Chess King 4 Tutorials (new for 2014)
Welcome to our new summer 2014 CHESS KING 4 TUTORIALS page. The full playlist contains 25 videos and over 2 hours of tutorials by 12th women's world chess champion Alexandra Kosteniuk and chess guru Steve Lopez. The link to the full Chess King 4 Tutorial Playlist is here. You can find both Mac and PC versions, DVD and download of the Chess King software at chesskingtraining.com. The videos are all in full HD resolution so you can watch them in full screen mode to see everything in great detail. If you watch all the tutorials and use Chess King I'm sure you will improve greatly at chess! [Note: these videos work for ALL versions of Chess King, i.e. Chess King 2, Chess King 3, Chess King 4, 4 Pro and Chess King 4 for Mac]. Best wishes, Alexandra Kosteniuk
(below) KOSTENIUK VIDEO #01: This is the introduction video to the 2014 DVD/Playlist "How to Improve at Chess thanks to Chess King".
(below) KOSTENIUK VIDEO #02: 12th women's world chess champion and chess queen™ Alexandra Kosteniuk gives a tutorial on how to use the chess software Chess King 4 for PC or Mac. She describes in detail how she enters a chess game into the software, uses the opening tree and included engine Houdini 4, how she searches for games in the included GigaKing database to prepare for her next opponents, and how she imports chess database files and sets up positions.
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #01: Introduction to Chess King 4 for PC/Mac. This video by chess guru Steve Lopez introduces the software and what it can do.
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #02: Installation of the software Chess King 4 for PC/Mac.
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #03: Navigation Buttons of Chess King 4 for PC/Mac.
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #04: Quests and Puzzles in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #05: Play Classical Chess in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #06: Time Controls in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #07: Random Games in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #08: Enter and Save Games in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #09: Game Analysis with Houdini in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #10: Position Setup and Houdini Analysis in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #11: Houdini Analysis during replay in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac.
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #12: Adding Verbal Comments in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #13: Adding Variations in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #14: Adding Visual Commentary in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #15: Diagrams and Export to PDF in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #16: Import a Game Database to Chess King 4 for PC/Mac
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #17: Games and Searches in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #18: Using the Opening Tree in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #19: Creating a Player's Opening Tree in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #20: Setting up Endgame Tablebases in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #21: Chess960 or Fischer Random in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #22: Publishing Games to a Blog in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac
(below) Chess King 4 Tutorial Video #23: Rewards and Graphic Hints in Chess King 4 for PC/Mac
That's it! We hope you liked the videos. If you have any questions about Chess King, feel free to write to Alexandra or Diego.
Chess King 4 Tutorials
Welcome to our new summer 2014 CHESS KING 4 TUTORIALS page. The full playlist contains 25 videos and over 2 hours of tutorials by 12th women's world chess champion Alexandra Kosteniuk and chess guru Steve Lopez. The link to the full Chess King 4 Tutorial Playlist is here. You can find both Mac and PC versions, DVD and download of the Chess King software at chesskingtraining.com. The videos are all in full HD resolution so you can watch them in full screen mode to see everything in great detail. If you watch all the tutorials and use Chess King I'm sure you will improve greatly at chess! [Note: these videos work for ALL versions of Chess King, i.e. Chess King 2, Chess King 3, Chess King 4, 4 Pro and Chess King 4 for Mac]. Best wishes, Alexandra Kosteniuk
Theory and Practice of Chess Endings (PDF)
The author of the book is the Grandmaster and honored Russian coach who headed the All-Russian chess school. At his lessons Alexander Panchenko, following the advice of world champions J.R.Capablanka and V.V.Smislov, placed the highest emphasis on endgame (without neglecting the other stages of a chess game, for sure).
The result surpassed all expectations: dozens of grand masters and masters graduated from the school – Sergey Rublevsky, Alice Galliamova, Ruslan Scherbakov, Svetlana Prudnikova, Tatiana Shumjakina and many others.
