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FOXY OPENINGS - VOLUME 85 - Essential Chess Tactics Easily Explained
This dvd will help you the next time you are sitting across from your opponent and not sure what your next move is. You will gain confidence by learning about strategy and ideas to look for to create a plan. A plan may consist of a Pawn Minority attack, controlling the center or just improving your pieces.
FOXY OPENINGS - VOLUME 85 - Essential Chess Tactics Easily Explained
Catalog Code: DVD0085FX
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FOXY OPENINGS - VOLUME 86 - Dynamics of Strategy and How to Create a Plan
All the Basic tactical ideas are discussed fully, followed by a series of very recent illustrative games, where we will see all that ideas in action . On this dvd you will gain confidence in your ability to handle tactics when they crop up over the board and who knows, you may be able to land some tactical knockouts yourself!
FOXY OPENINGS - VOLUME 86 - Dynamics of Strategy and How to Create a Plan
Catalog Code: DVD0086FX
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FOXY OPENINGS - VOLUME 87 - Attack Defense Space Time Easily Explained
DVD Four concentrates on attack and defence, space and time. IM Andrew Martin will teach you skills that will help you understand when to attack and the important of avoiding premature attacks. In order for an attack to succeed is you must have a lead in development and space. Timing is vital, so take advantage of opportunities and attack with as many pieces as possible.
FOXY OPENINGS - VOLUME 87 - Attack Defense Space Time Easily Explained
Catalog Code: DVD0087FX
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FOXY OPENINGS - VOLUME 88 - Endgames Self-Training
In Volume Five Andrew Martin shows how to develop good endgame technique, using typical need-to know positions to lay the foundation and then full master games to show how the strongest players tackle this part of chess.
FOXY OPENINGS - VOLUME 88 - Endgames Self-Training
Catalog Code: DVD0088FX
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Great British Triumphs - VOLUME 1
All chess fans will enjoy the incredible archive footage found on these DVDs for decades feared lost of British wins by Nigel Short, Tony Miles and Jon Speelman against two of the greatest world champions - Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov. The DVDs feature the players own remarks and has an overall commentary by GM Ray Keene.
Great British Triumphs - VOLUME 1
Catalog Code: DVD0003OT
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Great British Triumphs - VOLUME 2
All chess fans will enjoy the incredible archive footage found on these DVDs for decades feared lost of British wins by Nigel Short, Tony Miles and Jon Speelman against two of the greatest world champions - Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov.
Great British Triumphs - VOLUME 2
Catalog Code: DVD0004OT
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Great Masters in Chess History (2 DVD Set) - Chess Lecture - Volume 45
Take a tour of classic games of the great masters Solomon Flohr, Rashid Nezhmetdinovm, Tony MIles, Paul Keres, Leonid Stein, Latos Portisch, David Bronstein, Vassily Smylov. Bill reviews classic games, showing each master's style, thought process and why they are considered the best of the world.
Great Masters in Chess History (2 DVD Set) - Chess Lecture - Volume 45
Catalog Code: DVD0045CL
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How To Think Like a Grandmaster - Chess Lecture - Volume 1
GM Eugene Perelshteyn earned his third GM norm and the title GM after sharing first place in the 2006 Foxwoods Open, He won the Samford Chess Fellowship in 2002, awarded to the top American Player under 25 years old earning $64,000, Eugene also led the Unversity of Maryland, Baltimore County to a few Pan American championships from 1998-2002.
How To Think Like a Grandmaster - Chess Lecture - Volume 1
Catalog Code: DVD0001CL
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Improve Your Chess DVD Series - How to Play Winning Attacks
Wolff deals with attacks on the castled king and attacks on the king in the center, methods for provoking weaknesses in the opponent's position and how they can be exploited and attacked, and attacks involving the sacrifice of pawns and/or pieces.
Improve Your Chess DVD Series - How to Play Winning Attacks
Catalog Code: DVD0026OT
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Improve Your Chess DVD Series - Defense & Counterattack
The author shows you how to: Defend and protect the weaknesses in your position and how to protect your king; Strengthen your position; Defend difficult and inferior positions: Beat off attacks, and assume the initiative; Develop counterplay using tactical and strategical methods, and much more.
Improve Your Chess DVD Series - Defense & Counterattack
Catalog Code: DVD0025OT
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Improve Your Chess DVD Series - King & Pawn Endgames
On this dvd, GM Edmar Mednis - a recognized authority on the endgame - teaches the viewer the fundamentals of king and pawn endings, including: the importance of king activation, zugzwang, the opposition, and king triangulation.
