New: Dorian Rogozenco: Modern Classics
The new ChessBase Training Course ‘Modern Classics’ by GM Dorian Rogozenco presents 33 important games from modern chess history (1935-1999) and offers an excellent basis for deepening your own understanding of chess through detailed explanations, background information and interactive tools. He continues the tradition of his predecessor course and makes important parts of chess culture accessible to players of all levels. Grab this Fritztrainer and enrich your knowledge of the classics. Now you can stream on any device and also study it in the ChessBase Book format with videos. Photo: ChessBase
Dorian Rogozenco - Modern Classics
Top trainers, such as the author Grandmaster Dorian Rogozenco, strongly recommend regular study of well-explained classical games to improve your understanding of chess in the long term. These games are a part of chess culture that every aspiring chess player or chess enthusiast should know.

The new video course ‘Modern Classics’ by former German national coach Dorian Rogozenco, is a continuation of his course ‘Chess Classics - Games you need to know’. It presents 33 famous games from modern chess history - from 1935 to 1999, played by world champions and top grandmasters. In addition, the course includes a video about a remarkable legacy of the 9th World Champion Tigran Petrosian - the positional quality sacrifice.
Video sample: Larsen-Petrosian, 1966 and Karpov-Kasparov, 1993
Each chapter contains the video presentation of the game in CB-Books format plus an introductory text with background information, also a diagram with a critical position, and a game-replayer - in which the user can view the variations from the video and analyse them with an engine. With this carefully and competently structured course, you can work on your understanding of chess, or simply enjoy the games of the great masters!
• Video running time: more than 10 hours
System requirements
Minimum:
Dual Core, 2 GB RAM, DirectX11, graphics card with 256 MB RAM, Windows Media Player 9, ChessBase 14/Fritz 16 or included Reader and internet access for program activation.
Recommended:
PC Intel i5 (Quadcore), 4 GB RAM, Windows 10, DirectX11 graphic card with 512 MB RAM or better, 100% DirectX10 compatible sound card, Windows Media Player 11 and internet connection for program activation.
MacOSX
Minimum: MacOS "Yosemite" 10.10
Streaming
ChessBase Book, iPad, Tablet, any computer or smartphone
About Dorian Rogozenco

Grandmaster Dorian Rogozenco qualified for the FIDE World Championship in 2001 but shifted his focus to his work as an author and trainer at a relatively young age. The FIDE Senior Trainer Rogozenco was coach of the German national team for many years and is one of the most successful ChessBase authors. His publications for ChessBase include the Master Class series and the Classics column in ChessBase Magazine.
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