Winning won positions ? who would not like to be able to do that, but has often enough fallen down on the job? For many people it is even the main problem when playing chess: they often have such good positions and nothing comes out of it. 

The Bangiev method of thinking is a strategy based on squares. Before every move, it therefore checks the constellation of pieces against quite specifi c pre-determined criteria. 

The tasks on this CD deal exclusively with the creative work of the ?rst official world champion, Wilhelm Steinitz. He was the ?rst to describe the fundamentals a promising attack is based upon. Thus most exercises are about showing how a successful attac 

The Bangiev way of thinking is a strategy based on squares. This means that before every move, the piece set-up is checked out against quite specific pre-defined criteria. 

Without tactics in chess goes nothing! As is now one of the best good tactical skills? 

Before you can strike in chess ? best by delivering mate ? first you have to threaten something. And precisely this is the central theme of George Renko?s new CD ? threats. 

The Bangiev way of thinking is a strategy based on squares. This means that before every move, the piece set-up is checked out against quite specific pre-defined criteria. 

A comprehensive introduction to the secrets of chess strategy. With 68 extensively annotated games this volume of the "Basic Principles of Chess Strategy" shows how to successfully treat the opening and middlegame. 

In the training questions, the new function Multiple Choice also allows questions to be set about the evaluation of positions, or for example what chance is there of an attack on the king. 

300 traditional problems under the heading "Task", which you can solve by loading random positions; or you can go through the theme key and work your way through individual tactical themes and motifs; or you can work your way up from the 

For more than 25 years Kopec has been testing and evaluating hundreds of chessplayers in the UK, Canada and the US in order to quantify their overall chess strength, their specific deficiencies and definite abilities. 

This training CD is designed to hone your skills in attack. Together with Fritz you can practice mating attacks against the castled enemy king. 

Only a few top chess players know how to share their grandmasterly thinking with others. Without any doubt, English grandmaster Daniel King is one of them. 

With this third and last part of his course, Alexey Bartashnikov concludes his treatment on middlegame strategy and deals with the decisive features of the endgame, in 20 chapters with 74 extensively annotated games. 

The first part of the CD consists of a small database explaining all possible mate motifs in 15 themes. The main database contains 1000 mating tasks in 1, 2 or 3 moves, all stemming from actual games. 

The duo of authors Aagaard / Lund offers a proposal for players willing to improve: the aim is to improve computing power and solving complex exercises imaginative potential.