Chess Software for Beginners and Intermediate Players...
There are some fabulous ways to learn chess and improve your game
these days. One of the best involves using your PC. The following
software has been selected for its educational quality as well as
its top-class exploitation of the computer's multi-media capabilities.
All these titles are suitable for children and adults. In addition,
top-level playing programs such as Fritz
and Shredder can be used to practice
- they come with all sorts of aids and facilities for the learner.
Click on the link to 'Chess-Playing Programs' to check out this
software.
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 Learn
chess from a Russian Grandmaster and the former coach of Anatoly
Karpov! Yury Razuvaev designed this course for beginners (adults
or children). The course is structured to enable the student to
learn the moves and then move on to develop the necessary concentration,
attention, imagination and logic skills needed to play good chess.
Pupils play instructive positions against the built-in playing program,
Dragon 4.0. Recommended for schools, the program is designed for
classroom use, and displays graphical statistics on individual's
performance. Thousands of chess students are using this product
in schools. Comes on CD-ROM, requires a Pentium PC (Windows 95/98/NT),
24MBs RAM.
 The
follow-up to Chess School For Beginners. An intermediate
tutorial for inexperienced players, young and old, who have already
learnt the rules of chess. 55 lessons with more than 450 instructive
examples to illustrate the basic principles of chess. Over 750 quiz
problems and built-in playing engine to test your chess knowledge.
Multiple users allowed, with independent ELO ratings calculated
for each; a database stores details of students' scores. Ideal for
classroom use. System Requirements: Pentium 75 CPU, Windows
95/98/NT, 12mbs RAM, 4MBs free hard disk space, VGA graphics, CD-ROM.
 Learning
chess is more fun than ever... this CD-ROM, new in 2002, is a complete
interactive beginners course for chess, by Mikhail Shereshevsky.
It is based on the latest multi-media technology, and all the lessons
come with dazzling full-screen animation and CD-quality sound. It
is designed to take you through the basic rules and principles of
chess, via the methods of the famous Russian chess school. Your
progress is monitored and reinforced by a series of tests. Also,
you can polish your newly-acquired chess skills by taking on the
famous 'Crafty' chess-playing engine which comes fully configured
and ready to run.
Features... 18 lessons * 200 tests * 4 hours of 3D and 'Flash' animation
* original soundtrack * play chess against the computer (Crafty
18.15). Requirements: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP, 266MHz or faster
computer, 64 mb RAM, Video Card, CD-ROM, Sound chip, mouse, 21mbs
of hard disk for a minimum installation. Uses Macromedia Flash technology.
 CT-ART
teaches chess tactics. It presents more than 1,200 instructive examples
classified according to three criteria. The program is mainly intended
for novices and intermediate chess players. At the same time it
provides some unique opportunities for advanced players. A user
has to find the most important moves. If he fails to find the solution,
the program helps him with markers, hints and auxiliary positions.
The program includes examples from practical games and endgame studies
as well as material created by ICCF-GM Maxim Blokh. This product
comes highly recommended by Michael de la Maza in his book Rapid
Chess Improvement. Installation is very simple, and on loading
you go immediately into a customisable desktop to start testing
your tactical powers. It is addictive and quite testing for players
of all strengths. Has a facility for named users to keep track of
their scores. The program rates your selection of moves via an elo-based
system. Great fun and good value for money.
This is a complete computer-based training course for novice, intermediate
and advanced pupils. There are four separate software modules on
the one CD-ROM...
1. CT-ART 3.0: teaches chess tactics, with more than 1,200 instructive
examples. Find the best move in any given position...
2. STUDIES 2.0: for more advanced players and those interested
in studies. More than 2,000 studies by the best composers...
3. Encyclopaedia of Middle Game Part I / Strategy 2.0 by Russian
coaches A Kalinin and A Mitenkov. These are tutorial program for
intermediate/advanced players. Typical pawn structures, typical
plans and methods in most popular openings. 600 annotated examples,
400 typical positions to play through against the built-in engine,
1,000 questions to solve. 'Middle Game II' has another 650 examples,
150 typical positions, 600 questions...
4. Encyclopaedia of Opening Blunders: prepared by Ulyko and
Mitenkov. For studying blunders in different openings. Challenges
the user to find the best move, and helps when you make a mistake.
