The Colle-System

The Colle System is rather a playing scheme than an opening. White plays d4, Nf3, e3, Bd3, 0-0, Nbd2 and possibly c3 - nearly regardless of what Black replies. Opening knowledge is of secondary importance. Exactly this is where the author starts his work, prioritizing on explaining plans, patterns and typical mistakes. For example, two chapters are titled "Ten inspirational games" and "Eight warning games". However, Oleinikov naturally also deals with opening theory in the classical sense and discusses the critical variations, at one point showing himself surprised: "To my amazement, none of my opponents has reached this crucial position so far". Certainly a hint that the second players know too little about the Colle System and rather play it by ear.

This is what makes chess training fun:

• suited for club players
• clear-cut learning database with 380 games
• opening course in 17 chapters
• 100 games annotated by the author
• three topical training databases
• big database with a total of more than 21,000 games
• ChessBase Reader included

The author
Living in Moscow, Dmitrij Oleinikov is a journalist and has worked as a trainer for various Russian teams. He has also written the CD ROMs "Budapest Gambit" and "Bird Opening" published at ChessBase.

System Requirements: Pentium 166, 32 MB RAM, Win98, WinME, Win2000, WinXP