Improve Your Chess DVD Series - King & Pawn Endgames
Catalog Code: DVD0028OT
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Improve Your Chess DVD Series - Middlegame Planning
This 178 minute dvd is devoted to the middlegame, twice US Chess Champion GM Patrick Wolff (1992 & 1995) demonstrates how to best formulate plans and how to evaluate chess positions.
Wolff deals with a variety of topics that have an influence on the objective evaluation of a position.
Improve Your Chess DVD Series - Middlegame Planning
Catalog Code: DVD0030OT
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Improve Your Chess DVD Series - Rook & Pawn Endgames
On this dvd, GM Edmar Mednis - a recognized authority on the endgame - teaches the viewer the fundamentals of rook and pawn endings, including: the importance of rook activation and rook placement, the Lucena position, and the Philidor position.
Improve Your Chess DVD Series - Rook & Pawn Endgames
Catalog Code: DVD0029OT
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Improve Your Chess DVD Series - Tactics: The Opening, Middlegame & Endgame
Tactical ability is a prerequisite in all phases of the game. In the opening when development is in its early stages, one slip can be instantly fatal. In the middlegame, there is a myriad of tactical devices available to the well-practiced player in order to carry out the successful prosecution of his or her initiative. In the endgame, tactical solutions require concrete and accurate calculation.
Improve Your Chess DVD Series - Tactics: The Opening, Middlegame & Endgame
Catalog Code: DVD0027OT
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Killer Endgames - Part 1: Beginner to Intermediate
Chess players have a tendency to focus mainly on improving their opening play but one must not forget that many games are actually decided in the endgame. Ginger GM has released two new endgame DVDs that will enhance a players performance in this particular area of the game.
Killer Endgames - Part 1: Beginner to Intermediate
Catalog Code: DVD0023OT
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Killer Endgames - Part 2: Intermediate to Advanced
Chess players have a tendency to focus mainly on improving their opening play but one must not forget that many games are actually decided in the endgame. Ginger GM has released two new endgame DVDs that will enhance a players performance in this particular area of the game.
Killer Endgames - Part 2: Intermediate to Advanced
Catalog Code: DVD0024OT
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KOPEC DVD - Essential Endgame Knowledge
KOPEC DVD - Essential Endgame Knowledge International Master Dr. Danny Kopec, a highly regarded author and player, takes the reader through arguably the most difficult and important aspect of the game of Chess: The Endgame. The DVD covers all types of Endgames, from the most elementary checkmates, through the exploitation of positional and material advantage, right up to the analysis of actual endings from master play.
KOPEC DVD - Essential Endgame Knowledge
Catalog Code: DVD0001KP
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KOPEC DVD - How to Analyze a Chess Position
International Master Dr. Danny Kopec, a highly regarded author and player provides you with tangible techniques and tools which will ensure your success as a player and analyst on this DVD. You will learn the presenter's "Four Golden Rules of Analysis"
KOPEC DVD - How to Analyze a Chess Position
Catalog Code: DVD0002KP
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KOPEC DVD - How to Visualize Chess Combinations - Millennium Edition
On this DVD, Dr. Kopec focuses on various kinds of mating patterns and combinations, including: stock sacrifices, combinations to secure material gain, hanging pieces, and much, much more! Tactics are classified into a number of well-defined categories, including: checks, pins, skewers, double-attacks, overloads, undermining, X-rays, etc. Finally, the presenter examines Bobby Fischer's "Game of the Century" and a fantastic game by Mikhail Tal.
KOPEC DVD - How to Visualize Chess Combinations - Millennium Edition
Catalog Code: DVD0009KP
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KOPEC DVD - Middlegame Pawn Play for Mate
This monumental DVD covers a subject that is certainly not for beginners How pawns should be used in the middlegame to develop an attack on the opposing King. It includes 27 examples comprised of 7 complete games and 20 game fragments divided into three distinct Parts: King(s) Caught in the Center, Kings Castled on Opposite Wings, and Kings Castled on the Same Side. Material is illustrated from the praxis of many of the worlds great players including Alekhine, Anand, Topalov, Fischer, and a few postal gems from IM Kopec himself.
KOPEC DVD - Middlegame Pawn Play for Mate
Catalog Code: DVD0004KP
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KOPEC DVD - Pawn Structures & How to Play Them
International Master Dr. Danny Kopec, a highly regarded author and player provides you with tangible techniques and tools which will ensure your success as a player and analyst on this DVD. You will gain an understanding on the importance of Pawn Structures and how to play them.
