("Comience correctamente") En la era de las bases de datos sobre aperturas quizá se sorprendan de que haya jugadores pillados al comienzo de la partida. Pero sucede muchas veces. Los jugadores se toman libertades: capturan un peón peligroso, abordan una maniobra complicada o, sencillamente, desarrollan sus piezas de manera ineficaz. Cualquiera que sea nuestra fuerza de juego, debemos tener cuidado durante la apertura. Este DVD le ayudará a analizar y a revisar su juego durante la apertura, de forma que pueda empezar la partida con el pie derecho. Al finalizar el DVD podrá poner a prueba sus habilidades de ataque y defensa examinando unas series de posiciones especialmente seleccionadas. La serie Power Play es adecuada para cualquiera que quiera mejorar su ajedrez y también facilita lecciones y ejercicios preparados para los entrenadores. Metraje de vídeo: 5 horas 50 minutos. En inglés.

Grandmaster Harshit Raja, India’s 69th GM, has created a practical and powerful 1.e4 repertoire - perfect for players who want to play aggressively without drowning in opening theory. Whether you’re playing online or over-the-board, this course gives you solid attacking weapons that are easy to learn, fun to play, and difficult for opponents to face. 

Free sample video: Introduction

Free sample video: Scandinavian Defence

The youngest of the three Polgar sisters, Judit Polgar was a chess prodigy. Her father Laszlo Polgar was an educator who believed that any child could be taught to excel in any field through proper instruction. He proved his thesis by priming his three daughters to become top chess players. Judit Polgar learned from her father and sisters and was awarded the grandmaster title at the age of 15 years and four months, replacing Bobby Fischer as the youngest grandmaster in chess history.

Every game begins with the opening - and even sometimes ends there! That doesn't have to be the case. With the ChessBase tutorials, you can rapidly get up to speed. "Openings Vol. 1: Open Games (1.e4 e5)" is the first part of a five-volume series on the basics of chess openings. Here you will learn from experienced coaches and experts just what you absolutely need to know about the individual areas, which basic plans are followed, how to play them and what pitfalls to watch out for. In 23 video lessons you will learn everything you need to know about the King's Gambit, the Vienna Game, the Italian, the Evans Gambit, the two-knight game, the Scottish, the Steinitz and Berlin defences, the Open Spanish or the exchange variation, Marshall, Philidor and Russian and much more.