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Chess Assistant 7.1 |
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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 2,117,000 games
– on two CDs.
Five top-notch products for
the price of one!
Language versions:
English, French, Italian and Spanish
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Upgrade from CA 6.0, 6.1 to Chess Assistant 7.1 |
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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 2,117,000 games
– on two CDs.
Five top-notch products for
the price of one!
Language versions:
English, French, Italian and Spanish
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Upgrade from CA older versions to Chess Assistant 7.1 |
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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 2,117,000 games
– on two CDs.
Five top-notch products for
the price of one!
Language versions:
English, French, Italian and Spanish
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Comprehensive Chess Endings |
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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
English version available.
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Nalimov Ending Tablebases, Complete Set, DVD |
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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
English version available.
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Comprehensive Chess Endings + Nalimov DVD, packet |
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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.
- 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.
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NEW! 5000 Mate Studies |
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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
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Theory and Practice of Chess Endings |
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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 box
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Chess Endgame Training |
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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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Total Chess Training |
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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 –
Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders.
Middlegame – Encyclopedia
of Middlegame.
Endgame –
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!
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CT-ART 3.0 |
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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.
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.
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Strategy 2.0 |
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Designed by GM Alexander Kalinin, STRATEGY 2.0 is
a significantly expanded version of the original Strategy. The most important
strategic themes presented: 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.
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Encyclopedia of Middlegame |
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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, King’s Indian, Gruenfeld, Benko Gambit).
- 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.
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Encyclopedia of Middlegame 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
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Studies 2.0 |
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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).
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Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders |
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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.
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Chess School for Beginners |
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| Written by Yury
Razuvaev, well-known GM and one of Anatoly Karpov’s 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.
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Chess Tactics for Beginners |
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This 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
- Manual and build-in help files for each language
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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.
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Chess School for Networks |
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Released in 2002 by
Convekta Ltd., developer of Chess Assistant, and GM Yury Razuvaev,
famous coach, Chairman of the FIDE Trainers' Committee.
The program intended for teaching and studying chess at primary schools
with their local networks. Not only does it help a coach to give lessons,
it also makes learning easier, quicker and much more interesting.
- Over 1700
carefully chosen examples
- Theoretical lessons
and test exercises
- A number of advantages
both for teachers and students
- Pleasant interface
making learning easy even for younger kids
English, French
languages are supported.
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Chess School for Beginners: network version |
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Network version allows installing a program and using it
in a local net. All the pupils may study a training course and solve tasks
sitting at any computer of a classroom connected to the local net.
Written by GM Yury Razuvaev, well-known GM and one of Anatoly Karpov’s coaches,
this friendly interactive course is intended for both children and adult
beginners. It is divided into 3 main sections:
1) Chess rules;
2) Development of intellectual abilities;
3) Playing.
- 700 carefully chosen, and in many cases designed,
examples to help a student
- Navigator, the part of the program, presents a window
which allows to select a mode of work
- Ideal for schools and teachers with an unlimited number
of individual student profiles allowed
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Chess Tactics for Beginners: network version |
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Network version allows
installing a program and using it in a local net. All the pupils may study
a training course and solve tasks sitting at any computer of a classroom
connected to the local net.
This 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
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Advanced Chess School: network version |
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Network version allows installing a program and using it
in a local net. All the pupils may study a training course and solve tasks
sitting at any computer of a classroom connected to the local net.
Advanced Chess School is an interactive tutorial for those unexperienced
players, both children and adults, who have already learnt the rules of
chess and now wish to become players of intermediate strength. It can be
considered a continuation of “Chess School for Beginners”. Students will
study essential concepts such as development, the center, fundamentals in
chess tactics, basic endgame rules and much more! The chess material for
the program was prepared by N. Zhuravlev, chess master from Latvia, famous
trainer and author.
The program contains 2 large courses: “Theory – Essential Chess Knowledge”
and “Playing Instructive Examples.
- 55 lessons with more than 1,200 instructive
examples
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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
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Mikhail Botvinnik - 6th World Champion |
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| The most complete collection
of Botvinnik’s 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.
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Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion |
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| The most complete collection
of Tal’s 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.
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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.
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Emanuel Lasker - 2nd World Champion |
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The most complete collection of Emanuel Lasker’s 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 Khalifman 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
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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”
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Chess Openings 2003 |
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Chess Openings 2003 includes theoretical material updated
with all the openings as of Jan. 1st, 2003.
- Game database of 600 000 games (100 000
games more compared with Openings 2001) played by the world's top players
(ELO>2300)
- A perfect mode of viewing statistic data on all the
tournaments played
- New release of the Crafty 19 chess playing program
- A feature of connecting to Shredder 6 or 7
- Playing and analyzing mode essentially improved
- New detailed manual printed on 48 pages
Several languages supported: English, Spanish, French,
Italian
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Upgrade from CO 2000, 2001 to Chess Openings 2003 |
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Chess Openings 2003 includes theoretical material updated
with all the openings as of Jan. 1st, 2003.
- Game database of 600 000 games (100 000
games more compared with Openings 2001) played by the world's top players
(ELO>2300)
- A perfect mode of viewing statistic data on all the
tournaments played
- New release of the Crafty 19 chess playing program
- A feature of connecting to Shredder 6 or 7
- Playing and analyzing mode essentially improved
- New detailed manual printed on 48 pages
Several languages supported: English, Spanish, French,
Italian
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NEW! Chess Tiger 15 |
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Chess Tiger 15 by Christophe Theron combines stronger
points of Chess Tiger 14 and Gambit Tiger 2 engines:
- Stronger engine, estimated 50 ELO points stronger
than the previous version
- Large opening book optimized for Chess Tiger by Jeroen
Noomen
- ChessPartner 5.2 GUI included
- Support for both Winboard II and UCI engines
- All 3 and 4 man tablebases plus the most
important 5 man tablebases supported
- Four different playing styles: normal, gambit, gambit
aggressive, and gambit suicidal
- Multivariation mode
- Improved search algorithm and evaluation function
- New engine import wizard
- Game result is sent to the engine
- Option to change digital clock font and colors as well
as internet ones
- Option to use a mouse wheel to move through a game
- Possibility of promoting and moving variations
- A number of bugs fixed
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