* Mastering the Sicilian Defense

* Winning the Won Game

* Test, Evaluate, and Improve Your Chess: A Knowledge Based Approach (2nd Edition)

An incredible value!

1. Essential Endgame Knowledge
2. Middlegame Pawn Play for Mate (4 Hours)
3. Pawn Structures and How to Play Them
4. Opening Pawn Structures Volume 1
5. Opening Pawn Structures Volume 2
6. How to Analyze a Chess Position
7. How to Visual Combinations (New Edition)
8. The Kopec System

18.5 Hours in all!

6 Books:

* Test, Evaluate, and Improve Your Chess

* Practical Middlegame Techniques

* Mastering the Sicilian Defense (2011)

* Winning the Won Game

* Champions of the New Millennium

* Mastering Chess

9 DVDs:

* How to Analyze a Chess Position

* How to Visualize Chess Combinations

* Pawn Structures and How to Play Them

* Opening Pawn Structures, Advanced Concepts (Volume 1)

* Opening Pawn Structures, Advanced Concepts (Volume 2)

* The Kopec System

* Essential Endgame Knowledge

* Middlegame Pawn Play for Mate

* The History of the World Chess Championship

An unbeatable value.  This bundle can't be matched!

In Champions of the New Millennium three accomplished authors present the eighteen best chess players in the world today. Each player is introduced with an illuminating profile, and then four of his or her finest games are explained in depth. These players are: The current top ten: Anand, Kramnik, Topalov, Morozevich, Svidler, Mamedyarov, Shirov, Leko, Ivanchuk, Aronian. The stars likely to dominate the next decade: Karjakin, Carlsen, Radjabov, Wang Yue, Ponomariov and Grischuk. The best female player ever, Judit Polgar. And finally, World Championship finalist and comeback kid, American star Gata Kamsky. Champions of the New Millennium is the ideal guide to who's who in modern chess.

Originally sponsored by Cajun Chess in 2005, this DVD covers an important niche for players of all levels - how to convert endgame advantages into mate.

120 Minutes

120 Minutes

Don’t miss a chance to experience the highest level of excellence in the chess video arena! Also planned to be released in Blu-ray.

120 Minutes

Mastering Chess is a unique book in that it covers the essentials which every aspiring chess player must know well (from Novice to Expert) to reach the chess Master level. The first edition was popular for some 20 years (from 1985 - 2005) while in print with four different publishers (including Pergamon/Oxford, Cadogan and Everyman/London, Dover / Mineola, NY). It has been rated one of the five best chess books of its kind. Each Chapter of this new edition has new material added and the book has essentially doubled in size. Each Chapter includes new Exercise positions with solutions.

Besides being a self-study self help book, it was designed for chess teachers and chess courses. First there is a spritely written 1st Chapter on Tactics and Combinations by Geoff Chandler of Edinburgh Scotland. Mr. Chandler has updated his popular work with observations of play and missed opportunities from Internet play. The 2nd Chapter introduces a new author (Life Master Ian Harris) and a new approach to how openings can be learned. It presents Dr. Kopec's idea that openings can be learned from the perspective of the following five goals: 1) Development 2) Center Control 3) King Safety 4) Space and 5) Material Balance. Dr. Kopec has been expousing this idea for a number of years in his lectures and chess camps. If effective, it is a novel way of teaching a subject that entails volumes and volumes of books over a number of centuries! Mr. Harris has developed this Chapter spanning some 50 pages in conjunction with Dr. Kopec. Dr. Kopec has added new material to his Chapter 3: How To Analyze a Position including lessons on the topics: The Point Count Method, Grand Central Station, and Don't Believe Everything Your Computer Tells You. New exercises have also been added at the end of this Chapter. Chapter 4 (by Chris Morrison) has also been extended with an additional lesson entitled "Good and Bad Pieces" and number of additional exercises. Chapter 5 (by the late Ian Mullen) has been extended with a lesson entitled "More Advanced Endings". This Chapter has always proven very useful for teachers and courses on the endgame. The material is suitable for players from Novice to Master!

