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Kopec's Master Class How to Visualize Chess Combinations 120 min.	IM Danny Kopec - This video is aimed at aspiring chess players of all levels. Students will benefit from top-notch instruction by the internationally respected teacher and tactician - IM Dr. Danny Kopec. The presenter focuses on various kinds of mating patterns and combinations, including: stock sacrifices, combinations to secure material gain, hanging pieces, and much, much more! Tactics are classified into a number of well-defined categories, including: checks, pins, skewers, double-attacks, overloads, undermining, X-rays, etc. Finally, the presenter examines Bobby Fischer's "Game of the Century" and a fantastic game by Mikhail Tal!	$37.95

Kopec's Master Class How to Analyze a Chess Position 121 min.	In this video, IM Dr. Danny Kopec - internationally recognized chess teacher - provides you with tangible techniques and tools which will ensure your success as a player and analyst. You will learn the presenter’s "Four Golden Rules of Analysis," and there will follow specific techniques to teach you how to: Evaluate central control; Identify your winning margin; Identify the most important piece in a position, and; "Transform" your advantages into victory, and much, much more!	$37.95

Kopec's Master Class Pawn Structures And How to Play Them 120 min.	This video, presented by the internationally respected chess teacher - IM Dr. Danny Kopec - provides the essential ingredients for every chess player who wishes to progress to the expert level and beyond. In a down-to-earth style, the video clearly interprets Dr. Hans Kmoch's language for teaching pawn structure play, highlighted by the notion of levers. Organized by strong pawn structures, weak pawn structures, and pawn structure methods, the video covers the complete realm of pawn structure play. Every player who aspires to chess mastery will benefit from this video which transcends all phases of play.	$37.95

Kopec's Master Class Opening Pawn Structures: Volume 1 119 min.	Tired of memorizing opening variations? Continuing from where his previous video "Pawn Structures and How To Play Them" leaves off, internationally respected teacher - IM Dr. Danny Kopec - has created a landmark video (in two volumes) that uses a unique approach to enable you to improve your opening play. Dr. Kopec will show you how to develop effective middlegame plans based on opening pawn structures. Volume 1 (this volume) covers the Double King Pawn Openings and structures, and various Sicilian Structures.	$33.95

Kopec's Master Class Opening Pawn Structures: Volume 2 122 min.	Tired of memorizing opening variations? Continuing from where his previous video "Pawn Structures and How To Play Them" leaves off, internationally respected teacher - IM Dr. Danny Kopec - has created a landmark video (in two volumes) that uses a unique approach to enable you to improve your opening play. Dr. Kopec will show you how to develop effective middlegame plans based on opening pawn structures. Volume 2 (this volume) covers the Maroczy Bind, the Caro Structure, the Slav structure, Queen's Gambit structures, King's Indian and Benoni structures, and the Nimzo-Indian and French/Winawer-type structures.	$33.95

Kopec's Master Class The Complete Set 602 min.	1. How To Visualize Chess Combinations 2. Pawn Structures & How To Play Them 3. How To Analyze A Chess Position 4. Opening Pawn Structures: Advanced Concepts (Vol.1) 5. Opening Pawn Structures: Advanced Concepts (Vol.2)	$140.00


Mednis Master Chess King and Pawn Endgames 108 min.	In this video, GM Edmar Mednis - a recognized authority on the endgame - teaches the viewer the fundamentals of king and pawn endings, including: the importance of king activation, zugzwang, the opposition, and king triangulation. Mednis offers instructive examples involving passed pawns and outside passed pawns, connected pawns, separated pawns and doubled pawns, and pawn breakthroughs, providing the student with a thorough grounding in the basic principles and practical aspects of king and pawn endgame play.	$37.95

Mednis Master Chess Rook and Pawn Endgames 114 min.	In this video, GM Edmar Mednis - a recognized authority on the endgame - teaches the viewer the fundamentals of rook and pawn endings, including: the importance of rook activation and rook placement, the Lucena position, and the Philidor position. Mednis offers instructive examples involving passed pawns and connected passed pawns, disconnected passed pawns, outside passed pawns, and more complex positions requiring conversion of a material advantage. The author provides the student with a thorough grounding in the basic principles and practical aspects of rook and pawn endgame play.	$37.95

