Opening Software

King's Indian with h3. Suitable for club players, extensive opening course, more than 10,000 games, training database and more.


Sicilian Dragon for Experts. The CD covers all variations of the Dragon System of the Sicilian Defense after the starting moves 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6.


Grand Prix Attack. By IM Alexander Bangiev: White Repertoire 1.e4 The main focus of Alexander Bangiev’s repertoire CD is the Grand Prix Attack of the Sicilian Defence


Scandinavian. Curt Hansen goes beyond the current state of theory and presents his own research. More than 30 games extensively annotated by the author (there are all in all about 500 annotated games); a real gem are his 12 games in the training mode


The Reti. Includes 32,000 games more than 1,000 annotated. Opening key contains more than 14,000 games both for 1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 and for 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4


The Bird. suitable for club players; extensive opening course in 14 chapter; database containing more than 15,000 games


The Dutch. Boris Schipkov's database contains more than 14,000 games, 300 annotated. 17 database texts feature introductions to the variations.


The King's Indian Attack. The CD contains more than 20,000 games (740+annotated), a complete KIA tree, and a KIA Training Database. The text introductions are extensive.


How to Play the Nimzo-Indian. The opening arising after the moves 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4. - suiteable for club players. - classical games with instructive annotations. - databases with more than 47,000 games.


The Nimzo-Indian with 4.f3. Ten introductory texts with links to the most important games explain the basic ideas and variations. Numerous proposals improve today's theory while 68 games annotated by Milov offer additional information and advice.


The Slav Defense.


Philador's Defense. The author, Elexander Bangiev, does not hide his liking for the black side but still never fails to indicate and analyze plans, ideas and promising lines for White.


Pirc. The centerpiece of the CD is a "small database" with 8 database texts and 116 sample games where the author GM Aleksei Lugovoi has compiled all his knowledge about this opening.


Queen's Gambit Accepted. The large database includes 19 texts explaining the different variations as well as 20779 games, of which about 1200 are annotated. A training database contains 30 games with 86 training questions.


Chigorin.


French without Nc3. The three main databases contain more than 70,000 games, more than 1000 with annotations.


Classical Sicilian. Kosten presents a 915-game, 27-text file database designed to teach 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 Nc6. The CD includes 200 annotated games (40 by Kosten exclusively for this CD), a training database, and a reference database of 8000 games.


Accelerated Dragon. By Claudio Minzer and Gustavo Albarran. More than 8,000 games, 15 text files introductions, and a training database.


French with Nc3. This CD covers all variations arising after 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3. The main database contains more than 44.000 games, about 1.000 with annotations.


Gambit Lexicon. Introductory video, 37 database texts (German), over 120,000 games, and an extensive openings key with the full names of the individual gambits.


Modern Ways to Play the Sicilian. In a number of introductory texts the special points are explained in clear language, suitable for amateurs and experts. The position tree allows you to keep all variations in view, with full statistical information on every move.


Budapest Gambit. The author has presented the important ideas, strategical plans, typical traps and tactical ideas while explaining the history of the opening. This allows the user to follow in the footsteps of the best Budapest players, from the past until modern times.


Trompowski Attack. Repertoire for White. Explanations of the important and critical position. Playing through some of the key game will enable you to understand the main points of the variation. Includes a large reference database of over 6,000 games.


2002 ChessBase Opening Encyclopedia. With contributions of many well-known opening experts, the ChessBase Opening Encyclopedia contains at least one survey for each of the 500 opening fields according to ECO standard.


The King's Gambit.


Modern Benoni. Typical patterns and ideas of the Modern Benoni allow you to quickly get familiar with this dangerous opening weapon. Single variations are explained in detail.


Sveshnikov Sicilian. Rogozenko himself is a leading expert on the Sveshnikov. Here he provides more than 12,000 games, 27 Introductory Texts, a ChessBase Tree, a training database, and a large selection of annotated games.


Encyclopedia of Semi-Closed Games . - Fashionable openings are investigated by well-known grandmasters; Includes Gruenfeld Defense, Modern-Benoni, Trompovsky attack, Benoni, Old Indian Defense and Queen's Pawn Opening.; Thorough and convenient classification; Chess Assistant Openings program for WIN 95/98/NT is included.; You can add comments and print games; Built-in chess playing program Dragon.; Database with openings in question is enclosed (50,000 games)


Chess Openings, 2003. Chess Openings 2003 contains theoretical material updated with all the openings as of Jan. 1st, 2003.