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Chess middlegame training software covers both chess tactics and chess strategy. Players just starting out may consider Chess Tactics for Beginners, while more experienced players might choose Intensive Course Tactics by Renko. There are even "bundled" chess software programs for extra savings, like the Encyclopedia of Middlegame package. Whether beginner or Grandmaster, this section of ChessCentral's online chess shop features chess middlegame software training programs that can improve your chess game!
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It's Your Move Improvers E-book, by Chris Ward
It's Your Move Improvers E-book
Our Price: $19.95

Chris Ward invites readers to solve a selection of carefully chosen puzzles. In this, the second book in the "It's Your Move" series, the positions are aimed at improving players, specifically the low level club players who are looking to hone their skills in order to climb further up the chess ladder.
It's Your Move E-book, by Chris Ward
It's Your Move E-book
Our Price: $19.95

This book provides the reader with a selection of puzzles to solve. However, unlike other books of the White to play and mate in three' variety, it simulates real game scenarios, offering readers a choice of tempting alternatives and requiring them to pick the best.
Starting Out: Chess Tactics and Checkmates E-book
Starting Out: Chess Tactics and Checkmates E-book
Our Price: $19.95

Learning chess tactics is fun and one of the quickest ways of improving your chess, and it's even more enjoyable when your opponents begin falling for your tricks! Read this book and, with the help of a Grandmaster, you will be ready to unleash your weapons in your chess battles, whoever your opponent may be.
Winning Chess Strategies (Revised Edition) E-Book
Winning Chess Strategies (Revised Edition) E-Book
Our Price: $19.95

Learn to:
* Knock your opponent off balance with bold opening moves
* Formulate an overall game strategy before the middle game
* Interpret the motivation behind your opponents every move
* Position yourself for a winning endgame
Winning Chess Tactics (Revised Edition) E-Book
Winning Chess Tactics (Revised Edition) E-Book
Our Price: $19.95

Learn sure-fire tactics and combinations from one of the worlds top chess players. Attack? Defend? Swap pieces? Tactics are the watchdogs of strategy that take advantage of short-term opportunities to trap or ambush your opponent and quite possibly change the course of a game in a single move.
Art of Attack in Chess E-Book
Art of Attack in Chess E-Book
Our Price: $19.95

One of the finest chess books ever written, now in the revised algebraic edition. The author expounds both the basic principles and the most complex forms of attack on the king.
Excelling at Chess Calculation: Capitalizing on Tactical Chances E-Book
Excelling at Chess Calculation: Capitalizing on Tactical Chances E-Book
Our Price: $19.95

In Excelling at Chess Calculation, Jacob Aagaard tackles the subject matter head on, unravelling the many secrets behind chess calculation and arming the reader with the necessary tools to be able to calculate effectively at the chessboard
Excelling at Combinational Play: Learn to Identify and Exploit Tactical Chances E-Book
Excelling at Combinational Play: Learn to Identify and Exploit Tactical Chances E-Book
Our Price: $19.95

Experienced chess writer Jacob Aagaard explains how tactical intuition and ability develops and uses pattern recognition to improve the reader's tactical ammunition. Is also no secret that the continued practice of puzzles and combinations helps to sharpen the chess brain.
Who Dares Wins! Attacking the King on Opposite Sides E-Book
Who Dares Wins! Attacking the King on Opposite Sides E-Book
Our Price: $19.95

In this chess book, Lorin D'Costa presents a comprehensive study of opposite-side castling and the crucial techniques needed both in attack and defense. He tackles all the key subjects, including sacrificing, speed of attack, strong and weak defensive formations, when to delay or avoid castling, and much more.
Excelling at Positional Chess: How the Best Players Plan and Maneuver Ebook
Excelling at Positional Chess: How the Best Players Plan and Manoeuvre E-Book
Our Price: $19.95

In this unique chess book, International Master Jacob Aagaard selects many original examples of positional chess, the créme de la créme of those that he uses for training and study. Aagaard also delves deeply into the ideas of positional evaluation and analysis.
Why We Lose at Chess E-Book
Why We Lose at Chess E-Book
Our Price: $19.95

