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Chess
Assistant 8.1
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ICC price: $119.95
Regular price: $129
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- Chess Database management system
- Built-in top playing programs:
Chess Tiger 2004, Ruffian, Delfi, Crafty
- Chess Opening Encyclopedia 2005
- Internet Chess Club (ICC) support
- 2,710,000 games (by January 1, 2005)
- Game Service 2005-2006: 2,500 games free every week
Chess Assistant 8.1 is a unique tool for managing chess games and databases,
playing chess on the Internet, viewing electronic texts, studying openings, analyzing games, or playing
chess against the computer.
- Database:
Chess Assistant 8.1 includes a database of 2,710,000 games
that can be automatically updated through the Internet each week with 2,500 new games.
Entering games is possible, as well as adding databases in CA, PGN or CBH formats whilst
removing any duplicate games.
- Opening studies:
The Chess Opening Encyclopedia 2005 mode includes rich theoretical material on all the openings,
more than 8,000 annotations from GM Kalinin and 500,000 expert evaluations to key opening
positions. An access to the opening encyclopedia is improved thanks to a new revolutionary mode – Opening Tables,
which presents the theoretical material in a familiar form of the encyclopedic table and allows you to
replay the opening lines on the chessboard. You can annotate theoretic lines using a new facility for
adding\editing variations.
- Middlegame studies:
For middlegame studies, the program provides analysis by a wide variety of chess engines.
Built-in playing programs Chess Tiger 2004, Ruffian, Delfi, Crafty and Russian Dragon.
Broad opportunities for play and analysis are provided: deep automatic game analysis mode,
multi-variant and background analysis, etc.
- Database and game management:
Facilitated with an easy-to-handle drag and drop interface plus a navigation/database browser window,
which really - should be - standard for programs of this type. There are also (self understanding for our
standards) tools for keeping player and tournament names consistent, and removing doubles from your
collection at the highest possible speed and correctness, the entire Market offers at present.
- Search tools:
And of course, all sorts of search tools at your disposal, like searches for material,
pawn structures, positions, players, sacrifices, piece movements, statistical analysis, etc.
- Internet Play:
By terms of chess related Internet play, Chess Assistant 8.1 provides you with a
comfortable interface for the connect to the ICC, which has the - by far - highest membership
capacity of all chess clubs on the Internet. The interface allows you to play games online,
or watch the games of others and so forth.
- Internet access:
Internet access to 6-piece Nalimov Tablebases.
Special chess mail service. Forum and online support for Chess Assistant 8.1 customers.
- Playing:
And as chess playing itself is concerned, you can use Chess Assistant 8 in combination with its
built-in engines (Chess Tiger 2004, Ruffian, Delfi, Crafty and Russian Dragon), or with a wide,
additional variety of other engines (Shredder 8 or Shredder 9 UCI, even Winboard engines).
- Language versions:
English, Spanish, French and Italian versions are available.
Chess Assistant 8.1 includes 3 CDs: program, database, chess data and Video Help.
System Requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 128 Mb RAM, hard disk 1.5Gb, Windows 2000/ME/NT/XP,
CD-ROM drive. No additional software required.
Video lessons for Chess Assistant
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Chess
Assistant 8.1, Mega Packet
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ICC price: $169
Regular price: $179
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- Chess Database management system
- Built-in top playing programs:
Chess Tiger 2004, Ruffian, Delfi, Crafty
- Chess Opening Encyclopedia 2005
- Internet Chess Club (ICC) support
- 2,710,000 games (by January 1, 2005)
- Correspondence Database: 260,000 games
- Endgame Tablebases (all 3-4-5 piece endings on DVD)
- Commented Game Service 2004-2006: 2,500 games free every week
(more than 200 commented games)
Chess Assistant 8.1 is a unique tool for managing chess games and databases,
playing chess on the Internet, viewing electronic texts, studying openings, analyzing games, or playing
chess against the computer.
- Database:
Chess Assistant 8.1 includes a database of 2,710,000 games
that can be automatically updated through the Internet each week with 2,500 new games.
Entering games is possible, as well as adding databases in CA, PGN or CBH formats whilst
removing any duplicate games.
- Opening studies:
The Chess Opening Encyclopedia 2005 mode includes rich theoretical material on all the openings,
more than 8,000 annotations from GM Kalinin and 500,000 expert evaluations to key opening
positions. An access to the opening encyclopedia is improved thanks to a new revolutionary mode – Opening Tables,
which presents the theoretical material in a familiar form of the encyclopedic table and allows you to
replay the opening lines on the chessboard. You can annotate theoretic lines using a new facility for
adding\editing variations.
- Middlegame studies:
For middlegame studies, the program provides analysis by a wide variety of chess engines.
Built-in playing programs Chess Tiger 2004, Ruffian, Delfi, Crafty and Russian Dragon.
Broad opportunities for play and analysis are provided: deep automatic game analysis mode,
multi-variant and background analysis, etc.
