("Cálculo") Juegas 20 movimientos de ajedrez posicional, pero tiras la partida al calcular mal. Para jugar una buena partida de ajedrez, hay que saber como calcular. La capacidad para calcular no es algo con lo que nazcan los ajedrecistas. El cálculo es una habilidad básica que puede mejorarse con la práctica. En su décimo DVD de la serie Power Play, el gran maestro Daniel King le ayudará a determinar lo bueno que es usted calculando y le dará pistas sobre como puede agudizar sus procesos de pensamiento delante del tablero. A lo largo del DVD, posiciones especialmente seleccionadas le permitirán comprobar su comprensión de la materia. La serie Power Play es adecuada para cualquiera que busque mejorar su ajedrez y también facilita lecciones preparadas y ejercicios para los monitores y entrenadores. Metraje total de vídeo: 4 horas 30 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

Top trainers, such as the author Grandmaster Dorian Rogozenco, strongly recommend regular study of well-explained classical games to improve your understanding of chess in the long term. These games are a part of chess culture that every aspiring chess player or chess enthusiast should know. The new video course ‘Modern Classics’ by former German national coach Dorian Rogozenco, is a continuation of his course ‘Chess Classics - Games you need to know’. It presents 33 famous games from modern chess history - from 1935 to 1999, played by world champions and top grandmasters. In addition, the course includes a video about a remarkable legacy of the 9th World Champion Tigran Petrosian - the positional quality sacrifice.

Video sample: Larsen-Petrosian, 1966

Video sample: Karpov-Kasparov, 1993

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.