5/3/2013 – "Modern Benoni crash and burn", "Undogmatic" and "A sharp Najdorf" are the titles of three video broadcasts by chess trainer IM Andrew Martin, who has recorded a mini-series of topical games from the top events of the last few weeks. Martin does not just provies analytical dissection, but explains in wonderfully instructive language the ideas behind the games and openings. Learn and enjoy.
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Your key to fresh ideas, precise analyses and targeted training! 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. Start your personal success story with ChessBase and enjoy the game even more.
On this DVD you will be taken on a journey through what is arguably the sharpest opening line known to men.
€29.90
Grand Prix Zug: Modern Benoni crash and burn
Veselin Topalov vs Sergey Karjakin in round
eleven
Alekhine Memorial in Paris: Undogmatic
Peter Svidler vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in
round five
A sharp Najdorf
Zoltan Almasi vs Petala Harikrishna in the
Capablanca Memorial
Andrew David Martin (born 18th May 1957 in West Ham,
London) is an English chess player with the title of International Master.
He has won various national and international tournaments and has been
playing for years in the Four Nations Chess League, at present (July 2009)
for Wood Green Hilsmark Kingfisher, previously for the Camberley Chess
Club. Martin received his IM title in1984. He earned his first grandmaster
norm in the British Championship of 1997 in Brighton. Martin was a commentator
on the chess world championship between Kasparov and Kramnik in 2000.
On the 21st February 2004 Martin set a new world record for simultaneous
chess. He faced 321 chess players at the same time. His result was: 294
wins, 26 draws and only one loss. Martin is known as a professional chess
teacher and head trainer of the English youth team. He trains eight schools
(Yateley Manor, Aldro, Millfield, Sunningdale, Waverley School, St Michael’s
Sandhurst, Wellington College, Salesian College). Martin is a chess columnist,
an author of chess books and the author of various instructional videos.
He was the publisher of the series Trends Publications. Martin lives in
Sandhurst, England, is married and the father of two daughters and two
sons. His present Elo rating is 2423 (as of July 2009).
In this opening Black opts for active piece play and is not afraid to fight for the initiative from an early stage. One of the many good features of this opening is that Black is often the side which controls the pace of the game.
The French Defence Powerbase 2021 is a database and contains 9839 games from the Mega 2021 and the Correspondence Database 2020, 644 of which are annotated.
The main part of the material on which the French Powerbook 2021 is based comes from the playchess.com engine room: 637,000 games. An impressive number to which 80,000 games from correspondence chess and the Mega were added.
Looking for a surprise weapon against 1.e4? Try the Stafford Gambit! After the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5, rather than following the solid lines of the Petroff after 3...d6, Black prefers to sacrifice a pawn with 3...Nc6 4.Nxc6 dxc6.
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