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CDs, DVDs, Software Part 33

1.e4 for the Creative Attacker By Nigel Davies

System requirements: Pentium-Processor at 300 Mhz or higher, 64 MB RAM,Windows XP or Windows Vista, Windows Media Player 9.0, DVD drive.

This DVD has a running time of about 4 hours. GM Nigel Davies gives the reader a lot of interesting of lines based on the move 1.e4. For example he gives the move 2.Na3 against the Sicilian Defence.

Grandmaster Davies is a player who avoids a lot of theory lines but his choice of moves make a lot of  sense.

A good example comes in his introduction where he used to like playing 2.d3 against 2..c5, but that after a while the Black players found out that after 2.d3 d5!? 4.exd5 Qxd5 5.Nf3 Nd4 6.Bg2 Bh3 7.Bxh3 Nxf3+ 8.Kf1 Nd2 9.Kg1 Nf3 black has an easy draw, so as Davies explains you can better play the move 2.Na3!

All in all this is a well presented DVD which should give you plenty of new possibilities in your games.

Anti-Moscow Gambit By Rustim Kasimdzhanov

After the moves 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 dxc4 7.e4 g5 8.Bg3 b5 (D43) the Anti-Moscow Gambit arises on the board which currently is one of the most hotly contested openings in grandmaster practice. Ex-FIDE World Champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov gives an introduction into the youngest development of this variation, starting with the game Radjabov-Anand played in August 2006.

His chronological presentation of the events is as exiting as a thriller, the ‘scenes of crime’ being the top tournaments of the last two years and the actors the players of the absolute world elite.

At the tournament in Wijk aan Zee 2008 Topalov opened a completely new chapter of the variation by beating his archrival Kramnik in the style of the masters of the 19th century, sacrificing a knight with 12.Nxf7 early on. Don’t miss this chess thriller (3.5 hours of video).

Opening Encyclopaedia 2008 By ChessBase

The ChessBase Opening Encyclopaedia 2008 features the complete coverage of all opening sectors, offering an optimal start for opening training. Many well-known specialists have made contributions in their field of expertise, such as Anand, Dautov, Dr Huebner, Jussupow, Kortschnoj, Krasenkow, Marin, Nunn, Ribli and Rogozenko.

For each of 500 opening sectors according to ECO standard there is at least one opening survey, so that the database is the ideal tool for building up a complete opening repertoire.

The game database includes 3 million games, about 78.000 of them with annotations. Furthermore, the CD contains a separate directory with 346 (64 are new) special theory databases from the CBMs.