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Huschenbeth: Tactic Toolbox Najdorf

6/16/2014 – Niclas Huschenbeth, 22, is a German grandmaster and the 2010 national champion. Since 2012 he has been studying psychology in Baltimore, where he leads the University's team. In a new DVD Niclas shows us the important tactical motives and sacrifices in the Najdorf. It is a uniquely interactive suite of lessons that requires serious work on your part. Review by Diana Mihajlova.

Attacking with the Italian and Ruy Lopez

12/4/2013 – When it comes to openings DVDs, there are essentially two types: the instructive work endeavoring to teach the theory, the plans, or both, and the thematic games collections. Sergey Tiviakov's "Attacking with the Italian and Ruy Lopez" defies easy classification as it teaches opening ideas, shares 30 exciting games, and is a master class in attack. Review by Albert Silver

Chess Prodigies Uncovered: Sergey Karjakin

11/27/2013 – This is one of a brand new range of DVDs, with Sergey Karjakin being subject of the first volume. The big difference between it and other ChessBase DVDs is the interactive aspect. Questions follow the main games: author Lorin D’Costa asks the viewer questions, and the answers must be played as moves on the on-screen board. "This is solid start to the new series which will probably evolve favourably as time goes by," says reviewer Sean Marsh.

Sadler's French Winawer Guide

9/19/2013 – "The French Winawer (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4) has always been a blind spot of mine," writes English GM Matthew Sadler, the book reviewer at New in Chess magazine. But suddenly it seemed to him to give this opening one last chance." Could any of the books on the market convince him that the Winawer was worth playing? Or any of the DVDs, for that matter. Excerpts from Matthew's review.

How to tame the Alekhine, Scandinavian and Pirc

5/7/2013 – In his latest DVD by ChessBase, Victor Bologan, a top grandmaster, proposes to teach players from beginner to grandmaster a complete repertoire against the Alekhine, Pirc, and Scandinavian all in a single DVD lasting under five hours. He promises to teach his own repertoire and personal analyses dating back decades. Is he peddling magic bullets, or is he serious? Find out in this review.

ChessBase Tutorials Openings: Flank Openings

4/29/2013 – Continuing the “ChessBase Openings Tutorials”, the fifth volume has been released covering the 'Flank Openings’. In 24 videos in German and English, by masters and grandmasters, each covering a separate opening or variation, casual or club players have all they need to surprise their opponents.  Read the review.

Kasparov: How I Became World Champion Vol.1 (1973-1985)

1/19/2013 – Garry Kasparov has been by far the most productive world champion in history, and it does not hurt that he is also regarded by many as the greatest. After covering the careers of other world champions, he turns his analytic eye on himself, publishing the first volume of an autobiographical trilogy in print and now as a ChessBase DVD. Here is a comparative review of the book and DVD.

My Life For Chess - Viktor Korchnoi

11/28/2011 – Viktor Korchnoi hardly needs an introduction. This Methusaleh of chess, whose competitive longevity and endless love for the game even have Kasparov in awe, has competed head-to-head with every world champion since Botvinnik. In his review, Albert Silver explains why these two DVDs are his favorite, and how they not only entertain and instruct, but also inspire from sheer passion.

A plethora of Rybka engines

12/26/2008 – Rybka has joined the stable of ChessBase engines! In the start of a multi-part series on this amazing chess engine's new features, our ChessBase Workshop columnist tackles the plethora of engines which ship with the two Rybka versions. Read more about this host of new engines in the latest Workshop.

Middlegame and endgame training

11/2/2007 – Not all ChessBase training DVDs concern themselves exclusively with the opening -- quite a few tackle the middlegame and endgame as their topics. Our ChessBase Workshop columnist peeks inside the DVD cases to provide you with a glimpse of what you'll find on recent releases by Adrian Mikhalchishin and Karsten Mueller. Read all about it in the latest Workshop.

Opening training DVDs

10/19/2007 – The previews continue in the virtual pages of ChessBase Workshop. Our columnist takes a look this week at four opening training DVDs including The Pirc Defense and A World Champion's Guide to the Petroff. Get a closer look at what these disks contain in the latest edition of ChessBase Workshop.