Mednis Master Chess Middlegame Analysis 120 min.	In this video, GM Edmar Mednis teaches you how to quickly make correct middlegame decisions. These decisions are based on adhering to the following guidelines: Playing according to the theme of the opening variation; Playing according to the strategic requirements of a middlegame position; Looking for tactical chances for you and your opponent; Following correct technique in winning positions, and; Knowing how to save bad positions. These guidelines are thoroughly explored and explained by the author, providing students the knowledge that will allow them to make their middlegame decisions with confidence.	$37.95

Mednis Master Chess Tactics: The Opening, Middlegame & Endgame 120 min.	Be on your guard, and be alert! GM Edmar Mednis is your guide to the world of commonly occurring tactical traps and tactical motifs in all three phases of the game - the opening, the middlegame, and the endgame. Tactical ability is a prerequisite in all phases of the game. In the opening when development is in its early stages, one slip can be instantly fatal. In the middlegame, there is a myriad of tactical devices available to the well-practiced player in order to carry out the successful prosecution of his or her initiative. In the endgame, tactical solutions require concrete and accurate calculation. The knowledge that Mednis has distilled into this chess video is indispensable for the aspiring chess student.	$37.95

Mednis Master Chess The Complete Set 462 min.	All four of GM Edmar Mednis' videos from his Master Class Chess video series.	$120.00


Wolff's Master Chess Defense and Counterattack 116 min.	In this video, twice US Chess Champion GM Patrick Wolff (1992 & 1995) teaches the defensive techniques that have been developed by grandmasters. The author shows you how to: Defend and protect the weaknesses in your position and how to protect your king; Strengthen your position; Defend difficult and inferior positions: Beat off attacks, and assume the initiative; Develop counterplay using tactical and strategical methods, and much more. Wolff illustrates the key concepts he presents in this video by including deftly analyzed games from the Linares grandmaster tournament of 1994.	$37.95

Wolff's Master Chess How to Play Winning Attacks 105 min.	In this video, twice US Chess Champion GM Patrick Wolff (1992 & 1995) teaches the methods for planning, preparing and executing successful attacks against the enemy king. Wolff deals with attacks on the castled king and attacks on the king in the center, methods for provoking weaknesses in the opponent’s position and how they can be exploited and attacked, and attacks involving the sacrifice of pawns and/or pieces. After examining typical mating patterns involving weak back rank, smothered mate, piece sacrifices against the castled king position, etc., the author progresses to more complex examples which will strengthen the student’s appreciation for the attacking possibilities that are present in a chess position.	$37.95

Wolff's Master Chess Middlegame Planning 178 min.	In this two-volume video devoted to the middlegame, twice US Chess Champion GM Patrick Wolff (1992 & 1995) demonstrates how to best formulate plans and how to evaluate chess positions. Wolff deals with a variety of topics that have an influence on the objective evaluation of a position, including: Pawn Structures; Material versus Initiative; The imbalance in positions with bishop versus knight; Decisions regarding trading down into an endgame, and; Decisions based on short-term planning versus long-term planning.	$47.95

Wolff's Master Class The Complete Set 399 min.	1. Defense & Counterattack 2. How To Play Winning Attacks 3. Middlegame Planning	$105.00

Benko's Master Class
My Chess Battles with Bobby Fischer - Volume 1
80 min.

With GrandMaster Pal Benko. In the first of two videos dedicated to the study of his most interesting chess games played against the legendary US World Champion Bobby Fischer, two-time World Championship Candidate GM Pal Benko presents analysis to the following games:

Benko-Fischer, Portoroz Interzonal 1958
Benko-Fischer, Candidates Tournament 1959
Benko-Fischer, Buenos Aires 1960
Fischer-Benko, US Championship 1959

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Benko's Master Chess
My Chess Battles with Bobby Fischer - Volume 2
70 min.

With GrandMaster Pal Benko. In the second of two videos dedicated to the study of his most interesting chess games played against the legendary US World Champion Bobby Fischer, two-time World Championship Candidate GM Pal Benko presents analysis to the following games:

Benko-Fischer, Candidates Tournament 1962
Fischer-Benko, Candidates Tournament 1962
Fischer-Benko, Candidates Tournament 1962
Benko-Fischer, US Championship 1966

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Benko's Master Class
The Complete Set
150 min.

My Chess Battles with Bobby Fischer
Both Volumes 1 & 2

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