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Get three great books for just $30.  This bundle includes:

* Mastering the Sicilian Defense

* Winning the Won Game

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

An incredible value!

8 Kopec DVDs for one great price!

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!

Get EVERY book and DVD created by IM Dr. Danny Kopec all at one incredible price!  This package includes:

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!

Ftacnik, Kopec, and Browne

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.

The highly acclaimed Essential Endgame Knowledge covers elementary endings, King and Pawn Endings, Rook and Pawn Endings, in a thorough way not done by chess videos before.

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

In this video, IM Dr. Danny Kopec, internationally renowned chess teacher, provides you with tangible techniques and tools that will ensure your success as a player and analyst. You will learn the presenter’s "Four Golden Rules of Analysis." Specific techniques teach you how to:
• Evaluate central control
• Identify your winning margin
• Identify the most important piece in a position, and
• “Transform" your advantages into victory and much more!

120 Minutes

This DVD has the same content as the previous "How To Visualize Chess Combinations" (produced in 1994 by Bob Boylan), but the visual component is a completely new video production. It incorporates 3D animations, all new titling graphics, new recordings of all on-screen segments of Dr. Kopec, and an all new graphic representation of the chess play and analysis. In addition there are images of most of the players mentioned in the DVD. This high quality production, coupled with an unequaled level of instruction, provides an experience unparalleled amongst chess DVDs to date.

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

Kopec, Chandler, Harris, Morrison, and Mullen

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

IM Dr. Danny Kopec

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 monumental DVD covers a subject that is certainly not for beginners – How pawns should be used in the middlegame to develop an attack on the opposing King.

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)

Tired of memorizing opening variations?
Continuing from where his previous video Pawn Structures and How To Play Them leaves off, internationally renowned teacher IM Dr. 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 covers the Double King Pawn Openings and structures, and various Sicilian Structures

2 Hours

Tired of memorizing opening variations?
Continuing from where his previous video Pawn Structures and How To Play Them leaves off, internationally renowned teacher IM Dr. 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 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.

This video, presented by the internationally renowned chess teacher IM Dr. 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 clearly 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 chess.

120 Minutes

IM Dr. Danny Kopec

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

Kopec and Terrie

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

This monumental video (4 hours, 23 minutes) presents the viewer with the most important people and events that have comprised the chess world championship over the course of more than 150 years. It covers 20 players who were able to lay claim to the title of Chess World Champion (including the unofficial world champions Morphy, Anderssen, and Zukertort) and their styles.

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

A repertoire for White. You are about to enter the completely different world of The Kopec System. IM Dr. Danny Kopec presents his original system, a deadly plan 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 ... 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

Kopec and Ftacnik

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

Four products that feature games and players from the chess world championship.

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