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It's easy-to-learn and easy-to-play. Here is an opening for Black which will furnish good results in the shortest possible time. What other opening could we be referring to apart from the Scandinavian or Center Counter Defense: 1.e4 d5!..

This DVD by Lubomir Ftacnik is an ambitious project, presenting a comprehensive set of ideas and structures in chess openings, arising after the first move 1.d4. In 34 videos (plus Intro and Conclusion) the author covers all 1.d4 openings -..

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..

After 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 White players often play 3.Nc3 allowing the Nimzo-shop Indian Defence. But what happens if White plays the just as natural 3.Nf3? On this DVD IM Jacob Aagaard follows up on his DVD on the Nimzo to by giving a recommendation..

The Big Database 2011 contains more than 4.8 millions games from 1560 to 2010 in the highest ChessBase quality standard with ChessBase opening classification with more than 100,000 key positions, direct access to players, tournaments, middlegame..

Start your personal successstory with ChessBase and enjoy your chess even more. Let ChessBase11 show youwhich variations are really being played nowadays. Find your next opponent'sweak points and exploit the advantage of well targeted preparation...

With this third and last part of his course, Alexey Bartashnikov looks at decisive features of the endgame, in 20 chapters with 74 extensively annotated games. The author starts pointing out how to effectively realize a spatial, material or..

On the ABC of the Classical Dutch, IM Andrew Martin gives the student a thorough grounding in the ways of this unconventional opening. The positions that are reached after 1...f5 are always sharp and unclear, suiting the chessboard warrior very..

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..

Power Play 7 - Improve Your Pieces by Danny King.Why is maneuvering important, and in what circumstances should we consider maneuvering rather than another course of action? In this 7th Power Play DVD, Daniel King helps you to recognize when a piece..

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..

The first part of the CD consists of a small database explaining all possible mate motifs in 15 themes. The main database contains 1000 mating tasks in 1, 2 or 3 moves, all stemming from actual games. Each move of the mating side is connected to a..

By playing the London System, with 1.d4 followed by 2.Nf3 and 3.Bf4, White can avoid a theoretical discussion and instead use natural ability plus a knowledge of plans. The weight of the struggle tends to shift towards the middlegame, but White can..

Fritz remains the most popular chess program worldwide, a super-strong chess playing opponent developed by ChessBase. Whether you're a beginner, club player or professional - Fritz 12 has everything that chess players could want: automatically..

Viswanathan Anand: My CareerAcclaimed as the "Fastest Brain in the World", Viswanathan Anand is the world's highest rated chess player and World Champion. Experts have called him one of the biggest natural talents in the history of the game. In..

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..

Great players of the past used to say - the most difficult thing in chess is to win won positions! Every player has such problems - those at the top of the tree and (especially) juniors. The correct technique consists of proper exchange methods and..

The exclusive ChessBase "flagship" database. This DVD contains more than 4,000,000 games from 1560 to 2008 in the highest ChessBase quality standard. All games are grouped in the ChessBase opening classification key, containing more than 100,000 key..

In a small but swell database with 100 entries -- 7 texts and 93 sample games -- the long time player in the German Bundesliga has compiled all his knowledge on the Chigorin Defence. Features:Database includes 54 training questions enabling the user..

"Let's Check" is a world first, it is the innovation with which Fritz 13 will have the chess world holding its breath and which will revolutionise everything. It is with the help of this new function that Fritz 13 users world-wide will create a..

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 !..

The Scandinavian has long lost its former exotic status. Thanks to practical success and a number of publications by some players from Hamburg gathered around the several times German champions Matthias Wahls in Germany this opening even managed to..

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..

Positional chess in the basic on which success is founded. Of course material can be won and also points achieved by tactical measures, but first you have to bring the relevant positions up on your board. Jacob Aagaard teaches in six lectures..