Focusing on practical play, this volume emphasizes three key elements crucial for chess improvement. The first chapters delve into essential rook endgame positions, providing practical advice. Subsequent chapters enhance tactical vision, teaching players to identify striking opportunities. The final sections explore positional play, aiming to deepen overall game understanding. This comprehensive course is designed for ambitious players seeking to master all aspects of chess. A follow-up volume is anticipated by the end of 2018.
Robert Ris: The Chess Player's Mating Guide Vol. 2: Weakened kingside In the
first volume of the The Chess Players Mating Guide series typical ideas have
been shown how to exploit the uncastled king. In the second volume attention
will be paid to the castled king and in particular on ways of exploiting the
weakened kingside. Several well-known themes, pawnformations and other
attacking weapons are covered in 8 chapters with the goal to challenge the
viewer determining and exploiting the weaknesses. IM Robert Ris has made an
interesting selection of famous games as well as games from his own practice
to demonstrate the typical ideas exploiting the weaknesses in the
pawnformation in front of the castled king. The selected material is a good
warm-up for the exercises which are presented at the end to test your
knowledge on this topic. By then you at least will have the confidence to
claim you have become a dangerous attacking player as Tal, Aljechin, Fischer
or any of your other favorites. Watch, learn & enjoy! Video running time: 5
hours (English) With interactive training including video feedback Exclusive
database with mating examples Including CB 12 Reader Born in 1988, Robert Ris
is an International Master who has represented The Netherlands in various
international youth events. Nowadays his main activities in the Amsterdam area
consist of teaching in schools and chess clubs as well as coaching private
clients. On top of that, he is also an active online trainer with a number of
students from a host of different countries. Robert has made several
appearances as a live commentator for prestigious events, such as the Dutch
National Championships 2011-2013 and the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in 2013
and 2014. System requirements: Minimum: Pentium III 1 GHz, 1 GB RAM, Windows
Vista, XP (Service Pack 3), DirectX9 graphic card with 256 MB RAM, DVD-ROM
drive, Windows Media Player 9 and internet connection for program activation.
Recommended: PC Intel Core i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 GB RAM, Windows 10, DirectX10
graphic card (or compatible) with 512 MB RAM or better, 100% DirectX10
compatible sound card, Windows Media Player 11, DVD-ROM drive and internet
connection for program activation.
Robert Ris: Calculation Training Nowadays, people tend to prefer working on
their chess by studying opening variations with engines, neglecting the
practical side of our game. This DVD emphasizes the importance of training
your calculation skills. Dutch IM Robert Ris made a selection of training
material which he uses in lessons with students ranging from 1400 to 2400. But
Ris believes that this material is suitable for players of various strengths
because anyone can benefit from practicing calculation in a structured way. On
this DVD, the viewer is invited to determine the needs of the position before
randomly picking candidates moves. The author then shows basic calculation
techniques which help you to accelerate and to improve your thinking process.
The first chapter focuses on forcing moves (checks, captures, threats) to keep
the initiative or to continue with an attack. In the second part, Ris explains
how to eliminate candidate moves to improve the decision making process. You
can also give your creativity (imagination) a boost by going through
spectacular examples in which it seems at first almost impossible to find a
good continuation. In the end 10 test puzzles allow you to test your
calculation skills in practice. Video running time: 4 h 52 min (English) -
With interactive training including video feedback - Extra: Extra database
with more examples - Including ChessBase Reader Born in 1988, Robert Ris is an
International Master who has represented The Netherlands in various
international youth events. Nowadays his main activities in the Amsterdam area
consist of teaching in schools and chess clubs as well as coaching private
clients. On top of that, he is also an active online trainer with a number of
students from a host of different countries. Robert has made several
appearances as a live commentator for prestigious events, such as the Dutch
National Championships 2011-2013 and the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in 2013
and 2014. System requirements: Minimum: Pentium III 1 GHz, 1 GB RAM, Windows
8.1, DirectX9 graphic card with 256 MB RAM, DVD-ROM drive, Windows Media
Player 9 and internet connection for program activation. Recommended: PC Intel
Core i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 GB RAM, Windows 10, DirectX10 graphic card (or compatible)
with 512 MB RAM or better, 100% DirectX10 compatible sound card, Windows Media
Player 11, DVDROM drive and internet connection for program activation.