- Database and game management:
Facilitated with an easy-to-handle drag and drop interface plus a navigation/database browser window,
which really - should be - standard for programs of this type. There are also (self understanding for our
standards) tools for keeping player and tournament names consistent, and removing doubles from your
collection at the highest possible speed and correctness, the entire Market offers at present.
- Search tools:
And of course, all sorts of search tools at your disposal, like searches for material,
pawn structures, positions, players, sacrifices, piece movements, statistical analysis, etc.
- Internet Play:
By terms of chess related Internet play, Chess Assistant 8.1 provides you with a
comfortable interface for the connect to the ICC, which has the - by far - highest membership
capacity of all chess clubs on the Internet. The interface allows you to play games online,
or watch the games of others and so forth.
- Internet access:
Internet access to 6-piece Nalimov Tablebases.
Special chess mail service. Forum and online support for Chess Assistant 8.1 customers.
- Playing:
And as chess playing itself is concerned, you can use Chess Assistant 8 in combination with its
built-in engines (Chess Tiger 2004, Ruffian, Delfi, Crafty and Russian Dragon), or with a wide,
additional variety of other engines (Shredder 8 or Shredder 9 UCI, even Winboard engines).
- Language versions:
English, Spanish, French and Italian versions are available.
- System requirements:
IBM-compatible PC, 128 Mb RAM, hard disk 2Gb, Windows 2000/NT/XP, CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive.
No additional software required.
Chess Assistant 8.1 Mega Packet extras:
- Correspondence Database;
- Endgame Tablebases (all the 3-4-5 piece endings) on a DVD;
- Endgame Tablebases (selected 6-piece endings) on 2 DVDs (17 Gb);
- Commented Game Service 2004-2006;
Thus Chess Assistant 8.1 Mega Packet includes 4 CDs and 3 DVDs as well as a 112-paged
printed manual in English or Spanish.
CDs: the program CD, the database CD, the chess data and video help CD plus the Correspondence database CD.
DVDs: Endgame Tablebases.
Video lessons for Chess Assistant
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Chess Assistant 7.1
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ICC price:
$59
Regular price: $69
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New universal chess program for amateur and
professional chess players
Everything a chess player needs - Database management system Chess Assistant
Playing programs Chess Tiger 15 and Tiger Gambit III
Automatic game analysis A new unique system
Opening Encyclopedia CHESS OPENINGS 2003
Client software for playing on the Internet ICC support
Game Database 2,240,000 games
on two CDs.
Five top-notch products at the price of one!
Language versions: English, German, Spanish, French and
Italian
DVD-like box |
Database and Chess Data
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NEW!! Nalimov
Endgame Tablebases, 6-piece, DVD
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ICC price: $26
Regular price: $29
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Nalimov DVD includes the most complete version
of the 3-4-5 piece NALIMOV endgame tablebases (290 files). Completely
compatible with Chess Assistant 6 or 7, Comprehensive Chess Endings, Fritz 7/8, Tiger
14/15, Shredder 7, Junior and a lot of other engines.
- Analyzing endgames with a small number of pieces
- The program knows whether the position is won, lost, or drawn, and how many moves it
will take to win or draw, assuming best play by both sides
- You can use tablebases while viewing games, analyzing, or playing against a computer
- Supplied with tablebases, playing programs are infallible in the late endgame, as they
begin to use variations and evaluations from the tablebases as soon as a position
available in them arises on the board
- When installing Comprehensive Chess Endings, setup program offers you installing
tablebases as well
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Nalimov Endgame Tablebases, 3-4-5 piece,
DVD
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ICC price: $23
Regular price: $26
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Nalimov DVD includes the most complete version
of the 3-4-5 piece NALIMOV endgame tablebases (290 files). Completely
compatible with Chess Assistant 6 or 7, Comprehensive Chess Endings, Fritz 7/8, Tiger
14/15, Shredder 7, Junior and a lot of other engines.
- Analyzing endgames with a small number of pieces
- The program knows whether the position is won, lost, or drawn, and how many moves it
will take to win or draw, assuming best play by both sides
- You can use tablebases while viewing games, analyzing, or playing against a computer
- Supplied with tablebases, playing programs are infallible in the late endgame, as they
begin to use variations and evaluations from the tablebases as soon as a position
available in them arises on the board
- When installing Comprehensive Chess Endings, setup program offers you installing
tablebases as well
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Comprehensive Chess Endings
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ICC price: $38
Regular price: $39.95
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This is a fundamental program for studying
endgame theory. Material is supplied by the prominent endgame theoretician GM Yuri
Averbakh.
