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MEGA
DATABASE 2002 £99.95/$150 The exclusive annotated database. Contains more than 2 millions games from 1530 to 2001 in the highest ChessBase quality standard.45.000 games contain commentary from top players, with ChessBase opening classification with more than 54.000 key positions,direct access to players, tournaments, middlegame themes, endgames.The largest top-class annotated database in the world.The most recent games of the database are from the middle of November 2001, so e.g.the complete European Team Championship in Leon is included. For the first time,Mega 2002 also features a new edition of the playerbase for ChessBase 8.0 (2nd CD). As usual, this is where most of the work was done.As the player index now contains already more than 130.000 entries, it made sense to use an adapted playerbase which includes about 130.000 names. Doing this, the photo database was extended as well to contain 13.000 pictures now. |
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BIG
DATABASE 2002 £39.95/$49.50 Contains more than 2 millions games from 1530 to 2001 in the highest ChessBase quality standard without annotations, with ChessBase opening classification with more than 54.000 key positions, direct access to players, tournaments, middlegame themes, endgames. With all the top tournaments of 2001 like Astana, Dortmund, Linares and Wijk aan Zee. The most recent games of the database are from the middle of November 2001, so e.g. the complete European Team Championship in Leon is included. |
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FRITZ
POWERBOOK 2002 THE CURRENT OPENING THEORY WITH 630,000 GAMES £39.95 / $49.50 The Fritz Powerbook 2002 contains 7.6 million opening positions, derived from 630,000 high-class tournament games.Together with each position all relevant information is stored:all moves that were played in the position,by players of what average rating,with what success and performance results. The games from which the Fritz Powerbook 2002 were derived are also included on the CD.This means that in any position of the openings tree you can load and replay the games in which the position occurred.The Fritz Powerbook 2002 represents the state of the art of current openings theory.Discover exciting and tricky new lines and practice them against Fritz. System
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Shredder
6.0 Stefan Meyer-Kahlen £39.95 / $49.50
a.. World Computer Chess Champion 2001 The
world champion chess program "Shredder 6 "for single and
multi-processor systems.You can configure the "engine "
the module that calculates chess move and change the program parameters
to actually improve its performance in practical games.After "tuning
" your Shredder you can test the engine in Professional
interface for computer chess fans: Original
Fritz interface:Included in the Shredder 6 package is the latest
Fritz interface with extensive training and entertainment features
for beginners,club players and grandmasters.It also gives you full
and free "Triple brain ":This is a revolutionary new conception which allows you to use two different engines in parallel, with a special "triple brain " module analysing the results and deciding which engine to follow in the current position. Endgame oracle:No program gives you a better and more comprehensive access to the endgame databases. These contain perfect play information on all three and four piece endings (five-piece endgame databases are available optionally).The Shredder endgame oracle is the perfect instrument for endgame study and research. Tournament
openings book:The enhanced and extended Shredder openings book gives
you full statistical information for every move that has been played SYSTEM
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ChessBase
Opening Encyclopaedia 2002 CD ROM $99/£69.95 The first serious attempt at an ECO-format product - and it succeeds! The ChessBase Opening Encyclopaedia has all openings. Many well-known specialists have made contributions in their fields of expertise, including Anand, Bareev, Dautov, Jussupow, Kasparov, Korchnoi, Nunn and Ribli. For each of the 500 ECO opening keys there is at least opening survey, so the database is the ideal tool for builiding up a complete repertoire. * More
than 3200 opening surveys System
requirements Pentium, 32MB RAM, Windows 95/98/2000/ME, |
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Fritz
7 More
than just the best and most popular chess program. Fritz 7 is the
key to a new world of chess. Fritz 7 connects you with chess enthusiasts
in New FREE CHESSBASE MAGAZINE for FRITZ 6 OWNERS There
is no update version, but as a special update bonus: Fritz6 users,
who buy Fritz7 and send in the Fritz6-booklet, will receive the
latest ChessBase Click here for more information |
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Queen
’s Gambit with 5.Bf4 by GM Rustem Dautov RRP: £17.95 / $27 The Queens Gambit Orthodox is one of the most solid defences 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 raised enormously in adherents, and has nearly superseded 5.Bg5 in popularity. In view of the fantastic 63% score for the first player, this can hardly be surprising.
