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Chess software programs for training in chess may be the best way improve your chess game in specific areas. Here you will find the best software programs for any level of player, from beginner to Grandmaster. Simply click a link above to narrow your search, or read on for a description of each catagory of chess training software available at ChessCentral.

Chess Opening Training

Chess software programs designed for opening training offer a "fast track" to improving your chess game. For example, get specialized knowledge from Shirov on the Sicilian Sveshnikov or book up on the Vienna Game with Andrew Martin. Here you will find the best chess opening training software programs, with recommended lines by Grandmasters tested in actual play. You can even download chess opening Ebooks, like Dan Heisman's tricky Traxler Counterattack. Opening theory with interactive software, these chess software programs for the PC are at the leading edge of chess opening training.
Chess middlegame training involves both chess tactics and chess strategy. Chess software programs made for middlegame training cover every aspect of the subject, from attacking the King to understanding solid positional ideas. Such middlegame training software will help improve your chess game, and here you will find the best chess middlegame software programs for young and old, beginner and Grandmaster.

Chess Endgame Training 

There is no doubt that skill in chess endgames will help you score points. Chess endgame training software will teach you how to finish the game! You might become an expert in Rook endings, or learn about pure pawn endgames - there is even a chess endgame training Ebook to download. Naturally there is endgame software to make your playing engine even stronger, like the Fritz Endgame Turbo. In this catagory you will find the best chess endgame training software programs for all players.
It is well known that the surest way to improve one's skill at chess is to carefully play over the games of the great Masters. Their chess games demonstrate the proper strategy and tactics needed to win. Thoughtful attention to the games of World Champions like Capablanca and Steinitz, for example, is not only fun but profitable in your own games! You can download Ebooks about Morphy and Blackburne, or get DVDs on modern champions such as Kramnik and Anand. The student is well-advised to select one from this handful of the best to model his play after.

General Chess Training

This catagory covers a wide range of chess training software, for those getting started in chess to training for the more advanced player. Some software offers a complete course in chess training, while others specialize in, say, pawn structure. Whatever your needs, you'll find the best chess training software, no matter your playing level. Chess training problems, annotated games, tests and drills - it's all here!

Fritz Trainers

Fritz Trainers are the cutting-edge in chess training software. On DVD, these software programs contain both video clips and training programs designed by the world's top players. Get the latest on the French Defense or learn from GM Vlastimil Hort what it's like to face a World Champion over the board. Try an opening repertoire from GM Bangiev or discover the Closed Sicilian with Nigel Davies. Each title details the latest theory or winning techniques - you'll want to try these DVDs!
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Total Chess Training
Total Chess Training I CD
Our Price: $95.00
Sale Price: $69.95

Total Chess Training consists of five magnificent educational programs: Chess Tactics Art 3.0; Strategy 2.0; Encyclopedia of Middlegame; Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders; Studies 2.0 with new printing possibilities and compatibility with Shredder, covering every phase or aspect of chess.
Big Bird PowerBase, 3rd Edition
The Big Bird PowerBase CD
Our Price: $29.95

Never again will you agonize over what to play as White, because Bird's Opening is the perfect system for the rest of your life! There's no need to learn a dozen openings based on the King's pawn or Queen's pawn, not when 1.f4 offers rich and varied games, suitable for winning chess.
Collected Works of Wilhelm Steinitz CD
Collected Works of Wilhelm Steinitz CD
Our Price: $74.95

Here is your chance to discover the first World Chess Champion in his own words! This breakthrough CD-Rom showcases only writings by Steinitz himself, literally thousands of pages by the most successful match player in history.
Fritz Powerbook 2010
Fritz Powerbook 2010 DVD
List Price: $69.95
Our Price: $59.95

The Fritz Powerbook 2010 contains 27 million opening positions, derived from 1.6 million high class tournament games. Together with each position all relevant information is stored: all moves that were played in the position, by players of what average rating, with what success and performance results. The games from which the Fritz Powerbook 2010 were derived are also included on the DVD.
Goring Gambit
Goring Gambit Download
Our Price: $8.95

Covers 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.c3 (both accepted and declined), along with the Danish Gambit, 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Bc4 cxb2 5.Bxb2. Includes 7,119 games, introductory text, and special Opening Key - 350 classification positions! Complete through 7-1-2002.
Chess Machine
Chess Machine CD
Our Price: $29.95

