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£19.95/ $29.95
The Big Bird PowerBase gives you complete coverage of 1.f4, including the Stonewall, Bird-Larsen Attack, Reversed Leningrad, and From's Gambit. The 510 annotated games feature notes by Steinitz, Tartakower, Bird, Staunton, Zukertort, Nimzowitsch, and many others - the great majority with full text commentary. This CD comes with everything you need to become an expert at Bird's Opening, such as:
* A huge database of 35,448 games
* 510 main annotated games
* Nearly 1,000 further games with medals, critical marks, evaluations, etc.
* Detailed opening key with over 1,650 classification positions
* 5 theme keys and clean indexes
* 4 text documents - even H.E. Bird essays and photos!
* A giant tree database, plus specialized Fritz books (From's, Stonewall, Leningrad)
* Complete PGN files
* Bonus database of selected odds games with Bird's Opening
£17.95 / $27
ChessBase Magazine 88 contains 2031 games in the main database, 537 of which are annotated by top experts. There are six tournament reports, openings training, middlegame strategy lectures, endgame analyses, tactics, a computer section and an additional 3624 high-quality correspondence chess games. In addition over an hour of video footage with Alexandra Kosteniuk, with many additional pictures.
£39.95/ $49.95
The Chess Informants contain 35,147 fully annotated theortically important games played between 1966 and 1985. Contributors include 11 World Champions: Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Anand and Khalifman. Contains Chess Informant Reader 2.1+, making this a great value for money database.
Correspondence
CD 2002
£59.95 / $99
Corr Database is an extension collection of correspondence games,
featuring classical correspondence games played by mail as well as eMail
games. The CD contains 400,000 games from 1804 until 2002 including all
games of the correspondence chess world championships 1-6, correspondence
chess Olympics 1-14, correspondence chess European championships 1-6,
national championships (AUS, CSR, DEN, GER, NED, USA), memorials (1965
SUI jub75), 1991 FIN jub30, Ned jub25 and 2001 SCO jub21) and regional
championships (Pan American, Pacific area, Baltic See 1-7). For the first
time, corr2002 als features a correspondence chess playbase (for ChessBase
8.0), which includes about 41,000 names. A must for every player of correspondence
chess!
System requirements: Pentium PC, Win 98, Me, 2000, XP, 32 MB RAM, CD-ROM drive, ChessBase 8,0, hard disk space requirements: 350 MB
Vadim Milov
£17.95 / $27
The Nimzo-Indian is one of Black's most popular and reliable openings. If White strives for an opening advantage and interesting, rich positions with ample room for creativity it is often a good idea to avoid the well trodden paths. Thus, the variations 4.f3 and the Sämisch, which are presented on this CD, are ideally suited to fight the Nimzo-Indian. They usually give rise to sharp, unbalanced positions with chances for both sides. In the past, players such as Botvinnik, Bronstein, Geller, Spassky have used these systems successfully, while today e.g. Shirov and Jussupow play these lines with success. On this CD grandmaster Vadim Milov presents the most important ideas and lines of this opening. Ten introductory texts with links to the most important games explain the basic ideas and variations. Numerous proposals improve today's theory while 68 games annotated by Milov offer
additional information and advice. A training database invites you to test your acquired knowledge.
Scandinavian
Curt Hansen
£19.95/$29.95
The
Scandinavian has long lost its former exotic status. Thanks to the practical
success and a number of publications by some players from Hamburg gathered
around the several times German champion Matthias Wahls in Germany this
opening even managed to gain the reputation of being a rather solid weapon
against 1.e4.
The Scandinavian - basically these are two different openings: after 1.e4
d5 2.exd5 Black can play 2...Qxd5 or 2...Nf6, and accordingly two different
systems arise, and there is hardly any practitioner, who has both moves
in
his repertoire. Thanks to Curt Hansen, who scrutinized both systems extensively.
His study of the current theoretical works is well reflected in his 62
database texts. But he also goes beyond the current state of theory and
presents his own research. More than 30 games are extensively annotated
by the author (there are all in all about 500 annotated games); a real
gem
are his 12 games in the training mode; 316 questions are posed, and answering
them you can reach a maximum number of 924 points.
How chess
training is fun:
- suitable for advanced players
- extensive opening course in 62 chapters
- database with roughly 29.000 games
- ChessBase-Reader included
- complete English version
The Author:
Grandmaster Curt Hansen became first known to the chess public at large
when he became World Junior Champion in 1984. For many years he has been
Denmark's No. 1. With the "Scandinavian" Hansen presents his
first work at ChessBase.
£17.95 / $27
ChessBase Magazine 87 contains 1268 games in the main database, 402 of which are annotated by top experts. There are six tournament reports, 70 endgame analyses, 17 games in the strategy section and 25 in the tactics database. In addition: 6500 high-quality correspondence chess games and a whopping 1 hour and 22 minutes of video material – interviews with John Nunn and Peter Svidler.