KOPEC DVD - Pawn Structures & How to Play Them
Catalog Code: DVD0007KP
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LEARNING CHESS THE EASY WAY - Chess for Absolute Beginners
Susan Polgar's Learning Chess the Easy Way: Chess for Absolute Beginners is by far one of the best ever DVDs made to teach beginners how to play the worlds greatest game. Susan teaches with the aid of great graphics and annimation beginners basic chess knowledge.
LEARNING CHESS THE EASY WAY - Chess for Absolute Beginners
Catalog Code: DVD0014SP
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Magnus Carlsen Madness - Chess Lecture - Volume 36
Currently the Number #1 Ranked Player of All Time!
Currently the Number #1 Ranked Player of All Time!
IM David Vigorito & GM Jesse Kraii analysis game by game of one of the best tournament results in the history of chess. Carlsen eclipsed a stellar field consisting of Topalov, Peter Leki, Dmitry Jakovenko, Teimour Radiaboy and Wang Yue to win clear first prize with 8/10 at the category XXI Pearl Spring Chess Tournament in 2009. Magnus Carlsen is considered to be the top ranking chess player of all time to date.
Magnus Carlsen Madness - Chess Lecture - Volume 36
Currently the Number #1 Ranked Player of All Time!
Catalog Code: DVD0036CL
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MOVIE - Bobby Fischer Against the World
Bobby Fischer Against the World is a documentary feature exploring the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer. The drama of Bobby Fischer's career was undeniable, from his troubled childhood, to his rock star status as World Champion and Cold War icon, to his life as a fugitive on the run.
MOVIE - Bobby Fischer Against the World
Catalog Code: DVD0004MV
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MOVIE - Chess Kids: Special Edition DVD
Lynn Hamrick's award-winning inspirational film is back for the first time on DVD, with all new interviews of the original players, nearly 20 years later! Featuring Josh Waitzkin, top-ranked player Judit Polgar, & more!
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LYNN HAMRICK PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
Lynn Hamrick is a multiple award-winning director of documentaries, features, and network television. Her documentary Chess Kids aired on PBS and won many media and film festival awards. Her feature films, Finding Kelly and Splitsville, aired on Showtime, HBO and The Movie Channel. Selected television directing credits include: Family Ties, Fudge, Silk Stalkings, Baby-Sitter
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LYNN HAMRICK PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
Lynn Hamrick is a multiple award-winning director of documentaries, features, and network television. Her documentary Chess Kids aired on PBS and won many media and film festival awards. Her feature films, Finding Kelly and Splitsville, aired on Showtime, HBO and The Movie Channel. Selected television directing credits include: Family Ties, Fudge, Silk Stalkings, Baby-Sitter
MOVIE - Chess Kids: Special Edition DVD
Catalog Code: DVD0005MV
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MOVIE - Game Over - Kasparov and the Machine
Garry Kasparov is arguably the greatest chess player who has ever lived. In 1997 he played a chess match against IBM's computer Deep Blue. Kasparov lost the match. This film shows the match and the events surrounding it from Kasparov's perspective. It delves into the psychological aspects of the game, paranoia surrounding it and suspicions that have arisen around IBM's true tactics. It consists of interviews with Kasparov, his manager, chess experts, and members of the IBM Deep Blue team, as well as original footage of the match itself.
MOVIE - Game Over - Kasparov and the Machine
Catalog Code: DVD0002MV
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MOVIE - Knights of the South Bronx
Middle-aged and recently unemployed, Richard Mason (Ted Danson) decides to return to his first love: teaching. He finds a job as an inner-city schoolteacher teaching fourth grade. Richard discovers a way to reach out to his skeptical students through the game of chess. Against all odds, he inspires his students to become champions, not only at chess, but in life! Ted Danson gives a compelling performance in this heroic, heartwarming story based on true events co-starring Keke Palmer and Malcolm David Kelley.
MOVIE - Knights of the South Bronx
Catalog Code: DVD0001MV
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My Best Games from the Spice Cup Invitational - Chess Lecture - Volume 33
Founded in 2005 ChessLecture.com is one of the largest chess instructional libraries in the world. Our lectures are created and presented by Grand Masters, International Masters and National Masters and contain excellent instruction by experienced players for the chess enthusiast.
