11/6/2020 – Herman Grooten’s first ChessBase show was launched two weeks ago. What makes the show special is Grooten’s teaching style. He uses elements of the “step method”, where players with zero chess knowledge can advance to strong club players, or even become a GM, as Jan Smeets has proven impressively. Furthermore, his whole life has been dedicated to chess from an early age! Herman will tell you more about this in a two-part video interview. The second part consists of two stunning positions, where knights move to the most unexpected spots on the chessboard.
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In 60 minutes you can get an idea how to play versus the Kings Indian like an expert like GM Loek van Wely, known for his epic battles in the Kingsindian with Teimour Radjabov.
Instead of forcing you to memorise endless lines, Raja focuses on clear plans, typical ideas, and attacking motifs that you can apply in your own games without delay. A short, focused, and practical repertoire.
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“When I was around 22 years old I decided to live from chess, and I never regretted this decision”
As a 15-year-old, he was already put at a demonstration board to give chess lessons. The first talent he coached was the quite famous Loek van Wely. Later he trained more players who became grandmasters. Among them, we can name Jan Werle, Robin Swinkels, Wouter Spoelman, Twan Burg and more recently Benjamin Bok. In 2016 Attacking Chess for Club Player came out. More information (in Dutch) on www.sterkspel.nl.
Dutch Defence Powerbase 2020 is a database and contains a total of 7890 games from Mega 2020 and the Correspondence Database 2020, of which 688 are annotated.
Arne KaehlerArne Kaehler, a creative mind who is passionate about board games in general, was born in Hamburg and learned to play chess at a young age. By teaching chess to youth teams and creating chess-related videos on YouTube, Arne was able to expand this passion and has even created an online course for anyone who wants to learn how to play chess. Arne writes for the English and German news sites, but focuses mainly on content for the ChessBase media channels.
The Queen’s Gambit Declined Exchange Variation with 5.Bf4 has a great balance between positional play and sharp pawn pushes; and will be a surprise for your opponents while being easy to learn for you, as the key patterns are familiar.
After 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4 Nc6 5.Bb5 Bd7 6.Qd3, White sidesteps mainline theory and steers the game into less explored, strategically rich positions.
In this course, you will learn the foundations and key ideas of the Vienna Game and discover a variety of systems that make you extremely difficult to prepare for.
Tata Steel 2026 with analyses by Bluebaum, Giri, L'Ami, Woodward and many more. Opening videos by Kasimdzhanov, Marin and Zwirs. 10 exciting opening articles with new repertoire ideas and much more.
In this course, Dutch Grandmaster Jan Werle presents a modern and practical repertoire in the French Advance Variation, focusing on the critical line 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3.
One of the major battlegrounds of the Queen’s Gambit Declined is the Catalan, and against it Zwirs chose an ambitious strategy: accept the pawn and hold onto it with …c6 and …b5, aiming for an unbalanced fight from the very start.
In this course, IM Nico Zwirs presents the Reversed Sicilian as a powerful and practical weapon for White
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As a 15-year-old, he was already put at a demonstration board to give chess lessons. The first talent he coached was the quite famous Loek van Wely. Later he trained more players who became grandmasters. Among them, we can name Jan Werle, Robin Swinkels, Wouter Spoelman, Twan Burg and more recently Benjamin Bok. In 2016 Attacking Chess for Club Player came out. More information (in Dutch) on www.sterkspel.nl.