How
to Play the Nimzo Indian (CD ROM)
Reinhold
Ripperger
£14.99/$19.99
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. However, the Nimzo-Indian can well be
called the opening of the world champions. Capablanca employed it and
lost one of the most legendary games in chess history - against Botwinnik,
another world champion. Fischer scored his greatest achievements with
this opening in 1972 when he became world champion. Karpov and Kasparov
after him also employed the opening to good effect.
Reinhold Rippberger's CD follows an approach similar to "King's Indian
with f4" - not concentrating on concrete variations, but rather showing
how to play certain types of positions. Apart from the 21 introductory
texts, there are 300 games many with annotations. The author presents
a database with 35 games featuring training questions. as well as two
additional databases with more than 47,000 games.
Dorian Rogozenko
£17.95/ $27
The Slav has had a reputation as being one of the most solid replies to 1 d4. Supporting the centre with 2...c6 allows Black's c8 bishop to enter the fold, and in some lines it is difficult for White to find an opening advantage.
Containing 32,000 games and 86 database texts, Rogozenko introduces all of the main variations, explaining and identifying recurring strategy and tactical motifs. A huge database makes this an essential tool for Slav players everywhere.
HIARCS
8
£39.95/$49.50
The
program HIARCS, written by Mark Uniacke of England, has been one of
the world’s top programs ever since it won the microcomputer world chess
championship in 1993. HIARCS stands for "Higher Intelligence Auto
Response Chess System". And indeed the distinguishing feature is
that the author, like no other, uses a maximum of chess knowledge to
increase the playing strength of his program. The new version of HIARCS
has been improved and enhanced in a number of areas, especially in its
search algorithms and the implementation of concrete chess knowledge.
The search tree has been further optimised and results in an increase
in search depth of up to three ply in the middle game. The maximum search
depth is now 62 ply! This leads to substantially increased tactical
power while at the same time the program maintains its active positional
playing style. Chess knowledge has always been the program’s main strength.
The improved search algorithms made it possible to implement even more
advanced positional functions, especially in the areas of "typical
pawn structures" and "dynamic evaluation of the centre".
HIARCS 8 evaluates important factors like weak squares, king’s safety,
piece exchanges, initiative and king attack much more reliably than
the predecessor versions.
System requirements: Windows 95/NT4.0 or higher/98/ME/2000/XP, Pentium 200 MHz or compatible,32 MB RAM,1 MB graphics card,sound card,CD ROM drive, mouse keyboard
Dmitrij Oleinikov
£17.95/ $27
This CD presents a complete opening system as White, based on the Bird Opening (1 f4), a system many Black players will know about, but be unequipped to handle. The Bird Opening is a good choice for both enjoyable over the board games as well as for opening studies at home. The opening itself has many sides to it - there are sharp forcing lines, typical pawn structures, and even endgames which give White tangible winning chances.
* suitable for club players
* extensive opening course in 14 chapters
* database containing more than 15,000 games
* two training databases
£17.95 / $27
Emanuel Lasker became world champion in 1894 and kept the title until 1921. An incredible 27 years on the throne are more than enough to yield Lasker a very special place in the history of chess. Like Kasparov today, Lasker's fantastic series of tournament successes didn't come to an end when he lost the title of the world champion and this emphasises his extraordinary position in the chess world. Lasker’s style wasn’t understood by his contemporaries. Prejudice and misjudgement of his play still persist. That is why the ChessBase biography above all takes a very close look at Lasker’s chess.
All the
features at a glance:
- extensive curriculum vitae
- complete collection of all 1182 Lasker games or game fragments available
- informative reports of all significant tournaments
- special reports on Lasker’s world championship matches
- special analyses trying to explain Lasker’s superiority
- many annotated games
- multimedia database containing interviews (with Averbakh, Baumbach among
others) and video clips from lectures held at the Lasker conference in
Potsdam (by Hübner, Unzicker, Lilienthal and others).
Yuri Averbakh: Lasker [who for some years lived in Moscow] helped the Soviet chess school; particularly his art of defense and his understanding of endgames had an enormous influence on the Soviet masters.
Franco Pezzi
£18.99 $29.95
The new CD from Franco Pezzi, the author of "Gambitingly!". A large collection of material on all variations of the Queen's Gambit. This huge CD contains hundreds of annotated and analysed games, opening books, keys, pictures, audio - the complete companion for QG players!