Dautov has included in his database 13 texts and 3657 games, 255 games have been annotated, 81 of which by the author himself - most of them exclusively for this CD. A second database contains 20 games with 46 training questions. The
author: Rustem Dautov ChessBase author Grandmaster Rustem Dautov
has been a member of the German national team for many years.He
was the most successful player when they won the silver medal at
the System
requirements: Pentium,Windows 95,98,2000,Me,32 MB RAM,
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Chessbase
Magazine 84 RRP: £17.95 / $27 Multimedia
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Secrets
of the English Chess School Only
a few top chess players know how to share their grandmasterly thinking
with others. Without any doubt, English grandmaster Daniel King
is one of them. Apart from the introduction, the CD at hand contains
29 databases issued between 1995 and 2000 when King was in charge
of the "Strategy column of the ChessBase Magazine. His broad
theme spectrum reaches from
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ChessBase
83 - August 2001 RRP: £17.95 / $27 Featuring: Zurich: Multi-media report on Kortchnoi's Brithday Tournament Brand New: Pocket Fritz reviewed About
500 annotated games. |
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Chessbase
Magazine Extra 82 RRP:£12.95 / $ 17.95 a..
now available |
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Robert
Huebner: World Champion Alekhine (2nd edition) RRP: £17.95 / $27 a.. English version now available! b.. language: English and German Robert Huebner: World Champion Alekhine Alexander Alekhine dominated the chess scene from 1927 until his death in the year of 1946. Historical picture documents and more than 2000 Alekhine games make the great master come back to life. For the ambitious learner, the CD features two training databases. In topical videos, contemporary grandmasters tell us which of Alekhine's qualities they appreciate most. And Gary Kasparov, the world's strongest chess player of our time, says: "My idol in chess is Alexander Alekhine. His chess style corresponds best to the way I want to play chess." Robert
Huebner Grandmaster Dr Robert Huebner has been the best German chessplayer
for 30 years and repeatedly fought for the world championship in
candidate tournaments.He is considered one of the best chess commentators
in the world and has occupied himself with Alexander Alekhine already
since his youth. |
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New In Chess
YearBook 59
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Meran
Variation CD RRP: £17.95 / $27 This training CD by GM Alexey Dreev teaches you about the extremely dynamic opening, the Meran Variation (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5). It is no coincidence that it belongs to the opening repertoire of Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand and Shirov. This is the first time an absolute world class player and specialist has taken on this opening for Chessbase. £17.95 |
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Mega
Corr 2 CD RRP: £24.95/$39.95 This is a data CD, which contains a games database with over 350,000 correspondence chess games. The games are in Chessbase (new and old formats), Chess Assistant and PGN. About 30,000 of the games are annotated. It also contains Chess Mail magazines from 1996-2001 to read on screen or print out, tournament crosstables, information, and photographs. This CD will run on Windows or Apple Macintosh.
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The
Dragon for Experts RRP: £17.95 / $27 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 has an excellent reputation among the fans of this opening, having excelled with many publications and discoveries in his favourite chess field. His first CD is intended first of all for players who already have some experience with the Dragon. This CD contains: - a small special database featuring the main piece of the author's work, 34 surveys with clear evaluations of each line in words and variations. - a database with 9300 selected quality games, 500 of which with annotations. - a big tree of all Dragon games available from ChessBase. |
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RETI
OPENING RRP: £17.95 / $27 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, less topical is a setup with b3 and Bb2. The first player should be prepared to react to any black scheme. Yes, if necessary even d2-d4 will be played in the end. But it's just this variability which makes the white setup so dangerous. The Reti CD includes 32.000 games, more than 1.000 of which with annotations. The opening key contains more than 14.000 games both for 1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 and for 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4, so most of the games belong to the ECO codes A06-A14. Because as mentioned above, the move d2-d4 involves transpositions to other openings, also these systems are covered on the CD with some important variations. Reti opening it is of great importance to understand the plans for play - merely learning variations will not take you very far here. Furthermore, the CD includes a tree of all games and a training database with 79 examples. |
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CHESSBASEMAGAZINE
