Italian Game The Specialist

The Practical Player's Database

All chessplayers tend to specialize in certain openings, and now a comprehensive database is available that focuses precisely on what you want to know. The Specialist zeros in on a particular chess opening - defined by its ECO code - and offers all available games in that range. Here is a complete, no-nonsense collection of the games you've been looking for! So if you want to study your favorite opening, why pay for millions of unrelated games? Get everything you need (and only what you need!) with The Specialist, your complete "information age" resource for today's chess openings.

Each CD in The Specialist series comes loaded with these features:

* About 60,000 games focused exclusively on the ECO code in question. Thousands of corrected names, events and scores make these the "cleanest" collections around.
* Detailed opening keys to help pinpoint exact variations - find the games you want instantly!
* A massive Tree database designed to be an opening book for many playing programs, including Fritz5 or higher.
* A .pgn file of all games for non-ChessBase software, plus multiple .pgn files (about 7,500 games each) for freeware users.

This second edition of the Italian Game features 60,493 games (up from 50,047 previously), and the opening Key has deepened considerably - 1,417 classification positions compared to 1,064 in the first edition! If you play 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4, or have to face this opening as Black, you can't afford to be without the Italian Game CD. Become a Specialist today!