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Chess Assistant 9.0 Basic  - Intended Audience – Players Rated 1400 - 2500. Recently released.

Inexpensive alternative to ChessBase, Excellent quality! Includes Shredder 9.11 (2750) Engine. Chess Opening Encyclopedia and a lot more.

$100  

$89

(11% off)

Chess Assistant 9.0 Professional package  - Intended Audience – Players Rated 1400 - 2500. Recently released.

Inexpensive alternative to ChessBase, Excellent quality! Includes Shredder 9.11 (2750) Engine. Chess Opening Encyclopedia and a lot more.

Chess Assistant 9.1, Professional package includes two boxes: Chess Assistant 9.1, Starter package and Chess Databases

$140  

$119

(14% off)

Chess Assistant 9.0 Mega package  - Intended Audience – Players Rated 1400 - 2500. Recently released.

Inexpensive alternative to ChessBase, Excellent quality! Includes Shredder 9.11 (2750) Engine. Chess Opening Encyclopedia and a lot more.

Chess Assistant 9.1, Mega package includes three boxes: Chess Assistant 9.1, Starter package, Chess Databases and Advanced Chess Data.

$190  

$159

(16% off)

CT-Art 3.0  - Intended Audience – Players Rated 1400 - 2500 - <<  MY FAVORITE

Excellent Training tool helps you improve Tactical and Calculation skills – recognition of Tactical motifs, Threats, Sacrifices….

Key features –

·          Testing sub-variations in addition to main line,

·          Ability to practice every position against built-in Playing engine.

·         Assignment of Rating, that can be compared to your real rating.

$29

Chess Endgame Training Intended Audience Rated 1400 - 2500 MY FAVORITE

Excellent Training tool helps you improve Endgame skills – standard positions, Tactical and Strategic motifs, planning...

Key features –

·          Testing sub-variations in addition to main line,

·          Ability to practice every position against built-in Playing engine.

·         Assignment of Rating, that can be compared to your real rating.

$29  

Pocket PC package - (NEW)

Pocket Encyclopedia of Middlegame ($26), Pocket Chess Endings ($26), Pocket Chess Strategy ($26). Free insured shipping (US) 

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Pocket Chess Endings runs on Pocket PCs with Windows Mobile 2005, Windows Mobile 2003 and Pocket PC 2002. Installation requires a PC.

$80

$72

(10% off)

Total Chess Training Instead of buying individual programs, consider buying this one and save a lot of money.  “…Total Chess Training consists of five magnificent educational programs: Chess Tactics Art 3.0, Strategy 2.0, Encyclopedia of Middlegame, Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders, Studies 2.0 with new printing capacities…”

$99

$89

(10% off)

Total Chess Training II 1700 - 2400 Instead of buying individual programs, consider buying this one and save a lot of money. “…Total Chess Training consists of five magnificent educational programs: Enc of Middlegame Vol. II, Chess tactics for Intermediate Player, Chess Endgame Training, Theory and Practice of Endgames, Mate Studies”

$99

$89

(10% off)

Opening Instructor (NEW)

"This compact opening manual contains a detailed classification, which makes it useful to players of any level - beginners, intermediate and advanced players... The program allows users to add, edit and print the chess material, to analyze positions and to play against the built-in Crafty, Delfi and Dragon programs, to find games and positions according to complex criteria, to find the strongest moves in the test mode and much more"

$29

Chess Middlegame Collection (NEW)

"This is a unique set of programs produced on 4 CDs, where four chess programs on the middlegame are put together (Encyclopedia of the Middlegame I, Encyclopedia of the MiddlegameII, Encyclopedia of the Middlegame III and Encyclopedia of the Middlegame IV), covering the theory and practice of the middlegame for each of the openings.

---- 300 games/lectures prepared by GM Alexander Kalinin; ---- more than 2600 exercises to solve; ---- more than 1000 training positions to be played against the built-in chess playing program Crafty. The complexity of the exercises grows inside each theme from beginner to advanced chess player. Individual ratings are calculated on the basis of the user's performance and statistics are gathered for each user"

$99

$89

(10% off)

Chess Combinations Encyclopedia (NEW) Intended Audience – Players Rated 1400 - 2500. Great alternative to CT-ART.

