Openings - Learn to play by learning the opening mistakes and traps that've been discovered over time with Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders

Middlegame - Become a wizard in the art of combinations with the intensive course on tactics, CT-Art 3.0, and learn the positional methods used by grandmasters in Strategy 2.0. Study typical middlegame structures and their plans, arranged depending on the openings they come from, with Encyclopedia of Middlegame.

Endgame - Instead of boring lectures, learn endgame technique with the use of breathtaking artistic endgame compositions, chosen for their relevance to real play, with Studies 2.0.

Altogether Total Chess Training includes more than 9000 commented games and positions to be solved for chess players with ELO rating from 1800 to 2400! Total Chess Training is the product of the best Russian chess instructors' efforts. Take advantage of their training and knowledge now, and raise your playing level to a new standard. Total Chess Training may become the only instructive program you'll ever need!

Features:

• Friendly interface
• Look and play through the selected theoretical material, prepared by some of the best Russian chess coaches
• Create various profiles so that any number of students could use every program and save their results and statistics in an easy, convenient way
• Receive hints (arrows or markers on the board and text) when a mistake is made while solving an exercise, and helps you find the solution on your own
• Play specifically chosen training positions (or any position you encounter) in each program against Crafty (~2500 Elo), the built-in playing program, or if you've got one of the MCS engines (Shredder 3 and 4, and Zharkov 5), you can also use them directly within the programs instead of Crafty
• Print current examples or whole topics and study them wherever you like
• Choose between different types and sizes of the pieces
  

Specifications:

• Includes English, Spanish, French, German and Italian versions.
  
• System Requirements:
• Essential: IBM-compatible PC with Pentium 75 CPU, 12 MB RAM, Hard Disk (4 MB free space), VGA graphics, Win.95/98 or NT 4.0, CD-ROM, MS-compatible mouse. Recommended: 16 MB+ of RAM.
• No additional software required.