- 4182 theoretically important games and examples thoroughly analyzed and
classified into 500 themes
- Material based on a printed edition of Comprehensive Chess Endings
- Nalimov Endgame Tablebases support and a built-in Test Mode
- Computer evaluations and variations given for every move in games and examples
- Games from the modern practice, where the position in question occurred
- The built-in playing program Crafty and the powerful searching system Chess
Assistant Light allowing to analyze and play through the positions in question, edit
variations, search for the necessary information, print out and export into a text file in
both RTF and HTML formats
- DVD-like box
English version available. |
Comprehensive Chess Endings + Nalimov DVD,
packet
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ICC
price: $55
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Our special offer includes a packet of two
brand-new software products (English versions):
- Comprehensive Chess Endings which is a fundamental program for studying
endgame theory. Material is supplied by the prominent endgame theoretician GM Yuri
Averbakh.
See Comrehensive Chess Endings for More Info
- Nalimov DVD containing the most complete version of the 3-4-5
piece NALIMOV endgame tablebases (290 files). Completely compatible with Chess
Assistant 6 or 7, Comprehensive Chess Endings, Fritz 7/8, Tiger 14/15, Shredder 7, Junior
and a lot of other engines.
See Nalimov Endgame Tablebases DVD for More Info |
Training courses
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Top Russian chess trainers write our
interactive training programs, sharing their knowledge and experience through their
material and carefully chosen test and practice positions. Each training program follows a
simple, yet highly effective teaching method designed to take you to a new playing level.
Start with the material, divided by themes, by playing through the
numerous commented games used to illustrate the lesson of the day, then test your
understanding of the material through a series of test positions. Each CD presents thousands
of exercises classified by theme and difficulty. If you propose a wrong move, the
program will help you with various visual hints to help you find the solution. These hints
can be arrows highlighting key lines of attack or even showing you an easier problem with
a similar theme After solving a position, you are given an ELO rating
that is adjusted according to the difficulty of the problem, the time taken, and any
errors you may have made. This way you can get a good idea of your real chess strength and
keep track of your progress. After going through the lessons and solving the positions,
take your training to the next level, and choose from hundreds of especially chosen
instructive and illustrative practice positions to play against Crafty, the
built-in program. Of course, if you choose to play the other side, the potential
number of practice positions doubles!
Each program comes with a pleasant interface that allows one to
customize the design, colors, fonts, etc
Multiple user profiles are
possible, with independent ratings and statistics for each.
No additional software is required.
System requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 16 Mb RAM, Hard Disk
30 Mb of free disk space, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/ME/XP, CD-ROM. |
NEW! Chess Combinations Encyclopedia
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ICC
price: $26
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A fundamental program on chess tactics including more than 4000 training examples and exercises
classified by more than 100 tactical methods and motifs. The complexity of the exercises grows
inside each theme from beginner to advanced chess player. Individual ratings are calculated on
the basis of the user's performance and statistics are gathered for each user.
When studying each theme step by step, you can master all the tactical methods and
improve your play drastically.
- Languages: English, German, French, Spanish and Italian
- CD, printed manual and plastic box
SYSTEM REQUREMENTS: IBM-compatible PC, 32 Mb RAM, hard disk 50Mb, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP, CD-ROM drive.
No additional software required.
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Chess Endings,
Essential Knowledge, e-book
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ICC
price: $26
Regular price: $29
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The program is based on the classic by the Russian GM and
endgame expert Yuri Averbakh, first published in 1966 and remaining the standard
guide for practical endgame play:
- By concentrating on the basic principles the average player is given a working knowledge
of the endgame as well as a firm foundation for a further develop of his or her interest
and technique in this stage of a chess game.
- The reader is taken from the most elementary checkmates through the exploitation of
positional and material advantage up to the master play actual endings' analysis.
- The program is Chess Multimedia, a new series of electronic talking books with moves and
analysis shown automatically on a clear, well presented chess board.
- A number of interesting functions: adding your own notes, searching for commentary,
printing out games and checking your learning with the tests in the large appendix.
- The CD includes the ARENA freeware program by Martin Blume.
Technical requirements: Windows 95/98 or later, Pentium 166 MHz, 32 MB
RAM, 35 Mbytes available on the hard-disk, CD drive 6x, Video board SVGA 65536 colours at
800x600, Sound board SoundBlaster 16 Bit or compatible Mouse. |
Understanding Chess
Strategy, e-book
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ICC price: $26
Regular price: $29
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Strategy is the foundation of chess. It evolves at the same
pace as the game itself, but the classic principles remain unaltered.
The author, Alexander Raetsky, besides being an active International Master, is
also an esteemed author of theoretical works in several countries.
- The author achieves a fine sinergy between the great champions of the past immortal
lessons and the more advanced teachings from contemporary tournament competitions.
- 20 lessons ranging from the exploitation of weak squares to the analysis of
typical centre formations, from the evaluation of positions to manoeuvring play.
- The program is Chess Multimedia, a new series of electronic talking books with moves and
analysis shown automatically on a clear, well presented chess board.
- A number of interesting functions: adding your own notes, searching for commentary,
printing out games and checking your learning with the tests in the large appendix.
