Hi!
My videos: http://www.chess.com/videos/library?author=dpruess
My youtube channels with more chess videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4liTXRJ-XknH6OtKz-tOuw
https://www.youtube.com/user/chesscomdpruess
My twitch channel with more chess content:
https://www.twitch.tv/chessdojolive
Enjoy!
I've also created (with a team) a strategy card game: www.labmayhem.com. Give it a try if you are looking for another game :-)
Hey Chess Friends! Little help here for my SF Mechanics: we just need you to vote for us in two online polls, so we can participate in the next year of the PRO Chess League. If we get in, you will get to watch exciting GMs Sam Shankland and Dani...
This "announcement" will not come as much of a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to my chess activities, coming as it does more than a year late. I started doing occasional ChessTV shows as time permitted last year, including the 20...
After running numbers for the "Dream Teams" I turned my attention to the remaining teams, to see what their best lineups are, given how their players have performed so far this season. Despite following the league quite closely, I discovered a num...
If you could pick any 4 players from the current PRO Chess League season, and put them together on a legal (2500) lineup, what is the strongest team you could make? What would be the Dream Team that could 90% defeat the Gnomes, Snowballs, Chessbra...
Eastern Division Gnomes v Dynamite This looks like a very dangerous match for the Gnomes today. The Dynamite team has more GMs than them. I'm going to pick the Gnomes by the slimmest of margins, 8.5-7.5 Budapest Gambit v. Gorky Stormbringers...
Here some highlights from week 4 of the PRO Chess League. One of the big stories of the week was that of 6 3-0 teams, only 1 made it to 4-0, the San Diego Surfers with an impressive upset win over the feared San Jose Hackers. I have two videos...
My predictions for which teams will win in week 4: Hackers 8.5-7.5 Super close match that could go either way. The Hackers are very vulnerable without stars Mamedyarov and Naroditsky. They will need a few points from Aleskerov and Kavutskiy to...
In this week's PRO League Week 3 highlights, I focus on the question: who was "Player of the Week?" Here's the video: Here are the candidates I discussed:GM Evgeny Shaposhnikov whose 3.5/4 and perfect play carried the Gorky Stormbringe...
Week 3 predictions for the Pacific Division. I'll be commenting live with Yermo again tonight on chess.com/tv ~6:30-9:30 pm pacific time. Happy to hear your predictions in the comments section, but I think this week we have 4 mismatches that won't...
Last week I predicted the results of 5/6 Pacific Division matches matches correctly, but my methodology was completely incorrect. Having not seen many of these players in 15 min chess action, it was hard to know who was better or worse at the...
Here are my predictions for the opening round of the PRO Chess League, Pacific (Red) Division. The 6 matches start at 6:10 pm pacific today. You can find the games in Live Chess, and you can watch live commentary with GM Yermolinsky and myself at ...
One segment that I'm doing on my twitch stream is a reincarnation of an old favorite of mine from chess.com/tv: your games analyzed. In this segment, viewers offer up their games for comment and analysis. On last Friday's stream, we went over the ...
Hey chess people, I wanted to let you know that I'm trying out a twitch channel. Tomorrow (Friday) I will be streaming chess from 10 am to 2 pm pacific time. The schedule will be (approximately) 10 am: Tactics Trainer 10:30 am: Blitz w/ Comm...
Ill be doing German-language commentary on the Caruana-MVL match today, along with GM Georg Meier, at https://www.twitch.tv/chessgermany Heute werde ich Kommentar machen fur den Caruana-MVL Blitz Match. GM Georg Meier und ich werden auf&nbs...
Today Melik and I did the highlight show on chess.com/tv. Here are the games we talked about, plus one bonus we prepared but didn't have time for: And the key results in the Women's Champs were:
Anand finally cracked a bit in game 11. He was playing very well and then played one overly-aggressive move, perhaps getting too excited about his position, or perhaps feeling like he needed to overcome his 1-point deficit in this game, and sudde...
Today's game saw yet another opening advantage for Anand. Again he pressed, again Carlsen held. Now Anand has just 2 games, 1 with the white pieces, left with which to make up the 1 point lead Carlsen holds. Here's my analysis on today's complex g...
Magnus Carlsen, known for avoiding opening theory, and prefering to defer the battle in chess to equal middlegames, today rattled off a very well-prepared sequence of moves to achieve a clear equality with black, and a fairly quick draw. Here are...
Today's game was not very exciting to me. From start to end it seemed clear to end in a draw. I was left wondering what Carlsen's match strategy was-- hope for a blunder? tire Anand out for the next game? -- since I could not figure how white coul...
A classic Carlsen game: Maroczy Bind structure, early atheoretical Qd3, early queen trade, complex and long strategic endgame, and eventually a win. The strategy here was pretty interesting and clear, although there were also several tricky tactic...
Anand switched up his openings in plenty of time, from Berlin to Sicilian, and it looked a lot better for him. At the end of the analysis video I'm posting here, I give the opinion that Anand has quickly settled into the right openings for this ma...
It's on!! Anand showed he can win a game against Carlsen and now it's a real battle. The game was pretty one-sided, and probably some kind of opening preparation slip-up for Carlsen, as they followed an Aronian-Adams game from Bilbao last year (h...
Here's my analysis of the game in video form: Here's a PGN with the variations: And now, a rest day before game 3...
It's on, once again! Here's my analysis of the first game of the match: And here's a pgn of that: And here's a game that I was made to remember with the same pawn structure, for comparative study: Looking forward to game 2 tomorrow!