Andrew Martin's opening training

10/15/2007 – Our Chessbase Workshop columnist continues to catch up on his previews of ChessBase training CDs. In the latest column he tears the shrinkwrap off of four opening DVDs by Andrew Martin to offer a look at the goodies they contain. Workshop...

Four training DVDs by Alexei Shirov

10/13/2007 – Our ChessBase Workshop columnist Steve Lopez has been getting lazy in regard to his previews of ChessBase training disks, as he himself states in his latest column. Recognizing that you have a problem is the first step to curing it; please offer him your support by reading the latest column in which he previews four DVDs by Alexei Shirov. Workshop...

Recent ChessBase disks

10/10/2007 – It seems like you can't swing a stick these days without hitting a newly-released ChessBase instructional disk. You'll find previews of three of these releases – King's Indian Saemisch System, 1...d6 Universal, and My Path to the Top – in the latest ChessBase Workshop.

Two more from Daniel King

10/1/2007 – GM Daniel King has been hard at work on his Power Play series of instructional DVDs. His two latest efforts are entitled "Pawn Storm" and "Start Right". You can discover what's contained on these DVDs by reading previews of them in the latest ChessBase Workshop.

The return of the King

8/27/2007 – Daniel King has returned to our list of ChessBase instructors with his recent pair of Power Play training DVDs. "If you'd had this guy as a high school instructor," our reviewer writes, "you'd remember him as one of the 'cool' teachers whose classes you actually looked forward to." Read more about "Mating Patterns" and "Attacking the King" in the latest installment of ChessBase Workshop.

The rest of the game

6/1/2007 – ChessBase has released a flurry of training DVDs, not only on the openings, but on other phases of the game as well. Two of these latter are Rustam Kasimdzhanov's "The Path to Tactical Strength" and Karsten Mueller's "Chess Endgames 3". Get a sneak peek at what's included on these training disks in the latest ChessBase Workshop.

DVD instruction

2/8/2007 – ChessBase has been developing and releasing video-based training DVDs like a house a-fire in the past few months. In this week's ChessBase Workshop we preview seven of these disks by Alexi Shirov, Jacob Aagaard, Andrew Martin, and more. Workshop...

Four ChessBase Disks

8/28/2006 – ChessBase has been releasing new training materials and chess engines at a furious clip. You'll find previews of "Alapin Sicilian System", "Chess Endgames 1", "Opening Repertoire for Black", and the Zapchess playing engine in the latest ChessBase Workshop.

ChessBase Opening Encyclopedia 2006 - Part 2

8/19/2006 – In the second of two ChessBase Workshop columns, we examine some possible methods for using the ChessBase Opening Encyclopedia 2006 to help you sharpen your opening play. More information...

ChessBase Opening Encyclopedia 2006

8/10/2006 – ChessBase Opening Encyclopedia 2006 is a DVD so big that it's taken our ChessBase Workshop columnist two articles to do it full justice. In Part One he provides some background, history, and a description of what you'll find when you unwrap the disk. Workshop...

Three ChessBase disks

7/1/2006 – ChessBase's new opening and historical CDs and DVDs are the latest topic of interest for our ChessBase Workshop columnist. If you want to find out what's on "How to Play the Najdorf, Vol. 2" (by Garry Kasparov!), "The ABC of the Benko Gambit", and "World Champion Capablanca", check out our new ChessBase Workshop.

Workshop: Hiarcs 10, Big and MegaDatase

4/20/2006 – The Big and Mega 2006 Databases are now available, as well as programmer Mark Uniacke's brainchild Hiarcs 10. Get a sneak peek at all of these DVD offerings in the new Chessbase Workshop.

Two the easy way

2/14/2006 – Chess Trainer Andrew Martin is featured on two recent ChessBase opening training DVDs: The Scandinavian The Easy Way and The Trompowsky The Easy Way. Our ChessBase Workshop columnist previews both of these disks as well as the Chess Media System (for those who've not yet experienced it) in the latest edition. Workshop...
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