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The 4 Player Types standard model - Find your strengths and weaknesses and those of your opponent

Playing styles in chess are an important and thus often discussed topic. GM Dr. Karsten Müller and GM Luis Engel take up a model by GM Lars Bo Hansen based on 4 player types - namely ‘activists’, ‘pragmatics’, ‘theoreticians’ and so-called ‘reflectors’. Their respective strengths and weaknesses are explained with the help of many examples, enabling the reader to try and assign himself or herself to one or the other player type.

“In the context of preparing for my next opponent ... certain character traits always play a role, which I try to assign to this player. ... Here it can be helpful and time-saving, for example, to draw conclusions about the type of player and thus also about strengths and weaknesses by (checking) played openings - or to get hints about the probability of (him or her choosing) certain opening variations by means of known player characteristics. These and numerous other considerations are bundled and systematically presented in this work. The division into four prototypical player natures is extremely helpful in answering questions that not only concern game preparation but also, for example, the determination of one’s own characteristics as a chess player. In addition, the work provides amateurs and chess enthusiasts with a helpful guide to form their own picture of this or that player.” (Excerpts from the foreword by GM Vincent Keymer)

• Video running time: 6 hours 50 min(English)
• With interactive training including video feedback

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This is what is delivered:

  • Fritztrainer App for Windows and Mac
  • Available as download or on DVD
  • Video course with a running time of approx. 4-8 hrs.
  • Repertoire database: save and integrate Fritztrainer games into your own repertoire (in WebApp Opening or in ChessBase)
  • Interactive exercises with video feedback: the authors present exercises and key positions, the user has to enter the solution. With video feedback (also on mistakes) and further explanations.
  • Sample games as a ChessBase database.
  • New: many Fritztrainer now also available as stream in the ChessBase video portal!

That's what the FritzTrainer App can do for you:

  • Videos can run in the Fritztrainer app or in the ChessBase program with board graphics, notation and a large function bar
  • Analysis engine can be switched on at any time
  • Video pause for manual navigation and analysis in game notation
  • Input of your own variations, engine analysis, with storage in the game
  • Learn variations: view specific lines in the ChessBase WebApp Opening with autoplay, memorize variations and practise transformation (initial position - final position).
  • Active opening training: selected opening positions are transferred to the ChessBase WebApp Fritz-online. In a match against Fritz you test your new knowledge and actively play the new opening.

Even more possibilities: Start FritzTrainer in the ChessBase program!

  • The database with all games and analyses can be opened directly.
  • Games can be easily added to the opening reference.
  • Direct evaluation with game reference, games can be replayed on the analysis board
  • Your own variations are saved and can be added to the own repertoire
  • Replay training
  • LiveBook active
  • All engines installed in ChessBase can be started for the analysis
  • Assisted Analysis
  • Print notation and diagrams (for worksheets)

Sample video

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Activists - Strengths
  • Characteristics of activists
  • Hyperactivists
  • Strengths of activists - Sacrifices for a direct king attack
  • The pearl of Wijk aan Zee
  • Sacrifices for initiative
  • Deep Junior as activist
  • Judit Polgar's exchange sacrifice
  • Judit Polgar's pawn sacrifices
  • Initiative for static weaknesses
  • Anand's activity
  • Activists advance opening theory
  • Anand's immortal game
  • Kasparov's hammer blow
  • Activists - Endgame
  • Strengths - Defence of rook endgames
  • Activity counts
  • The defender exchanges pawns
  • Dynamic trumphs are important - Strong passed pawns
  • The swarm of midges
  • Endgame types, where dynamic trumphs are important
  • A light intiative weighs heavily
  • Fire on board
  • Anand's counterattack
  • Weaknesses of activists in the endgame
  • Do not rush
  • Pseudo-active defence
  • Activists - Weaknesses
  • Weaknesses of activists in the endgame - Non-active defence
  • Kramnik beats Kasparov
  • Pseudo-active pawn moves
  • Fatal opening of the kingside
  • The defender must be careful when moving pawns
  • Too risky attack
  • Model games against activists
  • Judit Polgar demonstrates reflector qualities
  • Tiviakov's theories
  • Theorists
  • Characteristics of theorists
  • The positional school
  • Dorfman's method
  • The flying rook
  • Theorists play logically
  • Botvinnik's iron logic
  • The style of Ulf Andersson
  • A light initiative weighs heavily
  • The Andersson endgame
  • Strategical endgames
  • Ponomariov's technique
  • Kramnik's power play
  • One special theory
  • The Steinitzian method of restriction
  • Reflectors
  • Characteristics of reflectors
  • Good feeling for harmony and coordination
  • Karpov's coordination
  • Active prophylaxis
  • Petrosian's prophylaxis
  • Petrosian's king
  • Dominance and restriction methods
  • Karpov's space advantage
  • Computer technique
  • Strategic initiative and power play
  • Attack with opposite-coloured bishops
  • Petrosian's bishops
  • Petrosian's pawn wave
  • Strategic endgames
  • Karpov's knight magic
  • The Carlsen endgame
  • Pragmatics
  • Characteristics of pragmatics
  • Concrete approach
  • Fischer's knight sacrifice
  • Fischer's attack on the wings
  • Advantages and disadvantages of concrete play
  • MVL's missed win against Carlsen
  • Fischer's initiative
  • Fischer's pseudo activity
  • The calculation of variations
  • Caruana's calculation power
  • Good practical decisions
  • Counterplay counts
  • Making the game more difficult and complex 1
  • Making the game more difficult and complex 2
  • Pragmatics like to grab material
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