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Re: Kopec pawn structure DVDs?
Reply #3 - 07/13/11 at 18:26:02
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I haven't done these specific pawn structure Dvds. However, the one Kopec video I did left an AWFUL taste in my mouth. It was on "how to analyze a chess position." Not only did it feel like he was reading off a script... it felt like the most unhelpful script ever written. He never really explained anything. He would just go over his games and say "I had a great idea to do this move which is obviously winning so it needs no explanation." The whole video went on like that without anything useful ever being said. He had it structured into 'space' 'king safety' and the like but never actually touched on those subjects. It was so poorly done I would never buy anything with the name Kopec anywhere on it again - me personally.
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Re: Kopec pawn structure DVDs?
Reply #2 - 07/13/11 at 16:50:40
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Yeah, hunting around the internet, I found a couple of negative reviews of his videos and no positive ones, so I decided to skip these. Thanks for the response, though.
  

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Re: Kopec pawn structure DVDs?
Reply #1 - 07/13/11 at 01:42:09
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O6mF1dJUoI

That's the only video I could find of Kopec speaking about chess.  He seems like he's reading off a script.  Make of it what you will.

I can empathize with your perception that you learn better by watching than by reading a book.  However, if Kopec's other DVDs are anything like this, they might resemble an audiobook + automated board more than they would, say, a chessbase presentation.
  
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Kopec pawn structure DVDs?
07/09/11 at 05:17:38
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Anyone know anything about the DVDs "Pawn Structures and How To Play Them", "Opening Pawn Structures - Advanced Concepts Volume 1", and "Opening Pawn Structures - Advanced Concepts Volume 2"? 

I just learn better from videos than books, and these are the only videos I've seen on this specific subject. Are they any good? Worth getting? I had never heard of them before, but I'm playing in a big weekend tournament, and the vendor has these with him, so I was thinking of maybe checking out one or more of them. What do the rest of you think?

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