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there is no need to own any other software unless otherwise stated.
 Viktor Korchnoi My Life for Chess, Vol. 1 DVD-ROM
 Viktor
Korchnoi is undoubtedly one of the most electrifying personalities
in the chess world. Still playing successful and attractive chess,
the 73-year-old former double world championship finalist is also
famous for his candid language. Korchnoi was never one for mincing
his words. Now you can experience this chess legend “live”:
with the new ChessBase DVDs “My Life for Chess”, Korchnoi
has created a vivid memorial to himself and his great chess career.
In Volume 1, he presents eight of his most brilliant effort from
the years 1949-1979, among them games against Smyslov, Geller, Tal,
Huebner and Karpov. In each case Korchnoi describes in detail the
story around the game, never beating around the bush, sometimes
harshly criticizing his opponents, but also lavishing praise on
them when this is warranted. A highlight is the game against Karpov
from the match for the world championship in Baguio 1978. All in
all, “My Life for Chess Vol. 1” offers more than three
hours of first-class chess training, plus an extensive interview.
A must-have for every chess fan!
Victor Korchnoi, two-times contender for the
world championship, is a piece of living chess history. In the 60
years of his career, he crossed swords with practically all great
players of the past and presence, including Bobby Fischer and Garry
Kasparov. A relentless fighter at the board, he expressed his never-ending
love for the royal game in a very simple phrase: “Chess is
my life”.
System requirements: Pentium-Processor at
300 Mhz or higher, 64 MB RAM, Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000, Windows
XP, Windows Media Player 9.0, DVD drive.
 Viktor Korchnoi My Life for Chess, Vol. 2 DVD-ROM
Volume 2 features about four hours of “Korchnoi live”.
The great chess legend portraits the second part of his eventful
career, presenting among other things his games against Kasparov
(1986), Spassky (1989) and Short (1990) in his typical gripping
style. Embedded in the game commentaries are many details of Korchnoi’s
biography. For instance, before commenting on his game against Spassky,
the veteran speaks extensively about his personal relationship with
the ex-world champion. Throughout these lectures you can feel Korchnoi’s
ever-enduring love for chess. Whenever the great master gets to
the heart of an opening (King’s Indian, English and French)
or shows an astonishing move, one can see the joy sparkling from
his eyes. No wonder – hardly any other chess genius has lived
chess as intensively as “Viktor the Terrible”.
Victor Korchnoi, two-times contender for the
world championship, is a piece of living chess history. In the 60
years of his career, he crossed swords with practically all great
players of the past and presence, including Bobby Fischer and Garry
Kasparov. A relentless fighter at the board, he expressed his never-ending
love for the royal game in a very simple phrase: “Chess is
my life”.
System requirements: Pentium-Processor at
300 Mhz or higher, 64 MB RAM, Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000, Windows
XP, Windows Media Player 9.0, DVD drive.
 World Champion Alexander Alekhine
This collection of databases and texts was put together by GM Robert
Hubner, on one of the greatest of world champions. As well as a
compilation of Alekhine's best combinations, there are some videos
of famous grandmasters (Shirov, Gelfand, King) retelling anecdotes
about Alekhine, plus a 2,225 game database of Alekhine’s games
in chronological order, lightly annotated.
 World Champion Robert Fischer
All world champions take up an important place in history of chess,
but hardly any has achieved such popularity outside the chess scene
as Robert Fischer. In his heyday he did an incredibly amount for
chess. His masterpiece, of course, is the treasury of brilliant
games. Dr. Robert Hübner has thoroughly examined Fischer’s
biggest and best known publication, My Sixty Memorable Games.
This ChessBase monography includes reports on Fischer’s most
important chess matches, including contemporary material. The CD
contains a database with an introduction by Robert Hübner.
The main database on the CD has all of Fischer's games, with an
introductory text to the most important matches and tournaments.
There are exactly 1,000 entries, of which 44 are tournament reports,
the rest games. About half of the games, 462 in all, are annotated,
many very extensively. All the reports are in English and German.
The Fischer CD also contains many pictures and 330 MB of historical
film footage. Here are the scenes included in the video section:
video of Fischer in Yugoslavia 1958 (38 seconds); video of a Fischer
interview in the USA (1 m 42 secs); video of Fischer at the 1960
Leipzig Olympiad (3 m 59 secs); 5-second video sequence with Fischer
on psychology; video of Fischer in Yugoslavia (4 m 35 secs); video
of Fischer arriving in Rejkyavik 1972 (4 m 1 sec); Fischer at the
1970 Siegen Olympiad (27 secs).
 World Champion Emanuel Lasker
This CD-ROM features extensive biographical material on Lasker:
a complete collection of all his 1,182 games or game fragments,
reports of all significant tournaments and matches, analyses of
major games, a multi-media database with interviews with Averbakh,
Baumbach, etc, plus video footage from the Lasker Conference in
Potsdam in 2001, with Hübner, Unzicker, etc, plus Lilienthal
going through his game with Lasker from Moscow 1935.