- The CD includes the ARENA freeware program by Martin Blume.
Technical requirements: Windows 95/98 or later, Pentium 166 MHz, 32 MB
RAM, 35 Mbytes available on the hard-disk, CD drive 6x, Video board SVGA 65536 colours at
800x600, Sound board SoundBlaster 16 Bit or compatible Mouse. |
Total Chess
Training II
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ICC price: $89
Regular price: $95
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This is the second compilation of popular training programs
for studying all the chess game phases: opening, middlegame and endgame.
On this CD you will find five programs not included in the first Total Training
package:
- Encyclopedia of Middlegame, Vol. II the program for studying middlegame
opening plans and playing techniques. Theoretical section includes over 600
games/lectures, each of them illustrating the popular openings' typical plans and methods.
Special training section with more than 500 exercises for a user to solve as well as 150
training positions. Course composed by GM Kalinin.
- Chess Tactics for intermediate players the program including over 1180
tactical exercises, classified by themes and difficulty.
- Mate Studies about 5000 exercises and problems. An excellent program for
developing your combinative skills!
- Theory and Practice of Chess Endings the best program for studying
endgame! Its author, the well-known coach GM Panchenko, worked on the chess material for
over 20 years. Many experts regard his endgame handbook as the best in this field.
Thousands of chess players in Russia used it to study the endgame and many of them are now
grandmasters. Theoretical section includes as many as 700 lectures. Training section with
300 exercises as well as 180 examples.
- Chess Endgame Training the program consists of more than 2450 endgame
exercises taken out of practical games, endgame studies as well as training examples, all
classified according to no less than 500 endgame themes.
Total Chess Training II includes more than 11,000 study examples and exercises
for chess players with the ELO rating from 1700 to 2400!
System requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 32 Mb RAM, hard disk
100Mb, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP, CD-ROM drive. No additional software required. |
Mate Studies
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ICC price: $19.95
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A new interactive training course includes over 5000
best mate studies classified by a number of moves to achieve mate, a number of pieces on
the board and authors.
- Visual hints to help a student find the solution
- Embedded chess playing program Crafty to learn with or play against
- Multiple user profiles possible with independent ratings and all other individual
information
- Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian
A package includes a CD and a printed manual. |
Theory and Practice of Chess Endings
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ICC price: $26
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Endgame course composed by GM Alexander Panchenko.
It's aim is to teach a student the intricacies of the endgame through a theoretical
section, which includes over 700 games/lectures, each of them illustrating
theoretical and practical endgame methods. Many of the included themes discussed for the
very first time.
- Special training section with 300 exercises for a user to solve
- Giving refutations of wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help one find the correct
answer
- 180 positions, especially chosen by their instructive value, to be played and
trained against the built-in chess playing program Crafty
- Multiple user profiles possible, with independent ratings and statistics for each
- Several printing options available
- Language versions: English and Spanish
- DVD-like box
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Chess Endgame Training
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ICC price: $26
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The program designed to teach you different endgame
methods. The material written by IM ICCF Alexander Alpert. Includes:
- More than 2450 endgame exercises taken from practical games, endgame studies
- Training examples, all classified according to no less than 500 endgame themes
- A built-in playing program Crafty to analyze or train with
- While solving exercises, you are shown refutations of wrong moves as well as numerous
hints to help and find the correct answer
- The program also keeps track of your rating and adjusts it after each exercise
- Several languages supported: English, Spanish, Italian, French,
German and Swedish
- DVD-like box
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Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players
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ICC price: $23
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A sequel to the Chess Tactics for Beginners, this
program on chess tactics is developed by the prominent chess coach Sergey Ivashchenko
and aimed at intermediate players. The program includes:
- More than 1170 tactical positions classified by themes and difficulty
- Refutations of wrong moves as well as other hints to help find the correct answer
- Languages supported: English, French, Spanish, Italian and German
- DVD-like box
No additional software required. |
Chess Tactics for Beginners
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The program is based on a bestseller by the experienced
coach Sergey Ivashchenko. Intended for beginners, both children and adults. Exercises
arranged in five courses according to their increasing difficulty. Each course contains
exercises for Practice and Test. The program includes positions from practical games,
endgame studies as well as training examples.
- More than 1,300 tactical problems. You have to find the most important moves
- A built-in playing engine Dragon which can be called upon to analyze the
problem
- Your favourite external playing program can also be used by you
- Wooden, marmoreal and standard interfaces possible
- English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish
versions available
- Manual and build-in help files for each language
- DVD-like box
No additional software required |
Total Chess Training
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ICC price: $89
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Total Chess Training consists of 5 magnificent
educational programs: Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders, CT-Art 3.0, Strategy 2.0,
Encyclopedia of Middlegame, Studies 2.0, covering every phase or aspect of chess: Openings
Instead of learning what you must play in the opening, learn what not to
play by learning the opening mistakes and traps that have been discovered over time. Be
ready to trap your opponent, and avoid being trapped, with Encyclopedia of Opening
Blunders.
