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Chess Central is pleased to introduce chess books and databases on CD-Rom, which are like regular paper books...only better! Convenient, portable, interactive - the bottom line is that CD-Rom chess books are FUN to use. Employing the latest in ChessBase technology, these books are a far cry from the simple databases of old. Now opening manuals, tournament books, even past classics can be presented with fully integrated text and graphics. No more fumbling to find a page or setting up the board - everything's a click away! 

The Collected Works of Wilhelm Steinitz
edited by Sid Pickard

$74.95 Usually ships in 24 hours
CD-Rom, 3 e-books, 1071games, Magazine collection, theme keys, photos and more.

Here is your chance to discover the first World Chess Champion in his own words! This breakthrough CD-Rom showcases only writings by Steinitz himself, literally thousands of pages by the most successful match player in history. The founder of modern chess, the inventor of scientific analysis - and now you can meet the "Great Theorist" in a way never possible before! Click here to learn more about The Collected Works of Wilhelm Steinitz.

Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual
by ChessBase

$29.95 Usually ships in 24 hours
CD-Rom: no other software needed

Russian International Master Mark Dvoretsky is perhaps the most respected chess instructor in the world today. His latest work, Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual, is sure to become a classic reference work on one of the most difficult and subtle phases in chess. Learn more about Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual.

The Classic Chess Sampler I
by Pickard & Son, Publishers

$98.95 Usually ships in 24 hours
CD-ROM: 14 Ebooks, no other software required.

Here is your chance to own the classics you've always wanted...but now in the latest ChessBase format! Each book faithfully follows the original, with text documents, photos, richly annotated games – and all fully interactive. Just look at the titles included on this CD:

* Common Sense in Chess * Chess Fundamentals * Modern Ideas in Chess * My Chess Career * Morphy's Games of Chess * Chess Masterpieces * Mr. Blackburne's Games at Chess * Chess Endings for Beginners * St. Petersburg 1909 * The Capablanca – Lasker Match

These 10 chess classics will keep you entertained for months, but that's not all – you get War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells and Art of War by Sun Tzu, timeless classics of literature in .pdf eBook format. Plus you'll find a special bonus folder of chess stories, screensavers and more!
Click here to get the full details of this ultimate chess experience The Classic Chess Sampler I.

The Classic Chess Sampler II
by Pickard & Son, Publishers

$49.95 Usually ships in 24 hours
CD-ROM: 5 E-Books, no other software required.

Here is your chance to own the classics you've always wanted...but now in the latest ChessBase format!
* My Chess Career (Capablanca)
* Morphy's Games of Chess (P. Sergeant)
* International Chess Congress, St. Petersburg 1909 (Emanuel Lasker)
* Mr. Blackburne's Games at Chess (J. H. Blackburne)
* Art of War (Sun Tzu)
* Bonus folder of chess stories, screensavers and more!
Click here for complete details on The Classic Chess Sampler II

The Classic Chess Sampler III
by Pickard & Son, Publishers

$29.95  Usually ships in 24 hours
CD-ROM: 4 E-books, no other software required.

Here is your chance to own the classics you've always wanted...but now in the latest ChessBase format!
* Modern Ideas in Chess (Richard Reti)
* Chess Masterpieces (Henry Bird)
* Common Sense in Chess (Em. Lasker)
* War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells)
*  Bonus folder of chess stories, screensavers and more!
 Click here to learn more about The Classic Chess Sampler III CD-ROM

The Classic Chess Sampler IV
by Pickard & Son, Publishers

$29.95 Ships in 24 hours
CD-ROM: 4 E-books, no other software required.
Here is your chance to own the classics you've always wanted...but now in the latest ChessBase format!
* Chess Fundamentals (J. R. Capablanca)
* Common Sense in Chess (Em. Lasker)
* Endings for Beginners (J. H. Blake)
* Art of War (Sun Tzu)
* Bonus folder of chess stories, screensavers and more!
Click here for more details on The Classic Chess Sampler IV

International Chess Congress, St. Petersburg 1909
by Emanuel Lasker

$19.95  Download Now!
CD ROM:  175 annotated games, text documents, photos and crosstable. For use with ChessBase or CB Light, Chess Assistant, more. 2.16MB

Even today, St. Petersburg 1909 ranks high on any list of top tournaments, a trial of skill which produced more than a few "anthology" games. What makes the 1909 Congress at St. Petersburg one of the greatest, however, is that writing its official tournament book was entrusted to Emanuel Lasker. Here we have the reigning world champion's insight into each game, a complete account of this difficult event from the victor's point of view. Click here to learn more on International Chess Congress, St. Petersburg 1909.

