Chess Academy eBook+ “The Bishop Pair” runs on a standard PC with the operating system Windows® 10 / 11 and Windows® Vista 32bit/XP/2000/NT4/9x/Me.

Installation of the program, program interface, menu, and help in the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Polish.

Chess Academy eBook+ “The Bishop Pair” contains a full version of the successful and powerful Chess Academy chess program (ver. 5.5) with the tutorial and training module “The Bishop Pair”.

Tutorial and training examples with text comments in German and English languages are classified by topics/subtopics and each commented variation includes matching positional evaluations and/or text annotations explaining typical plans and maneuvers.

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Brief description of the included tutorial and training module “The Bishop Pair”:

The included tutorial and training module “The Bishop Pair” is dedicated to one of the most important strategic problems in a game of chess. It explains how to continue in different positions with or against the bishop pair. In this masterpiece, the authors explain the most fundamental concepts every player should know about playing with or against the bishop pair.

The master seems to place his pieces on the right squares effortlessly. To where they work perfectly together and dominate important lines, diagonals, or squares. Using a selection of classical and more recent games, the authors explain how to deal with typical positions with bishop pair that can arise from different openings.

The module successfully combines classical games, with which the individual chapters are introduced, and modern examples. This module contains 200 selected and extensively annotated examples and will encourage the user to study the middle game more seriously.

This standard work also covers the following topics:

• Attacking the king
• Exposing diagonals
• Transfer to the important diagonal
• Transformation of the advantage
• Space advantage
• Exchange into endgame
• Restriction of minor pieces
• Creation of weaknesses
• Opening the center
• Sacrifice to gain the bishop pair
• Initiative and domination, etc.

Co-author E. Borulia is a well-known female grandmaster. Winning the German Women’s Championship in 1995 was a major step in her grandmaster career so far. Co-author J. Srokowskiy is an international master since 1992. He was the coach of GM Andrei Maximenko, GM E. Borulia, GM S. Matveyeva and GM M. Litinskaya. He was awarded the Chigorin Medal for his outstanding achievements in training top players.

Conclusion: Without a doubt, this is an extremely instructive work. Therefore, be sure to use this module as well. Some examples cause difficulties even for master players. However, players of any level will benefit from working with this module.