Middlegame Become a wizard in the art of combinations with the
intensive course in tactics, CT-Art 3.0, and learn the positional methods used by
grandmasters in Strategy 2.0. Plus, to help make the transition from the opening to the
middlegame as painless as possible, study the typical middlegame structures and their
plans, organized according to the opening they came from, with Encyclopedia of Middlegame.
Endgame Instead of boring lectures on the endgame, learn
endgame technique with the use of breathtaking artistic endgame compositions, chosen for
their relevance with normal play, with Studies 2.0.
Altogether Total Chess Training includes more than 9000 commented
games and positions to be solved for chess players with an ELO rating from 1800 to
2400!
Several languages are supported: English, French, Spanish,
Italian, German.
DVD-like box |
CT-ART 3.0
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ICC price: $23
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This program is the 3rd revised and expanded edition of the
ever popular Chess Tactics Art by the Russian GM of Correspondence chess, Maxim
Blokh. The material was chosen for a wide variety of player strengths from 1600
ELO to 2300 ELO. The focus of the difficulty of the examples is on amateurs but
even masters will find themselves challenged by the hardest ones. No less than 1217
main examples with over 1000 supplementary exercises that allows the student to
test themselves by:
- Tactical methods Annihilation of defense, decoy, distraction,
etc
- Tactical motifs Weakness of a file, rank, or diagonal,
overloaded piece, etc
- Difficulty level Select the ELO range of the positions you wish
to be tested with.
Several languages are supported: English, French, Spanish,
Italian, German, and Russian.
DVD-like box
No additional software is required. |
Strategy 2.0
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Designed by GM Alexander Kalinin to teach the
student about strategy and positional play, STRATEGY 2.0 is a significantly expanded
version of the original Strategy, containing not only more exercises but also many new
lessons not present in the first edition. With it, the student will learn and study all of
the the most important strategic themes such as: Advantage in development, Advantage in
space, Attack on the king, Attack on the queenside, Weak squares, Pawn structure, Open
files and diagonals, Central squares, Position of pieces, Exchange, Positional sacrifice,
Prophylaxis, Isolated queen's pawn, Hanging pawns, Pawn pair of c3+d4 on semi-open files,
the rule of two weaknesses, Planning, Defense and Counterattack.
- 250 instructive examples illustrating the lessons presented, all of
which are annotated and classified.
- 1100 exercises for you to solve, classified according to theme and
difficulty.
- 450 typical positions to train and play against Crafty,
the built-in playing engine
- DVD-like box
Several languages are supported: English, French, Spanish,
Italian, German, and Russian.
No additional software is required. |
Encyclopedia of Middlegame, Vol. I
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These programs are designed by GM Alexander Kalinin
to help a student understand the ideas and strategies behind typical middlegame positions
according to the openings they originate from. Intended for stronger players (1800
and above), the Encyclopedia of Middlegames CD contains two courses:
- Typical Pawn Structures (Karlsbad, Hedgehog, etc.) and
- Typical Plans and Methods in the Most Popular Openings (Scotch, Sicilian, Ruy Lopez,
Caro-Kann, French, English opening, Dutch, Slav, Catalan, Nimzo-Indian, Kings
Indian, Gruenfeld, Benko Gambit).
Features of the program include:
- Over 600 thoroughly annotated and classified instructive examples.
- More than 1,000 exercises for solving.
- 400 typical positions to train and play against the built-in playing
engine Crafty.
Several languages are supported: English, French, Spanish,
Italian, German, and Russian.
No additional software is required. |
Encyclopedia of Middlegame, Vol. II
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Encyclopedia of Middlegame II was written by GM
Alexander Kalinin. A CD contains a course Typical Plans and Methods in the Most
Popular Openings.
The following openings are viewed: Sicilian defense (Dragon, Najdorf, Paulsen variations),
Ruy Lopez (Open variation, Exchanged Variation), King's gambit, Italian game, Evans
gambit, Pirc-Ufimtsev, Alekhine's defense, Nimzo-Indian defense, Queen's-Indian defense,
Queen's gambit, Modern Benoni). The program is not another Middlegame I version but a
completely new program supplied with the wholly different material.
- Over 650 thoroughly annotated and classified instructive examples
- More than 600 exercises for you to solve
- 150 typical positions to train and play against Crafty, the built-in playing
engine
- Several languages supported: English, Spanish and Russian
No additional software required |
Encyclopedia of Middlegame, Vol. III
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This course composed by GM Alexander Kalinin is
aimed at teaching a student much of the middlegame methods and intricacies through a
theoretical section which includes over 520 games/lectures each of them
illustrating typical plans and methods in the following openings: Petroff defense, Ruy
Lopez (Marshall var.), Sicilian defense (Closed System and 3. Bb5 var.), Scandinavian
defense, Gruenfeld defense, Queen's Gambit Accepted, Reti opening, variant 1. d4 Nf6 2.
