Power Play 26: Checkmate Challenge – essential knowledge

Name: Power Play 26: Checkmate Challenge – essential knowledge
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Apr 2018

Checkmate. That’s the aim of the game. There are numerous ways to checkmate the enemy king, but there are common patterns that recur over and over again, and having these at our mental fingertips is essential for when we want to finish the game.

From Beginner to Brain-buster
On this DVD 100 puzzles are presented, divided into 10 groups of 10 positions. Naturally, Level 1 is the easiest, and the puzzles increase in difficulty right through to Level 10. From beginner to brain-buster. You can jump in at whatever level you wish, but try to solve all ten positions on each level before you move on to the next.
Instant feedback
After each puzzle is presented, you have to play out the solution on the board. Daniel King will tell you whether your move is correct in a video afterwards. It might help if you set up the positions on a real chess set rather than trying to solve the positions from the screen – analysing with a real chess set is more like a real game situation.
Typical motifs
The checkmating motifs that you’ll encounter here are quite typical (most come from real games). Knowledge of these ideas is not only essential, but you are going to encounter some beautiful ideas. So, concentrate, have fun and enjoy discovering the checkmates!

• Video running time: 5 h 51 min(English)
• With interactive training incuding video feedback
• Extra: additional database with mating excercises
• Including CB Reader

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This is what is delivered:

Fritztrainer App for Windows
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.

