3/26/2024 – Want to build up a reliable and powerful opening repertoire? The Opening Encyclopaedia is the ideal tool to get things started! Offering a collection of new and updated opening articles, annotated games and videos, the Encyclopaedia will help you to build your repertoire based on personal preferences and strategic goals. Find here three ways in which you can make the most of this irreplaceable product.
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Three ways to use the Opening Encyclopaedia
Ideas for your repertoire
The repertoire for your ideas suggests a tailored approach to building or expanding your opening repertoire based on personal preferences and strategic goals, offering a collection of new and updated opening articles, annotated games, and videos.
This resource is designed to equip chess players with the necessary tools and knowledge to select openings that not only fit their playing style but also incorporate innovative strategies and ideas into their game.
Opening Videos
The Opening Encyclopaedia 2024 includes 75 high-quality opening videos, totalling over 27 hours of content, where popular ChessBase authors and numerous Grandmasters, such as Daniel King and Rustam Kasimdzhanov, present new opening ideas and strategies.
These videos offer clear and vivid explanations, making complex concepts accessible and providing viewers with fresh insights into opening preparation.
Opening Tutorials
The Opening Tutorials offer a comprehensive yet accessible overview of all established chess openings.
Designed to help chess players of all levels find the most suitable opening according to their personal preferences, these tutorials combine theoretical depth with practical advice, ensuring a solid foundation in opening principles and strategies.
Rossolimo-Moscow Powerbase 2025 is a database and contains a total of 10950 games from Mega 2025 and the Correspondence Database 2024, of which 612 are annotated.
The greater part of the material on which the Rossolimo/Moscow Powerbook 2025 is based comes from the engine room of playchess.com: 263.000 games. This imposing amount is supplemented by some 50 000 games from Mega and from Correspondence Chess.
Focus on the Sicilian: Opening videos on the Najdorf Variation with 6.h3 e5 7.Nb3 (Luis Engel) and the Taimanov Variation with 7.Qf3 (Nico Zwirs). ‘Lucky bag’ with 38 analyses by Anish Giri, Surya Ganguly, Abhijeet Gupta, Yannick Pelletier and many more.
Throughout the video course, Sasikran shows various examples from his career to explain sacrifices for initiative, an attack, a better pawn structure and much more.
In this insightful video course, Grandmaster David Navara shares practical advice on when to calculate deeply in a position — and just as importantly, when not to.
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