When you play the Benoni, you will experience a lack of space, and an imbalanced pawn structure. A good strategy for black is to seek at least 1 minor piece exchange in order to be able to move about more freely within the limited space. Given tim...
With the classical variation of the Nimzo-Indian defense, white avoids having their queenside structure damaged by Bxc3. The queen is now prepared to make this recapture from c2. A downside however is that the white queen is deployed very early, a...
An important question for black when faced with a white pawn on e5 in the Caro-Kann Advanced is, "How can I organize my kingside minor pieces?" With black's thematic pawn break being c5, this conveniently opens up the c6 square for the king knight...
A dynamic battle often arises out of the King's Indian Defense. How might things vary, if at all, from the Makogonov variation? A critical moment presents itself as early as move 9. Capturing on f5 would lead to a dynamic battle, and not capturing...
The French Winawer can very often lead to an imbalanced strategic battle. More specifically one where white has the two bishops and a compromised queenside structure, the very side of the board black looks to exploit due to the many holes in white...
What to do when the center is locked? Who would be quicker to strike on the wings, to help potentially activate the rooks? At what point would it be a good option for me to release the tension in the center? On this last note, analysis with the he...
White plays the Wing Gambit in reply to the Sicilian Defense. Its point, as is the case with nearly all gambits, is to open lines and accentuate one's development. If one is not familiar with an open game that quickly turns dynamic, tipping one's ...
Two strong International Masters, Yaacov Norowitz from the United States, and Minh Le from Vietnam plays some chess games on the live server. I kibitz 5 of their blitz chess games with time control 3|0. Both players seem to have had a preference ...
This is a blitz chess game I played as white with time control 5|0. The opening played was the Catalan Opening, Closed. What to do when one side has a space advantage? Keeping all minor pieces on board can make life a little difficult for the side...
This is a blitz chess game I played as white with time control 3|0. Black opted for a King's Indian setup whereas white went for a Bf4 based setup. Sometimes the middlegame could turn into a race if black pushes e4, at which point white would play...
Have you ever seen our World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen play bullet chess? Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura play some bullet chess, the final phase of the 2016 Grandmaster Blitz Chess Battle Championship's match format. For me, this was the f...
Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura plays some blitz against an anonymous Grandmaster, likely a super grandmaster, from China with the username chesspanda123. I kibitz 7 blitz games with time control 3|0. The quality of the games is quite high as one migh...
Showcased is the most recent game by the youngest International Chess Master in history, R Praggnanandhaa. Praggnanandhaa, from Chennai, India, played as black in the final round of the 2016 Isle of Man Chess Tournament against Axel Bachmann of Pa...
This is a rapid time control game of 25 minutes with a 10 second increment between the engines Naum 4.6 and Houdini 200716. This was from Season 9 of the TCEC (Top Chess Engine Championship) in 2016. Understanding the play of two top engines is so...
I played a standard chess game as white with time controls set at 15 minutes with a 5 second increment against Computer4-Impossible. The opening played was the Benoni Defense. The computer is far more brave than any human would be in this game, th...
This is a blitz chess game I played as white with time control 5|0. The opening played was a Ruy Lopez, Exchange variation. With the exchange variation comes an important responsibility, namely great care of the light squares since white is withou...
This is video #22 from the "Beginner to Chess Master" playlist. The Vančura defense is an important rook and pawn endgame drawing idea that is specific to a rook pawn on the 6th rank. This concept is well beyond the beginner stage, and is likely o...
On September 30th, 2016 the Disney movie "Queen of Katwe" will be released. It's based on a true story, one depicting the life of Phiona Mutesi, who today is a Chess Champion in Uganda. In this video I share a recent game she played at the 2016 Wo...
This is a blitz chess game I played as black with time control 5|0. The opening played was a Queen's pawn game. White's modest approach to the opening allows for black to confidently violate an opening principle which states one should not move th...
This is video #19 from the "Beginner to Chess Master" playlist. Rook and pawn endgames are the most popular type of endgames in chess. Of them, one of the most frequent types to arise in practice is known as the "Lucena Position", or what many, my...
I played a standard chess game as white with time controls set at 15 minutes with a 10 second increment. The opening played was the King's Indian Defense, Makagonov system. Is it typical to reach move 20 and only have 1 pawn exchange? That's what ...
I played a standard chess game as black with time controls set at 15 minutes with a 5 second increment against Computer4-Impossible. The opening played was the English Opening, Karpov System. The engine's play is anything but typical in this game,...
This is a blitz chess game I played as black with time control 5|0. The opening played was the Black Knights' Tango by transposition. Black offers up some space in exchange for a defined pawn center and some dark square play . There is a little wa...
This is a blitz chess game I played as black with time control 5|0. The opening played was the Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Slav, Meran variation. Typically play turns quite sharp in the Meran variation, however the first player does not strike w...
This is video #18 from the "Beginner to Chess Master" playlist. There will come a moment in an endgame where we must determine if a king can successfully catch a passed pawn, or in other words be in time to successfully hunt down a pawn. What appr...
