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Harald Schneider-Zinner
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International Master Harald Schneider-Zinner shares his experience and knowledge, with the aim of strengthening your chess resistance. He demonstrates numerous methods and defensive ideas and gives lots of psychological tips.

As a coach of the Austrian national women›s team for many years and as a certified psychological trainer, International Master Harald Schneider-Zinner shares his experience and knowledge, with the aim of strengthening your chess resistance. He demonstrates numerous methods and defensive ideas and gives lots of psychological tips. Topics such as «sense of danger»; «ghosts»; «emergency brake»; «trend»; «on and on»; and many other innovative approaches are discussed in detail. After studying, you too may be among the chess players who can offer amazing resistance, even in bad positions, and drive the attacker to despair!

  • Video running time: 5 h 10 minutes 
  • Interactive training including video feedback 
  • Extra: Training with ChessBase apps - Play key positions against Fritz on various levels

Contents

1
Chapter 1 - Introduction
2
Introduction Ding Liren vs Nepomniachtchi
3
Introduction Model Games
4
Chapter 2.1 - Mental strength and powerful defensive moves
5
Resilience
6
Playing On and on
7
Hasty resignation
8
Finding only moves 1
9
Finding only moves 2
10
Comparison
11
Elimination
12
Sense of Danger 1
13
Sense of Danger 2
14
Sense of Danger 3
15
Creating phantoms 1
16
Creating phantoms 2
17
Chapter 2.2 - Mental strength and powerful defensive moves
18
Emergency brake 1
19
Emergency brake 2
20
Transition into an inferior endgame 1
21
Transition into an inferior endgame 2
22
Setting a trap
23
Bucking the trend 1
24
Bucking the trend 2
25
Hanging pieces – so what?!
26
The bread-and-butter principle
27
Chapter 3 - Typical manoeuvres
28
Capablanca's advice: Not too many, not too few
29
Petrosian's Knight
30
Tower of strength
31
Wing play 1
32
Wing play 2
33
Eliminate attackers
34
Returning material
35
Defensive exchange sacrifice
36
Protective Shield
37
Little King moves
38
Passed pawns
39
Enigmatic Queen move
40
Chapter 4 - The final hope
41
Stalemate
42
Perpetual checks
43
Removing pawns 1
44
Removing pawns 2
45
A fortress motif 1
46
A fortress motif 2
47
A fortress motif 3
48
Chapter 5.1 Exercises
49
Description
50
Exercise 1
51
Exercise 2
52
Exercise 3
53
Exercise 4
54
Exercise 5
55
Exercise 6
56
Exercise 7
57
Exercise 8
58
Exercise 9
59
Exercise 10
60
Chapter 5.2 Exercises
61
Description
62
Exercise 11
63
Exercise 12
64
Exercise 13
65
Exercise 14
66
Exercise 15
67
Exercise 16
68
Exercise 17
69
Exercise 18
70
Exercise 19
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