Ideal for multi-user, classroom use: each program can be used by
more than one student, and it stores statistics for each student
using the system. LAST BUT NOT LEAST: The built-in playing
program is the famous Crafty. This can be used simply as
an opponent for playing chess, as well as for study, practice, test
and statistics. The CD-ROM comes with a 32 page booklet to help
you get the best out of the software. System Requirements: Windows
95/98/2000/NT/ME. PC with Pentium 75 CPU, 12mbs memory, 4mbs hard
disk free, CD-ROM drive.
This is a Russian chess university on a disk! Suitable for chess
players of elo 1700/BCF 135 and above. This second compilation of
popular training programs will help you to for studying all phases
of the game: opening, middlegame and endgame. There are five new
programs included in the package:
1. Encyclopaedia of Middlegame II: a program for studying middlegame
playing technique. The theoretical section includes over 600 games/lessons,
each of them illustrating typical plans and methods used in popular
openings. A special training section includes more than 500 exercises
for solving and 150 training positions. This course was devised
by GM Kalinin.
2. Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players: this program includes
more than 1,180 tactical exercises, classified by theme and difficulty.
3. Mate Studies: about 5,000 exercises and problems. This is
an excellent program to hone your tactical skills!
4. Theory and Practice of Chess Endgames: the best program for
studying the endgame - the author, GM Panchenko, compiled this material
over 20 years. Many experts regard his endgame handbook as the best
in the field. Thousands of chess players in Russia used it to study
the endgame and many of them are now grandmasters. The theoretical
sections includes 700 lessons and a training section - 300 exercises
and 180 exercises.
5. Chess Endgame Training: this endgame program consists of
more than 2450 endgame exercises taken from actual games, endgame
studies as well as training examples, all classified according to
500 endgame themes.
In all, the disk contains more than 11,000 study
examples and exercises suitable for chess players of elo 1700 (BCF
135) and above!
System Requirements: 32MB RAM, 100MB free disk space, Windows
95 or later, CD-ROM drive).
 This endgame course was composed by GM Alexander
Panchenko. Its aim is to teach the student the many intricacies
of the endgame through a theoretical section, which includes over
700 games/lectures, each of them illustrating practical endgame
methods. The special training section includes 300 exercises for
the user to solve, showing refutations of wrong moves as well as
numerous hints to help find the answer. There are also 180 positions
chosen to be played against the built-in chess playing program Crafty.
Multiple user profiles are possible, with independent ratings and
statistics making the software ideal for classroom use. System
requirements: PC, 16MB RAM, 30 MB of free space on Hard Drive.
CD-ROM Drive, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/ME/XP.
 Strategy is the foundation
of chess. It evolves at the same pace as the game itself, but the
classic principles remain unaltered. In this work Russian IM Alexander
Raetsky presents the immortal lessons of great champions of the
past and the more advanced teachings from contemporary tournament
competition. In twenty lessons that range from the exploitation
of weak squares to the analysis of typical centre formations, from
the evaluations of positions to manoeuvring play. This is the first
of a new range of electronic talking books with moves and analysis
shown automatically on a clear, well-presented chessboard. Many
interesting functions: you can add your own notes, search for commentary,
print out games and check your learning. This CD-ROM also includes
the ARENA freeware program by Martin Blume. Technical requirements:
Windows 95 or later, pentium 166mhz minimum, 32 MBs RAM, 45 MBs
available on hard disk, CD drive 6x. From Chess Multimedia.
 This interactive chess training
course contains over 5,000 mate studies classified by number of
moves, number of pieces and authors. It contains an excellent chess
program, Crafty, which you can use to help you solve the studies
or just as a very strong chess opponent. Graded exercises help you
to solve the problems and improve your play. You can monitor your
strength via an Elo rating given as you progress through the exercises:
there is a facility to allow statistics to be stored for multiple
users, so this can be used in the chess classroom. Minimum Requirements:
PC Pentium 100 CPU; 32 MB RAM, 30 MB free space on hard disk; VGA
graphics; Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP, CD-ROM drive; mouse.
• CHECK OUT OUR FULL-RANGE OF CHESS SOFTWARE,
DATA AND COMPUTERS •
• Chess-Playing Programs •
ChessBase Software • Fritz/ChessBase
Data Disks • Opening, Middlegame
& Endgame Disks •
• Chess Biographical Disks •
Other Chess Databases • Desktop,
Portable and Handheld Chess Computers •
• Chess Software for Beginners &
Intermediate Players •
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