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Dinosaur Chess for Mac (on CD)
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Dinosaur Chess is an entertaining chess program that will keep the attention of children while teaching them the basics of chess. The program contains four modes: LEARN, PLAY, PROGRESS and DINO FIGHT.
Most of the educational material is contained within the LEARN mode. The LEARN mode assumes absolutely zero preexisting knowledge of the game and builds the student's knowledge from the ground up. The mode consists of 11 lessons that teach the basics of how the pieces move, capture, etc. The combination of video and audio instructions makes it easy for young students to follow the lessons. At the end of each lesson a student has to complete a few exercises to demonstrate an understanding of the material. However, the limited number of exercises makes it difficult for a student to master the concepts. Adding more exercises certainly would enhance the value of the program. Aside from their chess content, the lessons have visual and audio effects that will keep kids interested.
The PLAY mode allows student to play a game of chess against a dinosaur. The strength of the dinosaur is adjusted so that it can be beaten, but still present a challenge to the absolute beginner. Little explosions that accompany captures are another feature that younger students will surely enjoy. It would be great if the program had the option to limit the pieces in play to only those which the student has already mastered.
The DINO FIGHT option allows students to take a break in between lessons. In this mode students are able to choose a dinosaur to battle in a simple fight. While simple enough for any child to play, this option is important for keeping children from being overwhelmed by the information learned in the lessons.
The PROGRESS PAGE is a basic display of number of lessons learned, pieces captured, dinosaurs defeated, etc.; very easy to understand by a youngster.
Computer: Mac
Operating System: 10.4.x / 10.5.x
Processor Type: G4 PowerPC / Intel Core 2 Duo (Universal Binary)
Memory: 1GB
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Total Chess Training (for download), special price
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Total Chess Training consists of five magnificent educational programs: Chess Tactics Art 3.0; Strategy 2.0; Encyclopedia of Middlegame; Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders; Studies 2.0 with new printing possibilities, covering every phase or aspect of chess:
- Openings – Learn to play by learning the opening mistakes and traps that've been discovered over time with Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders
- Middlegame – Become a wizard in the art of combinations with the intensive course on tactics, CT-Art 3.0, and learn the positional methods used by grandmasters in Strategy 2.0. Study typical middlegame structures and their plans, arranged depending on the openings they come from, with Encyclopedia of Middlegame.
- Endgame – Instead of boring lectures, learn endgame technique with the use of breathtaking artistic endgame compositions, chosen for their relevance to real play, with Studies 2.0.
Altogether Total Chess Training includes more than 9000 commented games and positions to be solved for chess players with ELO rating from 1800 to 2400!
Total Chess Training is the product of the best Russian chess instructors' efforts. Take advantage of their training and knowledge now, and raise your playing level to a new standard.
English, French, German, Italian and Spanish versions available. System requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 32 Mb RAM, hard disk 100Mb, Windows 2000/NT/XP/Vista, CD-ROM drive. No additional software required.
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Total Chess Training III (for download), special price
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This is the third compilation of popular training programs on 5 CDs, that covers some aspects of chess: Tactics, Combinations, Strategy and Middlegame.
Advanced Chess School
Advanced Chess School is an interactive tutorial for those unexperienced players, both children and adults, who have already learnt the rules of chess and now wish to become players of intermediate strength.
Chess Tactics for Beginners
Chess Tactics for Beginners is based on a bestseller by the experienced coach Sergey I vashchenko. This program includes positions from practical games, endgame studies as well as training examples. More than 1,300 tactical problems.
Chess Combinations Encyclopedia
A fundamental chess tactics program including more than 4000 training examples and exercises on more than 100 tactical methods and motives. The exercise complexity increases from beginner to advanced player level inside each theme.
Encyclopedia of Middlegame III
Theoretical section includes more than 560 games/lectures illustrating typical plans and methods in the following openings: Two Knights' defense, Sicilian defense (Richter attack), French defense, Caro-Kann defense, etc.
Encyclopedia of Middlegame IV
Theoretical section includes more than 520 games/lectures illustrating typical plans and methods in the following openings: Sicilian defense, Scandinavian defense, Gruenfeld defense, Queen's Gambit Accepted, etc. System requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 32 Mb RAM, hard disk 100Mb, Windows 2000/NT/XP/Vista, CD-ROM drive. No additional software required.