Vitomskis, Harding and Bennedik
£17.95 $27
This CD-ROM is an extensive study of the mind-boggling Marshall Attack in the Ruy Lopez, researched by correspondence GM Janis Vitomskis, CC-IM Tim Harding and Martin Bennedik. The material is exhaustive and may be viewed using a database program (ChessBase, Chess Assistant or a PGN reader), Adobe Acrobat and a web browser. Great value for money , with a 7,500 game collection with theoretical analysis, plus a 58-page Adobe Acrobat (PDF) book, plus a Palview 3 reader which allows you to play through the games analysis using a web browser.
ChessBase CD ROM
Grandmaster School St Petersburg
£17.95 $27
There is a huge quantity of games played with the Pirc Defence. However, the number of really important ideas is comparatively small, and the central variations which are called theory are still easily comprehensible.
The centre piece of this CD ROM is a specialised database with 8 database texts and 116 sample games where the author GM Lugovoi has compiled all his knowledge about this opening. The whole material was checked and revised by Alexander Khalifman, FIDE World Champion 1999, so the quality level of the database is very high. There is a total of 80,000 games in total, making this a top product from a quantative point of view as well.
Boris Schipkov
£17.95 $27
The Queens Gambit Accepted is one of the classical openings against 1 d4 and has been, or is still, part of the repertoire of all World Champions. Nowadays it is Anand who leads the exponents of the QGA, but Kasparov, Shirov and Ivanchuk occasionally resort to 1 d4 d5 2 c4 dxc4.
The large database includes 19 texts explaining the different variations, as well as including 20,779 games, of which 1200 are annotated. There is also a comprehensive training database, containing 30 games and 86 training questions.
Alexander Bangiev
£17.95 $27
The Philidor Defence (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 d6) combines a number of advantages. The black player can specify whether to play set-ups with or without the exchange on d4. Typical positions, and the plans coming from these are easy to learn, whilst the opening remains quiet in terms of new theory. Black does however have to be comfortable playing from passive positions while waiting for their chance.
The CD contains 13,400 games, 300 of which are annotated. It also includes a training database and a tree of all the games.
Fritz
7
RRP
£39.95 / $49.50
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
York, London, Bombay, Sydney, or with your pal down the street. Visit
the Fritz server, where every day is chess club day. All over the world.
From morning to evening, or in the middle of the night. With Fritz 7 and
a normal Internet connection you are exactly two clicks away.
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
Magazine CD priced at £17.95/$27 for free
Click here for more information
£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.
£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.
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
requirements:
Pentium PC,32 MB RAM,Windows95 /Windows98 /Windows2000 / WindowsME/WindowsXP
/Fritz7,CD drive.
£17.95/$27
a.. Multimedia report on the Najdorf Memorial (Argentina)
b.. Interview with Radjabov
c.. Interview with Mecking
d.. Kramnik and Topalov win in Dortmund
e.. CB8-Servicepack
It's all there on the latest ChessBase Magazine. Exactly 1410 games, of which 516 contain analysis and commentary, many top tournaments, including reports. The theory section offers full instructions three interesting lines you can use in your next tournament; the strategy section deals with the gloomy isolated pawn; tactics, endgame and correspondence chess departments are also to be recommended
Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
£39.95 / $49.50
a.. World Computer Chess Champion 2001
c.. available: 10. Dezember 2001
d.. recommended price £39.95 / $49.50
For
computer chess experts Shredder is the number one choice.Nobody can ignore
its amazing four computerchess world championship titles,won at
Jakarta 1996, Paderborn 1999,London 2000 and Maastricht 2001.So in this
box you have the
reigning world champion,ready to play and analyse with you.
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
Internet games played automatically on the ChessBase chess server.
Professional
interface for computer chess fans:
You get the legendary Shredder program interface in a new design,with
improved 2D and 3D pieces.The operation is clear and simple,while at the
same time giving you the largest number of options for computer chess.
For instance the special UCI interface for many additional chess engines
available free of charge on the Internet. With the Shredder 6 program
package you already get the engines Craftyand Doctor as well as drivers
for the DGT sensor board and the TASC
Smartboard.
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
access to the ChessBase Playchess server,where you can play games against
people all over the world. Naturally the Shredder 6 engine runs under
the
Fritz interface
"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
in the current position.In addition you get a database with 350,000 historic
and current games.
SYSTEM
REQUIREMENTS: Pentium 200,32 MB RAM,
Windows 95,98,NT,Me,2000,CD-ROM drive,mouse
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
* More than 1.1 million games, all featuring ECO codes
* More than 60,000 of them annotated
* Access to the games with the big opening key 'BigKey'
* With big tree of all games for quick overview and statistical access
System
requirements Pentium, 32MB RAM, Windows 95/98/2000/ME,
CD-ROM drive, Fritz 6, 7 or ChessBase 6,7,8.
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
Istanbul Chess Olympiad in 2000.
System
requirements: Pentium,Windows 95,98,2000,Me,32 MB RAM,
CD-ROM Drive