Nf3 e6 (or 2
g6) 3. Bg5, and etc.
- More than 500 exercises for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong
moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the correct answer
- As many as 100 training positions to be played against the built-in chess playing
program Crafty
- Multiple user profiles featured with independent ratings and statistics for each
- Printing options also available
- Several languages supported: English, Spanish and Russian
- DVD-like box
No additional software required. |
Encyclopedia of Middlegame, Volumes I, II, III, packet
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The packet includes Encyclopedia of Middlegame Vol. I,
Encyclopedia of Middlegame, Vol. II and Encyclopedia of Middlegame, Vol. III. Each
of the programs by GM Alexander Kalinin contains:
- Theoretical section which includes over 520 games/lectures, each of them
illustrating typical plans and methods in the openings
- Special training section includes more than 500 exercises for a user to solve,
giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the
correct answer
- More than 100 training positions to be played against the built-in chess playing
program Crafty
- Multiple user profiles featured with independent ratings and statistics for each
- Printing options available
- Several languages supported: English, Spanish and Russian.
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Studies 2.0
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ICC price: $23
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Instead of boring lectures on the endgame, learn endgame
technique with the use of breathtaking artistic endgame compositions, especially chosen
for their instructive value. In it, you will find over 950 of the greatest endgame
studies organized by:
- Themes (Stalemate, Pawn promotion, Domination, etc
)
- Material (Pawn endings, Rook endings, etc...)
- Composers (Kubbel, Kasparian, Troitzky, Rinck, etc...)
- Difficulty (ELO 1800-2400).
Several languages are supported: English, French, Spanish,
Italian, German, and Russian.
No additional software is required. |
Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders
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ICC price: $26
Regular price: $29
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Instead of only learning what you must
play in the opening, learn what not to play by learning the opening mistakes and traps
that have been discovered over time. The chess material was prepared by IM
Yaroslav Ulko and IM Aleksey Mitenkov, both of whom are
experienced coaches and players in Russia. This program is designed for studying the
blunders in different openings (more than 40 openings), so be ready to
trap and avoid being trapped with the Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders.
Over 1,250 instructive exercises of varying difficulty from practical
games.
Several languages are supported: English, French, Spanish,
Italian, German, and Russian.
No additional software is required. |
Chess School for Beginners
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ICC price: $23
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Written by Yury Razuvaev, well-known GM
and one of Anatoly Karpovs coaches in 1970th, this friendly interactive course is
intended for both children and adult beginners. Divided into 3 main sections: 1) Chess
rules - theory and test exercises.
2) Development of intellectual abilities - Concentration, Attention,
Imagination, Logic, Cunning, and Creativity.
3) Playing - instructive positions against the built-in playing program Dragon.
700 carefully chosen, and in many cases designed, examples
to help the student.
Several languages are supported: English, Russian. |
Advanced Chess School
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This interactive tutorial is meant for inexperienced
players, children and adults, who have already learned the rules of chess, and now wish to
become a player of intermediate strength. In it students will learn about essential
concepts such as development, the center, what to do in the opening, fundamentals in chess
tactics, basic endgame rules, how to win with a material advantage, exploiting an
advantage in time or space, and much more!
- 55 lessons with more than 450 instructive examples to
illustrate basic chess principles.
- The over 750 quiz problems and built-in playing engine allow you to
test your chess knowledge.
- Built-in chess playing program Dragon to learn with or play against.
Several languages are supported: English, Spanish and Russian.
DVD-like box
No additional software is required. |
Great Players Game Collections
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Here is one of the most complete collections of World
Champions. All the games are deeply annotated by GMs and IMs. The collection includes
biographies, tournament and match records as well as rare photos. A special tutorial
section, Play as World Champion, contains quiz positions in which you can try
to find both strong and beautiful moves played by a world champion in his games. While
solving, you are given refutations of possible wrong moves as well as other hints. Your
rating is adjusted up or down after each example.
Each CD is supplied with an abridged version of Chess Assistant and the built-in chess
playing program Crafty. No additional software is required.
System requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 32 Mb RAM, Hard Disk
60 Mb of free disk space, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP, CD-ROM. |
Boris Spassky -
10th World Champion
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This CD contains all the games of the 10th World Champion,
one of the superior masters of attack in chess history.
- Grandmaster Alexander Khalifman thoroughly comments as many as 400 of the best
games and attacks.
- As many as 1965 games provided with short annotations.
- Tournament and match records included
- Photo gallery of 50 rare photos
- A tutorial section, "Play as Spassky" consisting of 185 quiz positions
for you to try and find those strong and beautiful moves once played by Boris Spassky.