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Total Chess Training, special price
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Total Chess Training consists of five magnificent educational programs: Chess Tactics Art 3.0; Strategy 2.0; Encyclopedia of Middlegame; Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders; Studies 2.0 with new printing possibilities, covering every phase or aspect of chess:
- Openings – Learn to play by learning the opening mistakes and traps that've been discovered over time with Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders
- Middlegame – Become a wizard in the art of combinations with the intensive course on tactics, CT-Art 3.0, and learn the positional methods used by grandmasters in Strategy 2.0. Study typical middlegame structures and their plans, arranged depending on the openings they come from, with Encyclopedia of Middlegame.
- Endgame – Instead of boring lectures, learn endgame technique with the use of breathtaking artistic endgame compositions, chosen for their relevance to real play, with Studies 2.0.
Altogether Total Chess Training includes more than 9000 commented games and positions to be solved for chess players with ELO rating from 1800 to 2400!
Total Chess Training is the product of the best Russian chess instructors' efforts. Take advantage of their training and knowledge now, and raise your playing level to a new standard.
English, French, German, Italian and Spanish versions available. System requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 32 Mb RAM, hard disk 100Mb, Windows 2000/NT/XP/Vista, CD-ROM drive. No additional software required.
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Total Chess Training II, special price
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This is the second compilation of popular training programs for studying all the chess game phases: opening, middlegame and endgame.
On this CD you will find five programs not included in the first Total Training package:
- Encyclopedia of Middlegame, Vol. II – the program for studying middlegame opening plans and playing techniques. Theoretical section includes over 600 games/lectures, each of them illustrating the popular openings' typical plans and methods. Special training section with more than 500 exercises for a user to solve as well as 150 training positions. Course composed by GM Kalinin.
- Chess Tactics for intermediate players – the program including over 1180 tactical exercises, classified by themes and difficulty.
- Mate Studies – about 5000 exercises and problems. An excellent program for developing your combinative skills!
- Theory and Practice of Chess Endings –
the best program for studying endgame! Its author, the well-known coach GM Panchenko, worked on the chess material for over 20 years. Many experts regard his endgame handbook as the best in this field. Thousands of chess players in Russia used it to study the endgame and many of them are now grandmasters. Theoretical section includes as many as 700 lectures. Training section with 300 exercises as well as 180 examples.
- Chess Endgame Training – the program consists of more than 2450 endgame exercises taken out of practical games, endgame studies as well as training examples, all classified according to no less than 500 endgame themes.
System requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 32 Mb RAM, hard disk 100Mb, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/Vista, CD-ROM drive.
No additional software required.
Total Chess Training II includes more than 11,000 study examples and exercises for chess players with the ELO rating from 1700 to 2400!
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Total Chess Training III, special price
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This is the third compilation of popular training programs on 5 CDs, that covers some aspects of chess: Tactics, Combinations, Strategy and Middlegame.
Advanced Chess School
Advanced Chess School is an interactive tutorial for those unexperienced players, both children and adults, who have already learnt the rules of chess and now wish to become players of intermediate strength.
Chess Tactics for Beginners
Chess Tactics for Beginners is based on a bestseller by the experienced coach Sergey I vashchenko. This program includes positions from practical games, endgame studies as well as training examples. More than 1,300 tactical problems.
Chess Combinations Encyclopedia
A fundamental chess tactics program including more than 4000 training examples and exercises on more than 100 tactical methods and motives. The exercise complexity increases from beginner to advanced player level inside each theme.
Encyclopedia of Middlegame III
Theoretical section includes more than 560 games/lectures illustrating typical plans and methods in the following openings: Two Knights' defense, Sicilian defense (Richter attack), French defense, Caro-Kann defense, etc.
Encyclopedia of Middlegame IV
Theoretical section includes more than 520 games/lectures illustrating typical plans and methods in the following openings: Sicilian defense, Scandinavian defense, Gruenfeld defense, Queen's Gambit Accepted, etc. System requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 32 Mb RAM, hard disk 100Mb, Windows 2000/NT/XP/Vista, CD-ROM drive. No additional software required.
