In a new Chess Media System DVD Danish IM Jacob Aagaard teaches us the most important principles of positional play. Aagaard's DVD contains six lectures
which deal with weak squares, good and bad pieces, prophylaxis and pawn weaknesses.
These are concepts which should belong in the toolbox of every chess player.
The lectures are followed by 50 exercises, in which you can also always look
for the solution yourself. In total, there are more than four hours of high
class video training on this DVD.

About the author: Danish International Master Jacob Aagaard, 30, has already
published a whole array of chess books, including the prize-winning "Excelling
at chess". For ChessBase he made “Attacking Chess I and II”,
both published in the series “Fritz Trainer”.
Price: € 29.99
Glasgow 3rd floor Chess Radio
From a home studio in Glasgow International Masters Jacob Aagaard and John
Shaw will comment on recent and past chess events in a weekly Radio Show on
the Chessbase server, starting Wednesday the 17th of November at 20:30 server
time (20.30 CET, 7.30 pm GMT, 14.30 US East Coast time).
In their first show the hosts will discuss the Russian Championship currently
underway in Moscow, where the favourites are Kasparov, Svidler, Grischuk and
Dreev, while Kramnik and Karpov both cancelled their participation right before
the beginning of the tournament.
IM Jacob Aagaard is one of the best known chess writers.
His personal favourites among his own works are Excelling at Chess Calculation
and Excelling at Technical Chess, both published by Everyman Chess, as well
as Experts vs. the Sicilian by Quality Chess Europe and Attacking Chess 1&2
(CDs) Attacking Chess 1&2 (CDs) by Chessbase. Jacob has in 2004 made three
GM norms and hopes to gain the necessary 50 Elo points for the GM title in 2005.
IM John Shaw has written two books for Everyman Chess and
co-edited Experts vs. the Sicilian. He has represented Scotland on many occasions,
recently in the Olympiad in Calvia, where he obtained his second GM-norm. As
John has once had 2500 in Elo, it is his hope that he will complete his Grandmaster
title in 2005 with a third GM-norm.
Together with Jacob, John constitutes two thirds of the new chess publisher
Quality Chess Europe
The Radio
ChessBase lectures by Aagaard and Shaw begin every Wednesday at 20:30h
CEST (European Central time = server time, which translates to 19:30h
GMT, 2:30 p.m. New York, 04:30 a.m. Sydney (on Thursday). You can use
Fritz or any Fritz-compatible program (Shredder, Junior, Tiger, Hiarcs)
to follow the lectures, or download a free
trial client. |