The Chess Machine: Jose Raul Capablanca
by Tim Sawyer & Sid Pickard

$29.95
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CD-Rom, 3 e-books, 1,214 games, 16 text documents, theme keys, photos and more.

No chess player's education is complete without reference to the games and works of Jose Raul Capablanca. Known as "The Chess Machine", the third World Chess Champion played with precision and iron logic. Handsome and debonair, his rapid rate of play gained him star status with his adoring public who dubbed him "The Chess Machine". Click her to learn more about The Chess Machine

The Big Bird PowerBase, 2nd Edition
by Sid Pickard

$29.95
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CD-Rom, 50,443 games, 615 annotated, 4 text documents, opening & theme keys (2,100+ classification positions!)

Never again will you agonize over what to play as White, because Bird's Opening is the perfect system for the rest of your life! There's no need to learn a dozen openings based on the King's pawn or Queen's pawn, not when 1.f4 offers rich and varied games, suitable for winning chess. Click here to learn more on The Big Bird PowerBase.

The Ultimate Tarrasch Defense
by Eric Schiller

$29.95
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CD-Rom, 15,591 games, 300+ annotated, 7 text documents, opening & theme keys (814 classification positions!), .pgn, .ctg & Bookup files & more!

Here's the kind of opening you've got to love - invented and promoted by a lone pioneer, against all norms of "sound play" in his day. Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch believed in free and easy play for his pieces, in rapid development, and was unwilling to patiently defend the orthodox Queen's Gambit. Therefore, in answer to 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3, Tarrasch played 3...c5! to open the game immediately. Click here to learn more on The Ultimate Tarrasch Defense.

The Total Marshall
by Tim Harding

$29.95
Usually ships in 24 hours
CD-Rom:  7,500 games (many annotated). 

Chess Mail editor Tim Harding is an acknowledged expert in the Marshall and wrote several books about it in the past. In this jammed packed CD you will get a database of over 7,500 games (ChessBase, PGN and Chess Assistant formats), Easy Introduction to the Marshall, an HTML web with the ideas, theoretical overview, and an electronic book plus much more! Click here to learn more on The Total Marshall.

The Traxler Counterattack CD-Rom
by Dan Heisman

$29.95
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CD-Rom:53 Surveys,1650+ games, keys, photo, Training database, & more!

The Traxler Counterattack (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 Bc5) is among the sharpest openings and extremely tactical, the perfect laboratory for computer analysis. Click here for more information on The Traxler Counterattack CD-Rom.

Grandmaster Efim Bogoljubow, Famous Grandmasters
by ICCF IM Victor Charushin

$29.95
Usually ships in 24 hours
CD-Rom:  1,247 games (over 625 annotated), 40 + photographs, complete biography and crosstables. For use with ChessBase or CB Light

For over three decades Efim Bogoljubow dominated the world of chess, along with his rival Alekhine. A powerful player and a powerful story, all on one feature-loaded CD! Click here for more information on Grandmaster Efim Bogoljubow, Famous Grandmasters.

The Nimzovich Defense Ultimate CD
with Hugh Myers

$24.95
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CD-Rom:  10,750+ games (over 650 annotated). Introduction by Hugh Myers, 6 Opening Reports, 7 Surveys, and detailed opening keys.

Now the fascinating world of 1.e4 Nc6 is captured on disk - a world beginning on the first move, in which Black develops a piece, pressures the center, and reserves all options; in which he offers no concession, no target, and no weakness! Click here for more information on The Nimzovich Defense Ultimate CD.

StarBase 4.56
A Federation Enterprise

$29.95
Usually ships in 24 hours
CD-Rom:  4.56 Million games, .cbh format

Welcome to the largest, most comprehensive collection of chess games anywhere. From the year 1516 through December 2004, StarBase 4.56 delivers a mind-numbing 4,565,629 games of chess.  Click here for more information on StarBase 4.56 - A Federation Enterprise.

The Complete Queen's Gambit
by Franco Pezzi

$24.95
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CD-Rom: 75,000+ games, annotated games, photos, music and more.

A new series from Franco Pezzi, the author of Gambitingly!. Never before has there been this much material on the Queen's Gambit. This CD contains hundreds of annotated and analyzed games, thousands of selected games and many opening books all in English, German and Italian. Click here to learn more on The Complete Queen's Gambit.
 

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