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Essentials Needed to Improve Your Chess
IM Danny Kopec
from his Master Class Chess Video Series
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How To Analyze A Chess Position - Download
IM Danny Kopec
In this video, IM Danny Kopec, internationally recognized chess teacher provides you with tangible techniques and tools which will ensure your success as a player and analyst. You will learn the presenter’s “Four Golden Rules of Analysis,” and there will follow specific techniques to teach you how to:
- Evaluate central control
- Identify your winning margin
- Identify the most important piece in a position
- “Transform” your advantages into victory
And much, much more.
How To Visualize Chess Combinations - Download
IM Danny Kopec
This video is aimed at aspiring chess players of all levels. Students will benefit from top-notch instruction by the internationally respected teacher and tactician - IM Danny Kopec. The presenter focuses on various kinds of mating patterns and combinations, including stock sacrifices, combinations to secure material gain, hanging pieces, and much, much more! Tactics are classified into a number of well-defined categories, including checks, pins, skewers, double-attacks, overloads, undermining, X-rays, etc. Finally, the presenter examines Bobby Fischer's "Game of the Century" and a fantastic game by Mikhail Tal!
Pawn Structures & How To Play Them - Download
IM Danny Kopec
The video, presented by the internationally respected chess teacher, IM Danny Kopec, provides the essential ingredients for every chess player who wishes to progress to the expert level and beyond.
In a down-to-earth style, the video interprets Dr. Hans Kmoch’s language for teaching pawn structure play, highlighted by the notion of levers. Organized by strong pawn structures, weak pawn structures, and pawn structure methods, the video covers the complete realm of pawn structure play. Every player who aspires to chess mastery will benefit from this video which transcends all phases of play.
Opening Pawn Structures: Advanced Concepts (Volume 1) Download
IM Danny Kopec
Tired of memorizing opening variations? Continuing from where his previous video "Pawn Structures and How To Play Them" leaves off, internationally respected teacher - IM Danny Kopec - has created a landmark video (in two volumes) that uses a unique approach to enable you to improve your opening play. Dr. Kopec will show you how to develop effective middlegame plans based on opening pawn structures.
Volume 1 (this volume) covers the Double King Pawn Openings and structures, and various Sicilian structures.
Opening Pawn Structures: Advanced Concepts (Volume 2) Download
IM Danny Kopec
Tired of memorizing opening variations? Continuing from where his previous video "Pawn Structures and How To Play Them" leaves off, internationally respected teacher - IM Danny Kopec - has created a landmark video (in two volumes) that uses a unique approach to enable you to improve your opening play. Dr. Kopec will show you how to develop effective middlegame plans based on opening pawn structures.
The present volume 2 covers the Maroczy Bind, the Caro structure, the Slav structure, Queen's Gambit structures, King's Indian and Benoni structures, and the Nimzo-Indian and French/Winawer-type structures.
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Foxy Chess Openings, Volume 30 (Parts 1 and 2): Anti-Scillian Systems
IM Danny Kopec
A repertoire for White against the Sicilian Defense! You are about to enter a completely different world - the world of the Kopec Systems. IM Danny Kopec presents his original system which is deadly against all Sicilian set-ups. Fundamentally sound, it packs a venomous punch. With the Kopec System, you can spring virtually unknown theoretical gems on your unsuspecting opponents!
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3
Part 1: Dragon set-up with ...g6
Part 2: Russian set-up with ...g6 and ...e5
Part 3: Lopez set-up with ...e5
Part 4: French set-up with ...e6 and ...d5
Part 5: Hybrid Structures
Daniel Kopec (February 28, 1954 – June 12, 2016) was an American chess International Master, author, and computer science professor at Brooklyn College. He graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1975. Kopec later received a PhD in Machine Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh. With Ivan Bratko he was the creator of the "Bratko-Kopec" test used to evaluate the positional understanding of chess programs.