Total Chess Training
by Convekta
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Product Summary
Brand: Chess AssistantFormat: CD
Publisher: Convekta
Product features:
- Quickly add knowledge by understanding well known opening mistakes and traps
- Become a wizard at chess combination with the intensive course on tactics
- Discover the positional methods used by Grandmasters to win their games
- Study typical middlegame structures and the best plans associated with each
- Develop your endgame technique with artistic compositions, relevant to actual play
Video Game Reviews of Total Chess Training
Customer Review: Complex tool for a complex game (chess)
Summary: 4 Stars
It's a bit hard to get started with TCT; it helps to read the little pamphlet that's included. Now that I have more experience with it, I have changed my review text and also the number of stars from a "4-4" to a "5-5."
Or at least I am TRYING to change the number of stars to 5s.
One part of the program is a large set of chess problems. You can put the problems in order of difficulty. I'm not sure how many problems there are, but I'd guess a thousand.
As you work the problems, the program adjusts your estimated "chess rating" up or down. I have never had a rating, so I guessed 1500 to start. As I solved problems, my rating gradually climbed to 1998. It has since fallen - which is a bit humbling, but I think I am going to learn a lot.
I have not yet looked at the other parts of Total Chess Training. There is a LOT of material there.
Description of Total Chess Training
Total Chess Training consists of five magnificent training programs, bundled together on one great CD-Rom: Chess Tactics Art 3.0; Strategy 2.0; Encyclopedia of the Middlegame; Encyclopedia of Opening Blunders; and Studies 2.0. These programs amount to a "Total" training tool, and this one package covers every aspect of chess - including openings, tactical combinations, positional methods used by Grandmasters, planning and endgame techniques. Total Chess Training also includes more than 9,000 commented games and positions to be solved, for chess players to advance their understanding. Total Chess Training was written and produced by the best Russian chess instructors to take advantage of their experience and knowledge, to help the user raise his playing level to a new standard. Here is a systematic and complete chess training program that is sure to benefit any player. Several languages are supported: English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish. From the Leader in Cutting-Edge Chess - ChessCentral!Computer and Video Games
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