Modern Classics - ChessBase

Top trainers, such as the author Grandmaster Dorian Rogozenco, strongly recommend regular study of well-explained classical games to improve your understanding of chess in the long term. These games are a part of chess culture that every aspiring chess player or chess enthusiast should know. The new video course ‘Modern Classics’ by former German national coach Dorian Rogozenco, is a continuation of his course ‘Chess Classics - Games you need to know’. It presents 33 famous games from modern chess history - from 1935 to 1999, played by world champions and top grandmasters. In addition, the course includes a video about a remarkable legacy of the 9th World Champion Tigran Petrosian - the positional quality sacrifice.

Each chapter contains the video presentation of the game in CB-Books format plus an introductory text with background information, also a diagram with a critical position, and a game-replayer - in which the user can view the variations from the video and analyse them with an engine. With this carefully and competently structured course, you can work on your understanding of chess, or simply enjoy the games of the great masters!

What you will receive:

• Fritztrainer App for Windows
• Available as download or on DVD
• Video course with a running time of approx. 4-8 hrs.
• Repertoire database: save and integrate Fritztrainer games into your own repertoire (in WebApp Opening or in ChessBase)
• Interactive exercises with video feedback: the authors present exercises and key positions, the user has to enter the solution. With video feedback (also on mistakes) and further explanations.
  
• Sample games as a ChessBase database.

What the FritzTrainer App can do for you:

• Videos can run in the Fritztrainer app or in the ChessBase program with board graphics, notation and a large function bar
• Analysis engine can be switched on at any time
• Video pause for manual navigation and analysis in game notation
• Input of your own variations, engine analysis, with storage in the game
• Learn variations: view specific lines in the ChessBase WebApp Opening with auto play, memorize variations and practice transformation (initial position - final position).
• Active opening training: selected opening positions are transferred to the ChessBase WebApp Fritz-online. In a match against Fritz you test your new knowledge and actively play the new opening.

Even more possibilities: Start FritzTrainer in the ChessBase program!

• The database with all games and analyses can be opened directly.
• Games can be easily added to the opening reference.
• Direct evaluation with game reference, games can be replayed on the analysis board
• Your own variations are saved and can be added to the own repertoire
• Replay training
• LiveBook active
• All engines installed in ChessBase can be started for the analysis
• Assisted Analysis
• Print notation and diagrams (for worksheets)

Contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Byrne-Fischer, 1956
• Chapter 3: Kasparov-Topalov, 1999
• Chapter 4: Karpov-Korchnoi, 1974
• Chapter 5: Euwe-Alekhine, 1935
• Chapter 6: Botvinnik-Keres, 1952
• Chapter 7: Smyslov-Reshevsky, 1948
• Chapter 8: Botvinnik-Tal, 1960
• Chapter 9: Reshevsky-Petrosian, 1953
• Chapter 10: Larsen-Spassky, 1970
• Chapter 11: Fischer-Benko, 1963
• Chapter 12: Karpov-Unzicker, 1974
• Chapter 13: Kasparov-Shirov, 1994
• Chapter 14: Taimanov-Najdorf, 1953
• Chapter 15: Larsen-Petrosian, 1966
• Chapter 16: Spassky-Fischer, 1972
• Chapter 17: Nezhmetdinov-Chernikov, 1962
• Chapter 18: Polugaevsky-Tal, 1969
• Chapter 19: Geller-Fischer, 1962
• Chapter 20: Karpov-Kasparov, 1985
• Chapter 21: Tal-Smyslov, 1959
• Chapter 22: Karpov-Spassky, 1979
• Chapter 23: Fischer-Petrosian, 1971
• Chapter 24: Kasparov-Nikolic, 1992
• Chapter 25: Tal-Hecht, 1962
• Chapter 26: Fischer-Larsen, 1958
• Chapter 27: Short-Timman, 1991
• Chapter 28: Kasparov-Anand, 1995
• Chapter 29: Karpov-Jussupow, 1983
• Chapter 30: Petrosian-Spassky, 1966
• Chapter 31: Topalov-Kasparov, 1996
• Chapter 32: Fischer-Spassky, 1972
• Chapter 33: Anand-Karpov, 1996
• Chapter 34: Karpov-Kasparov, 1993
• Chapter 35: Petrosian's exchange sacrifices