Colin Crouch tackles this vital subject face-to-face. Drawing upon his considerable experience, he looks back at critical moments within games where mistakes are made, and examines how we can recognise the danger signs and avoid making impulsive decisions. The reader is constantly challenged by exercises, which provide perfect training for real over-the-board battles.
Chess Secrets: Heroes of Classical Chess: Learn from Carlsen, Anand, Fischer, Smyslov and Rubinstein Ebook
Chess Secrets: Heroes of Classical Chess E-Book
Our Price: $19.95

In Heroes of Classical Chess, Craig Pritchett selects five great players whose style exemplifies classically direct, clear, energetic, tough, ambitious yet fundamentally correct chess playing attributes. Pritchett studies the major contributions they have made, compares their differing styles and discusses the critical influences they have had on the development of chess, on their peers and on all our games.
Chess Secrets of Great Attackers: Learn from Kasparov, Tal and Stein E-Book
Chess Secrets: Great Attackers: Learn from Kasparov, Tal and Stein E-Book
Our Price: $19.95

Chess Secrets is a new series of books which uncover the mysteries of chess strategy, chess tactics, classical play, chess openings and endgames - along with preparation. In each book the author chooses and deeply studies a number of great players from chess history who have excelled in a particular field of the game and undeniably influenced those who have followed.
The Greatest Ever Chess Tricks and Traps E-book for Download
The Greatest Ever Chess Tricks and Traps, E-book for Download
Our Price: $19.95

In this instructive and fun book, Gary Lane looks back through chess history and at modern times to create a list of his own favorite tricks and traps. Selecting from hundreds of contenders, Lane examines a variety of factors in order to decide which ideas are most worthy of inclusion. Discover the stories behind the most cunning tricks and traps of all time; how you can utilize them to score easy wins; and how you can avoid being tricked yourself.
School of Elementary Chess Tactics
School of Elementary Tactics CD
Our Price: $29.95
Sale Price: $22.95

Consists of two distinct databases for your comprehensive training in chess tactics. The first database shows the author Martin Weteschnik presenting a course in the theories of tactics. The second database makes use of the advantages of a modern database program to hone your tactical skills.
Strategy and Tactics
Strategy and Tactics CD
Our Price: $29.95
Sale Price: $22.95

Strategy and Tactics by Peter Wells addresses advanced players. It contains an introduction and five lectures which deal with purely practical subjects: the calculation of variations and how errors arise. These are important themes where a Grandmaster trainer is able to draw on his rich and varied experience and provide chess students with valuable tips. There are five more lectures on positional chess.
Andrew Martin: First Steps in Attack Chess DVD
Andrew Martin: First Steps in Attack Chess DVD
Our Price: $22.95

This new chess training series from ChessBase is aimed at players below 2200. The idea of the series is to provide a basic grounding on a variety of subjects, which will assist general all-round improvement. On ‘First Steps in Attack’
Andrew Martin: First Steps in Defense, Chess Software DVD
Andrew Martin: First Steps in Defense, Chess Software DVD
Our Price: $22.95

Here noted author Andrew Martin treats the chess player to a selection of classic chess games and lays out a foundation course in the art of defending. Key thinking points reinforce the analysis and the games, and the author shows that defense can be fun!
Andrew Martin: First Steps in Positional Play! Chess DVD
Andrew Martin: First Steps in Chess Positional Play!
Our Price: $22.95

‘First Steps in Positional Play’ attempts to equip the viewer with all the information he or she needs to begin to tackle this aspect of chess. Players below 1500 will benefit from this basic advice. Players above 1500 will enjoy the detailed examination of many current master games. This is an enjoyable tour of positional play from which everyone can learn.
Andrew Martin: First Steps in Chess Technique, Chess Software
Andrew Martin: First Steps in Chess Technique
Our Price: $22.95

The acquisition of excellent chess technique seems elusive to the average player, but on this new ChessBase DVD, FIDE Senior Trainer Andrew Martin shows how to take first steps in the right direction.