7/11/2024 – This is a comprehensive course that arms the club or tournament player with fresh ideas which can be used in their own practice. The nine volumes, individually bought, would normally cost you €299.10. But as a special Summer Special this week, we offer you the package for just €199.90. Don't miss the opportunity to let the Dutch-Bosnian grandmaster and world-class chess trainer help you enhance your overall chess understanding.
new: Fritz 20
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.
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.
The Alapin Variation (1.e4 c5 2.c3) offers a simple yet highly effective solution to all major Sicilian lines, by sidestepping them with 2.c3.
€39.90
Ivan Sokolov introduces his Fritztrainer series
Understanding Middlegame Strategies Vol.1 - Dynamic Pawns This Fritztrainer deals with different dynamic decisions involving pawns. The aim to arm club/tournament players with fresh ideas which they can use in their own practice.
Understanding Middlegame Strategies Vol.2 - Practical Play Here Sokolov has selected the material aiming to improve the viewer’s middlegame decision-making process and broaden middlegame understanding in general.
Understanding Middlegame Strategies Vol.3 - The Hedgehog One of the most difficult type of positions to master. With White there is always a danger to overextend oneself, with Black there is always a danger to mistime your pawn break, or simply to not get counterplay and be overrun.
Understanding Middlegame Strategies Vol.4 - Dynamic pawn structures Studying this video course should greatly improve the viewer’s handling of dynamic pawn positions! As with all the other video courses, material here is predominantly aimed at improving players and tournament players.
Understanding Middlegame Strategies Vol.5 - Sicilian Rossolimo and Maroczy Structures Understanding an opening doesn’t stop after the theory. It’s essential to understand ideas and structures connected to the opening moves. Furthermore, recognising mistakes by your opponent to gain an advantage is a key component of the middlegame. This video course concentrates on Rossolimo and Maroczy structures in the Sicilian Defence.
Understanding Middlegame Strategies Vol.6 - Ruy Lopez Structures Understanding an opening doesn’t stop after the theory. It’s essential to understand ideas and structures connected to the opening moves. Furthermore, recognising mistakes by your opponent to gain an advantage is a key component of the middlegame. This video course concentrates on structures in the Ruy Lopez Defence.
Understanding Middlegame Strategies Vol.7 - Dynamic Catalan Many young top-players are opting for the trendy “Dynamic Catalan” where, against the triangle or semi-slav structures, White can sacrifice a pawn to gain immediate initiative. This sacrifice can lead to long term positional advantage, but often White can unleash dangerous threats upon the black king with a central pawn break.
Understanding Middlegame Strategies Vol.8 - French Winawer The French is a complex opening and can lead to a wide variety of middlegames. The Winawer after 3...Bb4 is Black’s most proactive option, immediately weakening White’s pawn structure by doubling their c-pawns.
Understanding Middlegame Strategies Vol.9 - French Tarrasch In the Tarrasch variation, White seems to be doing great, but initial evaluations can be deceptive and Black certainly has trumps, creating complicated and fascinating positions.
Summer special
Here is how you can save really big time:
Normally the each volume of Ivan Sokolov's course costs €29.90 to €39.90
All nine volumes together: €299.10
Special price as a bundle: €239.90
This week, from July 8 to 14, 2024, you can get the bundle at a special discount price.
In this video course experts examine the games of Bent Larsen. Let them show you which openings Larsen chose, where his strength in middlegames were, how he outplayed his opponents in the endgame & you’ll get a glimpse of his tactical abilities!
From the 2026 Candidates Tournament, featuring a video review by Dorian Rogozenco, to Jan Werle’s opening video on the French Tarrasch Defence, and Oliver Reeh’s tactical column ‘Top Grandmasters at Work’. Analyses by Giri, So, Wei Yi and many others.
You will learn how Black's dynamic piece activity and structural counterplay more than compensate for White's extra tempo in the colour-reversed setups.
In this course, you’ll learn how to take the initiative against the London and prevent White from comfortably playing their usual system by playing 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 Nh5.
London System Powerbase 2026 is a database and contains in all 11 285 games from Mega 2026 and the Correspondence Database 2026, of which 282 are annotated.
The London System Powerbook 2026 is based on more than 410 000 games or game fragments from different opening moves and ECO codes; what they all have in common is that White plays d4 and Bf4 but does not play c4.
In this course, Grandmaster Elisabeth Pähtz presents the London System, a structured and ambitious approach based on the immediate Bf4, leading to rich and dynamic positions.
€59.90
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