9/2/2020 The second-to-last week of our Summer Special has arrived, and we are offering yet another great DVD bundle, this time with Fritztrainers by Victor Bologan. The Moldovan grandmaster teaches us how to win with the Kings Indian attack, an opening which is very popular amongst several titled players. We have also added his DVD Kings Indian: A modern approach, where Bologan presents a full repertoire in over seven hours of instruction. To sum the bundle up, you will also get the openings 2019 Powerbook and Powerbase DVDs, with over 100,000 games. And finally, we add another signed-DVD raffle to all buyers!
Play it like former World Champion Bobby Fischer!
I have always loved the Kings Indian. My trainers, Ion Solonar and Vyacheslav Chebanenko, taught me to play it with Black, and also showed me how play the Kings Indian setup with an extra tempo. An important extra tempo: Black plays the Kings Indian Defence, White plays the Kings Indian Attack! This opening was also a favourite of chess legend and 11th World Champion Bobby Fischer, who is known for his aggressive play and his wish to win every game. With the Kings Indian Attack he scored 8out of 9, creating a number of fine modelgames that teach us how to attack with the setup.
The Kings Indian Attack is mainly reached via the French Defence (1.e4 e6 2.d3) and the Sicilian with 2e6, but it can also arise from the Reti Opening, when Black plays e6 and d5 to reach structures from the Queens Gambit Declined. Thirty years ago the Kings Indian Attack was considered to be an interesting and original way to avoid theoretical battles. But todays theory sees the Kings Indian Attack in line with the modern approach to postpone the fight for the centre to the middlegame. The Kings Indian Attack is full of positional and tactical ideas and is often an unpleasant surprise for the opponent. The opening is easy to prepare but its important to remember that the Kings Indian Attack is more about ideas and plans and less about forced and complicated lines. Since my junior days it has been a reliable weapon and it still serves me well today.
Video running time: 4 h 27 min(English) With interactive training including video feedback Extra: Database with more than 50 model games Including CB Reader
Author Victor Bologan about his DVD: If chess players are in Iceland, they usually pay tribute to the genius of Bobby Fischer, the 11th World Champion, by visiting his grave in Selfoss in Reykjavik. With this DVD I also want to express my gratitude to Fischer: for his great contribution to chess in general and because he helped to make the Kings Indian more popular in particular. As a junior, when I was ten years old, my coach advised me to study the openings of Fischer and I discovered the Kings Indian. Later I learned about the different approaches Black has in the Kings Indian. He can keep his structure flexible and put his pawns on d6 and c6; he can play the sharp and principled Nc6 in the classical lines and in some sidelines he can sacrifice a pawn with b5 as in the Benko.
Top players such as Geller, Smirin, Kasparov, Radjabov, Nakamura and Ding Liren all played and play the Kings Indian and they all have a different style, a different approach. When preparing the material for this DVD I studied the games of these experts, checked analyses with modern engines and used a lot of material from correspondence databases. Every day my Kings Indian vocabulary got better, richer, and more varied. At the same time my confidence and my belief in the Kings Indian also got bigger. If you study this DVD carefully and solve the interactive exercises you will also enrich your chess vocabulary, your Kings Indian vocabulary, build up confidence in the Kings Indian and your chess and win more games.
Video running time: 7 hours 14 min (English) With interactive training including video feedback Database with more than 50 instructive games, extensive analysis of the theory shown on this DVD Including CB 12 Reader
If you want to play for a win with Black against 1.d4, 1.c4 or 1.Nf3, the Kings Indian remains a good choice. Of course the risk is correspondingly somewhat higher. That was recognized even by Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov who for years had the Kings Indian opening in their repertoire, but did not employ it in their WCh matches. Our powerbook gives you the chance to make valuable discoveries: variations which are above averagely successful for White as well as secret weapons for Black.
The Kings Indian Powerbook 2019 is based above all on 252 000 games from the engine room of playchess.com, supplemented by 99 000 games played by human beings. Setting the threshold average Elo of both players at 2375 guarantees the high quality of the statistics. But what makes the Powerbook so valuable is that it is possible to find lovely secret variations for both sides with only a minimum of searching.
The 754 selected annotated games offer an incredible amount of material for study. Top players such as Carlsen (1 annotated game), Caruana (1), Ding Liren (2), Giri (4), Mamedyarov (1), Anand (1), Aronian (1), So (2), Radjabov (6), Kramnik (1), have analysed their own games, with in addition Kings Indian experts like Hazai (221), Stohl (101), Krasenkow (100). There is a total of 9780 games, where the average rating of the players was 2575.
The database shows the games list. With a double click on a game, the game is loaded. By clicking on the tab Players you can sort the list by frequency. By doing this you can examine the games of Kramnik or Aronian further who have played the opening a lot.
Games can be replayed and examined with an engine or likewise with a powerbook.
Two chess grandmasters who both reached a rating of over 2800 have signed our chess engines Fritz 16 + 17. While Fabiano Caruana signed the Fritz 16 DVD, Garry Kasparov autographedFritz 17. Anybody who buys the Kings Indian Attack bundlewill get achance to win either one of these signed DVDs. Good luck!
Whoever bought our bundlesSummer Special - The power of the Nimzo Indian,Play the Najdorf with the help of GarryorSommer Spezial I - Franzsischer Reichtumhad the chance to win a signed DVD by either Kasparov, Sarin or Gukesh!
With the big help ofour cats, wefound our four lucky winners.Congratulations!
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