 Paul Morphy – Genius and
Myth
The history of chess has many strange stories, but none so spectacular
as the comet-like rise of Paul Morphy. Within only two years of
his arrival on the scene, the American defeated the strongest players
of his time and was acclaimed as the unofficial world champion.
His retirement at the height of his glory, the mysteries of his
subsequent life and his tragic end made him a legendary figure for
all time. This ChessBase CD features an extensive biography and
a special tactics database. There are expert analyses of Morphy’s
playing style by GMs Karsten Müller and Rainer Knaak, dealing
with the interesting question: “How was Morphy superior to
this contemporaries?”
 World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz
Wilhelm Steinitz was the first official world chess champion and
held the title from 1886, when he defeated Zukertort, to 1894 when
he lost to Emanuel Lasker. Steinitz is universally regarded as the
founder of the positional school of chess, and the basic principles
of his pragmatic and systematic approach still hold good in the
21st century. Thorsten Heedt's biography features a comprehensive
portrait of the Steinitz and his peripatetic career in Prague, Vienna,
London, Philadelphia and New York. There is extensive coverage of
his five world championship matches, as well as articles on his
personality and character. More than 1,000 games • 42 texts
• database with training questions • database with special
topics such as 'Steinitz's provocative openings'.
 World Champion Mikhail Tal
The meteoric rise to the heights of chess achieved by the young
Tal, when he seized the world champion’s title from Botvinnik
in 1960, is already sufficient to grant him a special place in the
world of chess. But more than this, it was the art of his attacking
play which conquered the hearts of chess fans all over the world.
Despite his short reign on the throne, Tal became a legend during
his lifetime. Johannes Sondermann, author of the biographic part
of the CD, has made an objective portrait of the world champion's
character. During his extensive research, he also interviewed Tal's
widow and reveals a lot about the "private" Tal as well
as: a collection of all Tal's 2,857 games; biography (texts + pictures);
extensive video interview with Tal's widow; additional historic
videos; training database with 250 Tal combinations.
CONVEKTA BIOGRAPHICAL DISKS
 Mikhail Botvinnik CD-ROM - Khalifman (Convekta CD-ROM)
The most complete collection of Botvinnik’s games ever compiled,
with 1,069 games played from 1924 to 1970, annotated by Alexander
Khalifman and IM Sergey Soloviev. It comes with a biography and
a tournament/match record, as well as 25 rare photos. There is also
a special tutorial section, “Play As Botvinnik”, which
includes 350 quiz positions in which you can follow Botvinnik’s
lead and find his continuation in his games. The CD-ROM comes complete
with the chess-playing engines Crafty and Dragon, and a special
‘Chess Assistant Light’ reader program (plus a 32-page
software installation/instruction manual). System Requirements:
Windows 95 or higher. No additional software is required.
 Boris Spassky - 10th World Champion - Khalifman (Convekta
CD-ROM)
This disk contains all the games of the 10th world champion, Boris
Spassky, one of the greatest exponents of attack in chess history.
GM Khalifman, himself a former world champion, comments on 400 games
and 1,965 games contain short annotations. Plus tournament/match
record and 50 rare photos and a tutorial section with 185 quiz questions.
System Requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 64MBs RAM, 100MBs
hard disk spare, Windows 2000/NT/Me/XP, CD-ROM drive. No additional
software is required.
 All World Championships DVD-ROM
Since the year 1886, there have been world championships in chess.
The world champion was nearly always determined in a duel. Whoever
wanted to climb the throne, he had to defeat the reigning king.
Despite this long period in time, there have only been 14 world
champions in the history of chess until the year 2000, when Vladimir
Kramnik seized the title from Kasparov. Far more extensive, however,
are the world championships matches themselves. According to ChessBase,
the last clash between Kasparov and Karpov was world match no. 35.
Afterwards, there were three Kasparov duels which were played outside
the jurisdiction of FIDE. A second database is dedicated the six
FIDE world championships from 1993 until 2002 • for each match
there is one introductory text including pictures • short biographies
of all world champions and challengers • more than 2,200 games,
more than half of them annotated • extensive video material
(about 4.5 GB) • training database by Dr. Karsten Müller
• System requirements: Pentium, 32 MB Ram, Windows 98,
2000, ME, XP, DVD-ROM drive, works with Fritz 8, ChessBase 7.0 or
ChessBase 8.0, but there is no need to own any of these programs
as it comes with its own ChessBase Reader.
