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It is well known that the surest way to improve one's skill at chess is to carefully examine the games of great chess Masters. Their chess games demonstrate the proper chess strategy and tactics needed to win at chess. Thoughtful attention to the games of World Chess Champions like Capablanca and Steinitz, for example, is not only fun but profitable in your own games! You can download chess e-books about Morphy and Blackburne, or get chess training software on modern champions such as Kramnik and Anand. The student is well-advised to select one from this handful of the best on which to model his own chess play.
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Collected Works of Wilhelm Steinitz CD
Collected Works of Wilhelm Steinitz CD
Our Price: $74.95
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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.
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.
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.
Blackburne’s Games at Chess
Blackburne’s Games at Chess Download
Our Price: $19.95

Joseph Henry Blackburne met and defeated the top players in chess history, including Anderssen, Steinitz, and Tschigorin. Known as the "Black Death", Blackburne’s game was wide open and highly tactical.
Lasker  - 2nd World Champion
Lasker - 2nd World Champion CD
Our Price: $25.95

A dashing young man with a passion for philosophy appeared on the global stage in 1894 to challenge the reigning World Chess Champion Wilhelm Steinitz. Emanuel Lasker, 25, faced the 58 year old Steinitz in a three city, grueling match, in which the first man to achieve 10 outright wins would wear the crown of World Chess Champion.
Classic Chess Sampler I CD
Classic Chess Sampler I CD
Our Price: $98.95

Here is your chance to own the classics you've always wanted...but now in the latest ChessBase format! Each book faithfully follows the original, with text documents, photos, richly annotated games - and fully interactive! Just look at the titles included on this feature-packed CD
My Chess Career - Download
My Chess Career - Download
Our Price: $12.95

The 3rd World Chess Champion's own account of his chess career, from the earliest days through the Hastings "Victory Congress" in 1919. Capablanca has divided his development as a chess master into distinct phases, each illustrated by selected games, in which his powers have emerged ever more refined. Here is your chance to sit ringside as the greatest natural talent in chess history prepares for the ultimate fight
Great Players Kit CD
Great Players Kit CD
Our Price: $99.95
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Together at last! The Six World Champions package is made up of 6 separate programs devoted to the following legendary chess champions: Emanuel Lasker, Jose Raul Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal and Boris Spassky.
The Discart-Bonetti Chess Match, 1863
Discart-Bonetti Chess Match, 1863 Download
Our Price: $9.95

Here is your chance to experience chess as it used to be - or might have been! In January of 1863 a match took place in Modena, Italy, between Francesco Discart and Cornelio Bonetti, using the old Italian rules of chess.
Kortchnoi My Life for Chess: Vol. 2
Victor Kortchnoi My Life for Chess: Vol. 2 DVD
Our Price: $32.95

Volume 2 features about four hours of “Kortchnoi live”. The great chess legend portraits the second part of his eventful career, presenting among other things his games against Kasparov (1986), Spassky (1989) and Short (1990) in his typical gripping style. Embedded in the game commentaries are many details of Kortchnoi’s biography.
Boris Spassky – 10th World Chess Champion
Boris Spassky – 10th World Chess Champion CD
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This CD contains all the games of Boris Spassky, the 10th World Chess Champion, one of the superior masters of attack in chess history.
Grandmaster Efim Bogoljubow
Grandmaster Efim Bogoljubow CD
Our Price: $29.95
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For over three decades Efim Bogoljubow dominated the world of chess, along with his rival Alekhine - yet Fate has made the latter name famous while obscuring the former. Now chess enthusiasts can experience the life and games of world championship contender Bogoljubow.
Alexei Shirov: My Best Games in the Spanish
Alexei Shirov: My Best Games in the Spanish DVD
Our Price: $36.95
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There are not many top Grandmasters who enjoy as great a popularity among chess fans all over the world as Alexei Shirov. This DVD is dedicated to his most brilliant games in the Ruy Lopez.
Alexei Shirov: My Best Games in the Sicilian
Alexei Shirov: My Best Games in the Sicilian DVD
Our Price: $32.95

Since 1992, Alexei Shirov has belonged to the best players in the world. Within a very short period he established himself as one of the absolute top guns, reaching #4 in the world on the FIDE rating list and a rating of 2751 Elo.
Alexei Shirov: My Best Games in the Najdorf
Alexei Shirov: My Best Games in the Najdorf DVD
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Alexei Shirov can look back on an extraordinary chess career. Young Alexei became U-16 World Champion in 1988, and second in the World Junior Championship in 1990. He received his GM title in 1992, at the age of 20.
World Champion Capablanca
World Champion Capablanca CD
Our Price: $32.95

The Cuban Jose Raul Capablanca, World Chess Champion 1921-1927, was considered at the height of his career to be almost unbeatable and received the nickname "the chess machine".
Vlastimil Hort: Facing the World Champions
Vlastimil Hort: Facing the World Champions DVD
Our Price: $32.95

On this DVD the Czech-German grandmaster looks back to these encounters and devotes a chapter to each of the world champions, Thus we have eye-witness accounts which form a personal gallery of chess world champions, during which we get not only a presentation of the games but also details and stories of things which happened off the board and in the wings, as it were.
Victor Kortchnoi My Life for Chess: Vol. 1
Victor Kortchnoi My Life for Chess Vol. 1 DVD
Our Price: $32.95

Viktor Kortchnoi is doubtlessly one of the most electrifying personalities of the chess world. Still playing successful and attractive chess, the 73-year-old former double world championship finalist is also famous for his candid language. Kortchnoi was never one for mincing his words.
Vladimir Kramnik: My Path to the Top
Vladimir Kramnik: My Path to the Top DVD
Our Price: $36.95

On this DVD Vladimir Kramnik retraces his career from talented schoolboy to World Champion in 2006. With humour and charm he describes his first successes, what it meant to be part of the Russian Gold Medal team at the Olympiad, and how he undertook the Herculean task of beating his former mentor and teacher Garry Kasparov.
Viswanathan Anand: My Career, Vol. 1
Viswanathan Anand: My Career, Vol. 1 DVD
Our Price: $37.95

The first DVD with videos from Anand's chess career covers the very beginning of his career to 1999. It starts with his memories of how he first learned chess and shows his first great games (including those from the 1984 World Junior).