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Dinosaur Chess. Mac version (for download)
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Dinosaur Chess is an entertaining chess program that will keep the attention of children while teaching them the basics of chess. The program contains four modes: LEARN, PLAY, PROGRESS and DINO FIGHT.
Most of the educational material is contained within the LEARN mode. The LEARN mode assumes absolutely zero preexisting knowledge of the game and builds the student's knowledge from the ground up. The mode consists of 11 lessons that teach the basics of how the pieces move, capture, etc. The combination of video and audio instructions makes it easy for young students to follow the lessons. At the end of each lesson a student has to complete a few exercises to demonstrate an understanding of the material. However, the limited number of exercises makes it difficult for a student to master the concepts. Adding more exercises certainly would enhance the value of the program. Aside from their chess content, the lessons have visual and audio effects that will keep kids interested.
The PLAY mode allows student to play a game of chess against a dinosaur. The strength of the dinosaur is adjusted so that it can be beaten, but still present a challenge to the absolute beginner. Little explosions that accompany captures are another feature that younger students will surely enjoy. It would be great if the program had the option to limit the pieces in play to only those which the student has already mastered.
The DINO FIGHT option allows students to take a break in between lessons. In this mode students are able to choose a dinosaur to battle in a simple fight. While simple enough for any child to play, this option is important for keeping children from being overwhelmed by the information learned in the lessons.
The PROGRESS PAGE is a basic display of number of lessons learned, pieces captured, dinosaurs defeated, etc.; very easy to understand by a youngster.
Computer: Mac
Operating System: 10.4.x / 10.5.x
Processor Type: G4 PowerPC / Intel Core 2 Duo (Universal Binary)
Memory: 1GB
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Studies 2.0 (for download)
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Training course based on best chess studies, especially chosen for their instructive value. Contains over 950 greatest endgame compositions and 900 subsidiary exercises divided into 4 parts:
1) Studies on the topics;
2) Ending studies;
3) Gallery of Chess Compositions;
4) Various grades by difficulty level (ELO 1800-2400).
There is simply no substitute for the ease and quality of the studies presented, not to mention their eternal beauty.
- A possibility to set up styles for study and game elements
- Built-in chess playing program (may be started from any position)
- Compatibility with top playing programs (Hiarcs 3-6, MChess Pro 5-7 etc)
- Several languages supported: English, French, German, Russian and Spanish
No additional software required.
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Mate Studies (for download)
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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
- Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian
A package includes a CD and a printed manual.
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Dinosaur Chess: Learn to Play (for download)
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The file size for download : 51 Mb
Sign up to Professor MacDinosaur's chess class. You will grow from a hatchling, fresh from the egg, to a huge dinosaur ready to take on the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
The action takes you through different parts of the dinosaur's world from jungles to forests. Here you learn the chess skills thet will help you grow enough to defeat the other dinosaurs in battle.
- A fun wy for children to learn to play chess
- Over 20 mini games and puzzles
- Play simplified and full chess games against the dinosaurs
- Entertaining and challenging
Chess is Good for you!
Playing chess gives brains of any age a good workout.
Kids especially benefit from learning and playing the game.
- Improve IQ scores
- Increase concentration
- Challenges gifted children
- Helps developmental and abstract thinking in children
- Potentially helps underachievers
- Develops critical thinking skills
Languages: English, German, French and Spanish
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Pentium III or equivalent, 128 MB, screen resolution of 1024X768, Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP/Vista.
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Dinosaur Chess: Learn to Play
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Sign up to Professor MacDinosaur's chess class. You will grow from a hatchling, fresh from the egg, to a huge dinosaur ready to take on the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
The action takes you through different parts of the dinosaur's world from jungles to forests. Here you learn the chess skills thet will help you grow enough to defeat the other dinosaurs in battle.
- A fun wy for children to learn to play chess
- Over 20 mini games and puzzles
- Play simplified and full chess games against the dinosaurs
- Entertaining and challenging
Chess is Good for you!
Playing chess gives brains of any age a good workout.
Kids especially benefit from learning and playing the game.
