ChessBase is a personal, stand-alone chess database that has become the standard throughout the world. Everyone uses ChessBase, from the World Champion to the amateur next door. It is the program of choice for anyone who loves the game and wants to know more about it.
ChessBase 9 Reader with seven page manuals in English and German language in PDF format. A readme.txt file. ChessBase Videos (in ChessBase WMV format):
Total playing time: approximately 3h 50 min.
Total DVD size: approximately 897 megabytes.
The installation of a special ChessBase Reader starts automatically. After the one-minute installation is complete, you’re prompted to restart your computer.
This DVD comes in a colorful, well designed DVD box. The system requirements for the DVD are pretty low, ensuring all users can benefit from installing and experiencing the videos.
Here is where you start. One click will open a video.
I recommend choosing the figurines notation and enabling “Material” in the Options area.
(Super) GM Shirov starts with a friendly “Hello”. ChessBase’s new video recording technology is at it’s best. In the Reader, among many other, you have a useful option of pausing the video and continuing later, during the session. Hitting the “play” or even the “pause” again will get you back into the game.
Rewinding is not precise, so listen carefully! As Shirov moves the pieces on his studio PC, the moves are magically being replayed on the board and in the notation window, analysis and other commentary included!
Shirov: “In the Sicilian defense, although I played it through all my chess career, I still feel that I cannot call myself an expert….” Wow, you may seem surprised, as I was, but only for a few seconds, as Shirov continues explaining his secrets on the Sicilian defense. It is unlikely that you can hear such honest explanations and super GM comments elsewhere. His experience in playing the Sicilian with Black pieces and challenging the same as White, makes ground for exceptional enjoyment waiting ahead.
Shirov comments that the best games he had played, the ones that gave him the most aesthetical pleasure, may just have happened in the Sicilian ones! Middlegame ideas, sharp sacrifices and certain opening explanations are the basis of Shirov’s personal annotated game selections.
Below are some highly interesting topics, which may be interesting to a wide range of chess fans and professionals alike. Shirov briefly comments them, in his own unique way, while showing us his truly brilliant games. I have chosen to review his lectures and best game analysis, by suggesting what you will be able to learn, while carefully listening to one of the strongest chess players in modern history.
These are only a few of the hundreds of questions and topics discussed, to which the answers await you on this exceptional DVD.
After a long time I have been confronted with a chess resource that requires not only the full attention of my eyes, but my ears, too. This DVD contains many hours of entertainment and grandmaster chess training. High concentration is necessary for optimal viewing. While commenting his games, one cannot help but notice how Shirov is experiencing once again the feelings he had. "To be completely honest…” is the trademark of his DVD, which makes it so special. I can recommend this DVD to all chess fans and professionals. I also recommend watching all the videos more than once, as their value will remain very high even in the years to come.
