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ChessCentral's online chess store offers a wide range of chess training software, for those getting started in chess to training for the more advanced chess player. Some chess software presents 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 chess games, tests and drills - it's all here!
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Power Play 5: Pawns
Power Play 5: Pawns
Our Price: $34.95

You might be a brilliant tactician or a fearsome attacker, but you won’t always be able to apply these skills when you play. If a game takes on a quieter nature, it is crucial that you develop an understanding of pawn structures, pawn play and pawn weaknesses.
Power Play 6: Pawns, Pieces & Plans
Power Play 6: Pawns, Pieces & Plans
Our Price: $34.95

If you want to be a well-rounded chess player, it is vital that you have a good understanding of positional play. In this 6th Power Play DVD, Daniel King discusses three classic questions.
* The Isolated Queen’s Pawn
* Central passed pawns
* When to exchange pawns (and when not to exchange pawns)
Power Play 8: Knights and Bishops
Power Play 7: Improve Your Chess Pieces
Our Price: $34.95

Why is maneuvering important, and in what circumstances should we consider manoeuvring rather than another course of action? In this 7th Power Play DVD, Daniel King helps you to recognize when a piece is poorly placed and what to do about it. Throughout the DVD, specially selected positions will enable you to test your understanding of the subject.
Power Play 8: Knights and Bishops
Power Play 8: Knights and Bishops
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Power Play 8: Knights and Bishops - After watching this 8th Power Play DVD you’ll have a better idea of how to play positions with Knights and Bishops – what to look for, what to avoid, and how to place your pawns.
Power Play 10: Calculation
Power Play 10: Calculation
Our Price: $34.95

Power Play 10: Calculation DVD Grandmaster Daniel King will help you to assess how good you are at calculating, and gives you tips as to how you might sharpen your thought processes at the chessboard. Throughout the DVD, specially selected positions
Maurice Ashley: The Secret to Chess
Maurice Ashley: The Secret to Chess
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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.
Test, Evaluate and Improve Your Chess
Test, Evaluate and Improve Your Chess CD
Our Price: $29.95

Dr. Danny Kopec earned his Ph. D. in Computer Science with a concentration in artificial intelligence. He is also an international master who may be the world’s greatest exponent of chess knowledge.
Power Play 13: The Squeeze Chess DVD by GM Daniel King
Power Play 13: The Squeeze
Our Price: $34.95

Throughout the DVD, specially selected positions will enable you to test your understanding of the subject. The Power Play series is suitable for anyone looking to improve their chess, but also provides ready-made lessons and exercises for a trainer. Video running time: 5 hours.
Think Like a King Family Package
Think Like a King Family Package
List Price: $94.95
Our Price: $64.95

Save money with a collection of six Chess Workouts© on one CD! The Family Package is designed for players who want to progress rapidly through beginning to advanced Tactics and Checkmate strategy.
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
Chess Fundamentals - Download
Chess Fundamentals - Download
Our Price: $16.95

Capablanca teaches chess! Let the 3rd World Chess Champion be your guide to improvement in chess, as he takes you step by step from novice to upper-grade competitor. Beginning with elementary checkmates, Capablanca moves logically through every phase of basic chess technique.
Classic Chess Sampler IV E-Books on CD
Classic Chess Sampler IV CD
Our Price: $29.95

Here is your chance to own the classics you've always wanted...but now in the latest ChessBase format!
* Chess Fundamentals (J. R. Capablanca) * Common Sense in Chess (Em. Lasker) * Endings for Beginners (J. H. Blake) * Art of War (Sun Tzu)
The Classic Chess Sampler II
Classic Chess Sampler II CD
Our Price: $49.95

The Classic Chess Sampler II Chess E-Books on CD - 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.
Classic Chess Sampler III CD
Classic Chess Sampler III CD
Our Price: $29.95

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.
Fritz & Chesster: Learn to play chess, Vol. 1
Fritz & Chesster 1 - Learn to play chess CD
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This is the beginning of a 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 because of this chess software program, and benefit from studying and playing of chess
Chess Mazes - Download
Chess Mazes - Download
Our Price: $19.95

Chess Mazes will help you learn how to plan their actions many moves in advance, to conduct highly complicated maneuvering with their chess pieces, to transfer the chess pieces safely from certain squares to other more convenient points on the chess board.