My Best Games from the Spice Cup Invitational - Chess Lecture - Volume 33
Catalog Code: DVD0033CL
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Play Like Tal with Grandmaster Simon Williams
Arguably one of the worlds most exciting chess players of all time, Grandmaster Mikhail Tal will always be remembered as an attacking genius. The former World Champion, who was nicknamed The Magician from Riga for his tactical prowess, has insprired many a chess player with his daring and electrifying style of play. With this in mind, Ginger GM in association with Dark Phoenix Media Ltd. has created its first interactive DVD based on this chess legend.
Play Like Tal with Grandmaster Simon Williams
Catalog Code: DVD0031OT
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Positional Chess - Chess Lecture - Volume 35
2 DVD Collection
2 DVD Collection
IM Valeri Lilov is a young chess talent from the small European country of Bulgaria. He currently resides in Varna, Bulgaria and works hard in the field of practical chess and chess pedagogy.
Positional Chess - Chess Lecture - Volume 35
2 DVD Collection
Catalog Code: DVD0035CL
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Prelude to Armageddon - VOLUME 1
Ray Keenes's chess DVDs are renowned for their excellent archival footage. Prelude to Armageddon: Volumes includes coverage of the critical games as well as sensational archival footage of leading Grandmasters and champions, many of whom are no longer with us.
Prelude to Armageddon - VOLUME 1
Catalog Code: DVD0001OT
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Prelude to Armageddon - VOLUME 2
Ray Keenes's chess DVDs are renowned for their excellent archival footage. Prelude to Armageddon: Volumes includes coverage of the critical games as well as sensational archival footage of leading Grandmasters and champions, many of whom are no longer with us.
Before their titanic struggle began in late 1984 which resulted in no fewer than five world championship duels over almost seven years, Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov both participated in key events in London
Before their titanic struggle began in late 1984 which resulted in no fewer than five world championship duels over almost seven years, Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov both participated in key events in London
Prelude to Armageddon - VOLUME 2
Catalog Code: DVD0002OT
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ROMAN'S LAB - VOLUME 1 - Learn Openings The Easy Way, Traps and Novelties
This DVD features the first five lessons of GM Roman Dzhindzhikhasvili's Mastering Chess Series - Learning Openings the Easy Way. Traps and Novelties. Lesson 1: Learning Openings the Easy Way - Guide to worry-free openings, based on understanding rather than a memory contest; Lesson 2: Avoiding & Creating Opening Traps - The secrets to avoiding and creating opening traps without damaging your position; Lesson 3: Dangers & Advantages of Choosing Sharp Openings - Tactics you can't live without in sharp modern openings; Lesson 4: Punishment for Delaying Development in the Opening - Punishment meted out for typical materialist at the expense of development; and Lesson 5: Creating Opening Novelties - Important updates on a number of novelties introduced in previous Roman Forum tapes.
ROMAN'S LAB - VOLUME 1 - Learn Openings The Easy Way, Traps and Novelties
Catalog Code: DVD0001RM
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ROMAN'S LAB - VOLUME 10 - Greatest Games of Chess Ever Played - PART 1
Positional and Tactical Masterpieces - Roman selects and analyzes 6 of the greatest games ever played by the top world-class players. The criteria for selection of these positional and tactical masterpieces was a high level of resistance for both sides and how the game contributed to the history of chess.
ROMAN'S LAB - VOLUME 10 - Greatest Games of Chess Ever Played - PART 1
Catalog Code: DVD0010RM
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ROMAN'S LAB - VOLUME 100 - Chess Potpourri - Centennial Commemorative Edition
On this DVD, Grandmaster Roman Dzinzichashvili has gathered some of the best games played with his original opening ideas and concepts. This will update you in the latest chess theory, including great tactics generated by novelties AND AMAZING ENDGAMES.
ROMAN'S LAB - VOLUME 100 - Chess Potpourri - Centennial Commemorative Edition
Catalog Code: DVD0100RM
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ROMAN'S LAB - VOLUME 106 - Strategy Behind Playing Pawn Blockaded Positions Right Out of the Opening
This dvd will help your chess game whether you're a novice level player or master. Roman will teach you how to play and win by blockading Pawns right out of the Opening. Blockaded Pawns occur in every openings and by following Roman's easy universal system, you will have a new way to win games.
ROMAN'S LAB - VOLUME 106 - Strategy Behind Playing Pawn Blockaded Positions Right Out of the Opening
Catalog Code: DVD0106RM
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