- Language versions: English, German, French, Spanish and Italian
- The program includes a CD, a printed manual and a DVD-like box
System requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 128 Mb RAM, Hard Disk 200 Mb of
free disk space, Windows 2000/ME/XP, CD-ROM. |
Mikhail Botvinnik - 6th World Champion
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The most complete collection of Botvinniks games ever
compiled. Contains as many as 1.069 games played by Botvinnik from 1924 till 1970.
The games deeply annotated by GM Alexander Khalifman, FIDE World Champion in 1999 and IM
Sergey Soloviev. Biography, tournament and match records. 25 rare
photos. Special tutorial section, Play as Botvinnik
with 350 quiz positions for you to try and find those strong and
beautiful moves played by Botvinnik in his games.
Language versions: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian
and Swedish
DVD-like box |
Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion
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The most complete collection of Tals games ever
compiled. It contains 2,592 games, covering the entire career of the most
brilliant attacking chessplayer in history. All the games are deeply annotated by GMs
Kochiev, Makarichev, Sveshnikov, Yudasin, and Petersburg IMs. It also includes a
biography, the tournament and match record, and 45 rare photos. A
special tutorial section, Play As Tal, includes carefully
chosen 260 quiz positions in which you can try to find strong and
beautiful moves played by Tal in his games.
No additional software is required.
Several languages are supported: English, German, Spanish,
French, Italian. |
Alexander Alekhine - 4th World Champion
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1300 commented games played by the 4th
World Champion Alexander Alekhine. The annotations of Alekhine and his contemporaries
have been revised and enlarged by IMs J. Ulko and A. Mitenkov. 600 games are
annotated here for the first time!
It also includes the complete tournament results plus a number of rare photos. There is
a separate tutorial section, Play as Alekhine, which comes
with 200 carefully chosen positions for you to solve, representing some
of the most interesting and instructive positions from his games. It also comes with the
built-in playing programs: Dragon and Crafty.
No additional software is required.
Several languages are supported: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian. |
Emanuel Lasker - 2nd World Champion
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The most complete collection of Emanuel Laskers games
ever compiled. Contains 630 games, covering the entire long career of the
2nd World Champion in chess (held the title from 1896 to 1921). All the games deeply
annotated by GM Khailfman and Petersburg IMs.
- Biography, tournament and match records, plus a number of rare photos
- Special tutorial section, Play as Lasker with 203 quiz
positions to try and find both strong and beautiful moves played by Lasker in his games
- English, German, French, Spanish, Italian versions available
No additional software required. |
Jose Raul Capablanca - 3rd World Champion
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Among the champions who I met a lot it was just
Capablanca that impressed me most. (M. Botvinnik, The 6th World Champion).
640 commented games played by the 3rd World Champion
Jose Raul Capablanca. All the games deeply annotated by GM Khailfman and Petersburg IMs.
- Biography, tournament and match records, a number of rare photos
- 250 most interesting and instructive positions from his games in an
additional program Play as Capablanca
- English, German, French, Spanish, Italian versions available
No additional software required. |
Great Players Kit
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5 programs in a kit!
5 World Champions: Mikhail Tal, Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Botvinnik, Emanuel Lasker and
Jose Raul Capablanca. Each program contains
- The most complete collection of World Champions games ever compiled.
- Biography, tournament and match records
- A number of rare photos
- Special tutorial section, Play as ... with many quiz positions for you to
try and find those strong and beautiful moves played by the champions in their games
- English, German, French, Spanish, Italian versions available
No additional software required |
Opening Encyclopedias
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This series of programs called "Modern Chess
Openings" is aimed at a wide range of players, from club level upwards, and
consists of a number of volumes on the most popular modern openings. We hope that these
programs will help our users to play their favorite openings well, while eliminating the
danger of "drowning" in the flood of opening information. "Modern
Chess Openings" has the aim of revealing to its users the conceptual sense of
the openings and their inseparable links with the middlegame, demonstrating typical plans,
procedures, and tactical subtleties characteristic of the opening in question. At the same
time, a user will gain a complete impression of the modern theoretical situation. For this
purpose, "Modern Chess Openings" contains complete games played in the
last 10 years, thus combining recent achievements in theory with examples of middlegame
strategy. This approach enables the series to be used in several ways: as a reference
program on opening theory, as a source for systematic study, and as a useful tool for
broadening one's chess horizons.
If you want a program just to study openings and you are too busy to collect and enter
opening analysis yourself, these Opening Encyclopedias are hard to beat for the price.
System requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 64 Mb RAM, Hard Disk
200 Mb, of free disk space, Windows 2000/NT/ME/XP/2003, CD-ROM drive. No additional
software is required. |
NEW!
Comprehensive Chess Openings 2005
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Comprehensive Chess Openings 2005 – this is an opening encyclopedia including detailed
theoretical material in all the chess openings on January 1, 2005.
More than 500,000 opening moves and 8,000 key positions are evaluated and presented
with text annotations from GM Kalinin. A detailed report may be generated for any opening position,
which has an encyclopedic table format. Afterwards it may be easily edited and expanded.
