English Attack

Stormester Gormally gir 7 hele timer med Siciliansk-varianter /-partier der hvit angriper med f3, Le3, Dd2, g4, h4 osv. Engelskmennene Nunn og Short populariserte dette på 80-tallet, og siden har verdenseliten spilt det.

DVD'en gir også plenty av interaktiv trening og en base med 50 særlig viktige partier og analyser.

DVD gir populær og for mange effektiv sjakktrening hjem på PC'en. Dette er antagelig et produkt aller mest for spillere med ratingstyrke cirka 1300 og langt oppover.

ChessBase sin egen omtale:

The English Attack against the Najdorf and the Scheveningen is one of the most exciting and entertaining variations in modern chess. The line, developed in the 1980s by the English top players John Nunn and Nigel Short, was a mainstay of such chess legends as Garry Kasparov and Vishy Anand, and is now also a favourite of players of the younger generation such as Fabiano Caruana and Alexander Grischuk.

On this instructive DVD English Grandmaster Daniel Gormally, himself an accomplished attacking player, explains the most important lines of this fascinating system. Gormally demonstrates that the English attack is not a one-dimensional opening although in many lines White is happily hacking away on the kingside. This DVD shows how White can combine strategic ideas with attacking flair to use the English attack as a deadly weapon against the Sicilian defence.

Gormally believes that adding the English attack to your repertoire will straight away improve your results. It is the kind of opening that rewards hard work – you are more likely to get more interesting positions than in the anti-Sicilian lines, while playing and studying this opening will also improve your understanding of chess.

• Video running time: 7 hours (English) • With interactive training including video feedback • Training database with 50 essential games and analyses • Including CB 12 Reader

Innholdet (+ 13 teststillinger):

01: Introduction [04:34]
02: 6...e6 7.f3 b5 8.g4 h6 9.Qd2 Bb7 10.0-0-0 Game 1 - Nunn,J - Leroy,A [20:51]
03: 6...e6 7.f3 b5 8.g4 h6 9.Qd2 Bb7 10.h4 Game 2 - Anand,V - Ftacnik,L [16:25]
04: 6...e6 7.f3 Nc6 8.Qd2 Be7 9.0-0-0 0-0 10.g4 Nxd4 11.Bxd4 b5 12.g5 Nd7 13.h4 Bb7 Game 3 - Haslinger,S - Gormally,D [11:03]
05: 6...e6 7.f3 Nc6 8.Qd2 Be7 9.0-0-0 0-0 10.g4 Nxd4 11.Bxd4 b5 12.g5 Nd7 13.h4 b4 Game 4 - Fischer,R - Spassky,B [13:16]
06: 6...e6 7.f3 Nc6 8.Qd2 Be7 9.0-0-0 0-0 10.g4 Nxd4 11.Qxd4 Game 5 - Morozevich,A - Rowson,J [11:09]
07: 6...e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 h5 Game 6 - Caruana,F - Gelfand,B [22:46]
08: 6...e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 h5 9.Qd2 Nbd7 10.g4 b5 Game 7 - Inarkiev,E - Nepomniachtchi,I [19:28]
09: 6.f3 Qb6 7.Nb3 e6 8.Bf4 Game 8 - Anand,V - Ponomariov,R [12:50]
10: 6...e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 Be7 9.Qd2 Nbd7 10.g4 0-0 11.0-0-0 Rc8 Game 9 - Grischuk,A - Ftacnik,L [18:52]
11: 6...e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 Be7 9.Qd2 Nbd7 10.g4 0-0 11.0-0-0 b5 12.Rg1 Game 10 - Saric,I - Vachier Lagrave,M [18:03]
12: 6...e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 Be7 9.Qd2 Nbd7 10.g4 0-0 11.0-0-0 b5 12.g5 Game 11 - Saric,I - Wojtaszek,R [21:15]
13: 6...e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 Be7 9.Qd2 0-0 10.0-0-0 b5 11.g4 b4 Game 12 - Tiviakov,S - Gormally,D [14:10]
14: 6...e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 Be7 9.Qd2 0-0 10.0-0-0 Nbd7 Game 13 - Adair,J - Gormally,D [16:40]
15: 6...e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 Be7 9.Qd2 0-0 10.0-0-0 a5 Game 14 - Motylev,A - Li,S [16:07]
16: 6...e6 7.f3 b5 8.Qd2 b4 9.Na4 Nbd7 10.0-0-0 Game 15 - Leko,P - Topalov,V [21:04]
17: 6...e6 7.f3 b5 8.Qd2 b4 9.Na4 Nbd7 10.g4 Game 16 - Zhou,Y - Gormally,D [21:06]
18: 6...e6 7.f3 b5 8.Qd2 Nbd7 9.g4 h6 10.0-0-0 Bb7 11.h4 b4 12.Na4 Game 17 - Dominguez Perez,L - Amanov,M [19:03]
19: 6...e6 7.f3 b5 8.Qd2 Nbd7 9.g4 Nb6 10.Qf2 Nfd7 11.0-0-0 Bb7 12.Bd3 Rc8 13.Nce2 Be7 Game 18 - Bologan,V - Moreno Carnero,J [16:21]
20: 6...e6 7.f3 b5 8.Qd2 Nbd7 9.0-0-0 Bb7 10.g4 Nb6 11.Qf2 Nfd7 12.Bd3 Rc8 13.Nce2 Qc7 Game 19 - Motylev,A - Parligras,M [14:07]
21: 6...e6 7.f3 b5 8.Qd2 Nbd7 9.g4 h6 10.0-0-0 b4 Game 20 - Morozevich,A - Vachier-Lagrave,M [12:32]
22: 6...e6 7.f3 b5 8.Qd2 Nbd7 9.0-0-0 Bb710.g4 Rc8 11.g5 Nh5 Game 21 - Gormally,D - Kevlishvili,R [14:23]

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, ChessBase 12/Fritz 13 or included Reader and internet connection for program activation. Recommended: PC Intel Core i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 GB RAM, Windows 7 or Windows 8, 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.