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German national trainer and chess journalist Martin New faces this time are

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PowerPlay many tournaments and successful lish grandmaster Daniel King, and Playchess trainer Valeri Lilov master Sam Collins, the Bulgarian master Lars Schandorf, the Irish the previous two volumes the recordings in English. You already Tis time fve authors were

the Colle with club players such as the not miss out the systems which sitional players the Catalan.Of Gambit,and also the system best Counter-Gambitand theBlackmar-Chigorin Defence,gambit systems Other openings which will be

rightful struggle arise, in which tactics it is far from rare to see a sharp the name itself might suggest. In “closed games” things are not all other variations show that in many Variationand theMeran specifc variations such as, e.g., ern grandmaster chess many the Semi-Slav,which has important Slav Defenceand last Defenceand theTartakower sically orientated variations, e.g., into several complexes. Tere are then, dependent on Black’s reply, the heading of the Queen’s duce you to, for example, the In 24 videos our trainers and

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„Grandmaster Repertoire: The Caro-two books „Playing the Queen´s Gambit“ his good reputation as an openings Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende and has The grandmaster writes a daily chess a victory in a play-off match against Porz in which sensationally became German played for Werder Bremen and belonged 8 times in chess Olympiads. For many years Denmark in 1988 and has already represented Lars Schandorff (born 1965) became

in Bratislava and is active as an author has worked for ChessBase Magazine since translated into five languages. met with high acclaim in the specialist His subsequent works on Kasparov’s an expanded second edition being nominated the best chess book of 2001 by His book “Instructive Modern Chess chess players and has taken part in numerous Igor Stohl, (born 1964), is one of the

Japan in former Irish champion and has won the class at the renowned Berkeley Chess lectured national junior squads and taught columnist in chess periodicals. As a of several bestselling opening books and is winning a gold medal at Bled in 2002. He is He has represented his country at six Ireland with 2 GM Sam Collins (born 1982) is an International

and capacity of explaining complicated content and demonstrates with them that he DVDs (Sicilian Kan and Queen‘s Gambit activity. Lilov has already published two lectures on Playchess acting as the basis students all over the world, with his regular is now involved in individual or group acquiring the relevant knowledge and who began working as a trainer at a young Valeri Lilov (born 1991) is a Bulgarian FIDE

“Squeeze” and the “Start right”, “Improve your pieces”, pieces and plans“, “Mating patterns”, “Pawn vs. minor pieces“, „Knights and Bishops“, „Calculation“, “Attacking the king”, „Major to middlegame and tactics – amongst present and discuss themes ranging from with ChessBase, now including 14 also produced the highly praised “Powerplay which are evaluated on a points system. questions on the course of play, the combines a well annotated game with popular training column “Move by Move”, to ChessBase Magazine, with articles chess server, Playchess.com. He also monthly “Powerplay” show on the world’s To the delight of chess fans worldwide, he and the internet, commentating major chess also well known for his broadcasting on assisting many of England’s leading books and has a wealth of experience as a Reykjavik. King is the author of more than by the English over the Soviet Union in competitions, amongst others in the years and has represented his country in been a professional chess player for more Daniel King (born 1963) is a Grandmaster

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