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Chess Tactics in Opening has been extended to 10 DVDs and covers the openings most popular among club and intermediate players:

• Chess Tactics in Scandinavian Defense
  • after moves 1. e4 d5. Scandinavian Defense is a daring opening for those who fight for initiative from the very first moves. Many strong chess players used it as Black, including the world chamipnship match between Anand and Kasparov in 1995. The course presents a deep theoretical and practical overview of the actual variations. More than 260 new exercises provide a great opportunity to reinforce your knowledge. The integrated chess program will allow you to reinforce the knowledge by playing from various positions emerging in practical play.
• Chess Tactics in Benko Gambit
  • Benko (Volga) gambit. The course presents a deep theoretical and practical overview of the actual variations. More than new exercises provide a great opportunity to reinforce your knowledge. The original name of the opening was the Volga Gambit, named after the Volga River because of an article about 3...b5!? by B. Argunow written in Kuibyshev (Samara since 1991), Russia, that was published in the second 1946 issue of the magazine Schachmaty in USSR. The term is still widely used in Russian literature.Beginning in the late 1960s, this opening idea was also promoted by Pal Benko, a Hungarian-American Grandmaster, who provided many new suggestions and published his book The Benko Gambit in 1974. The name Benko Gambit stuck and is particularly used in English-speaking countries. Naturally, at one time or another, this gambit was also used by many famous chess players, including former world champions Viswanathan Anand, Garry Kasparov, Veselin Topalov and Mikhail Tal, and Grandmasters Vassily Ivanchuk, Michael Adams, Alexei Shirov, Boris Gelfand, and Evgeny Bareev.
• Chess Tactics in Caro-Kann Defense
  • after moves 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5. The course presents a deep theoretical and practical overview of the actual variations, featuring 100 examples and 300 new exercises to solve. The course will be useful to all chess players employing the Caro-Kann Defense on either white or black sides. The integrated chess program will allow you to reinforce the knowledge by playing from various positions emerging in practical play.
• Chess Tactics in Grunfeld Defense

  • Theory and playing hooks in the most sharp and deciding variations of the Grunfeld Defense developing after moves 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5. The course presents a deep theoretical and practical overview of the actual variations, featuring 100 examples and 300 exercises to solve. The course will be useful to all chess players employing the Grunfeld Defense on either white or black sides. The integrated chess program will allow you to reinforce the knowledge by playing from various positions emerging in practical play.

• Chess Tactics in French Defense
  • after moves 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5. The course presents a deep theoretical and practical overview of the actual variations, featuring 129 examples and 362 new exercises to solve. The course will be useful to all chess players employing the French Defense on either white or black sides. The integrated chess program will allow you to reinforce the knowledge by playing from various positions emerging in practical play.
• Chess Tactics in Slav Defense

  • Defense developing after moves 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6. The course presents a deep theoretical and practical overview of the actual variations, featuring 100 examples and 300 exercises to solve. The course will be useful to all chess players employing the Slav Defense on either white or black sides. The integrated chess program will allow you to reinforce the knowledge by playing from various positions emerging in practical play.

• Chess Tactics in Kings Indian Defense
  • Indian Defense on either white or black sides. The integrated chess program will allow you to reinforce the knowledge by playing from various positions emerging in practical play.
• Chess Tactics in Sicilian Defense
  
  • after moves 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6: the Dragon variation, the Najdorf variation, the Scheveningen variation and the Richter Attack. The course presents a deep theoretical and practical overview of the actual variations, featuring 200 examples. Numerous new exercises provide a great opportunity to reinforce your knowledge: 272 exercises for the Dragon variation, 248 for the Najdorf variation, 100 the Scheveningen variation and 60 for the Richter Attack. The course will be useful to all chess players employing the Sicilian Defense on either white or black sides. The integrated chess program will allow you to reinforce the knowledge by playing from various positions emerging in practical play.
• Chess Tactics in Sicilian Defense II
  
  • variations of the Sicilian Defense developing after moves 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6: LASKER var, SOZIN ATTACK, PAULSEN var, SCHEVENINGEN var, LABOURDONNAIS var, RICHTER ATTACK etc.

    The course presents a deep theoretical and practical overview of the actual variations, featuring 391 examples. Numerous new exercises provide a great opportunity to reinforce your knowledge: 412 exercises in total for all variations after 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6.

• Chess Tactics in Open Games
  • after moves 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4: Two Knights Defense, Italian Game, Evans Gambit. The course presents the overview of the actual variants and 630 exercises to solve. The course will be useful for the chess players who practice Open Games on either white or black sides. The playing program allows to fix the knowledge by playing the appearing positions.