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How to exchange pieces

Which pieces to keep and which to exchange is one of the most important questions in chess. This is true in the opening, the middlegame and the endgame. Less experienced players often think exchanging means to swap pieces of equal value and fail to take strategic factors into account. Of course, you have to keep the material balance in mind but it is crucial to realize how exchanges affect the position. The „feeling“ for the right exchange – players like Capablanca or Karpov were unrivalled masters of this art – is something a chessplayer has to develop over time. This DVD wants to help to develop this „feeling“. On this DVD I want to pursue the questions related to „exchanging“ and to answer these questions with the help of instructive games to develop a „feeling“ for the right exchange.

I divided my lecture into four parts: 
1) Structural aspects of an exchange
2) Exchanging when attacking or defending
3) Exchanging to realize an advantage
4) The exchange of queens

To exchange or not to exchange: that is the question!

• Video running time: 4 hours 35 min (English)
• With interactive training including video feedback
• 2 CBM articles about the exchange
• Including CB 12 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

Contents

  • 01: Intro [04:30]
  • 02: Structural aspects of an exchange - Botvinnik,M - Sorokin,N [14:19]
  • 03: Avoid the exchange - Ivanchuk,V - Aronian,L [13:31]
  • 04: Avoid the exchange - Karpov,A - Unzicker,W [14:21]
  • 05: Exchanging to realize an advantage - Smyslov,V - Reshevsky,S [06:32]
  • 06: Structural aspects of an exchange - Lilienthal,A - Botvinnik,M [09:09]
  • 07: The exchange of queens - Geller,E - Boleslavsky,I [08:27]
  • 08: The exchange in attacking positions - Mamedyarov,S - Carlsen,M [10:04]
  • 09: The exchange of minor pieces in the endgame - Fischer,R - Petrosian,T [05:44]
  • 10: The exchange of queens - Alapin - Rubinstein [13:19]
  • 11: The exchange of queens - Larsen - Nielsen [07:35]
  • 12: Structural aspects of an exchange - Boleslavsky,I - Smyslov,V [12:43]
  • 13: The exchange in attacking positions - Jussupow,A - Timman,J [09:40]
  • 14: Add-on 1 - Aronin,L - Smyslov,V [13:29]
  • 15: Add-on 2 - Ivkov,B - Kortschnoj,V [04:15]
  • 16: Add-on 3 - Rozhdestvenskij - Nesis [06:29]
  • Test positions
  • 17: Test 1 - Short,N - Mikhalevski,V [05:49]
  • 18: Test 2 - Yermolinsky,A - Kamsky,G [09:07]
  • 19: Test 3 - Romanishin,O - Tal,M [10:11]
  • 20: Test 4 - Madl,I - Milliet,S [05:46]
  • 21: Test 5 - Quesada Perez,Y - Valdes,A [03:49]
  • 22: Test 6 - Makogonov - Botwinnik [07:37]
  • 23: Test 7 - Pilnik,H - Geller,E [07:47]
  • 24: Test 8 - Thorsson,O - Bronstein,D [07:22]
  • 25: Test 9 - Filip,M - Boleslavsky,I [09:08]
  • 26: Test 10 - Kirillov - Kosinzeva [04:10]
  • 27: Test 11 - Loginov,A - Kokarev,D [03:41]
  • 28: Test 12 - Kotenko,P - Iordachescu,V [04:36]
  • 29: Test 13 - Spassky,B - Jansa,V [04:58]
  • 30: Test 14 - Popovich - Razuvaev [05:43]
  • 31: Test 15 - Zarkovic,M - Popovic,P [04:10]
  • 32: Test 16 - Keres,P - Danielsson,G [06:15]
  • 33: Test 17 - Ambrozh - Khonfi [08:42]
  • 34: Test 18 - Smyslov,V - Botvinnik,M [07:42]
  • 35: Test 19 - Lobzhanidze,D - Otte,M [04:52]
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