The well-known lectures of Panchenko’s school have underlain the basis of this fascinating book on the endgame that will help to increase playing skills and to achieve higher practical results both for amateurs and professionals.
Moreover, it is an indispensible assistant for coaches-teachers. Besides theoretical material, the book contains numerous examples from the practice of the classical and modern chess players and the tasks for the independent solving and playing.
Vol. 1 Contents:
- PAWN ENDINGS
- KNIGHT ENDINGS
- BISHOPS OF OPPOSITE COLOR
- OPPOSITE COLORED BISHOPS WITH ROOKS OR QUEENS ON THE BOARD
- BISHOPS OF THE SAME COLOR
- BISHOP AGAINST KNIGHT
- BISHOP PAIR IN THE ENDGAME
- Solutions to the Contest Tasks
160 pages, 2009 year
Vol. 2 Contents:
- Extra Exchange
- Rook Against Pawns
- Rook Endings
- Endings with Four Rooks
- Queen Endings
- Queen Against Two Rooks
- Multi-Piece Endings
- Solutions to the Contest Tasks
176 pages, 2009 year
Chess King TV – 6 Courses Fundamental Video Download Pack
>The following 6 complete courses from ChessKing.tv:
3 Complete Chess Course
3 Chess Opening Ideas
For Beginner and Advanced Beginners to become Intermediate Level players.
Covers everything from opening principles to strategy and tactics, endgames,
and the best way to play the openings.
Approximately 12 hours of video.
Each course approximately 300-500 mb in size.
Possible to download individually each course.
Format is unprotected MP4 files, can use in any media player.
Chess King TV – 7 Courses Tactics in the Openings Video Download Pack
>The following 7 complete courses from ChessKing.tv:
Most important to watch if you want to master the tricks, traps, and tactics ideas behind the openings:
Ruy Lopez, Scotch, Philidor, Giuoco Piano (Italian), and the King's Gambit.
For Advanced Beginners and Intermediate Level players.
Approximately 14 hours of video.
Each course approximately 300-500 mb in size.
Possible to download individually each course.
Format is unprotected MP4 files, can use in any media player.
Chess King TV – 4 Courses Openings Video Download Pack
>The following 4 complete courses from ChessKing.tv:
4 Chess King Openings (Sicilian, French, Caro-Kann, Ruy Lopez).
A must watch if you want to understand the ideas behind those openings.
For Advanced Beginners and Intermediate Level players.
Covers the basics and key ideas in today's most popular chess openings.
Approximately 8 hours of video.
Each course approximately 300-500 mb in size.
Possible to download individually each course.
Format is unprotected MP4 files, can use in any media player.
Chess King 23 for PC (Download)
Introduced December 2022: New Chess King 23 for Windows
If you own a previous version of Chess King you can use the discounted upgrade option to buy Chess King 23. Mention your previous Chess King Serial number to qualify.
It can be installed and use in 5 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, and Russian.
Internet connection required only to download the program.
• Automatic installer for Stockfish engine
• Huge opening tree with evaluations and success for each move
• GigaKing 2022 games database of over 8 million games
• Classical (any level), Random, Puzzle (1500 puzzles) and Quest modes (100 games)
• Prepare for your opponent, opening and custom trees
http://chessking.net/manuals/ChessKingManual201512.pdf
by Alexandra Kosteniuk and Steve Lopez, that’s over 2 hours of training, at this link.
Chess King 24 for PC (Download)
Introduced December 2022: New Chess King 24 for Windows
If you own a previous version of Chess King you can use the discounted upgrade option to buy Chess King 24. Mention your previous Chess King Serial number to qualify.
It can be installed and use in 5 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, and Russian.
Internet connection required only to download the program.
• Automatic installer for Stockfish engine
• Huge opening tree with evaluations and success for each move
• GigaKing 2022 games database of over 8 million games
• Classical (any level), Random, Puzzle (1500 puzzles) and Quest modes (100 games)
• Prepare for your opponent, opening and custom trees
http://chessking.net/manuals/ChessKingManual201512.pdf
by Alexandra Kosteniuk and Steve Lopez, that’s over 2 hours of training, at this link.