81 this time with two CDs! RRP: £17.95 / $27 The current issue of ChessBase Magazine consists of two CDs. One is the regular magazine CD, with games, reports, training, and a beautiful multimedia report on the FIDE world championship in Delhi. The second contains a new players encyclopedia which replaces the one you received with your ChessBase 8.0 program. There are around 20,000 new player entries and more than 1,100 new pictures. And there is some other good news: the photos are now in "JPG" format, which reduces the file size dramatically, without losing any of the picture quality. So replacing the older encyclopedia with the new larger one will actually save you 400 MB of hard disk space. |
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Chess
Tiger 14.0 RRP: £39.95 / $49.50 Christoph Théron‘s ChessTiger is the shooting star among chess engines. It has gained enormously in strength over the past few years as its impressive victories in several international tournaments have demonstrated: the Open Championship of Spain 1998 as well as the French Open Championships 1999 and 2000 . In autumn of 1999, ChessTiger entered the ranking list of chess programs (SSDF) and immediately topped the list. Apart from ChessTiger 14.0, the CD also contains GambitTiger 2.0. GambitTiger is a particularly aggressive special version of ChessTiger which mercilessly applies its additional knowledge to attack the king. That‘s why GambitTiger often chooses moves which other programs would never play. Yet the success of this unconventional way of playing speaks for itself. In autumn of 2000, GambitTiger won the Dutch Open Championship by a long shot. Recently GambitTiger showed its claws in the „Linares of chess programs" and came second behind DeepFritz. In contrast to their direct predecessors, ChessTiger 14.0 and GambitTiger also take advantage of the endgame databases (tablebases) and support multi-variation mode. System
requirements: Pentium 16 MB RAM, Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT, |
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The
Chigorin Defence Martin Breutigam RRP: £17.95 / $27 "On master level, the Chigorin Defence has been played relatively seldom, and probably that’s one of the reasons why it has been analysed less intensively than other openings - good prerequisites for freethinkers and adventurers on the chess board!" (Breutigam) The Chigorin Defence resulting after the moves 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6 has become popular again thanks to the young Russian Alexander Morozevich, who with this choice has been holding his own even against the players of the absolute world top. It was high time for a publication to make the subtleties of this opening understandable also to the non-grandmaster, and this gap in chess literature now has been filled by FIDE master Martin Breutigam. In a small but swell database with 100 entries - 7 texts and 93 sample games - the long time player in the German Bundesliga has compiled all his knowledge on the Chigorin Defence. Another database includes 54 training questions enabling the user to test his freshly acquired knowledge. Furthermore, the CD features a big database of more than 4.000 games as a reference database plus a big tree of all games. System requirements: Pentium, Windows 95,98,2000,Me |
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CHESSBASE
MAGAZINE 80 February 2001 RRP: £17.95 / $27 The ChessBase Magazine 80 contains the main body of 1262 games and five database reports. There are many strong tournaments, the men´s Olympiad in Istanbul and the Braingame and FIDE World Championships in London and Delhi/Teheran. The two world championships were held in competition with each other. In the Braingames world championship there were only two decisive games, both won by Kramnik, who also managed to find an impregnable defence against Kasparov's white onslaught. The FIDE world championship in Delhi and Teheran ended in victory for the favourite Vishy Anand, who thus becomes Asia's first chess world champion. |
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School
of Elementary Tactics Martin Weteschnik RRP: £17.95 / $27 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?!" System requirements: Pentium, 32 MB RAM, Windows95/98/2000/Me Language: English and German |
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Killer
Moves George Renko RRP: £17.95/$27 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". System requirements: Pentium, 32 MB RAM, Windows95/98/2000/Me Language: English and German |
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Check
and Mate! (2nd edition with strategy lessons) Daniel King RRP: £17.95 / $27 Studying can be fun! Listen to the famous English Grandmaster, coach and author Daniel King in this interactive multimedia-CD and learn how to attack the right way.Effective attacking patterns are presented and explained in ten chapters. Each chapter contains a test game followed by further examples to illustrate the main theme. System requirements: Pentium, Windows95, Windows98, Windows Me, Windows 2000. |
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ChessBase
Magazine 79: RRP: £17.95 / $27 Language: English / German - Kramnik defeats Kasparov - Video impressions from London - Gothenburg Variation refutes FIDE World Cup - more than 400 annotated games |
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Fritz
