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The Sicilian Accelerated Dragon after 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 is a solid defense, enabling Black to go for a long term struggle for the full point. Due to its clear strategic concepti...
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The Move order 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5 is called Albin Countergambit, and it's a gambit in the true sense of the word since after 3.dxe5 d4 Black sacrifices a pawn which he won't get back so easily. This o...
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It is no pleasure to play with Black against the Bird-Opening (1.f4) - one is vaguely familiar with some bad disasters, but less familiar with ways to avoid them. This opening theory in the tradit...
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The Budapest Gambit results after the moves 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5. It is a popular surprise weapon of many top young grandmasters. If White holds on to the gambit pawn then Black gains a dangerous initi...
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The Nimzo-Indian is not only one of the most solid openings against 1.d4, but it also suits the player with Black who is aiming from the start for the full point. In many treatments of the opening,...
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Ten lessons on attacking the enemy king, each with a text introduction, then a game in which you have to find the right moves, with points for doing so in a set amount of time. Excellent training f...
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"On master level, the Chigorin Defense has been played relatively seldom, and probably that's one of the reasons why it has been analyzed less intensively than other openings - good prerequisi...
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Corr Database 2004 is an extensive collection of correspondence games, featuring classical correspondence games played by mail as well as email games. The CD contains 500,000 games from 1804 until ...
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The CD covers all variations of the Dragon System of the Sicilian Defense after the starting moves 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6. Hungary's International Master Attila Schneider ha...
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In the third and final part of his trilogy about the Dutch, Boris Schipkov turns his attention to the less important lines. But some of them could well be considered main lines, since they are pla...
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Choosing the Dutch Defense with the black pieces is a clear signal that you are willing to go for the full point. There are no such things as exchange variations or an early trade of queens. What's...
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People who play the Dutch Defense are usually aiming for more than a draw. This is particularly true of the Leningrad System (involving the moves f5 and g6 against 1.d4). The author is even of the ...
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The DVD Endgame Turbo consists of 5 DVDs with endgame databases (Nalimov Tablebases). With the help of the Endgame Turbo, all five and some six-piece endgames are played with absolute perfection. L...
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With the move 1.c4, you can avoid some of the openings and lines to be feared after 1.d4. Following 1.c4 e5 - this move order is also called reversed Sicilian - arises an independent opening which,...
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Whoever plays 1.e4 as White, has to ask himself what he intends to do after 1...e5 2.Nf3 Nc6. If you do not feel up to the heavy positional demands made on you by the Ruy Lopez, you more or less h...
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The Gruenfeld is one of the most aggressive openings against 1.d4, and it's no wonder that Garry Kasparov has included it into his opening repertoire. Playing with White, one is well-advised to acc...
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The opening arising after the moves 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 carries the name of Aaron Nimzowitsch (1886-1935), who played some wonderful games with it and contributed many important ideas. Howev...
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There are countless openings and lines to a position with an isolated Queen's pawn. This is a type of position you just can't avoid, so you have to know how to play it. Reinhold Ripperger presents...
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Building an opening repertoire can be a daunting task. So much to learn; so little time. The King's Indian Attack (KIA) offers a remarkable three-pronged solution to this problem: 1) A universal hy...
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Many players are in search of a weapon against King's Indian. The system with h3, which offers White many tactical possibilities, has been proven to be quite successful in practice. White scores a ...
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This training CD is designed to hone your skills in attack. Together with Fritz you can practice mating attacks against the castled enemy king. In the first part of the CD you learn about the typic...
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The Meran Variation is an extremely dynamic opening, and its no coincidence that it belongs to the opening repertoire of geniuses such as Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand and Shirov. The lines arising aft...
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The Cuban grandmaster Amador Rodriguez introduces six modern, partially rediscovered systems with which Black without extensive theoretical knowledge can cause his opponent some very unpleasant pro...
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Viktor Kortchnoi is doubtlessly one of the most electrifying personalities of the chess world. Still playing successful and attractive chess, the 73-year-old former double world championship final...
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Volume 2 features about four hours of "Kortchnoi live". The great chess legend portraits the second part of his eventful career, presenting among other things his games against Kasparov (1986), Sp...
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The Nimzo Indian is one of Black's most popular and reliable openings. White strives for an opening advantage and interesting, rich positions with ample room for creativity. It is often a good idea...
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On this DVD Danish IM Jacob Aagaard introduces you to the secrets of the Nimzoindian Defence (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4). In 15 lessons that last 4 hours and 4 minutes Aagaard shows you how you c...
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The Philidor Denfence 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 combines a number of advantages. The black player has a choice of various types of positions - he can play with or without capturing on d4. The typical plans...
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There is a huge quantity of games played with the Pirc Defense. However, the number of really important ideas is comparatively small, and the central variations which are called theory are still ea...
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The Queens Gambit Accepted is one of the classical openings against 1.d4 and has been (is) part of the repertoire of all World Champions. These days Anand is the top player who most often employs t...
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The Orthodox Queen's Gambit is one of the most solid openings, which you can find against 1.d4. The author comments: "The continuing popularity of the Exchange Variation can be explained by W...
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The Queen's Gambit Orthodox is one of the most solid defenses for Black against 1. d4. From White's point of view, the system after 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 Be7 5. Bf4 has enormously gained ...
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What is the Reti opening anyway? Okay, 1.Nf3 d5, but then? Well, almost anything, only d2-d4 should not be played immediately (for that would be queen's gambit). The typical moves are 2.c4 and 2.g3...
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The Scandinavian has long lost its former exotic status. Thanks to practical success and a number of publications by some players from Hamburg gathered around the several times German champions Ma...
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It's easy-to-learn and easy-to-play. Here is an opening for Black which will furnish good results in the shortest possible time. Which other opening could we be referring to apart from the Scandina...
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Only a few top chess players know how to share their grand masterly thinking with others. Without any doubt, English grandmaster Daniel King is one of them. Apart from the introduction, the CD at h...
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The solidity of the Slav is obvious. With the moves 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 Black supported his center while at the same time leaving scope for his bishop c8. Experience has shown that White has grave diff...
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The Dragon system of the Sicilian Defence belongs to those openings, which you do not simply play casually, but about which you become passionate. Many make use of it all their lives, and an antido...
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When playing as White, if you do not want to enter sharp opening systems, you would do better to fight against the Dragon by castling short. These specific variations are the theme of Rogozenko's C...
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This CD by Peter Wells addresses advanced players. It contains an introduction and five lectures which deal with purely practical subjects: the calculation of variations and how errors arise. These...
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The Trompowsky attack, which arises after 1.d4 Nf6, Bg5 has matured into a full-blooded opening. On this CD a repertoire from White's point of view is given. Database texts give you explanations of...
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Thirty years ago the Trompowski opening was almost totally unknown. It took a few spectacular games by Rafael Vaganian to bring 2 Bg5 into the limelight, and after that, the die was cast. Today 1 d...
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Opening repertoires generally operate by restricting your opponent's options. The dirty little secret, of course, is that you‘re limiting your own at the same time. The Van Geet operates on the opp...
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Gregory Huber's CD actually covers two openings, including the Bishop's Opening (1.e4 e5 2.Bc4) as well as the Vienna Game (2.Nc3). This is logical, however, since in various lines of the Vienna Bc...
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