CHESSOK AQUARIUM 2024
Aquarium 2024
Fast, strong, solid!
What's new in ChessOK Aquarium 2024:
- 3-month pack for 100 courses of Chess King Learn
- Updated databases
now contain 8.9 million games in total!
Quick Overview
ChessOK Aquarium 2024 offers advanced analysis functions, game commenting, searching, powerful chess trees, playing, databases and much more.
Interactive Deep Analysis is the the most advanced chess analysis method available today.
Infinite Analysis is more flexible than ever with analysis presets.
Find Blunders and Game Analysis for analyzing whole games.
ChessOK Aquarium 2024 can auto-find chess programs (including the strong Stockfish 16 engine) on the Internet, download and install them - all in a couple of clicks.
Play against the computer
Choose from three different strength handicap methods, material handicap or time handicap. You can also
just set the ELO level
you want to play against!
Publish your games, analyses or even whole chess books! Publish as Aquarium iBook, on the web/blog or in print.
Compatibility with major opening book and database formats.
Databases of about 8.9 million games in total (up to December 1, 2023) that can be
updated from www.chessok.com each week with 1500 new games for free.
Language versions:
English, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Russian.
System requirements
: PC, 256 MB RAM, 4GB of free disk space, Windows Vista/7/8/10/11.
ChessOK Aquarium - Ultimate Analysis and Playing Tool
ChessOK Aquarium is a revolutionary analysis, database and chess publishing tool,
fully compatible with the world’s strongest chess playing engines, including Houdini 6 and Stockfish
. ChessOK Aquarium combines an easy-to-navigate interface with advanced analysis functions, game commenting, searching, powerful chess trees, playing against the computer, databases, advanced publishing options and many other features.
One of its unique features, Interactive Deep Analysis, is the most advanced chess analysis method available today. The purpose of IDeA is to analyze a position deeply and return as much information about it as possible to enable the user to get a better understanding of the nuances of any position. Its unique approach makes it an essential weapon in the arsenal of every serious player and analyst!
ChessOK Aquarium was developed by Convekta Ltd, widely known for such famous programs as Chess Assistant and CT-ART. Those of you who never used Aquarium should definitely consider trying out this most advanced chess interface.
Easy-to-Use Interface
Despite having numerous functions and customization options, Aquarium is easy to use navigate - thanks to a modern interface employing the Ribbon - an element you may be familiar with from the latest Microsoft Office products and some other modern programs. It provides means to make all options easily accessible without limiting the number of options.
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The Ribbon |
Aquarium comes with a good selection of graphical customization options, allowing you to choose styles for board and pieces.
Visual annotations are an effective tool to recall your thoughts about a position and quickly remind you of its most important features. They are also essential for creating video lectures and very useful for live commentary.
Infinite Analysis Trees
One of the unique features of Aquarium is that it stores your infinite analysis results. If you run into the same position, even in a different database and even if it came up through a different move order, you can see that you have analyzed it before. Besides examining the result you can insert the variation and evaluation into the game you are currently viewing. You can also add a column with the infinite analysis tree to a tree configuration, so you can always see the evaluation of the different moves in the tree window.
If you use multiple chess engines, the analysis results and trees can be stored separately for each engine.
Interactive Deep Analysis (IDeA)
IDeA is one of the most advanced methods available for analyzing chess positions. In fact, it is more of an analysis environment rather than a simple analysis feature. Similar to “infinite analysis,” IDeA continues analyzing until you decide to stop it; however, the similarities end there.
Instead of analyzing the same position forever, IDeA behaves like a strong chess player analyzing a position. If you ever studied Kotov’s Think Like a Grandmaster, you no doubt remember his well known advice to identify candidate moves and methodically examine them to build an “analysis tree.” This is how IDeA works.
The purpose of IDeA is to dig deeply into a position and return as much information about it as possible. IDeA keeps its analysis in a tree structure which is unlimited in size and the user can browse at will, even while the analysis is in progress.
