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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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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Deep Fritz 12 - Multiprocessor Version
Item #: CB0525
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You can now purchase Deep Fritz 12 - the Multiprocessor Version and enjoy FREE SHIPPING via Media Mail on orders being shipped within the lower 48 states.
Fritz 12 vs. Deep Fritz 12
So what's the difference between normal Fritz 12 and Deep Fritz 12? Deep Fritz 12 is designed to run on a Multiprocessor system - made to run faster, easier, and more . . .
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Rybka 4 Computer Chess World Champion
Item #: CB0540
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The long-awaited Rybka 4 is finally ready to ship. Order your number one chess software program today!
Rybka 4: World Chess Champion
Rybka has been the uncontested number one in computer chess for years. Since its great breakthrough in 2006, the program has won one world title after the other.
What makes Rybka 4 Better?
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Chess Assistant 11 - Starter Package with Rybka 4
Item #: CK0233
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Chess Assistant 11 Starter - the most advanced chess database system. Lightning fast searches in databases with millions of games. Advanced analysis functions, built-in CQL search and much more. Starter package includes Rybka 4 engine and 4,600,000 (up to April 1st, 2010) game database.
Chess Assistant 11 includes Opening Encyclopedia 2010
Price: $89.99
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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Fritz Trainer - Ashley: What Grandmasters Don't S...
Item #: CB0612
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Maurice Ashley: What Grandmasters Don’t See Vol. 3: Summary and Test Many times, when a top player blunders, it is routinely described by the esoteric term „chess blindness“. In this series What Grandmasters Don‘t See, chess trainer and worldclass commentator Maurice Ashley strips away the myth and for the first time explains why the root of . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Ashley: What Grandmasters Don't S...
Item #: CB0599
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Maurice Ashley: What Grandmasters Don’t SeeVol. 1: Protected Squares ASHLEY What Grandmaster don’t see Vol. 1 Many times when a top player blunders, it is routinely described by the esoteric term „chess blindness.“ In the series What Grandmasters Don‘t See, chess trainer and world-class commentator Maurice Ashley strips away the myth, and for the . . .
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Power Play 14 - King: Test Your Tactics
Item #: CB0555
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On this DVD Grandmaster Daniel King demonstrates typical tactical patterns, shows how strong players use their tactical awareness, and puts your tactical abilities to the test. But this is a test with a difference. Although the emphasis is on tactics, there are also positions that require a strategic solution. You don't know whats coming next.
When we are . . .
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Power Play 17 - King: "Attack with 1.e4"
Item #: CB0642
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DANIEL KING: POWER PLAY 17 “Attack with 1. e4” This DVD provides you with a repertoire of attacking lines against the four major defences to 1.e4 – that is, 1...e5, the Sicilian, the French, and the Caro Kann. These systems will put your opponent under pressure, and when players are under pressure, mistakes occur.This is a practical repertoire . . .
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Power Play 15 - King: Practical Pawn Endgames
Item #: CB0600
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DANIEL KING: POWER PLAY 15 “Practical Pawn Endgames” The aim of this DVD is to provide you with the practical skills and knowledge that you will need to play a king and pawn endgame. Based on his own playing experience, Grandmaster Daniel King reveals what is essential knowledge, saving you time in your studies. In the first section of the DVD he takes you . . .
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Power Play 16 - King: Test Your Rook Endgames
Item #: CB0615
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DANIEL KING: POWER PLAY 16 “TEST YOUR ROOK ENDGAMES” The aim of this DVD is to provide you with the practical skills and knowledge that you will need to play a rook and pawn endgame. Based on his own playing experience, Grandmaster Daniel King reveals what is essential knowledge, saving you time in your studies. The first section of the DVD . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Mueller: Chess Endgames 6: Endgame Pri...
Item #: CB0560
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Karsten Muellers endgame course has already taken its place amongst the modern classics in the study of the endgame. Whereas the first 4 DVDs of his series were systematically organised according to the distribution of material, Volume 6 continues the explanation of general endgame principles begun in Volume 5. The principles dealt with in this DVD are domination and prophylaxis, . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Mueller: Chess Endgames 7: Endgame Pri...
Item #: CB0574
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The new 7th volume deals with many different aspects of endgame play: the art of pawn play, weaknesses, converting an advantage, stalemate, fortresses, the art of defense and typical mistakes. But the themes are connected in various ways. If you do not master the art of pawn pawn you will end up with weaknesses. And your opponent then must know how to convert this advantage, which . . .
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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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Fritz Trainer - Mueller: Chess Endgames 8: Practical ...
Item #: CB0608
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Rook endings are amongst the most frequently encountered endgames there are. And it is precisely the area in which the effort put into training is particularly quickly repaid in the form of half and full points, because the knowledge of even a few rules of thumb and methods makes life a great deal easier and provides a guiding light even in complex positions. The second DVD in . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Mueller: Chess Endgames 5: Endgame Pri...
Item #: CB0550
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The first 4 DVDs in the series on the endgame cast some light on theoretical endgames and were systematically organised according to the distribution of material, starting with pawn endings and going on to deal with subjects such as the bishop pair and double rook endings. Now it is the turn of the underlying Endgame principles, which in this fifth DVD consist of activity, the . . .
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Advanced Chess School
Item #: CK0025
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Advanced Chess School by Convekta is an interactive tutorial for inexperienced players, both children and adults, who have already learn the rules of chess and now wish to become players of intermediate strength: Advanced Chess School covers a wide range of subjects in the opening, middlegame and endgame. It starts off by teaching you how to checkmate the lone king and proceeds to . . .
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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: Ziegler, The Art of the Exchange Sac...
Item #: CB0622
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People in Greenland can differentiate between 36 kinds of snow; the Swedish International Master Ari Ziegler will teach you to differentiate between 20 kinds of exchange sacrifice. His systematic approach to exchange sacrifices will rapidly enhance your understanding of one of the most exciting and difficult aspects of chess. Your widened horizon will help you to be able to follow . . .
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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 . . .
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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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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 - Martin: First Steps in Chess Technique...
Item #: CB0640
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Andrew Martin: First steps in chess technique The acquisition of excellent technique seems elusive to the average player, but on this new ChessBase DVD, FIDE Senior Trainer Andrew Martin shows how to take first steps in the right direction. Hard work, the study of master games and plenty of over the board practice will form the basis of a routineand if you are thinking . . .
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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 - 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 - 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 . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Bologan: Winning with the Ruy Lopez, V...
Item #: CB0637
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Really, among the open games the only opening with which White can really fight for an advantage in the long term is the Ruy Lopez. But in order to make this serious effort, he has to buckle down and learn a whole series of sub-variations. That is what the professionals do, including of course Viktor Bologan, who now reveals the secrets of his own grandmaster repertoire . . .
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Fritz Trainer - Bologan: Winning with the Ruy Lopez, V...
Item #: CB0638
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Really, among the open games the only opening with which White can really fight for an advantage in the long term is the Ruy Lopez. But in order to make this serious effort, he has to buckle down and learn a whole series of sub-variations. That is what the professionals do, including of course Viktor Bologan, who now reveals the secrets of his own grandmaster repertoire . . .
Price: $31.99
Fritz Trainer - Bologan: Winning with the Ruy Lopez, V...
Item #: CB0639
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Really, among the open games the only opening with which White can really fight for an advantage in the long term is the Ruy Lopez. But in order to make this serious effort, he has to buckle down and learn a whole series of sub-variations. That is what the professionals do, including of course Viktor Bologan, who now reveals the secrets of his own grandmaster repertoire . . .