Overview
On this DVD, Alexei Shirov shows that also in the chess endgame, it is possible to keep struggling for the full point to the very last – if you are creative and ambitious.
Because even in objectively quite balanced positions, you can frequently find ways to sharpen up or complicate the fight.
For the tournament player, often all that matters is to be able to pose practical problems which his or her opponent might finally fail to solve.
Thus, Shirov sees himself rather as an endgame practitioner, putting down his successes in this phase of the game less to concrete knowledge about theoretical positions than to the understanding of general principles, good intuition, and exact calculation of variations.
One main emphasis of the DVD is the chess endgame with rooks and different colored bishops which Shirov finds particularly interesting, analyzing five examples.
Another important feature is the very complex and difficult setting with four rooks (three examples), where he works out the most helpful general principles.
All in all, Alexei Shirov examines 17 examples out of his own practice, among them his famous different colored bishop ending versus Topalov which went around the whole world.
About the Author:
Alexei Shirov was born in Riga just like world champion Mihail Tal, and also his playing style reminds many chess fans of the young Tal.
At the beginning of the 90s, a comet-like rise brought the young Latvian to the world top within the shortest of time.
Being no older than 22 years, he already had an ELO rating of nearly 2750 and belonged to the absolute elite.
Since then Alexei Shirov has been one of the best players in the world, delighting all chess fans with original and amazing ideas on the board.
System Requirements:
Minimum: Dual Core, 2 GB RAM, Windows 7 or 8.1, DirectX11, graphics card with 256 MB RAM, DVD-ROM drive, Windows Media Player 9, ChessBase 14/Fritz 16 or included Reader and internet access for program activation.
Recommended: PC Intel i5 (Quadcore), 4 GB RAM, Windows 10, DirectX11, graphics card with 512 MB RAM or more, 100% DirectX10-compatible sound card, Windows Media Player 11, DVD-ROM drive and internet access for program activation.