Besides having a live view of how the analysis is evolving the user can also direct the analysis into the most interesting positions by excluding or adding positions and variations to the analysis queue.
In short IDeA is a highly selective search controlled by Aquarium (and by the Aquarium user). Interesting lines are analyzed deeply but weak moves are only considered briefly or not at all.
There is no doubt that Interactive Deep Analysis is a very powerful tool in the hands of the serious chess player.
Integration of IDeA and Infinite Analysis
The biggest news introduced in Aquarium is the improved integration of IDeA and infinite analysis. The first steps in this direction were taken in Aquarium 4. The most important of those was the introduction of IDeA game links (see IDeA Master Trees and IDeA Game Links), which added a new level of convenience by creating an "analysis center" where IDeA is accessible along with other Aquarium analysis tools such as infinite analysis, without the need to switch back and forth between the game and IDeA.
Aquarium takes the integration one step further by sending infinite analysis results automatically to the IDeA queue or even directly to the IDeA project tree without the need to re-analyze the positions in IDeA. This means that if you run infinite analysis in a game linked to a project, the variations produced by the engine will be compared to the positions in the project tree; and if they haven't been analyzed, they will be sent to IDeA.
For the Infinite Analysis Users
The infinite Analysis in Aquarium is as solid as ever. In fact the users that gain most from the improved analysis features in Aquarium 2024 are those who use infinite analysis. With the improvements in Aquarium 2024 you can automatically keep track of all your infinite analysis broken down by chess engine. If you want to check a previously analyzed position at a later time, you can see how it was evaluated by each of the chess engines used to analyze the position.
Even if you prefer infinite analysis and never use IDeA, additional options give you a good reason to look into IDeA once more. At no extra cost in time you will get a tool to monitor your infinite analysis and permanently record the results in a way that makes them easy to access and view in the Tree window.
After some brief customization IDeA will not generate any positions on its own and the only positions it will process are positions that you send to it, either manually or automatically from infinite analysis using one of the options described above. In this case you would add the infinite analysis positions directly to the project tree.
Easy HTML Export of iBooks and Games
Exporting iBooks and games in Aquarium is a matter of few clicks if you need to do it fast, but also allows for advanced customization in case you want to adjust the design for your site or blog. You can save your custom settings.
For more information and detailed guides, refer to the related articles at
chessok.com
.
ChessOK Playing Club
The
ChessOK Playing Club
(also known as Chess Planet or ChessOK Playing Zone) client is included in the basic Aquarium installation package.
ChessOK Playing Club is a chess server where you can play opponents all over the world for free. Besides offering the usual time-controls for shorter games, this site has great support for correspondence chess with new tournaments starting all the time. New in this version is support for Fischerandom or Chess960 games.
Most its features are completelty free, but buying Aquarium also gets you one year of free membership in ChessOK Playing Zone.
CAP
I've been looking at the CAP analysis that comes with Aquarium 2024. For those who are not familiar with the CAP project, it is a chess tree (position database) with chess engine evaluation of fifty-five million positions. Each position is analyzed for one minute and the results are minimaxed. IDeA users will probably realize that the quality of such analysis can be quite good and in general the CAP evaluations after the early opening seem to reflect the possibilities of both sides quite well.
One of the features of the Aquarium 2024 CAP database is the analysis of the first twenty-five moves of all high-rated correspondence games from the ICCF game archive. Therefore, it is worth keeping an eye on the CAP scores while browsing the games.
Naturally, a high rated correspondence player can't rely entirely on CAP evaluations when selecting moves. Move selection in correspondence games requires much deeper analysis. However, a key factor in modern correspondence chess is to find positions that are initially evaluated favorably by chess engines, but can be shown to be dangerous after deep and careful analysis. CAP can be helpful in picking out such positions.
Learn more about Aquarium
A detailed overview of the previous instalment of Aquarium:
Part 1
Learn more about Aquarium and read comprehensive guides to its numerous features in the
Articles section
.