Chess Assistant 8
£119.95
Chess Assistant 8 is the unique tool for managing chess games and databases, playing chess on the ICC, viewing electronic texts in CA or PGN format, studying openings, analysing games, or playing chess against the computer. About 10.000 new games per month can be downloaded for free via the Internet for all purchasers at their convenience!
Includes a database of 2,675,000 games and CA Opening Encyclopedia 2004.
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Total Chess Training 2
£74.95
Includes 5 programs: Encyclopedia of Middlegame 2, Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players, Mate Studies, Theory and Practice of Chess Endings and Chess Endgame Training.
Total Chess Training
£74.95
Consists of five magnificent educational programs: Studies 2.0, Strategy 2.0, Chess Tactics Art 3.0, Encyclopedia of Middlegame, Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders. With new printing possibilities and compatibility with Shredder 3 and 4), 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 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! Total Chess Training is the product of the efforts of some of the best chess instructors in Russia. Take advantage of their training and knowledge here, and take your playing level to a new standard. Total Chess Training may be the only instructive program you'll ever need!
Chess Endgame Training
£24.95 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-box. No additional software required.
Theory & Practice of Chess Endings £24.95 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. English and Spanish languages supported. DVD-box. No additional software required.
Studies 2.0 £24.95 Training course based on best chess studies. Contains 950 studies and 900 subsidiary exercises. The exercises are subdivided into 4 independent parts: Studies by theme; Ending studies; Gallery of Chess Compositions; Various grades by difficulty. Change colors and sides in all the studies. Built-in chess playing program. Compatibility with top playing programs (Hiarcs 3-6, MChess Pro 5-7, Rebel 7-9, Genius 4-5, Crafty, Generic EPD). User statistics gathering and ELO calculating. Set up styles for game elements, choose color, font and size of main text and subvariation symbols for display.
Strategy 2.0 £24.95 This chess program presents 1800 instructive positions with 18 the most important strategic themes, including: Advantage in development, Advantage in space, Attack on the King, Attack on the Queenside, Weak square, Pawn structure, Open files and diagonals, Central squares, Disposition of pieces, Exchange, Positional Sacrifise, Prevention, Isolated Queen's pawn, Hanging pawns, Pawn pair c3+d4 on the semi-open files, The rule of two weaknesses, Plan, Defense and Counterattack. 250 extensively annotated examples for self-study. 1100 selected exercises for solving. 450 typical positions, which you can play against playing program. On line help markers. User statistics gathering and ELO calculating. Built-in chess playing programs. Dragon and Crafty Chess material was prepared by ICCF Grandmaster Maxim Blokh.
CT-Art 3.0 £24.95 Contains about 1,250 exercises classified according 3 criteria: 1.) Tactical methods (Annihilation of Defense, Distraction, Decoy, Open attack, Opening of a file, Space clearance, X-ray attack, Interception, etc); 2.) Combination motifs (Geometrical motif, Weakness of a file, Opposing, A piece is overloaded, Bad position of the pieces, Limited material, etc); 3.) Difficulty (ELO 1600-2300). Convenient prompt system. Help features include: marking the most important squares, illustration of ideas with more simple examples (more than 1,000 subsidiary exercises). Optional change of colors and sides increases the number of exercises four times! Detailed statistics can be saved for any number of users. Tests and ELO estimation modes. Playing program Crafty is included. Chess material was prepared by ICCF Grandmaster Maxim Blokh.
Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders £12.99/$19.95 The chess material of the Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders 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 blunders in different openings. Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders presents a table of contents on common openings and has over 1,250 instructive exercises of varying difficulty from practical games.
Encyclopedia of Middlegames
£24.95
Contains detailed material on two courses: typical structures of middlegame and playing technique in most popular openings. Training material contains more than 600 examples and is subdivided into themes according to typical methods and ideas of playing. The program contains about 1000 exercises formed by real games. At any moment you can call an external chess playing program (Hiarcs, Genius, Rebel, MChess Pro). Also, the program contains about 400 typical positions for playing against internal playing engine Dragon. ELO and statistics can be estimated for each user. Statistics is presented in a convenient graphic form. Chess material was prepared by ICCF Grandmaster Maxim Blokh.
