5/5/2017 – Sergei Tiviakov knows how to win against the French: by playing 3.Nd2! The renowned author and grandmaster regularly plays this move which has brought him a score of about 80% against the French. On a ChessBase DVD he revealed the secrets of this line. French expert Markus Hochgräfe had a close look at the DVD - and was impressed.
4/27/2017 – How to improve your chess? By studying the endgame! And how to study the endgame? Go to Karsten Müller. The German grandmaster is considered to be the world's leading endgame expert and he has published numerous books and DVDs about the endgame. In his "Endgame Magic Show", which runs on the ChessBase server, he regularly shows instructive and interesting endgames. The shows are archived. A treasure.
Videos: Luis Engel (Nimzo-Indian with 4.e3 0-0 5.Bd2) and Romain Edouard ("Critical lines in the Dragon" Part IV). "Lucky bag" with analyses by Anish Giri, Viktor Moskalenko, Michal Krasenkow, Lubomir Ftacnik and many others.
The videos deal with the exciting French Advance Variation, starting with 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5. Besides numerous sidelines, the main focus is on the two most played systems with 3...c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 and 5...Bd7.
The Kupreichik starts with 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Bd7. It is a flexible move, as it doesn’t tell white much about the set-up black will choose. Most often black goes for a Dragon or a Classical Sicilian set-up.
More than 1 million games from the engine room of playchess.com form the basis of the English Opening Powerbook 2023, with in addition 123 000 games from Mega and from correspondence chess.
English Opening Powerbase 2023 is a database containing in all 10 570 games from Mega 2023 or Correspondence Database 2022, of which 699 are annotated.
Videos: Luis Engel (Nimzo-Indian with 4.e3 0-0 5.Bd2) and Romain Edouard ("Critical lines in the Dragon" Part IV). "Lucky bag" with analyses by Anish Giri, Viktor Moskalenko, Michal Krasenkow, Lubomir Ftacnik and many others.
The videos deal with the exciting French Advance Variation, starting with 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5. Besides numerous sidelines, the main focus is on the two most played systems with 3...c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 and 5...Bd7.
The Kupreichik starts with 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Bd7. It is a flexible move, as it doesn’t tell white much about the set-up black will choose. Most often black goes for a Dragon or a Classical Sicilian set-up.
More than 1 million games from the engine room of playchess.com form the basis of the English Opening Powerbook 2023, with in addition 123 000 games from Mega and from correspondence chess.
English Opening Powerbase 2023 is a database containing in all 10 570 games from Mega 2023 or Correspondence Database 2022, of which 699 are annotated.
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