DOWNLOAD - Master Class Vol. 19: Wilhelm Steinitz

Williams Steinitz, 1st World Chess Champion (1886-1894) The match between William Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort in 1886 was the first chess match for the ‘World Chess Championship’. Steinitz won, and has since been considered the first official world champion in chess history.

In 1894, he lost the title in a match against Emanuel Lasker. William Steinitz, born in 1836 in the ghetto of Prague, then Austria, came to Vienna in 1858, and soon became one of the best chess players in the city. In 1862, he moved to the chess stronghold of London and made a name for himself by defeating the other top players of the world in competitions. Steinitz is considered the founder of modern chess theory. He analysed master games, formulated rules and laid the foundations for the modern strategic-positional school of chess, which replaced the ‘romantic’ style, characterised by stormy attacks on the king. William Steinitz was not only a prolific player, but also a prolific writer. He wrote a chess column in ‘The Field’ in London. After moving to the USA, he published the chess magazines ‘The International Chess Magazine’ and ‘The Modern Chess Instructor’. In opening theory, variations in the Spanish Game, the Scotch Game and the French Defence are named after Steinitz. In this video course, experts including Dorian Rogozenco, Mihail Marin, Karsten Müller and Oliver Reeh, examine the games of William Steinitz. Let them show you which openings Steinitz chose to play, where his strength in middlegames were, or how he outplayed his opponents in the endgame. Finally, you’ll get a glimpse of his tactical abilities in the Tactics section.

This is what is delivered:

• Fritztrainer for 4 platforms: App for Windows, App for Mac, ChessBase books and ChessBase Videostream
• Delivery as a download or by post (card with serial number)
• Video course with a running time of approx. 4-8 hrs.
• Repertoire database: save and integrate Fritztrainer games into your own repertoire (in WebApp Opening or in ChessBase)
• Interactive exercises with video feedback: the authors present exercises and key positions, the user has to enter the solution. With video feedback (also on mistakes) and further explanations.
• All videos and additional tasks, tests and texts included in the CB books.
• Sample games as a ChessBase database.

That's what the FritzTrainer App can do for you:

• Videos can run in the Fritztrainer app or in the ChessBase program with board graphics, notation and a large function bar
• Analysis engine can be switched on at any time
• Video pause for manual navigation and analysis in game notation
• Input of your own variations, engine analysis, with storage in the game
• Learn variations: view specific lines in the ChessBase WebApp Opening with autoplay, memorize variations and practise transformation (initial position - final position).
• Active opening training: selected opening positions are transferred to the ChessBase WebApp Fritz-online. In a match against Fritz you test your new knowledge and actively play the new opening.

Even more possibilities: Start FritzTrainer in the ChessBase program!

• The database with all games and analyses can be opened directly.
• Games can be easily added to the opening reference.
• Direct evaluation with game reference, games can be replayed on the analysis board
• Your own variations are saved and can be added to the own repertoire
• Replay training
• LiveBook active
• All engines installed in ChessBase can be started for the analysis
• Assisted Analysis
• Print notation and diagrams (for worksheets)
   

System requirements:

App for Windows: Windows-PC, Windows 10 or 11 and Internet

App for Mac: Mac OS X and internet

ChessBase books: Computer (iPad, Tablet, PC etc.), current browser, internet

ChessBase video stream: Computer (iPad, Tablet, PC etc.), current browser, internet