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

01: Intro [01:53]
Level 1
01: Position 1 - Q + N - kiss of death [02:22]
02: Position 2 - Q + B battery - [00:47]
03: Position 3 - Q + R mate - [02:07]
04: Position 4 - Q + B - mate in one [01:38]
05: Position 5 - B + N - mate in one [01:14]
06: Position 6 - 2B + R + N - mate in one [02:07]
07: Position 7 - Q+N - [01:33]
08: Position 8 - R - mate in one [01:03]
09: Position 9 - Arabian mate - [01:32]
10: Position 10 - Smothered - Mate in one [01:59]
Level 2
01: Position 1 - Construct the mate (example); Construct the mate - queen - solution (example); Construct the mate - 1; Construct the mate -1 - solution [02:38]
02: Position 2 - Construct the mate - 2 - ; Construct the mate - 2 - solution [00:50]
03: Position 3 - Construct the mate - 3 - ; Construct the mate - 3 - solution [01:01]
04: Position 4 - Construct the mate - 4 - ; Construct the mate - 4 - solution [01:02]
05: Position 5 - Construct the mate - 5 - ; Construct the mate - 5 - solution [01:20]
06: Position 6 - Construct the mate - 6 - ; Construct the mate - 6 - solution [00:50]
07: Position 7 - Construct the mate - 7 - ; Construct the mate - 7 - solution [01:35]
08: Position 8 - Construct the mate - 8 - ; Construct the mate - 8 - solution [01:23]
09: Position 9 - Construct the mate - 9 - ; Construct the mate - 9 - solution [01:46]
10: Position 10 - Construct the mate - 10 - ; Construct the mate - 10 - solution 1; Construct the mate - 10 - solution 2; Construct the mate - 10 - solution 3; Construct the mate - 10 - solution 4; Construct the mate - 10 - solution 5; [03:33]
Level 3
01: Position 1 - Hjartarson,J - Aradhya,G [02:24]
02: Position 2 - Mohota,N - Deviatkin,A [02:47]
03: Position 3 - Nezad,H - Jones,G [03:03]
04: Position 4 - Luukkonen,T - Sadhwani,R [02:08]
05: Position 5 - King,D - Britton,R [05:53]
06: Position 6 - King,D - Krasenkow,M [03:59]
07: Position 7 - Basic Q+B mate - [03:19]
08: Position 8 - Ptaszek,P - Lis,M [02:28]
09: Position 9 - Kotronias,V - King,D [02:05]
10: Position 10 - Carlsen,M - Karjakin,S [02:13]
Level 4
01: Position 1 - King,D - Lane,G [04:01]
02: Position 2 - Rakic - Govedarica [02:00]
03: Position 3 - Skvortsov,O - Anand,V [03:08]
04: Position 4 - Kuemin,S - Cebalo,M [04:47]
05: Position 5 - Berescu,A - Cheparinov,I [03:49]
06: Position 6 - Czebe,A - Deshmukh,A [03:34]
07: Position 7 - Caceres Bolano,K - Gomez Cifuentes,H [02:55]
08: Position 8 - Brkic,A - Bukal,V [03:11]
09: Position 9 - Jones,G - Jobava,B [04:07]
10: Position 10 - Hein,R - Figura,A [03:25]
Level 5
01: Position 1 - Carlsen,M - Nepomniachtchi,I [04:09]
02: Position 2 - Oussedik,E - So,W [01:27]
03: Position 3 - Mareco,S - Nakamura,H [02:07]
04: Position 4 - Ortiz Suarez,I - Ivanchuk,V [03:04]
05: Position 5 - Morris,P - King,D [01:28]
06: Position 6 - Rabinovich - Grigoriev [01:08]
07: Position 7 - Hansen,C - King,D [03:24]
08: Position 8 - Alekhine,A - Frieman,A [04:46]
09: Position 9 - Sharke - Neindauer [02:15]
10: Position 10 - Capablanca,J - Thomas,G [06:55]
Level 6
01: Position 1 - Emanuel Lasker - (composed) [01:32]
02: Position 2 - Netzer,J - Guezennec,F [03:52]
03: Position 3 - König - Cornforth [07:20]
04: Position 4 - Potel,Z - Barlov,A [03:16]
05: Position 5 - Fazekas - Spielmann [01:53]
06: Position 6 - Tkachiev,V - Watson,W [05:15]
07: Position 7 - Jobava,B - Lopez Martinez,J [05:51]
08: Position 8 - French Advance Variation - Milner-Barry Gambit [05:04]
09: Position 9 - Keres,P - Szabo,L [05:11]
10: Position 10 - Oparin,G - Nepomniachtchi,I [03:52]
Level 7
01: Position 1 - Kravtsiv,M - Ding,L [02:50]
02: Position 2 - Gelfand,B - Inarkiev,E [01:49]
03: Position 3 - Krykun,Y - Barski,R [02:01]
04: Position 4 - Borisenko,G - Simagin,V [04:19]
05: Position 5 - Study by L. Borgstrom - [04:57]
06: Position 6 - Guardian - 2nd April 2016 [04:01]
07: Position 7 - Razuvaev,Y - Beliavsky,A [02:56]
08: Position 8 - Richard Reti (study) - [03:27]
09: Position 9 - Osintsev - [07:51]
10: Position 10 - Copie (study) - [07:16]
Level 8
01: Position 1 - Carlsen,M - Gretarsson,H [04:01]
02: Position 2 - Kjartansson,G - Fedorchuk,S [02:49]
03: Position 3 - King,D - Howell,D [02:10]
04: Position 4 - Azmaiparashvili,Z - Shirov,A [05:59]
05: Position 5 - Mekhitarian,K - Rathnakaran,K [05:33]
06: Position 6 - Kraus,T - Zakhartsov,V [05:28]
07: Position 7 - Bareev,E - Akopian,V [02:45]
08: Position 8 - Caruana,F - Ponomariov,R [01:48]
09: Position 9 - Alonso Rosell,A - Fedorchuk,S [02:02]
10: Position 10 - Can,E - Robson,R [03:28]
Level 9
01: Position 1 - Anand,V - Gelfand,B [02:43]
02: Position 2 - Hansen,M - Prosviriakov,V [02:33]
03: Position 3 - Castrillon Gomez,M - Soler,S [04:10]
04: Position 4 - Sobura - Sarada [05:14]
05: Position 5 - Tal,M - Tringov,G [04:39]
06: Position 6 - Keene,R - Miles,A [06:19]
07: Position 7 - Navara,D - Michiels,B [03:02]
08: Position 8 - Humburg,P - Hundrieser,M [02:33]
09: Position 9 - Sunye Neto,J - Kasparov,G [03:26]
10: Position 10 - Kasparov,G - Smirin,I [04:53]
Level 10
01: Position 1 - Hebden,M - Ledger,A [02:26]
02: Position 2 - Carlsen,M - Orujov,A [03:49]
03: Position 3 - Anderssen - [03:10]
04: Position 4 - Dizdarevic,E - Miles,A [08:14]
05: Position 5 - Tal,M - Portisch,L [04:32]
06: Position 6 - Forintos - Tomovic [03:03]
07: Position 7 - Short,N - Timman,J [05:32]
08: Position 8 - Penrose,J - Popov,L [06:47]
09: Position 9 - Lolli - [06:44]
10: Position 10 - Wei,Y - Bruzon Batista,L [12:30]