For Chess Club Players, GMs: Save $35 on Chess King Tactics Combo
Hello chess blog friends, a nice chess deal for you today. This is about a nice combo that you can download right now and save $35 as well!
ALL 3 CHESS KING TRAINING TACTICS COMBO (Download)
Chess King Training Tactics Levels 1,2 & 3 Combo - (3 CD-Rom's - work with PC's with Windows XP, Vista, 7)
Level - From Beginner to Grandmaster
Get the leading Chess Tactics Training Software used by schools and coaches nationwide. Learn chess at your own pace the fun and easy way!
Calling all aspiring chess players... if you want to learn a quick and easy way to master chess tactics then this 3-CD ROM bundle is for you!
Each CD offers a large number of chess puzzles, guaranteed to improve solving skills.
Level 1: For the Beginner - As a beginner, you can't afford to miss mate in one or two moves if you want to improve. This course addresses that problem. The huge number of exercises presented also makes it an excellent tool even for stronger players. This CD-ROM is a great help to parents who want their child to improve at chess. The program includes 1000 Mates in One and Two moves taken from practical games, and will keep you or your child busy for hours, improving at chess minute by minute.
You get plenty of feedback and opportunity to track your progress. The positions are categorized Mate in One, Mate in Two, few pieces and many pieces. You can choose the number of positions in the tests, as well as the material covered.
1000 practice exercises with mate in 1 & 2 moves.
Recommended level: Beginner and unrated, up to 1000 ELO.
Old Price: $74.97Price: $39.95You save: $35.02
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Complete Chess Course Combo 3 DVD: Make Your Game Super-Strong at Super Speed
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
Hi everyone,
It's time to put a stop to all those lost chess games. Are you ready for a super-strong chess programme that can take your game play to the top? Check out this Chess King's Complete Chess Course 3 DVD Set. It is the quickest and easiest way to learn the chess basics, the patterns, tips, strategies, techniques which will turn you from a beginner into an accomplished chess player. The DVD video format makes it simple to improve your chess. Just watch, listen and learn. This Course is a fountain of knowledge for parents and coaches.
The set contains close to 5 hours of structured instruction with over 100 ready-to-use examples of sound chess fundamentals. Recommended for players Unrated to 1500 Elo. Ideal for Junior and improving players to reach club player level. Useful for parents and coaches to gather material for their chess lessons. The high quality DVDs feature 12th Women's World Chess Champion and Chess Queen™ Alexandra Kosteniuk and a portion of the proceeds go to support her Chess Fund.
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Six New Chess King Training DVDs go on Sale Today
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
Hi everyone,
Chess King Training is pleased to announce 6 new chess DVD’s for all players Unrated to 1500-1700 Elo.
The Complete Chess Course is guaranteed to increase your level of chess up to that of an accomplished chess player. It covers all areas of chess (openings, tactics, strategy and endgames), 5 hours of lessons in 69 easy to follow chapters with more than 100 examples.
The Chess King’s Guide to Opening Ideas will certainly increase your chess opening understanding and erudition, with over 8 hours of video in 93 chapters covering most chess openings. No emphasis on memorization, rather on the ideas one can find in the chess openings. This is an amazing chess openings encyclopedia which will give you confidence next time you are surprised in the opening by a variation you did not expect.
The series are easy to follow thanks to the masterful presentation by Steve Lopez and features 12th Women’s World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk.
For purchase details, videos, and fantastic discounts check out Chess King.
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Play Chess Endgame Like a Grandmaster!
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
Hi everyone,
There is a nice review of a DVD that could really power up your endgame chess play. Learn to play endgames like Grandmasters do.
Chess King Training: Endgames (DVD), by Alexander Panchenko, $25.00 (ChessCafe Price: $21.00)Chess King Training: Endgames is a course composed by GM Alexander Panchenko designed for club, intermediate, and advanced players in the rating ranges 1500 to 2400. It aims to teach the student the intricacies of the endgame through a theoretical section of 700+ "games/lectures," each of which are said to illustrate theoretical and practical endgame methods. There is also a training section that has more than 300 exercises for the user to test their skill.
The contents are divided as follows:
Pawn endings (67)
Knight endings (94)
Bishops of opposite color (36)
Opposite colored bishops with rooks or queens on the board (11)
Bishops of the same color (35)
Bishop against knight (64)
Bishop pair in the endgame (30)
Extra exchange (44)
Rook against pawns (41)
Rook endings (169)
Endings with four rooks (15)
Queen endings (34)
Queen against two rooks (17)
Multi-piece endings (52)
There are three options in the ChessKing interface: "Learn," "Practice," and "Test."
