1/10/2025 – The highly anticipated training program at KCF Academy is set to begin on January 11, 2025, bringing together some of the brightest young chess talents from Europe and America. Renowned for its cutting-edge training methodologies and distinguished coaching staff, KCF Academy has become a hub for nurturing the future stars of the chess world.
Your personal chess trainer. Your toughest opponent. Your strongest ally. FRITZ 20 is more than just a chess engine – it is a training revolution for ambitious players and professionals. Whether you are taking your first steps into the world of serious chess training, or already playing at tournament level, FRITZ 20 will help you train more efficiently, intelligently and individually than ever before.
Winning starts with what you know The new version 18 offers completely new possibilities for chess training and analysis: playing style analysis, search for strategic themes, access to 6 billion Lichess games, player preparation by matching Lichess games, download Chess.com games with built-in API, built-in cloud engine and much more.
Mastering piece setups in various pawn structures and transitioning to a dominant middlegame, this course equips you with the insight and flexibility to outmanoeuvre your opponents in the Closed Catalan.
€39.90
During the first season in 2024, KCF Academy students achieved remarkable success, earning titles as European and National champions.
This year marks a significant milestone as National women’s and youth teams have officially joined the program, drawn by the lack of systematic chess training programs worldwide. KCF Academy offers a collaborative and cost-effective solution, enabling players to benefit from expert instruction and a supportive learning environment. Participants can look forward to an immersive curriculum designed to sharpen their skills and prepare them for elite competition.
On January 12, our first star guest, the incomparable Fabiano Caruana, will reveal his secrets to success during a live training session.
The 2025 season features an enhanced format with more instructional hours and additional lessons from top players and trainers, including a special live session from the Legendary World Champion, Garry Kasparov himself. As a new feature, this year KCF Academy will host workshops every Thursday, providing participants with hands-on, practical training.
Don't miss the Start of the Program: January 11, 2025.
KCF Academy 4-Level Comprehensive Training Program can help and provide an incredibly structured approach to prepare young talents for the complexities of chess. Covering all critical aspects of the game, it provides a balanced focus on openings, tactics, strategy, and endgames. This program serves as an invaluable complement to individual training, helping players build a solid foundation and achieve consistent progress.
Why Choose KCF Academy?
Interactive Sessions: Engage with instructors and fellow participants in real-time, ensuring a dynamic and interactive learning experience
Insights from renowned chess masters and experts, live lectures from Garry Kasparov, Levon Aronian, Fabiano Caruana and many others!
Comprehensive program divided into 48 In-Depth Lessons
Access to lectures recordings via the website desktop app
Plenty of homework, quizzes, and digital materials to foster independent learning
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.
€19.90
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