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Pocket Fritz 4
Pocket Fritz 4
Our Price: $59.95

Pocket Fritz 4 is the ultimate mobile chess companion, ready to play anywhere and anytime. It may be small in size, but its playing strength is gigantic. Its chess engine, developed by Mark Uniacke, has a well-balanced positional style with first-class tactical strength. Pocket Fritz 4 is considerably stronger than its predecessor – the estimated playing strength is over 2800 Elo!
MAC - Fritz and Chesster Chess Complete
MAC - Fritz and Chesster Chess Complete
Our Price: $44.95

This is the brilliant new product by ChessBase, the world's leading chess software publishers. Fritz & Chesster, Learn to play chess software program may be the most important piece of software ever created by this company, for a very simple reason: tens of thousands of children will take up chess.
The Caro-Kann Defense Chess Opening Software on DVD
The Caro-Kann Defense Chess Opening on DVD
Our Price: $34.95

The Caro-Kann is considered to be one of the safest and most reliable replies to 1.e4. So it comes as no surprise that in the list of top players who have made use of this defense there are no fewer than four World Champions: Botvinnik, Petrosian, Karpov and Anand. In addition, the Caro-Kann is played by such top players as Adams, Dreev and Bareev.
Alexei Shirov: Guide to the Tkachiev Ruy Lopez Chess Opening DVD
Alexei Shirov: Guide to the Tkachiev Ruy Lopez
Our Price: $32.95

The variation against the Ruy Lopez presented in meticulous detail by Alexei Shirov (3...a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 b5 6.Bb3 Bc5) has so far had no recognised name and Shirov himself has named it after Vladislav Tkachiev, the 2007 European champion, the Tkachiev Ruy Lopez.
Bamboozle your Opponents with 1.g3, Chess Opening Software on DVD
Bamboozle your Opponents with 1.g3, Chess Opening on DVD
Our Price: $34.95

The idea behind this chess opening is to leave White with the greatest possible flexibility for his pieces and pawns and indeed the game can transpose into openings as diverse as the Closed Sicilian, the King’s Indian Defence and the Catalan Opening.
Black Repertoire Against 1.e4, Vol. 2: Open Games
Black Repertoire Against 1.e4, Vol. 2: Open Games
Our Price: $34.95

This is part 2 of a two part series that will provide the viewer with a complete repertoire against 1.e4. The disk deals with all options against the Exchange Spanish, the Scotch, the Italian Game, the Ponziani and King's Gambit and more!
Power Play 14: Test Your Tactics
Power Play 14: Test Your Tactics
Our Price: $34.95

Power Play 14: Test Your Tactics - On this DVD Grandmaster Daniel King demonstrates typical tactical patterns, shows how strong players use their tactical awareness, and puts your tactical abilities to the test.
Maurice Ashley: The Secret to Chess
Maurice Ashley: The Secret to Chess
Our Price: $34.95

On this DVD, Maurice Ashley reveals a simple idea that will forever change the way that you see chess. He shares the secret he discovered on his path to the Grandmaster title, a secret that every player must understand in order to reach the highest level. Introducing his new term "Drawback Chess", he shows that chess is often not about looking for a winning move, but more about searching to find the flaws hidden deep inside your opponent‘s moves. With instructive examples and engaging practice positions.
Maurice Ashley: What Grandmasters Don’t See Vol. 1: Protected Squares
What Grandmasters Don’t See Vol. 1: Protected Squares
Our Price: $36.95

In Volume 1 of the series, Ashley coins a new term Protected Squares, and shows how many errors occur on squares that seem invulnerable because they are clearly guarded by pawns. In example after example and in his trademark style, Ashley will teach you how to avoid this kind of mistake and how to look for moves that will shock and amaze your opponents.
What Grandmasters Don’t See, Vol. 2: Discovered Attack
What Grandmasters Don’t See, Vol. 2: Discovered Attack
Our Price: $36.95

Ashley illustrates how often players are confused by discovered attacks because the examples in the majority of chess books are poorly chosen to show how this important tactical idea really works in most practical games
What Grandmasters Don’t See, Vol. 3: Summary and Test
What Grandmasters Don’t See, Vol. 3: Summary and Test
Our Price: $36.95

In this chess software DVD, the third volume of the three part series, Ashley completes his idea of Protected Squares from Volume 1, showing that squares seemingly guarded by pieces are often the breeding ground of amazing tactical oversights.
ChessBase Opening Encyclopedia 2011 Chess DVD
ChessBase Opening Encyclopedia 2011 Chess DVD
List Price: $159.95
Our Price: $119.95

The ChessBase Chess Opening Encyclopaedia 2011 features complete coverage of all opening variations, offering an optimal start for opening training. Many well-known specialists have made contributions in their field of expertise.
Chess Middlegame Collection 2010
Chess Middlegame Collection 2010
Our Price: $99.95

Each of the five courses includes detailed theoretical material for the corresponding openings and variations, positions for solving and special learning positions to play against with the built-in game engine. In the five programs you'll find detailed material on the theory and practice of playing the opening.
Alexei Shirov: My Best Games in the Slav and Semi-Slav Revisited, Chess Opening Software on DVD
Alexei Shirov: My Best Games in the Slav and Semi-Slav Revisited DVD
Our Price: $36.95

For Shirov the Slav and the Semi-Slav form one huge and common opening. Of course it is a mighty opening complex and the DVD cannot give a complete picture of it, but in the areas he chooses to highlight our author is an absolute expert and capable of giving the deepest possible insights into the secrets of this extremely solid opening.
American Flag Chess Board
American Flag Chess Board
List Price: $49.95
Our Price: $39.95

American Flag Chess Board -A great-looking wooden chess board representing the American flag. Perfect match to many of our American Theme Chess sets. The chess board is 16" x 16".
Civil War Chess Set 3
Civil War Chess Set
List Price: $129.95
Our Price: $99.95

A handsome chess set made to resemble important figures from the American Civil War. In our Civil War chess set the Confederate Army of South is led by Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee who battle federal troops of North led by President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses Grant.
Glass Chess Set - Clearand Black Chess Pieces with Black/Clear Glass Board
Glass Chess Set - Clear and Black Chess Pieces & Glass Board
List Price: $59.95
Our Price: $34.95
Sale Price: $34.95

This elegant premium glass chess set will be attractive in any room. The 13.75 x 13.75 inch glass board has black and clear 1.5 inch squares with attractive black etching around the rim and felt anti-scratch pads underneath.
1.e4 Repertoire Grandmaster Lines Explained for Club Players Chess Opening DVD
1.e4 Repertoire: Grandmaster Lines Explained for Club Players
Our Price: $34.95

Constructing an opening repertoire is one of the chess player’s most difficult and time-consuming tasks. Turned off by masses of theory, many players shy away from critical lines and concentrate on trappy lines, ‘universal’ systems, or variations which concede the advantage of the first move in order to get a playable position.
Trompowsky – The Easy Way, 2nd Edition
Trompowsky – The Easy Way DVD 2nd Edition
Our Price: $36.95

Andrew Martin traces the history of the opening from those early days, through the ‘golden age’ of the late 1980’s and 1990’s, and shows how the theory and ideas have evolved into the sharp and dangerous weapon that the Trompowsky undoubtedly is today.
Foxy Chess Openings, Vol. 97: The Queen's Gambit Accepted for Black
Foxy Chess Openings, Vol. 97: The Queen's Gambit Accepted for Black
List Price: $29.95
Our Price: $24.95

Foxy Chess Openings: The Queen's Gambit Accepted for Black. IM Andrew Martin suggests a Black reply to 1.d4 which is ideal for the club player.