 The Greatest Tournaments in the
History of Chess 1851-1986
There are names of towns and cities which have special resonance
for chess players. Towns like Hastings, Wijk aan Zee, Karlsbad,
Tilburg or Bugojno may well be small, but they just happen to be
the names of great chess tournaments. Of course these major tournaments
also took place in the great cities of the world. It all started
with London 1851, where Adolf Anderssen enjoyed his greatest triumph.
In the prize lists the names of the top players of their day turn
up with great regularity as winners: Morphy (New York 1857), Steinitz
(Vienna 1873), Lasker (amongst others London 1899 and New York 1924),
Capablanca (amongst others San Sebastian 1911), Alekhine (amongst
others Bled 1931) etc.
The tournament reports – mostly written
by Manual Fruth – contain many interesting details, which at
the same time give an insight into the history of chess. In this
way, you'll find that today’s much discussed rules about thinking
time have been undergoing a process of development: from long to
shorter and shorter. And in those days there was also a struggle
against short draws. Thus, for example, tournament regulations frequently
mention that draws may not be agreed before move 30. The 50 tournament
reports form a true treasure trove of further information.
The 50 tournaments: London 1851 • New York
1857 • Vienna 1873 • Leipzig 1877 • London 1883 •
Hastings 1895 • St Petersburg 1895 • Nuremberg 1896 •
Vienna 1898 • London 1899 • Paris 1900 • Cambridge
Springs 1904 • St Petersburg 1909 • Karlsbad 1911 •
San Sebastian 1911 • San Sebastian 1912 • St Petersburg
1914 • Mährisch Ostrau 1923 • New York 1924 •
Baden-Baden 1925 • Moscow 1925 • Bad Kissingen 1928 •
Karlsbad 1929 • San Remo 1930 • Bled 1931 • Moscow
1935+36 • Nottingham 1936 • Kemeri 1937 • AVRO 1938
• Salzburg 1942 • Sverdlovsk 1943 • Groningen 1946
• Moscow 1956 • Dallas 1957 • Bled 1961 • Capablanca-Memorial
1963 • Los Angeles 1963 • Santa Monica 1966 • Moscow
1967 • Moscow 1971 • San Antonio 1972 • Milan 1975
• Moscow 1975 • Leningrad 1977 • Bugojno 1978 •
Tilburg 1978 • Montreal 1979 • Moscow 1981 • Bugojno
1986 • Tilburg 1986
50 tournaments from London 1851 till Bugojno 1986 • for each
tournament an illustrated database text, mostly written by Manual
Fruth • tables and references to the most important games •
all the games of the above tournaments (more than 1,400 annotated)
• includes ChessBase-Reader.
 For
over three decades Efim Bogoljubow dominated the world of chess,
along with his rival Alekhine - yet Fate has made the latter name
famous while obscuring the former. Now chess enthusiasts can experience
the life and games of world championship contender Bogoljubow in
the first of a new biographical CD-Rom series by ICCF IM Victor
Charushin. "Famous Grandmasters" brings together an extraordinary
combination of games, history, and images - delivering a total life
picture of the greatest masters of chess.
Victor Charushin is uniquely qualified to undertake a project of
this scope. His command of the subject and easy familiarity with
the source material is evident at every turn. One measure of his
success is seen in the conviction, which grows stronger with each
reading, that Bogoljubow’s dramatic story could not have been
told any differently! The Grandmaster Efim Bogoljubow CD includes:
* 1,247 games by Bogoljubow, plus compositions and excerpts from
his books. Over 625 games are annotated, often by Bogoljubow himself
or contemporaries and other great masters. * The story of Bogoljubow’s
career in easy-to-use text documents (over 70 pages!) linked throughout
the database. * More than 40 photographs and exhibits. * Opening
and Theme keys for quick access to particular games. * A separate
.pdf file (reader included) with over 75 tournament and match cross
tables.
• CHECK OUT OUR FULL-RANGE OF CHESS SOFTWARE,
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• Chess-Playing Programs •
ChessBase Software • Fritz/ChessBase
Data Disks • Opening, Middlegame
& Endgame Disks •
• Chess Biographical & Historical
Disks • Other Chess Databases
• Desktop, Portable and Handheld Chess
Computers •
• Chess Software for Beginners &
Intermediate Players •
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