- Improve IQ scores
- Increase concentration
- Challenges gifted children
- Helps developmental and abstract thinking in children
- Potentially helps underachievers
- Develops critical thinking skills
Languages: English, German, French and Spanish
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Pentium III or equivalent, 128 MB, screen resolution of 1024X768, Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP/Vista
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Chess Combinations Encyclopedia (for download)
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The file size for download: 25 Mb
A fundamental program on chess tactics including more than 4000 training examples and exercises classified by more than 100 tactical methods and motifs. The complexity of the exercises grows inside each theme from beginner to advanced chess player. Individual ratings are calculated on the basis of the user's performance and statistics are gathered for each user. When studying each theme step by step, you can master all the tactical methods and improve your play drastically.
- Languages: English, German, French, Spanish and Italian
System requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 32 Mb RAM, hard disk 50Mb, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/Vista, recording CD-ROM. No additional software required.
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Encyclopedia of Middlegame IV (for download)
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Encyclopedia of Middlegame III (for download)
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Encyclopedia of Middlegame II (for download)
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The file size for download:
- Program files: 5.7 Mb
- The documentation in MS Word format - 0.9 Mb
Descriptions:
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
Minimal system requirements:
Recording CD-ROM is required
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CT-ART 3.0 (for download)
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The file size for download:
- Program files: 24.1 Mb
- The documentation in MS Word format - 0.9 Mb
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The program is the 3rd revised and expanded edition of the ever popular Chess Tactics Art by the Russian GM of Correspondence chess, Maxim Blokh. The focus of the examples' difficulty is on amateurs but even masters will find themselves challenged by the hardest ones.
- Material chosen for a wide variety of player strengths
- No less than 1217 main examples with over 1000 supplementary ones classified according 3 criteria
- Several languages supported: English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish
No additional software required.
Minimal system requirements: Recording CD-ROM is required
Methodical recommendations on using CT-ART 3.0
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Encyclopedia of Middlegame (for download)
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The file size for download:
- Program files: 5.3 Mb
- The documentation in MS Word format - 0.9 Mb
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Encyclopedia of Middlegame - the program for studying the middlegame plans behind various openings and the playing techniques. A theoretical section includes over 600 games/lectures, each of them illustrating the popular openings' typical plans and methods. There is also a special training section with more than 1000 exercises for a user to solve as well as 400 training positions to be played against the built-in chess playing program Crafty. The course is composed by GM Kalinin. The Encyclopedia of Middlegame program contains detailed material on two courses:
- Typical Pawn Structures: Karlsbad, Hedgehog, etc.
- Typical Plans and Methods in the Most Popular Openings: Scotch, Ruy Lopez, Sicilian, Caro-Kann, French, English opening, Dutch, Slav, Catalan, Nimzo-Indian, King's Indian, Gruenfeld, Benko Gambit.
Minimal system requirements:
Recording CD-ROM is required
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Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders (for download)
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Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players (for download)
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The file size for download:
- Program files: 23.4 Mb
- The documentation in MS Word format - 0.9 Mb
Descriptions:
A sequel to the Chess Tactics for Beginners, this program on chess tactics is developed by the prominent chess coach Sergey Ivashchenko and aimed at intermediate players.
The program includes:
- More than 1170 tactical positions classified by themes and difficulty
- Refutations of wrong moves as well as other hints to help find the correct answer
- Languages supported: English, French, Spanish, Italian and German
No additional software required.
Minimal system requirements: Recording CD-ROM is required
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Chess Tactics for Beginners (for download)
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The file size for download:
- Program files: 23.1 Mb
- The documentation in MS Word format - 0.9 Mb
Descriptions:
This program is based on a bestseller by the experienced coach Sergey Ivashchenko. Intended for beginners, both children and adults. Exercises arranged in five courses according to their increasing difficulty. Each course contains exercises for Practice and Test. The program includes positions from practical games, endgame studies as well as training examples.
