Chess School For Beginners

Intended for beginners, both children and adults. The course was written by Yury Razuvaev, well-known GM, who was one of Anatoly Karpov's coaches in 1973-1978.

"School" is divided into 3 large sections.

Chess rules. A lot of theoretical material and test exercises.

Development of intellectual abilities. The following themes are present: Concentration, Attention, Imagination, Logic, Combinatorics, Creativity.

Playing. To improve their chess knowledge, the pupils play instructive positions against built-in playing program Dragon 4.0.

Advanced Chess School

Advanced Chess School is an interactive instructive tutorial for those inexperienced players, both children and adults, who have already learnt the chess rules. Thus it can be considered as a continuation of Chess School for Beginners by Grandmaster Yury Razuvaev.

The chess material for Advanced Chess School was prepared by Nikolay Zhuravlev , chess master from Latvia, famous trainer and author of many books for beginners and intermediate players.

Over 1,200 instructive examples. The program may be useful for individuals as well as for coaches and teachers. After studying theory, you can exam yourself in Test mode.

• 55 lessons with more than 450 instructive examples illustrate basic chess principles.
• Over 750 quiz problems and the built-in playing engine allow to test your chess knowledge.
• Multiple users are allowed, with independent ratings for each. Statistics are stored.

This course makes an intermediate player from a beginner!

The program contains 2 large courses, "Theory – Essential Chess Knowledge" and "Playing Instructive Examples"

I. Theory - Essential Chess Knowledge. A lot of theoretical material with easy-to-learn explanations. Includes five sections:

1) Utilizing a Decisive Material Advantage;

2) The Three Stages of a Chess Game;

3) Basic Pawn Endings;

4) The Fundamentals of Chess Tactics;

5) Utilizing a Material or Positional Advantage.
 

You have to find the most important moves. When you try to solve a problem and propose a wrong move, the program helps you with various visual hints (such as arrows showing key lines of attack), and, at last, it shows the piece which is to move.

II. Playing Instructive Examples.

To improve your chess knowledge, play selected instructive positions against the built-in playing program. There are three types of positions.

1) Mating Alone King.

2) Converting a Decisive Material Advantage into a Win.

When you fail to utilize your advantage, the program shows you the quickest winning continuation.

3) Playing from Any Position (in this mode "Chess School" operates as a playing program).
 

A fter you have solved a problem, you are given an ELO rating. This rating is based on the difficulty of the problem, the time taken, and what errors if any you made. Your original rating (as stated by yourself) is adjusted up or down after each exercise. Multiple users are allowed , with independent ratings for each. The results of solving exercises are stored and can be compared for different students. Thus the program may be useful for individuals as well as for coaches and teachers.

The program automatically selects test positions for every student depending on his level and the problems solved previously. Test results show the level of student's knowledge in the given theme.

The Help file is detailed, as well as the manual.

System requrements: IBM-compatible PC with Pentium 75 CPU, 12 MB memory (RAM), Hard Disk (4 MB of free disk space for the program), VGA graphics, Windows 95/98/ NT 4.0, CD-ROM drive, Microsoft-compatible mouse.

Normally $26.00, plus shipping.   This awesome training product is available to BK Chess Club Members for $25.00, including WORLD WIDE shipping and NYS Sales Tax!  Simply click the button below to purchase:

Alexander Alekhine -- 4th World Champion

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 for the first time!!!  The complete tournament results plus rare photos.  200 of the most interesting and instructive positions from his games in the additional program: Play as Alekhine!!   Built-in playing programs: Dragon and Crafty. No additional software is required.

"The chess games of Alekhine – one of the foremost chess artists of the past – will live on for centuries. Chess players will always enjoy playing over Alekhine's games and marvel at his genius".

(M. Botvinnik, The 6th World Champion).

System requrements: IBM-compatible PC with Pentium 75 CPU, 12 MB memory (RAM), Hard Disk (30 MB of free disk space for the program and databases), VGA graphics, Windows 95/98/NT 4.0, CD-ROM drive, Microsoft-compatible mouse.

Normally $29.00 plus shipping, this awe-inspiring look into the mind of one of the greatest players of all time is only $27.95, including WORLD WIDE shipping and NYS Sales Tax!  Simply click below to purchase:

Mikhail Tal -- 8th World Champion

The most complete collection of Tal's games ever compiled.
Contains 2,592 games, covering entire career of the most brilliant attacking chessplayer in history. All the games are deeply annotated by GMs Khalifman, Kochiev, Makarichev, Yudasin, and Petersburg IMs.

Includes a biography, tournament and match record, and 45 rare photos.

A special tutorial section, >«Play As Tal», includes 260 quiz positions in which you can try to find strong and beautiful moves played by Tal in his games.

During solving, you are given refutations of wrong moves and other hints.  Your rating is adjusted up or down after each example.

Multiple users are allowed.

Statistics are stored.

Built-in playing engine Crafty.
 

System requrements: IBM-compatible PC with Pentium 75 CPU, 12 MB memory (RAM), Hard Disk (30 MB of free disk space for the program and databases), VGA graphics, Windows 95/98/NT 4.0, CD-ROM drive, Microsoft-compatible mouse.

Normally $29.00 PLUS shipping, it is available to BK Chess Club Members for only $27.95, Including WORLD WIDE shipping and NYS Sales Tax!!!  Simply click the button below to purchase:

Intensive Course Tactics by George Renko

INTENSIVE COURSE TACTICS
George Renko

This CD contains well over 4000 tactical positions with training questions, categorized in more than 120 databases according to the author´s newly developed theme classification. All different themes and positions are easily and systematically accessible with the new modified CB7 reader program.
 

Available to BK Chess Club Members for $27, Including WORLD WIDE shipping and NY Sales Tax.  Simply click the button below to purchase:

Killer Moves by George Renko

If you occupy yourself with chess - i.e. study games, variations, endgames etc. - you store a lot of pictures in your memory, consciously or subconsciously. The more of these you can retrieve during a game, the better you play. Of course, there are also a number of additional factors determining the successful realization of this theory in practice. Still, the learning of pictures and motifs is the essential thing for having success in chess. And the most effective method of doing this is to study tactical positions and combinatory motifs. George Renko, mathematician and chess trainer, has compiled a huge number of tactical sample positions. After the main course - his CD "Intensive Course Tactics" - the author now serves the desert "Killer Moves" - multipurpose moves usually forcing an immediate decision. The nine databases are split up according to difficulty and contain about 1.600 tasks, partially composed, partially taken from practical games. During this training course the author doesn´t dwell on lengthy explanations - according to the motto "one picture says more than a thousand words". Language: English and German
 

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School of Elementary Tactics by Martin Weteschnik

Martin Weteschnik has made a name for himself as an author of several books on chess tactics. His first CD consists of two parts. In the first database he dwells on his theories on tactics, while the second database he makes use of the advantages of a modern database program, above all the function training question - a test makes the theoretically schooled user ready for practice. In both databases, the author has used the modern techniques of audio and videoclips. Here is an extract from the introduction to "The School of Elementary Tactics": "What constitutes a combination? Which parts are actually ´combined'? These are the elements - the tactical elements and motifs - that are combined. To show and explain them is subject of this CD. For the first time you will find the tactical motifs explained down to their primary parts. This will give you a real profound comprehension to utilise and work with these elements! Naturally you will be able to use the motifs thereafter much more effectively, as if you would exercise to solve combinations solely. Or do you think one should try to write a novel before learning the letters, the words and the grammar?!" Language: English and German
 

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