queen, rook, bishop . . .
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Opening Training - Schipkov: The Dutch Defence, Lening...
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People who play the Dutch Defence are usually aiming for more than a draw. This is particularly true of the Leningrad System (involving the moves f5 and g6 against 1.d4). The author is even of the opinion that this system is better than the Kings Indian, because you have already achieved the pawn thrust f5. Under A86 there are also variations, in which Black plays 3...d6 and does . . .