A fundamental program on chess tactics including more than 4000 training examples and exercises classified by more than 100 tactical methods and motifs. The complexity of the exercises grows inside each theme from beginner to advanced chess player. Individual ratings are calculated on the basis of the user's performance and statistics are gathered for each user. When studying each theme step by step, you can master all the tactical methods and improve your play drastically.

$29

Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders Intended Audience – Players Rated 1400 - 2200

Very early in my career one of my favorite books was Nesihtad’s  “Opening Blunders”. Catching opponent off guard right in the beginning of the game was a lot of fun. Having this disk at your disposal gives 100 times larger pool of common tricks and traps to use.

Key features –

·          All openings are included and many traps can even catch Grandmaster off guard.

·          Ability to practice every position against built-in Playing engine.

·         Assignment of Rating, that can be compared to your real rating.

$29

Comprehensive Chess Openings 2005 Intended Audience – Players Rated 1400 - 2100

omprehensive Chess Openings 2005 – this is an opening encyclopedia including detailed theoretical material in all the chess openings on January 1, 2005. More than 500 000 opening moves and 8000 key positions are evaluated and presented with text annotations from GM Kalinin. A detailed report may be generated for any opening position, which has an encyclopedic table format. Afterwards it may be easily edited and expanded. The key system was developed for every opening, which is automatically extended as you examine the opening deeper and deeper. All information on your completed work is stored there. The references to grandmasters and masters games are provided, which use a 1,000,000 games database also supplied with the program. You can also perform various searches in this database. Two strong playing programs are included – Delfi and Crafty.

$40

$30

Encyclopedia of Middlegame vol. IV Intended Audience – Players Rated 1400 - 2100

It is aimed at teaching a student much of the middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes over 560 games/lectures, each of them illustrating typical plans and methods in the following openings: Two Knights' defense, Ruy Lopez (Schliemann and 5...b5 variations), Sicilian defense (Richter attack), French defense (3. e5 and 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 variations), Caro-Kann defense (3.e5 var.), English defense, King's Indian defense (Classical, Saemisch, Fianchetto and Averbakh variations), Nimzo-Indian defense, Slav defense (4...dc var.), Old Indian defense, etc. A special training section includes more than 530 exercises for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the correct answer. There are also training 380 positions to be played against the embedded chess playing program Crafty.

$29

$27

Studies 2.0 Intended Audience – Players Rated 1700 - 2500

Excellent Training tool helps you improve Endgame and Calculation skills – recognition of standard endgame positions, tactical endgame motifs, and variation trees. For lower rated players – endgame training CD suits slightly better.

Key features –

·          Testing sub-variations in addition to main line,

·          Ability to practice every position against built-in Playing engine.

·         Assignment of Rating, that can be compared to your real rating.

$26

Chess Tactics for Beginners Intended Audience – Unrated -  1600  MY FAVORITE

Excellent Training for beginners to introduce basic mates and basic tactical motifs. Consider this Book supplement. More than 1300 problems

Key features –

·          Testing sub-variations in addition to main line,

·          Ability to practice every position against built-in Playing engine.

·         Assignment of Rating, that can be compared to your real rating.

$29

Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players Intended Audience – 1600 -2300  MY FAVORITE

Excellent Training for Intermediate Players. Second Ivashneko's manual is finally in the software form! Strongly recommended! More than 1100 problems.

Key features –

·          Testing sub-variations in addition to main line,

·          Ability to practice every position against built-in Playing engine.

·         Assignment of Rating, that can be compared to your real rating.

$29

Advanced Chess School Intended Audience – Unrated -  1600

Excellent Training for beginners – covers all essentials for Opening, Middlegame and Endgame, introduces Tactics and elements of strategy.

Key features –

·          Testing sub-variations in addition to main line,

·          Ability to practice every position against built-in Playing engine.

·         Assignment of Rating, that can be compared to your real rating.

$26

Insured Shipping to US, if ordering less than two items. Non-US - please contact me for a quote. Minimum cost is $10.

$3.95

Great Players Kit This is a special gift to those who enjoy going over annotated games of greatest player, looking at photos, studying tournament statistics and going over the games trying to guess moves. While the individual programs a available for each of the 5 players below, buying this Kit is like getting 5 for the price of 3.

5 World Champions: Mikhail Tal, Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Botvinnik, Emanuel Lasker and Jose Raul Capablanca

$99