- More than 1,300 tactical problems. You have to find the most important moves
- A built-in playing engine “Dragon” which can be called upon to analyze the problem
- Your favourite external playing program can also be used by you
- Wooden, marmoreal and standard interfaces possible
- English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish versions available
- Manual and build-in help files for each language
No additional software required
Minimal system requirements: Recording CD-ROM is required
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Strategy 2.0 (for download)
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Chess School for Beginners (for download)
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Advanced Chess School (for download)
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The file size for download:
- Program files: 3 MB
- The documentation in MS Word format - 0.9 Mb
Descriptions:
Advanced Chess School is an interactive tutorial for those unexperienced players, both children and adults, who have already learnt the rules of chess and now wish to become players of intermediate strength. It can be considered a continuation of “Chess School for Beginners”. Students will study essential concepts such as development, the center, fundamentals in chess tactics, basic endgame rules and much more! The chess material for the program was prepared by N. Zhuravlev, chess master from Latvia, famous trainer and author.
The program contains 2 large courses: “Theory – Essential Chess Knowledge” and “Playing Instructive Examples.
- 55 lessons with more than 1,200 instructive examples
- Several languages supported: English, Russian, Spanish
- No additional software required
Minimal system requirements:
Recording CD-ROM is required
This course turns a beginner into an intermediate player!
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Chess Middlegame Collection
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This is a unique set of programs produced on 4 CDs, where four chess programs on the middlegame are put together
( Encyclopedia of the Middlegame I,
Encyclopedia of the MiddlegameII,
Encyclopedia of the Middlegame III and
Encyclopedia of the Middlegame IV), covering the theory and practice of the middlegame for each of the openings. Each of the four programs includes detailed theoretical material for the corresponding openings and variations, positions for solving and special learning positions to play against with the built-in game engine. In the four programs you'll find detailed material on the theory and practice of playing the following openings: Ruy Lopez, Two Knights' defense, King's gambit, Italian game, Evans gambit, Scotch, Petroff defense, Sicilian defense, French defense, Caro-Kann defense, Scandinavian defense, Pirc-Ufimtsev, Alekhine's defense, Queen's-Indian defense, Queen's gambit, Queen's Gambit Accepted, Slav defense, Modern Benoni, Gruenfeld defense, English defense, King's Indian defense, Nimzo-Indian defense, Reti opening, Old Indian defense, Catalan, Benko Gambit etc.
In total the Chess Middlegame Collection includes:
- 2300 games/lectures prepared by GM Alexander Kalinin
- more than 2600 exercises to solve
- more than 1000 training positions to be played against the built-in chess playing program Crafty
The complexity of the exercises grows inside each theme from beginner to advanced chess player. Individual ratings are calculated on the basis of the user's performance and statistics are gathered for each user. When studying each theme step by step, you can master all the methods and improve your play drastically. Multiple user profiles are featured with independent ratings and statistics for each. Printing options are also available.
English and Spanish version are available.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: IBM-compatible PC, 32 Mb RAM, Hard Disk 100 Mb of free disk space, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/ME/XP/Vista. CD-ROM drive. No additional software is required.
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Comprehensive Chess Endings
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This is a fundamental program for studying endgame theory. Material is supplied by the prominent endgame theoretician GM Yuri Averbakh.
The program includes:
- 4143 theoretically important games and examples thoroughly analyzed and classified into 300 themes
- Material based on a printed edition of Comprehensive Chess Endings
- All the chess material calculated through by the leading chess playing programs using the endgame tables
- Material deeply elaborated and revised by GM Yuri Averbakh thus contributing to revised evaluation of some important theoretical endings compared to the printed edition
- Nalimov Endgame Tablebases support and a built-in Test Mode
- Computer evaluations and variations given for every move in games and examples
- 2954 additional games from the modern practice, where the position in question occurred
- The built-in playing program Crafty and the powerful searching system Chess Assistant Light allowing to analyze and play through the positions in question, edit variations, search for the necessary information, print out and export into a text file in both RTF and HTML formats
English version available, DVD-like box.
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Comprehensive Chess Endings + Nalimov DVD, packet
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Our special offer includes a packet of two new software products ( English versions):
- Comprehensive Chess Endings which is a fundamental program for studying endgame theory. Material is supplied by the prominent endgame theoretician GM Yuri Averbakh.
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- Nalimov DVD containing the most complete version of the 3-4-5 piece NALIMOV endgame tablebases (290 files). Completely compatible with Chess Assistant 6 or 7, Comprehensive Chess Endings, Fritz 7/8, Tiger 14/15, Shredder 7, Junior and a lot of other engines.