Powerbook 2001 RRP: Powerbook 2001 full version £39.95/$49.50 Powerbook 2001 Update £24.95/$37.50 (for updates please return the Powerbook2000-CD) The current openings theory with 630,000 games The Fritz Powerbook 2001 contains 7,6 million opening position, derived from 630,000 high-class tournament games. Together with each position all relevant information is stored: all moves that were played in the position, by players of what average rating, with what success and performance results. The games from which the Fritz Powerbook 2001 were derived are also included on the CD. This means that in any position of the openings tree you can load and replay the games in which the position occured. The Fritz Powerbook 2001 represents the state of the art of current openings theory. Discover exciting and tricky new lines and practice them against Fritz. System
requirements: Pentium PC, 32 MB RAM, Win95/98/2000/Me, Fritz 5.32,
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DEEP
FRITZ RRP: £69.95/$99 Deep Fritz is the multiprocessor version of Fritz and supports one to eight processors. On a dual processor machine, it will run about 80% faster than on a single. Deep Fritz is based on an improved Fritz6 engine. It has better positional understanding than Fritz6 and more endgame knowledge. Furthermore the program defends better against human anticomputer-strategies, i.e. kings attacks in closed positions. The opening book has been extended and revised. System requirement: Pentium, 16 MB RAM, Windows 95, Windows98, Windows Me, Windows2000, Windows NT 4, HiColor |
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DEEP
JUNIOR 7.0 Available in the following languages: English, Dutch, Spanish and German |
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Mega
Database 2001 RRP: FULL VERSION £99.95/$149.95 (Update from Mega2000) £39.95/$49.50 (Update from older Mega) £99.95/$149.95 1.7 Million games, 40,000 annotated |
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Big
Database 2001 RRP: Big Database 2001 fullversion: £39.95/$49.50 Update from Big 2000: £24.95/$37.50 1.7 Million games, none annotated |
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CBM
EXTRA 78 RRP: £17.95/$27 Multimedia-Reports: - Interview with Carsten Hensel (Chess Meeting Dortmund) - Vishy Anand's key game against Khalifman. |
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Nimzo
8.0 Dr. Chrilly Donninger RRP: £39.95/$49.50 Update from Nimzo 7.32: £24.95/$37.50 (please send in the original Nimzo 7.32 CD) - Strongly improved engine, about 50 Elopoints above the previous version. - Openings book extended and up to the latest theory. - New: Play blindfolded chess. - Endgame Tablebases in RAM: Nimzo8 is the first chess program to keep tablebases in memory thus being able to use them in quiescence search. - Programming language Che++ for implementation of positional knowledge. Compiler and example code included. |
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Endgame
Study Database 2000 Harold van der Heiden RRP: £39.95/$49.50 The endgame study database of Harold van der Heijden (The Netherlands) contains almost 58,000 endgame studies, making it the largest collection in the world. Dutchman Harold van der Heiden is one of the most renowned connoisseurs of studies of our days. His unique collection of famous studies has been doubled in size and now contains more than 58.000 studies. Access via players' index (=author's name) and endgame key. Studien Datenbank 2000 out now! |
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Classical
Sicilian B56-B59 Anthony Kosten RRP: £17.95/$27 After the moves 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6, the basic position of the Classical Sicilian arises on the board. This is the position which has been examined by our English author. GM Kosten's very committed work is an exclusive database with "only" 942 entries. His expert preselection of relevant material considerably facilitates the study of this quite extensive opening sector for the learning player. The individual variations are presented in 27 detailed texts with links to 915 sample games (22 games from Kramnik) of which 200 are annotated (40 games analysed by Kosten exclusively for this CD). The training database features 25 test games with 55 training questions where you can gain points sweating against the clock. Moreover, the CD contains a reference database with more than 8.000 games (i.e. all games available in ChessBase format) and a tree of all games. |
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THE
ACCELERATED DRAGON B34-B39 Claudio Minzer/Gustavo Albarrán RRP: £17.95 / $27 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 conception, the learning
player is able familiarize himself with its objectives in a logical
way which is something of a rare exception in the Sicilian Defense
with its excessively analysed tactical sequences. That´s why
this opening is very popular above all with positional players.
The extensive treatment is divided into three parts. First the different
opening variations are presented in 15 chapters, each of which containing
the relevant sample games. The complete database includes more than
8.000 games from which no less than 150 have been annotated by the
authors themselves. After this introduction to theory, the middlegame
part dwells on the strategic facets of the opening. In the concluding
test part, you can finally check the freshly acquired knowledge
in 20 games with 57 training questions sweating against the clock. |
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