After laying the foundation in Volume 1, it‘s time to dive deeper into key strategic concepts that will elevate your middlegame play. But don’t expect long theoretical explanations — this course is all about active learning!
Get ready to analyse, evaluate, and make real decisions, just like in a practical game.At the heart of this course lies a fundamental yet formidable question: Which pieces are good, which are bad, and what can you do about it? By mastering this principle, you’ll learn to solve complex middlegame positions with clarity and confidence.
What you’ll learn – a structured approach to piece play:
- Improve your worst piece – identify and activate underperforming pieces to maximise their potential.
- Exchanging pieces – learn when to trade, and when to keep key pieces for maximum impact.
- King safety – understand how piece activity directly affects your king’s security.
- Pieces out of play – recognise misplaced pieces and find ways to bring them back into action.
Throughout the course, you’ll face interactive challenges that put your strategic thinking to the test. Many examples include multiple questions, making the learning process more dynamic and reinforcing key concepts at every step.
Extensive training content and interactive exercises in ChessBase Books:
Solve exercises & and test your knowledge with the Fritz App.
Video running time: 5 hours 32 minutes
Born in 1988, Robert Ris is an International Master who has represented The Netherlands in various international youth events. Nowadays his main activities in the Amsterdam area consist of teaching in schools and chess clubs as well as coaching private clients.
This is what is delivered:
- Fritztrainer for 4 platforms: App for Windows, App for Mac, ChessBase books and ChessBase Videostream
- Delivery as a download or by post (card with serial number)
- Video course with a running time of approx. 4-8 hrs.
- Repertoire database: save and integrate Fritztrainer games into your own repertoire (in WebApp Opening or in ChessBase)
- Interactive exercises with video feedback: the authors present exercises and key positions, the user has to enter the solution. With video feedback (also on mistakes) and further explanations.
- All videos and additional tasks, tests and texts included in the CB books.
- Sample games as a ChessBase database.
That's what the FritzTrainer App can do for you:
- Videos can run in the Fritztrainer app or in the ChessBase program with board graphics, notation and a large function bar
- Analysis engine can be switched on at any time
- Video pause for manual navigation and analysis in game notation
- Input of your own variations, engine analysis, with storage in the game
- Learn variations: view specific lines in the ChessBase WebApp Opening with autoplay, memorize variations and practise transformation (initial position - final position).
- Active opening training: selected opening positions are transferred to the ChessBase WebApp Fritz-online. In a match against Fritz you test your new knowledge and actively play the new opening.
Even more possibilities: Start FritzTrainer in the ChessBase program!
- The database with all games and analyses can be opened directly.
- Games can be easily added to the opening reference.
- Direct evaluation with game reference, games can be replayed on the analysis board
- Your own variations are saved and can be added to the own repertoire
- Replay training
- LiveBook active
- All engines installed in ChessBase can be started for the analysis
- Assisted Analysis
- Print notation and diagrams (for worksheets)
System requirements:
Windows 10 or higher, Mac OS X (only download)
Windows 10 or higher
Minimum: Dual Core, 2 GB RAM, DirectX11, graphics card with 256 MB RAM, (DVD-ROM drive), Windows Media Player 9, ChessBase 14/Fritz 16 or included Reader and internet access for program activation. Recommended: PC Intel i5 (Quadcore), 4 GB RAM, Windows 10, DirectX11, graphics card with 512 MB RAM or more, 100% DirectX10-compatible sound card, Windows Media Player 11, (DVD-ROM drive) and internet access for program activation.
MacOSX
only available as download! Minimum: MacOS "Yosemite" 10.10