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Encyclopedia of Middlegame IV
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This course was composed by GM Kalinin.
It is aimed at teaching a student much of the middlegame methods and intricacies through a
theoretical section which includes over 560 games/lectures, each of them illustrating
typical plans
and methods in the following openings: Two Knights' defense, Ruy Lopez (Schliemann and 5...b5
variations), Sicilian defense (Richter attack), French defense (3. e5 and 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 variations),
Caro-Kann defense (3.e5 var.), English defense, King's Indian defense (Classical, Saemisch,
Fianchetto and Averbakh variations), Nimzo-Indian defense, Slav defense (4...dc var.),
Old Indian defense, etc.
A special training section includes more than 530 exercises
for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints
to help you find the correct answer. There are also training 380 positions to be played
against the embedded chess playing program Crafty. Multiple user profiles are featured
with independent ratings and statistics for each. Printing options are also available.
English and Spanish version are available.
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Chess Combinations Encyclopedia
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A fundamental program on chess tactics including more than 4000 training examples and exercises
classified by more than 100 tactical methods and motifs. The complexity of the exercises grows
inside each theme from beginner to advanced chess player. Individual ratings are calculated on
the basis of the user's performance and statistics are gathered for each user.
When studying each theme step by step, you can master all the tactical methods and
improve your play drastically.
- Languages: English, German, French, Spanish and Italian
- CD, printed manual and plastic box
System requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 32 Mb RAM, hard disk 50Mb, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/Vista, CD-ROM drive. No additional software required.
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Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players
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A sequel to the Chess Tactics for Beginners, this program on chess tactics is developed by the prominent chess coach Sergey Ivashchenko and aimed at intermediate players.
The program includes:
- More than 1170 tactical positions classified by themes and difficulty
- Refutations of wrong moves as well as other hints to help find the correct answer
- Languages supported: English, French, Spanish, Italian and German
- DVD-like box
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Chess Tactics for Beginners
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This program is based on a bestseller by the experienced coach Sergey Ivashchenko. Intended for beginners, both children and adults. Exercises arranged in five courses according to their increasing difficulty. Each course contains exercises for Practice and Test. The program includes positions from practical games, endgame studies as well as training examples.
- More than 1,300 tactical problems. You have to find the most important moves
- A built-in playing engine “Dragon” which can be called upon to analyze the problem
- Your favourite external playing program can also be used by you
- Wooden, marmoreal and standard interfaces possible
- English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish versions available
- Manual and build-in help files for each language
- DVD-like box
Minimal system requirements:
Recording CD-ROM is required
No additional software required
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Mate Studies
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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
- Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian
A package includes a CD and a printed manual.
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Chess Endgame Training
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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-like box
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Theory and Practice of Chess Endings
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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-like box
No additional software required.
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Encyclopedia of Middlegame, Vol. I
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Encyclopedia of Middlegame - the program for studying the middlegame plans behind various openings and the playing techniques. A theoretical section includes over 600 games/lectures, each of them illustrating the popular openings' typical plans and methods. There is also a special training section with more than 1000 exercises for a user to solve as well as 400 training positions to be played against the built-in chess playing program Crafty. The course is composed by GM Kalinin. The Encyclopedia of Middlegame program contains detailed material on two courses:
- Typical Pawn Structures: Karlsbad, Hedgehog, etc.
- Typical Plans and Methods in the Most Popular Openings: Scotch, Ruy Lopez, Sicilian, Caro-Kann, French, English opening, Dutch, Slav, Catalan, Nimzo-Indian, King's Indian, Gruenfeld, Benko Gambit.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: IBM-compatible PC, 32 Mb RAM, Hard Disk 50 Mb of free disk space, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/ME/XP/Vista. CD-ROM drive. No additional software is required.
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Encyclopedia of Middlegame, Vol. II
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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
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Encyclopedia of Middlegame, Vol. III
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This course composed by GM Alexander Kalinin is aimed at teaching a student much of the middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes over 520 games/lectures each of them illustrating typical plans and methods in the following openings: Petroff defense, Ruy Lopez (Marshall var.), Sicilian defense (Closed System and 3. Bb5 var.), Scandinavian defense, Gruenfeld defense, Queen's Gambit Accepted, Reti opening, variant 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 (or 2…g6) 3. Bg5, and etc.
