- In under 8 years Yasser Seirawan learned chess and earned his final Grandmaster norm.
- What had he learned in seven and a half years that propelled him so far so quickly?
- Yasser takes an engaging in-depth look at 22 games he played from the period 1975-1982, explaining his style, strategy and tactics.
- We see him play against such chess giants as Larsen, Gligoric, Kortchnoi, Tal, Timman, and Karpov (among others).
- Yasser’s engaging personality and desire to share his knowledge shines through as does the clarity and the ideas behind his moves.
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Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan began playing chess in the summer of 1972; by 1979 he had won the World Junior Championship and in January of 1980 earned his final Grandmaster norm. What had he learned in seven and a half ye… More >>
Yasser Seirawan: My Best Games Chess Software DVD
- Shirov gives the deepest possible insights into the secrets of this extremely solid opening.
- A lot of his time is spent on the modern treatment of it with 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 e6, which Kramnik brought back into fashion.
- Then the author turns to the Semi-Slav, explaining the latest discoveries in the Shirov/Shabalov Attack with 7.g4.
- Next come some games with a quiet setup for White (6.Qc2 or 6.Bd3), before presenting three games in the Botvinnik System.
- Shirov continues as one of the best players in the world, delighting fans with his original and amazing ideas on the board.
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For Shirov the Slav and the Semi-Slav form one huge and common opening. Of course it is a mighty opening complex and the DVD cannot give a complete picture of it, but in the areas he chooses to highlight our author is an… More >>
Alexei Shirov: My Best Games in the Slav and Semi-Slav Revisited
- Includes 55 lessons with more than 1200 instructive examples and exercises.
- Complete Chess Course covers a wide range of opening, middlegame and endgame subjects.
- It begins with teaching you how to checkmate the lone king and proceeds to more advanced topics, such as utilizing material and positional advantages.
- Study the training material and test your knowledge
- Play against a chess program
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Complete Chess Course covers a wide range of subjects in the opening, middlegame and endgame. It starts off by teaching you how to checkmate the lone king and proceeds to more advanced topics, such as utilizing a materia… More >>
Complete Chess Course
- Players have to study typical positional methods. Who is better placed to teach us about their own powerful weapons than the great champions of the past?
- The key to understanding the middlegame lies in understanding how to execute certain positional maneuvers.
- In this DVD GM Adrian Mikhalchishin explains, for example, Botvinniks famous flank against center strategy, which is one of the corner-stones of positional play.
- He also shows that Petrosians white-square strategy is an extremely important form of the control of squares and space.
- Tal was a great master of changing the material balance in every position for example, Rook and pawn against two pieces.
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Modern middlegame theory does not exist in written form. That is why players and trainers have to go back to the recommendations by Nimzowitsch to study typical positional methods. Who is better placed to teach us about… More >>
The Secret Weapons of the Champions
- If you want to be a well-rounded chess player, it is vital that you have a good understanding of positional play.
- The slightest difference in the placement of pieces can make a massive difference to the assessment of the position.
- At the end of the lectures, you can test your understanding of these themes by examining a series of specially selected test positions.
- The Power Play series is suitable for anyone looking to improve their chess.
- This DVD also provides ready-made lessons and exercises for a trainer. Video running time: 5 hours.
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If you want to be a well-rounded chess player, it is vital that you have a good understanding of positional play. In this 6th Power Play DVD, Daniel King discusses three classic questions:
* The Isolated Queens Pawn
* … More >>
Power Play 6: King – Pawns, Pieces and Plans
- Includes diagram converter
- Windows XP and Vista compatible
- Plays video trainers
- 12 million checkmates
- 156,000 tactic puzzles
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Deep Tactics allows you to see the beast action and moves instead of reading analysis lines. Use the diagram converter to instantly convert any chess diagram on the computer screen into an interactive diagram in Deep Tac… More >>
Chess Software Amazing Combo #1: Deep Tactics 6.5
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This software is BRAND NEW. Packaging may differ slightly from the stock photo above. Please click on our logo above to see over 15,000 titles in stock.Amazon.com Product Description
Graduate Chess is a program… More >>
Graduate Chess
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Chess
Checkers
Reversi
Go
Shogi
Backgammon
Chinese Chess
Four in a line
Gomoku
TaiPei
Dominoes… More >>
Intelligames: 12 Classic Games
- 32-bit chess engine
- Play from Expert to Amateur
- Play in 2D or with 3D
- More than 600 Animation sequences
- Play against the computer or by IPX, internet, modem and serial connections
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The stunning game of tournament level chess played with living, battling characters.
No matter how good you are at chess, you’ll have to be a whole lot better when the black knight’s turning your pawns to green jelly, a… More >>
Combat Chess
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This software is BRAND NEW. Packaging may differ slightly from the stock photo above. Please click on our logo above to see over 15,000 titles in stock…. More >>
eGames 3D Chess
