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In 24 video lectures Adrian Mikhalchichin, Lawrence Trent, Lars Schandorff and Valeri Lilov show you what you really need to know about the King's Gambit, the Vienna Game, the Giuoco Piano, the Evans Gambit, the Two Knights Game, the Scotch, the Steinitz and Berlin Defences, the Open Ruy Lopez or the Exchange Variation, the Marshall, the Philidor and the Petroff Defences and many others. In it,experienced tournament players and experts in the individual openings tell you what you absolutely have to know in each specific area, which basic plans require to be followed, how to execute them and what traps have to be borne in mind.
"Openings # 01: The open games (1.e4 e5)" is the first installment ina series of five volumes about the fundamentals of chess openings. That doesn't have to be the case.With ChessBase Tutorials you do not need to spend a lot of time getting up to speed. And then you will findon the DVD the extensive video lectures delivered by various top class trainers and grandmasters.Įvery game starts with an opening - and sometimes that is even as far as it gets. The accompanying booklet offers both a survey and rapid starting point for the study of the individual opening variations. The many readers of ChessBase Magazine have already come to appreciate this concept. Every issue will consist of a DVD and a detailed accompanying booklet. Today's way to learn chess! The ChessBase Tutorials are a new series in the publishing program ofChessBase.