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If you want some inspiration for your next online or offline blitz games this video course is for you. Simon Williams shows his favorite opening traps in 60 minutes.

When it comes to strategy, one of the key things that chess professionals understand much better than amateur players is the role of the bishop which is the key theme on this video course.

The first DVD includes the systems 1...e5, the Dutch and Indian setups.

King: The complete Power Play package with all 28 DVDs. Opening, Middlegmae, Endgame - All you need to know about the game of chess presented by one of the most popular and charismatic chess trainer.

In this detailed “three-part” video series I take a look at a main line White system based on 1.d4. This series is aimed at the ambitious player who is looking to put maximum pressure on their opponent from the start of the game.

In over 4 hours in front of the camera, Karsten Müller presents to you sensations from the world of endgames - partly reaching far beyond standard techniques and rules of thumb - and rounds off with some cases of with own examples.

Korchnoi and Zak described 3 Nc3 as ‘A risky move leading to great complications in which a single inaccurate move by either side can have fatal consequences.’ If that’s the kind of chess you like playing, you are in the right place.

This DVD is a good way to refresh your repertoire as well as to start with the English and get an idea of how to play the opening without learning tons of theory. The tests included on this DVD are aimed at explaining all aspects, actively involving the v

In this first part, the emphasis is on themes and ideas as the viewer is armed with tactical and positional motifs and concepts after 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 g6.

This DVD concentrates on the King’s Gambit accepted with 3.Bc4. Williams has included a lot of novelties and interesting attacking variations that should wet the lips of any attacking player, looking for an interesting way of meeting 1...e5!

The Sniper is a universal opening framework which can be played against all main first white moves - 1.e4, 1.d4, 1.c4, 1.f4 and 1.Nf3. Black plays 1…g6, 2…Bg7 and 3…c5 against practically anything!

Let endgame expert Dr Karsten Müller show and explain the finesses of the world champions.

Perfect endgame analysis and a huge increase in engine performance: Get it with the new Endgame Turbo 5!

For the Slav and Semi-Slav Powerbook 2021 the ratings average was set at 2400. 1.76 million games from the engine room of playchess.com met this threshold, to which were added over 80 000 games played by humans.

The major part of the material on which the Caro-Kann Powerbook 2021 is based is taken from the engine room of playchess.com: 736 000 games. To that imposing corpus we have added another 58 000 games from Mega and from correspondence chess.