"Learn" gives you access to the lecture material. There are three main elements on the screen: the chessboard, the lecture content, and a table of contents with drop-down menu features that lets you navigate to specific topics.
"Practice" and "Test" seem to be essentially the same feature, except that "Test" randomizes the positions and you can choose the number of positions as well as the material covered, while "Practice" presents them in sequential order. In each, if you make a wrong move, the chess piece that should be moved will blink as a hint. If you make the correct move, you will either be prompted to make another after the program moves or the program will play through the entire example on its own without the need for any further input from the user.
The program can track the progress of multiple users and offers feedback to track progress in terms of an Elo rating and accompanying chart. Nevertheless, adding another user is not an intuitive process. There is no "add new user button," instead one must double-click on the name of the displayed user. Upon doing so, a switch/create new user dialog box appears. However, the user is left to discover this on their own.
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Chess King Christmas Combos with Powerful & Affordable Chess Software
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Chess King has these incredible deals for you for the holiday season. Please yourself and someone you love!
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Chess Players improve Faster thanks to Educational Software
Hello everybody!
Quite often people people ask me who plays/played better chess in absolute terms, modern players from the 21st century or classical champions from the 19th and 20th centuries, and how has the level of chess evolved through time. They ask me how it could be that players are now becoming Grandmasters at a much younger age. Is the title of Grandmaster devalued in some way, or are people becoming smarter?
 helps improve at chess fast and in an organized way
I believe the difference is that now computers and chess software are helping chess players to improve at chess considerably faster. Previously analyzing an opening chess variation would take weeks, single positions were being studied by Grandmasters for days on end. Karpov was often said to have dozens of Grandmasters helping him for opening preparation and for analyzing adjourned games. Nowadays, powerful computers have forced the chess world to abandon the practice of adjourned games, as chess software can give a winning line in a few seconds. Learning opening theory is also hundreds of times faster! One can go through opening lines on the computer at such a speed, that it is now feasible to get a good idea of an opening in a few hours, with the main lines and possible plans, as played by thousands of high level chess players, enormous databases of millions of games at our fingertips.
Another category of very useful chess software is the educational type of interactive CD-ROMS, such as the new series from CHESS KING TRAINING. These types of software are extremely useful to raise your level of play, and they do it in an organized way, perfect for parents or coaches to monitor progress, or for tournament players to quickly get into shape.
While training me when I was a kid, my Dad has always insisted on TACTICS Training, providing me with dozens of chess puzzles to solve. The puzzles were on cards, and I had to solve them one at a time and he would write the date and time it took to solve them on the back side of the card. It was a big work, as much for him (to find the puzzles) as for me (to solve them), and we used to spend up to 5 hours a day solving such puzzles. That helped me get very high in chess, but it was an enormous effort, for sure, for the whole family.
 My Dad Konstantin coaching me and my sister Oxana
I still use TACTICS Training as my main practice before tournaments, as it is important to have a well-practiced mind before an event. That's a little like stretching before a race.
CHESS KING TRAINING has come out with 3 Tactics CD-ROMS, that are a challenge for the very beginner chess players (Volume 1), for club players who want to improve (Volume 2), to experienced players and even masters (Volume 3). I use volumes 2 and 3 before tournaments, set up "tests" of up to 50 puzzles, and try to solve them as fast as I can. I can easily see how I score thanks to the immediate feedback I get from the program. The volume Tactics 1 is perfect for kids, as it has an enormous number of Mate in 1 and in 2 moves (1000 puzzles), adapted to kids of any age, who after working on all the puzzles will never any more miss simple checkmates, guaranteed.
 The 3 TACTICS volumes by Chess King adapted for beginners all the way to masters
Also very useful software has come out to help in studying Chess Endgames, Chess Strategy and Chess Openings. Chess Endgames is the most overlooked area of chess education, which I view as critical to getting good practical results in tournaments. Strategy is the most "forgotten" area of study as students don't know how to study strategy. Chess King gives a good base of knowledge in that area. And we talked about openings, in which software are critical to help go over many lines in very little time. The Openings section has for most main opening lines tests to see if you can find good series of moves (plans) that go well with the openings in question.
All software give full feedback, with rating for each user (Can have unlimited number of users per program), as well as full tests results. Ideal for parents and/or coaches who want to keep their kids busy in a useful and controllable environment. And for club players or intermediate and advanced players, it's a must to brush up on TACTICS on a very regular basis to improve.
You can find out more about the new software on this page. There is a limited time 20% discount as well as a COMBO special pricing that you won't want to miss. The discounts are available until the end of May, 2011.
Happy chess training!
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