No chess player's education is complete without reference to the games and works of Jose Raul Capablanca, 3rd World Chess Champion. Capablanca had perhaps the greatest natural talent for chess ever seen. A prodigy, he developed rapidly and effortlessly to become the foremost player in the world, easily beating Lasker for the title of 3rd World Chess Champion.
Alekhine Defense Playbook CD
Alekhine Defense Playbook CD
Our Price: $18.50

Animate your new Playbook with Tim Sawyer’s jumbo companion CD! The author has assembled the largest 1.e4 Nf6 game collection offered anywhere, with over 62,775 examples of the Alekhine Defense in action.
Morphy's Games of Chess
Morphy's Games of Chess Download
Our Price: $24.95

Morphy's Games of Chess by Philip Sergeant was, for many players, their first chess book. Certainly in the 85 years since its appearance this classic has inspired thousands to take up our royal game, with its timeless story of fame and tragedy.
Complete 1.d4 Gambits
Complete 1.d4 Gambits CD
Our Price: $19.95

The Franco Pezzi Gambitingly project is pleased to offer a specialized alternative, for those who feel they don't need coverage of ALL gambit lines.
Complete 1.e4 Gambits
Complete 1.e4 Gambits CD
Our Price: $19.95

More than 70,300 games, 340 annotated games, 3,350 analyzed games, 190 photos, 67 ChessBase opening books, 10 video clips and 7 articles.
Alexei Shirov: My Best Games in The Nimzo Indian
Alexei Shirov: My Best Games in the Nimzo-Indian DVD
Our Price: $32.95

With this DVD on the Nimzo-Indian Defence (including the Catalan and the Queen‘s Indian) Alexei Shirov continues the successful and highly praised series about his best games. As in the preceding DVDs the Latvian super grandmaster succeeds in spoiling his public with analysis of a high quality and with exciting insights into his games, and he does so in his own reserved, pleasant and modest style.
Endgame Training
Chess Endgame Training CD
Our Price: $29.95

The program designed to teach you different endgame methods. The material written by IM ICCF Alexander Alpert, and includes more than 2,450 endgame exercises taken from practical games and endgame studies.
Alexei Shirov: The Sicilian with 3.Bb5 Chess Opening Software DVD
Alexei Shirov: The Sicilian with 3.Bb5 DVD
List Price: $36.95
Our Price: $34.95

The Rossolimo Variation of the Sicilian Defence (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5) is always an excellent choice with White if you want to avoid the deeply analyzed main lines of the open Sicilian.
Alexei Shirov: My Best Games in The Sveshnikov
Alexei Shirov: My Best Games in the Sveshnikov
Our Price: $36.95

The Sveshnikov Variation of the Sicilian Defense is considered one of the most promising replies to 1.e4, often giving rise to sharp and complex positions which require precise and inventive play from both sides.
Alexei Shirov: My Best Games in the Slav and Semi-Slav
Alexei Shirov: My Best Games in the Slav and Semi-Slav DVD
Our Price: $34.95

The Slav is typified by the move c6, and in the Semi-Slav e6 is also played; the relationship between the two is obvious.
Alexei Shirov: The Philidor Defense Chess Opening DVD
Alexei Shirov: The Philidor Defense DVD
List Price: $36.95
Our Price: $32.95

The modern form of the Philidor Defense arises via the move order 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e5 as the main starting position. Then after 4.Nf3 Nbd7, Shirov has introduced the pawn sacrifice 5.g4!? into practice - and achieved excellent results with it.
The Caro-Kann Defense Chess Opening Software on DVD
The Caro-Kann Defense Chess Opening on DVD
List Price: $36.95
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.
The f4 Sicilian Chess Opening Software on DVD
The f4 Sicilian Chess Opening on DVD
List Price: $36.95
Our Price: $34.95

The f4 Sicilian is a perennial favorite with club players. It was popularised by Bent Larsen in the 1960s and then later on by British GMs such as Mark Hebden, James Plaskett and William Watson
The ABC of The King‘s Indian, 2nd Edition - Chess Opening Software on DVD
The ABC of The King‘s Indian, 2nd Edition
List Price: $36.95
Our Price: $34.95

The King’s Indian chess opening is as uncompromising and resilient as ever! This DVD will inspire all players and demonstrate that the King‘s Indian is very much alive on the modern master scene.
The Scandinavian - The Easy Way, 2nd Edition Chess Opening Software on DVD
The Scandinavian - The Easy Way, 2nd Edition
List Price: $39.95
Our Price: $36.95

This DVD will be a boon to all chess players, but particularly to the busy person with limited time for study or those who wish to incorporate a new defense into their Black repertoire with the minimum possible hassle. This really is the Scandinavian – the easy way!
   
 
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