Howard Wood

Howard Wood is the Executive Director of Sales and Marketing at social.chessclublive.com.

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Greet is great at 150th Dundee Anniversary

7/29/2017 – Scottish IM Andrew Greet won the grandmaster tournament with 6 points from 9 games. GMs Simon Williams, Martin Petr, Spyridon Kapnisis and Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant shared 2nd-5th places, a half point back. At look at the back story of the tournament. | Photo: Brendan O'Gorman

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The Tarrasch Defence

Are you looking for an active defence against 1.d4? Look no further! The Tarrasch Defence (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5) is one of Black’s most ambitious ways to meet 1.d4.

€29.90

The Open Games - A detailed overview

On this DVD the International Master Georgios Souleidis presents these and all other relevant openings arising after 1.e4 e5 in 36 videos.

€29.90

The Aggressive Classical Dutch for Black

The Dutch (1.d4 f5) is known as a very aggressive and unbalanced opening. After watching this DVD players should feel confident to play the exciting, attacking Classical Dutch against 1.d4, 1.c4 and 1. Nf3.

€29.90

ChessBase Magazine 186

Enjoy the best moments of recent top tournaments (Sinquefield Cup, Biel, Dortmund) with analysis of top players. In addition you'll get lots of training material. For example 10 new suggestions for your opening repertoire.

€19.95

How Bobby Fischer battled the Sicilian

Fischer liked to play aggressive but basically sound lines against the Sicilian and many of his variations are still very much alive and a good choice for players of all levels.

€29.90

King's Indian Defence (French Language)

The King's Indian is one of the most popular replies to 1.d4. On this DVD GM LIbiszewski and Mazé will talk you through the theory. Avalable in french!

€29.90

Endgames from Fischer to Carlsen

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

€29.90

The Baffling 2.b3 Sicilian

Make life difficult for the Sicilian! 2.b3 is a thoroughly venomous but still solid kind of "Anti-Sicilian". No matter what setup black chooses, the bishop on b2 will always be unpleasant for him.

€29.90

2nd Move Anti-Sicilians Powerbook 2018

Powerbook based on more than 455 000 games in which White already sidesteps the main variations of the Sicilian on move 2.

€9.90

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