Encyclopedia of Middlegames II £24.95
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 Middlegames III £24.95
How to play the middlegame against various opening set-ups.
Chess School for Beginners £24.95
Intended for beginners, both children and adults. The course was written by GM Yury Razuvaev, who was one of Anatoly Karpov's coaches in 1973-1978. "School" is divided into 3 large sections: Chess rules; Development of intellectual abilities; Playing. Unlimited number of pupils can work with this program. Statistics in a convenient graphic form can be presented for each user. The program is recommended for schools. (The Italian version is used in all Italian schools, and thousands of Italian children are learning to play chess working with this program).
Chess Tactics for Beginners £24.95
This program is based upon a bestseller by the experienced coach Sergey Ivashchenko. Over 200 thousand copies books were sold in the Soviet Union in the late 1980's! It is a Windows based chess tactics testing and training program intended for beginners, both children and adults. The themes are: Mate in one, Mate in two, Win a rook, Win a piece, Draw, etc. This program is designed for chess players with ELO from 900 to1500 points. The program includes more than 1,300 tactical problems classified according to themes and difficulty. 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. The program comes with the built-in playing engine "Dragon" which can be called upon to analyze the problem in more detail than the provided solution.
Advanced Chess School £24.95 It 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 GM 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. This course makes an intermediate player from a beginner! The program contains 2 large courses, "Theory - Essential Chess Knowledge" & "Playing Instructive Examples". 1. Theory - Essential Chess Knowledge. A lot of theoretical material with easy-to-learn explanations. 2. Playing Instructive Examples. To improve your chess knowledge, play selected instructive positions against the built-in playing program. After you have solved a problem, you are given an ELO rating. Multiple users are allowed, with independent ratings for each. The resultsof solving exercises are stored and can be compared for different students. The program automatically selects test positions for every student depending on his level and the problems solved previously. The Help file is detailed, as well as the manual.
Chess Openings 2003 £24.95 Theoretical material covers all 500 ECO indices.
Encyclopedia of Semi-closed Games £24.95
Fashionable openings are investigated by well-known grandmasters. Includes Gruenfeld Defense (by GMs Bagirov, Gipslis, Mikhalchishin, Sakaev, Zaitsev), Modern-Benoni (by GM Shipov), Trompovsky attack, Benoni, Old Indian Defense and Queen's Pawn Opening (by GM Gufeld). Thorough and convenient classification Chess Assistant Openings program is included. You can add comments and print games. Built-in chess playing program Dragon. Database with openings in question is enclosed (50,000 games).
Tal - 8th World Champion £24.95
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. Multiple users are allowed. Statistics are stored. Built-in playing engine Crafty.
Alekhine - 4th World Champion £24.95
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".
Capablanca - 3rd World Champion £24.95
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.
"Among the champions who I met a lot it was just Capablanca that impressed me most."- (M. Botvinnik, The 6th World Champion).
Lasker - 2nd World Champion
£24.95
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 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.
Botvinnik - 6th World Champion
£24.95
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. English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Swedish versions available. No additional software required.
Great Players Kit (the five CDs above) £74.95
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; No additional software required .
Comprehensive Chess Endings £24.95
This is a unique and fundamental program for the studying of the endgame theory. The contained material is supplied by the prominent endgame theoretician GM Yuri Averbakh. The program includes 4.143 theoretically important games and examples, which are thoroughly analyzed and classified into 300 different themes. The material is based on the print edition of Comprehensive Chess Ending. The entire chess material was completely checked by leading chess playing programs, using the endgame table bases; asides it was deeply elaborated and revised by GM Yuri Averbakh, which contributed to revised evaluation of some important theoretical endings comparing to the print edition. The computer evaluations and variations are given for every move within games and examples. The games from the modern practice are given, where the questionable position occurred. The built-in playing program Crafty and powerful searching system Chess Assistant Light allow: analyze and play through the positions in question, edit the variations, searching for games in the database, using any possible combination of criteria, including players' names, site, position on the board, fragments of the position, the material alignment on any part of the board, maneuvers of the pieces, as well as print out and export into a text file in RTF format.
Mate Studies £24.95
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. A package includes a CD and a printed manual .
Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players £24.95
1,100 puzzles categorized by theme and difficulty.
Modern Chess Openings - French £24.95
50,000 games, 550 + annotated.