270 Pages

Quite simply put – the Sicilian Defense is the most popular and most complex of opening systems in chess. It has been the favorite of top players throughout modern times. There are a number of systems and variations to choose from such as the Scheveningen, Dragon, Najdorf, Boleslavsky, Kan, etc. There are also a number of sharp, complex, theoretical systems and that is why it is aptly named “The Sicilian Jungle.” IM Dr. Danny Kopec’s addresses the problem of trying to simplify the complexities of the Sicilian Defense from the perspective of STRUCTURE – that is, sound structures for Black, particularly for the endgame. Dr. Kopec uses a unique method which he calls “Mastery Lessons” to guide the learner towards pawn structures and piece configurations which have been demonstrated to lead to success in certain Sicilian variations. This approach, developing “heuristic packets”, helped to achieve master level play in his work with computer chess programs.

220 Pages

This DVD set includes 27 examples comprised of 7 complete games and 20 game fragments divided into three distinct Parts: King(s) Caught in the Center, Kings Castled on Opposite Wings, and Kings Castled on the Same Side. Material is illustrated from the praxis of many of the world’s great players including Alekhine, Anand, Topalov, Fischer, and a few postal gems from IM Kopec himself.

4 Hours (2 discs)

Volume 1 covers the Double King Pawn Openings and structures, and various Sicilian Structures

2 Hours

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.

120 Minutes

2nd Edition, 2013

This book is aimed at the player who wants to improve his or her understanding of the most important middlegame concepts. It starts (Chapter 1) with mating patterns, tactics and combinations. Chapter 2 covers all the important themes related to Pawn Structure play. Chapter 3 moves to an unusual and important theme -- how and when are the conditions ripe to attack the opposing king? What conditions are destined to lead to success, and which will result in failure. Overall the book covers the the topics often deemed the most important for success in the middlegame in chess.

242 pages

3rd Edition

This book represents the sum of Dr. Kopec's overall efforts to help chessplayers understand and acquire the knowledge necessary to achieve chess mastery. Dr. Kopec and Hal Terrie have produced a book which will surely advance the science of chess.

This book is the third in a series that represents testing and evaluation of human and computer chessplayers for over 30 years. The original work started with the Bratko-Kopec Test in 1982 whereby 24 positions proved very effective in evaluating the leave of both human and computer chessplayers. This led to the development of five tests which comprised the 1997 first edition of this book. For the 2003 edition Kopec and Terrie added two tests bringing them to a total of 182 positions comprising seven tests. These tests are particularly knowledge-based covering all phases and all levels of chess play. The present edition, our third, adds five new tests, covering the openings including Novice (1000-1499) Intermediate (1500-1999), Advanced (2000-2199) and Super-Advance (2200 – 2700). A test covering the subtleties of King and Pawn Endings has also been added. The new 2013 edition also has the all the tests re-ordered by level of difficulty. All in all, there are 304 positions in this new comprehensive edition. The book promises to be an excellent tool for self-study and for study of chess in classes. It is an invaluable tool for instructors.

April 2013

422 Pages

In this the 9^th of Dr. Kopec’s well-received instructional chess videos, you will learn all that you need to know about these great champions. Dr. Kopec lucidly explains their backgrounds and the aspects of their chess styles and strengths that made a significant imprint on the history and development of the game of chess. It is organized into three epochs which are called:

I. The Romantic Period (from Morphy to Steinitz).

II. The Hypermodern and Dynamic Period (from Lasker to Botvinnik)

III. The Modern Period (from Petrosian to Carlsen).

The discussion of each player is followed by one or more games that Dr. Kopec deemed the most representative of their styles, strengths, and contributions to chess. Included are 31 games or game fragments which are really a small sample when considering the thousands of games that are candidates but time constraints placed limitations and forced difficult choices.

Run Time: 4 Hours 23 Minutes

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 ... 3.Bd3

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

150 Minutes

Covers 64 chess games awarded the Brilliancy Prizes at the US Championships between 1982 and 2002. Men's and Women's Championships. Deeply annotated games. Includes "Brilliancy and Technique Tables" rating the games for their Brilliancy and level of technique. Should be very enlightening and enjoyable, but not for beginners.

192 Pages

2 Books

* World Title Contenders and Their Styles (Kopec, Pritchett)

* Champions of the New Millennium (Ftacnik, Kopec, Browne)

2 DVDs

* Middlegame Pawn Play for Mate (Kopec, 4 Hour)

* The History of the World Chess Championship

5 lb. Shipping Weight