- More than 500 exercises for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the correct answer
- As many as 100 training positions to be played against the built-in chess playing program Crafty
- Multiple user profiles featured with independent ratings and statistics for each
- Printing options also available
- Several languages supported: English, Spanish and Russian.
No additional software required.
The packet includes a CD, a printed manual and a plastic box.
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CT-ART 3.0
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The program is the 3rd revised and expanded edition of the ever popular Chess Tactics Art by the Russian GM of Correspondence chess, Maxim Blokh. The focus of the examples' difficulty is on amateurs but even masters will find themselves challenged by the hardest ones.
- Material chosen for a wide variety of player strengths
- No less than 1217 main examples with over 1000 supplementary ones classified according 3 criteria
- Several languages supported: English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish
- DVD-like box
No additional software required.
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Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders
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Learn to play chess by learning the opening mistakes and traps that have been discovered over time.
The chess material prepared by IM Yaroslav Ulko and IM Aleksey Mitenkov, both experienced coaches and players in Russia.
The program designed for studying the blunders in more than 40 openings.
- Over 1,250 instructive exercises of varying difficulty from practical games
- Several languages supported: English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish
No additional software is required.
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Strategy 2.0
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Designed by GM Alexander Kalinin to teach students strategy and positional play, STRATEGY 2.0 is a significantly expanded version of the original Strategy, containing not only more exercises but also many new lessons not present in the first edition. This chess program presents 1800 instructive positions with 18 most important strategic themes such as Advantage in development, Advantage in space, Attack on the king, Attack on the queenside, Weak squares, Pawn structure, Open files and diagonals, Central squares, Position of pieces, Exchange, Positional sacrifice, Prophylaxis, Isolated queen's pawn, Hanging pawns, Pawn pair of c3+d4 on semi-open files, the rule of two weaknesses, Planning, Defense and Counterattack.
- 250 examples for self-study illustrating the lessons presented
- 1100 selected exercises for you to solve
- 450 typical positions to train and play against Crafty or other supported external programs
- Several languages supported: English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish
- DVD-like box
No additional software required.
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Studies 2.0
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Training course based on best chess studies, especially chosen for their instructive value. Contains over 950 greatest endgame compositions and 900 subsidiary exercises divided into 4 parts:
1) Studies on the topics;
2) Ending studies;
3) Gallery of Chess Compositions;
4) Various grades by difficulty level (ELO 1800-2400).
There is simply no substitute for the ease and quality of the studies presented, not to mention their eternal beauty.
- A possibility to set up styles for study and game elements
- Built-in chess playing program (may be started from any position)
- Compatibility with top playing programs (Hiarcs 3-6, MChess Pro 5-7 etc)
- Several languages supported: English, French, German, Russian and Spanish
No additional software required.
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Chess School for Beginners
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Written by GM Yury Razuvaev, well-known GM and one of Anatoly Karpov’s coaches, this friendly interactive course is intended for both children and adult beginners. It is divided into 3 main sections:
1) Chess rules;
2) Development of intellectual abilities;
3) Playing.
- 700 carefully chosen, and in many cases designed, examples to help a student
- Navigator, the part of the program, presents a window which allows to select a mode of work
- Ideal for schools and teachers with an unlimited number of individual student profiles allowed
- English version is available
- DVD-like box
No additional software is required.
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Advanced Chess School
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Advanced Chess School is an interactive tutorial for those unexperienced players, both children and adults, who have already learnt the rules of chess and now wish to become players of intermediate strength. It can be considered a continuation of “Chess School for Beginners”. Students will study essential concepts such as development, the center, fundamentals in chess tactics, basic endgame rules and much more! The chess material for the program was prepared by N. Zhuravlev, chess master from Latvia, famous trainer and author.
The program contains 2 large courses: “Theory – Essential Chess Knowledge” and “Playing Instructive Examples.
- 55 lessons with more than 1,200 instructive examples
- Several languages supported: English, Russian, Spanish
- No additional software required
- DVD-like box
This course turns a beginner into an intermediate player!
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