1/15/2015 – Chess talent and a love for the game are fine things to have. However, many good chessplayers also had and have other passions. Emanuel Lasker held a PhD in Mathematics and liked to play Bridge and Go, Paul Keres was an excellent tennis player, and Anatoly Karpov owns an exquisite collection of stamps. Top players often reveal surprising skills.
new: ChessBase 16 - Mega package Edition 2022
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.
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.
This DVD focuses on several types of material imbalances, such as Rook vs 2 Minor Pieces, Queen vs 2 Rooks, and Queen vs Pieces.
€29.90
For years now Elisabeth Pähtz, 2002 Youth World Champion U18, 2004 Junior World Champion U20, has been Germany's number one women player. She is very active and claims to be "at home when at chess tournaments". Hovever, on the occasion of her 30th birthday on January 2015 she revealed to the German newspaper Thüringer Allgemeine other passions apart from chess. As she said, if not for her chess career, she would have liked to study voice.
Elisabeth Pähtz visiting Hamburg
Not without reason. As the following performance at the Chess Olympiad 2014 in Tromso showed.
The song "Can't help falling in a love again" has been a favorite of many interpreters, the most famous one was arguably Elvis Presley - who, incidentally, was also born on January 8 1935, on the day 50 years before Elisabeth Pähtz.
And did you recognize the man on guitar accompanying Elisabeth Pähtz? It is no other than outspoken columnist, eloquent commentator and former World Championship challenger Nigel Short. In fact, Short not only knows how to put pawns and pieces on the right squares and to explain chess but also knows how attractive a guitar can be.
His ironic, sometimes acerbic wit, and his extensive knowledge of the game and its history also make the two ChessBase DVDs, on which he retells his career, entertaining and a pleasure to watch. No wonder he called them "Greatest Hits 1" and "Greatest Hits 2".
Johannes FischerJohannes Fischer was born in 1963 in Hamburg and studied English and German literature in Frankfurt. He now lives as a writer and translator in Nürnberg. He is a FIDE-Master and regularly writes for KARL, a German chess magazine focusing on the links between culture and chess. On his own blog he regularly publishes notes on "Film, Literature and Chess".
The new Komodo Dragon 3 engine has gained 100 Elo points in playing strength over its predecessor when using a processor core in blitz. That's a huge improvement for a program that already reached at
an Elo level of over 3500!
FIDE Grand Prix 2022: Esipenko, Giri, Vidit, Oparin, Predke, Shankland, So and Vitiugov comment + videos by Rogozenco. "Special" on Bent Larsen. Opening videos by Kasimdzhanov, Ragger and Marin. 11 opening articles with new ideas for your repertoire!
The new Opening Encyclopaedia offers fast access to all openings. Openings are sorted via the menu by name & ECO Code for fast and easy access to your favorite openings.
Throughout my playing career I have found the Hedgehog one of the most difficult type of positions to master. The basic aim of this video is to improve understanding of these complex positions and to help tournament players score better.
Studying this video course should greatly improve the viewer’s handling of dynamic pawn positions! As with all my other video courses material here is predominantly aimed at improving players and tournament players.
€29.90
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