Jacob Aagaard: Basic positional ideas

ChessBase Fritztrainer Mittelspiel, Englisch, ISBN 978-3-937549-19-6, 2004

Positional chess in the basic on which success is founded. Of course material can be won and also points achieved by tactical measures, but first you have to bring the relevant positions up on your board.

Jacob Aagaard teaches in six lectures important principles of positional play.
Weak squares, good and bad pieces, prophylaxis and pawn weaknesses are concepts which should belong in the toolbox of every chess player.
The lectures are followed by 50 exercises, in which you can always look for the solution yourself.

In total, there are more than four hours of high class video training on this DVD.

Nur auf Englisch lieferbar!

Intro: 1:42 (Basic positional ideas)
Lesson 1: 36:57 (Weaknesses 1)
Lesson 2: 15:15 (Weaknesses 2)
Lesson 3: 25:13 (Piece play 1)
Lesson 4: 17:01 (Piece play 2)
Lesson 5: 24:39 (Piece Play 3)
Lesson 6: 27:17 (Prophylactic thinking) and exercises

Exercices with ChessMediaSystem Videos:

Exercise 01 : 6:10 min Eckhardt - Andreasson
Exercise 02 : 1:40 min Anand,V - Bareev,E
Exercise 03 : 2:20 min Anand,V - Piket,J
Exercise 04 : 2:07 min Aagaard,J - Akesson,R
Exercise 05 : 2:00 min Anand,V - Bareev,E
Exercise 06 : 2:25 min Anand,V - Wojtkiewicz,A
Exercise 07 : 2:00 min Anand,V - Timman,J
Exercise 08 : 2:29 min Anand,V - Adams,M
Exercise 09 : 3:15 min Karpov,A - Anand,V
Exercise 10: 4:34 min Anand,V - Timman,J
Exercise 11 : 2:24 min Greenfeld,A - Anand,V
Exercise 12 : 1:47 min Salov,V - Andersson,U
Exercise 13 : 1:40 min Akopian,V - Polgar,J
Exercise 14 : 1:40 min Shirov,A - Akopian,V
Exercise 15 : 4:54 min Akopian,V - Nikolic,P
Exercise 16 : 2:53 min Akopian,V - Karatorossian,D
Exercise 17 : 3:54 min Kasparov,G - Karpov,A
Exercise 18 : 4:14 min Gelfand,B - Karpov,A
Exercise 19 : 3:10 min Lautier,J - Karpov,A
Exercise 20 : 1:42 min Karpov,A - Kramnik,V
Exercise 21 : 3:17 min Morozevich,A - Karpov,A
Exercise 22 : 3:00 min Gurevich,M - Korneev,O
Exercise 23 : 3:28 min Gurevich,M - Sokolov,I
Exercise 24 : 1:50 min Bosch,J - Gurevich,M
Exercise 25 : 1:34 min Tal,M - Soloviev,V
Exercise 26 : 3:14 min Adams,M - Tiviakov,S
Exercise 27 : 1:40 min Vallejo Pons,F - Radjabov,T
Exercise 28 : 3:55 min Sakaev,K - Mrva,M
Exercise 29 : 3:30 min Bauer,C - Kortschnoj,V
Exercise 30 : 3:15 min Illescas Cordoba,M - Vallejo Pons,F
Exercise 31 : 3:20 min Botvinnik,M - Alekhine,A
Exercise 32 : 3:54 min Zaslavsky,A - Botvinnik,M
Exercise 33 : 1:29 min Begun - Dvoretzky,M
Exercise 34 : 4:09 min Palo,D - Ruck,R
Exercise 35 : 4:09 min Georgiev,K - Dreev,A
Exercise 36 : 2:23 min Werle,J - Sokolov,I
Exercise 37 : 1:57 min Legky,N - Onischuk,A
Exercise 38 : 2:37 min Shirov,A - Leko,P
Exercise 39 : 3:15 min Botvinnik,M - Tal,M
Exercise 40 : 2:46 min Gurevich,M - Greenfeld,A
Exercise 41 : 3:28 min Gurevich,M - Timman,J
Exercise 42 : 3:15 min Gurevich,M - Dolmatov,S
Exercise 43 : 2:19 min Petrosian,T - Botvinnik,M
Exercise 44 : 2:43 min Stoltz,G - Botvinnik,M
Exercise 45 : 3:21 min Gurevich,M - Stryjecki,M
Exercise 46 : 2:06 min Gurevich,M - Miezis,N
Exercise 47 : 1:55 min Gurevich,M - Balashov,Y
Exercise 48 : 2:28 min Bernstein,O - Botvinnik,M
Exercise 49 : 1:22 min Seirawan,Y - Zhu Chen
Exercise 50 : 1:22 min El Taher,F - Gurevich,M

Systemvoraussetzungen: Pentium Prozessor 300 MHz oder besser, 64 MB RAM, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Media Player 9.0, DVD-ROM Laufwerk, Maus, Soundkarte.

Achtung: Dieser Kurs ist ein Zusatzprogramm für Fritz 8 und höher und kann nur benutzt werden, wenn das Schachprogramm Fritz (bzw. Shredder, Tiger, Hiarcs oder Junior) auf dem PC installiert ist. Fritz ist nicht im Lieferumfang dieses Trainingskurses enthalten.