The key system was developed for every opening, which is automatically extended as you
examine the opening deeper and deeper. All information on your completed work is stored there.
The references to grandmasters and masters games are provided, which use a 1,000,000 games
database also supplied with the program. You can also perform various searches in this database.
Two strong playing programs are included – Delfi and Crafty – they may be used for playing and
analyzing the openings.
Comprehensive Chess Openings – is software that helps intermediate and advanced players
to quickly find the required information on a particular opening position, as well as to prepare
for a tournament game, to analyze the position and add variations from your opening repertoire.
- Languages: English, German, French, Spanish and Italian
- CD, printed manual and plastic box
SYSTEM REQUREMENTS: IBM-compatible PC, 128 Mb RAM, Hard Disk 1Gb of free disk space,
Windows 2000/NT/ME/XP, CD-ROM drive. No additional software is required.
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Modern Chess
Openings. 1...c6?!
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From the very first moves, White must think creatively when
responding to 1
c6!? and are likely to play some entirely strange positions. GMs Alexander
Kalinin and Igor Berdichevsky are true pioneers in developing theory on this
rare and very interesting opening. They describe standard techniques of playing it after
having collected and thoroughly analyzed all available chess material from tournament
practice:
- More than 300 commented instructive examples plus 50 tasks for solving and
5000 additional games
- Opening theory worked out and analyzed as well as key positions evaluated
- Using the Opening Table mode it is quite convenient to look through the theory and
insert either new moves or games
- All the work you've made about the opening can be both saved and printed
- Languages: English, German, French, Spanish and Italian
- DVD-like box
After studying the program you will better understand and be able to implement methods
of play in this opening.
System requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 128 Mb RAM, Hard Disk 200 Mb,
of free disk space, Windows 2000/NT/ME/XP, CD-ROM drive. |
Modern Chess Openings. King's Indian Defense
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A unique program that allows to master standard methods of
playing this popular opening. Chess material is provided by the prominent coach and
grandmaster Alexander Kalinin. Studying the program will help you better understand
and implement methods of play.
- Theoretical material on the given opening game database of 50,000 masters
games with 10,000 more games to be later available for download
- Instructive material that focuses on the typical playing methods in various lines of the
opening: as many as 157 examples included
- More than 600 commented grandmasters' games and over 50 tasks for you to
solve
- All the opening positions thoroughly calculated by the Shredder 7.04 playing
program
- The program Chess Assistant Light capable of analyzing while playing against the
built-in Crafty engine as well as editing variations, searching for games in the database
- Languages: English, German, French, Spanish and Italian
- DVD-like box
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Modern Chess Openings. French Defense
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Chess material is supplied by the prominent coach GM
Alexander Kalinin. The program includes theoretical material focusing on the typical
playing methods in various lines of these popular openings.
- More than 550 commented instructive examples from the grandmasters' games, more
than 50 tasks for solution
- Theoretical material on the given opening game database of 50,000 games with 10,000
more games to be later available for download
- All the opening positions thoroughly calculated by the Shredder 7.04 playing
program
- The program Chess Assistant Light capable of analyzing while playing against the
built-in chess program Crafty as well as editing variations, searching for games in the
database
- Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian
- DVD-like box
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Modern Chess Openings. Sicilian Defense
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Chess material is supplied by the prominent coach GM
Alexander Kalinin. The program includes theoretical material focusing on the typical
playing methods in various lines of these popular openings.
- More than 680 commented instructive examples from the grandmasters' games, more
than 50 tasks for solution
- Theoretical material on the opening game database of 50,000 games with 10,000
more games to be later available for download
- All the opening positions thoroughly calculated by the Shredder 7.04 playing
program
- The program Chess Assistant Light that allows analyzing with while playing against the
built-in chess program Crafty as well as editing variations, searching for games in the
database
- Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian
- DVD-like box
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Software for Pocket PC
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NEW!
Pocket CT-ART
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Pocket CT-ART is the first training program on chess tactics for Pocket PC. Now on your Pocket PC you can solve chess combinations and improve your chess skills. The material was chosen for a wide variety of player strengths from beginner to advanced players.
More 1200 exercises are classified into 3 criteria:
Tactical methods, Combination motifs, Difficulty.
While solving, you are shown refutations of wrong moves as well as other hints to help. Multiple user profile are possible, with independent ratings and statistics for each.
- Languages: English, German, French, Spanish and Italian
- CD, printed manual and plastic box
SYSTEM REQUREMENTS: Pocket CT-ART runs on Pocket PCs with Windows Mobile 2003. Installation requires PC.
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Chess postcards
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Chess postcards (set of 28)
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This set designed by Veronika Kasatkina contains 28
cards. One side of the card is a modern chess design. The other side is devoted
to the best commented game of one of the world champions (Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca,
Alekhine, Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov,
Khalifman, Anand, Kramnik). |
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