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- Extensive course on the basics of chess taught by International Chess Master Josh Waitzkin
- Tutorials from Josh Waitzkin's groundbreaking book The Art of Learning
- Attacking Chess course commentary by Grandmaster Larry Christiansen
- Play one of many predefined opponents and analyze your game.
- Play 1 of 12 new chess variants including Limited Shuffle, Shuffle, Giveaway, Marseilles, Progressive, and Pocket Knight.
Chessmaster XI: Grandmaster Edition expands the scope of chess to include broader principles of learning. Josh Waitzkin's much-anticipated book The Art of Learning
is designed to pave the road to successful long-term growth on and off
the chessboard. The eight-time National Chess Champion and two-time
martial arts World Champion puts users in his shoes in some of the most
riveting and formative moments of his chess career, including the
legendary climactic game from the book and film Searching for Bobby Fischer.
Waitzkin
then turns to the classics, introducing beginners to brilliant games
from some of the most important players in the history of chess. In his
most revealing commentary ever, Waitzkin not only teaches the beginning
chess player the fundamentals of the game, but also humanizes the road
to mastery. Never has chess been so exciting!
Chessmaster XI Grandmaster Edition
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- Extensive course on the basics of chess taught by International Chess Master Josh Waitzkin.
- Tutorials from Josh Waitzkin’s groundbreaking book The Art of Learning.
- Attacking Chess course commentary by Grandmaster Larry Christiansen.
- Famous Games: 900 of chess’s most important games presented and analyzed.
- 600,000+ game database.
- Coverage of all classic and modern opening variations.
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Guide to Computer Chess
is a complete step-by-step tutorial for using Fritz (and other
chessplaying programs) to help you sharpen your chessplaying skills and
improve your game.
Drawing its examples from the
programs Fritz6, Fritz7, Chessmaster 7000, and Power Chess, the CD
offers you concrete advice for using the powerful computerized tools at
your disposal if you're the owner of any chess program (not just the
specific ones discussed on the CD).
The CD is a complete step-by-step
tutorial on how to use Fritz family of chess software programs (and
other chessplaying programs, such as Chessmaster) to improve your chess
game. While the bulk of the CD consists of explanations of Fritz'
features and how they work, Lopez has added a lot of other
goodies to the disk.
For example, the first section of the
CD is seven chapters long and is a (believe it or not) short history of
computer chess, starting with the Turk and running up through Kasparov
vs. Deep Blue and the home PC revolution. You get some interesting
games in this section (some of which are annotated) showing
milestones in computer chess history.
Another seven chapter section
illustrates ways in which you can use any chessplaying program to help
you improve your game. And, so you can learn and practice the database
searching functions of Fritz, I've included over 500 games played by
Wilhelm Steinitz (the first official World Chess Champion) as a bonus.
Guide to Computer Chess
isn't a collection of prior articles gathered together in a CD format;
although the topics are (obviously) related, the CD was written totally
from scratch. While Steve's ChessBase columns on the Internet are
a great resource, they lack structure; they jump around from topic
to topic from week to week, answering questions as they arise and
covering new program functions as they're added. They're timely and
comprehensive but they certainly don't qualify as an organized
step-by-step tutorial.
Guide to Computer Chess offers
a structured guide to learning the myriad features of your chess
software programs. Starting off with the easy stuff (installing
the program and playing games against the computer) the
disk works you on up through more involved procedures, like doing
database searches and analyzing games. The CD is meant to be read like
a book; the later chapters build on the previous ones. By the time
you're finished with this step-by-step approach, you'll know everything
you need to get the most out of Fritz and any other chessplaying
program you own.
There's a whole chapter on
"personalities" offered by other programs such as Chessmaster, Power
Chess, and Kasparov's Gambit, which take you step-by-step through
the process of creating new Chessmaster personalities. And the concepts
discussed in the comprehensive multi-chapter section on improving your
play can be applied to any chess program that contains an "analyze
game" feature. (Plus you'll learn why Steve loves Sierra's old
Power Chess and Power Chess 98 programs). If you own any chessplaying
program, there's plenty of useful information on this CD. Plus the CD
comes with a demo version of Fritz6, so you can install the demo, load
the CD in it, and follow right along with the text.
Although the CD focuses on Fritz6 and
Fritz7, the disk covers all of the core features of the Fritz "family"
of chessplaying programs, and everything on the CD is still fully
applicable to Fritz8 and the current Fritz9 version as well as all of
the other chessplaying programs ChessBase currently offers.
So if you're finding yourself at a
loss when trying to figure out how to use your chessplaying program to
help you become a better chessplayer, Steve's CD Guide to Computer Chess from ChessCentral will guide you through the features and processes and will set you firmly on the road to chess improvement. |
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