Chess Videos: My Sequence for Watching

L.  Philosophy Playing Black

 

Playing for Equality as Black 1  (GM Dzindzichashvili)

 

Playing for Equality as Black 2  (GM Dzindzichashvili)

 

How to Equalize as Black in the Evans Gambit  (GM Dzindzichashvili)

 

 

M.  Najdorf And Other Sicilian

Shankland Teaches the Najdorf: 6.Bc4 part 1   (IM Shankland)

Shankland Teaches the Najdorf: 6.Bc4 part 2   (IM Shankland)

Shankland Teaches the Najdorf: 6.Be3 e6  (IM Shankland)

Shankland Teaches the Najdorf: 6.Be3 e5  (IM Shankland)

Shankland Teaches the Najdorf: 6.f4  (IM Shankland)

Shankland Teaches the Najdorf: 6.Bg5  (IM Shankland)

Shankland Teaches the Najdorf: 6.Bg5 Part 2(IM Shankland)

Shankland Teaches the Najdorf: 6.Be2(IM Shankland)

Shankland Teaches the Najdorf: 6.h3 (IM Shankland)

        Dynamic Theory: GM Khachiyan v. IM Brooks (GM Khachiyan)

Sicilian Methods; e5 Push for White(GM Khachiyan)

 

Sicilian Methods; e5 Push for White II(GM Khachiyan)

 

An Instructive Way to Handle the Closed Sicilian(GM Perelshteyn)

 

Concepts in the Grand Prix Attack 1 (GM Khachiyan)

 

Concepts in the Grand Prix Attack 2 (GM Khachiyan)

 

Dynamic Play 3: Typical Ideas in the Scheveningen (GM Khachiyan)

 

The Scheveningen Continued (GM Khachiyan)

 

Two Games with GM Pavel Blatny; Black(GM Khachiyan)

 

 

 

 

N.Grunfeld

 

The Complete Grunfeld: Introduction (FM Lilov)

The Complete Grunfeld: Majority

The Complete Grunfeld: Dynamic Provoking

The Complete Grunfeld: Piece Play

The Complete Grunfeld: Sidelines

The Complete Grunfeld: Exchange Sac

The Complete Grunfeld: Example Game 1

 

The Complete Grunfeld: Fischer's Masterpiece!

 

The Complete Grunfeld: Finale! (FM Lilov)

 

An American Classic (FM Lilov)

 

O.Petroff

 

The Petroff Defence (FM Lilov)

 

P.  Scandanavian

 

Scandinavian Qd6 Part 1 (GM Perelshteyn)

 

Scandinavian Qd6 Part 2(GM Perelshteyn)

 

 

Q.  Black v. Maroczy Bind

 

Playing vs The Maroczy Bind I (GM Khachiyan)

 

Playing vs The Maroczy Bind II(GM Khachiyan)

 

 

 

R.Beating the Dragon

 

Beating the Dragon Part 1(GM Dzindzichashvili)

 

Beating the Dragon Part 2(GM Dzindzichashvili)

 

S.Italian

Trend-Breaking Novelties: Italian Game (GM Dzindzichashvili)

Giuoco Piano (GM Khachiyan)

My Giuoco Piano 2 (GM Khachiyan)

 

T.    Opening Repertoire

 

Creating an Opening Repertoire (IM Shankland)

Creating an Opening Repertoire 2 (IM Shankland)

U.  Scotch

 

Underrated Openings Part 1(GM Dzindzichashvili)

 

Underrated Openings Part 2(GM Dzindzichashvili)

 

Underrated Openings Part 3(GM Dzindzichashvili)

 

V.  Beating the Dutch

A Universal System v. The Dutch(GM Dzindzichashvili)

Beating the Dutch: A Miniature by Nakamura (GM Perelshteyn)

 

W.  Beating the French

 

Underrated Openings Part 4 (GM Dzindzichashvili)

 

X.Kings Indian

 

Saemisch Gambit, King's Indian Defense

 

A Universal System vs. The King's Indian Attack(FM Galofre)

 

A Universal System vs. The King's Indian Attack II(FM Galofre)

 

A Universal System vs. The King's Indian Attack 3(FM Galofre)

 

A Universal System vs. The King's Indian Attack 4 (FM Galofre)

 

 

Y.Checkmate Patterns

 

The Big 3 - Important Winning Techniques (FM Liu)

 

A Cool Checkmate 1 (FM Liu)

 

A Cool Checkmate 2 (FM Liu)

 

Fundamental Checkmates 1: Rook Roller and K+Q (FM Andrews)

 

Fundamental Checkmates 2: Rook and Bishop Pair (FM Andrews)

Very impressive list! Step two...

That's it, sorry for breaking it into three posts but I got scripting errors when trying to paste them all at once. These do not represent all the chess videos on the site.  The impetus for making this draft sequence was the lack of a topical level index.  I've been watching the video of the day but needed a structured way to catch up and work through what's already on the site. 

Oh, I meant, "Step two..." like, now you have to watch all those videos! For me, it is easy to make lists of what I'm going to do, but strangely difficult to actually do these things

Yep. I needed a map though.

Wow, this must be the lamest idea for a video watching marathon ever

Would be interesting to see which ones the OP has watched so far and how his standing in playing chess online improves.

Maybe something like a progress chart over time since the videos are already laid out as a single lane (linear) road map. This could be another Polgar experiment in a chess.com environment!

Oh it's not a marathon. It's nothing like joining you and your mom on the couch each night for 60 consecutive days to watch that boxed set of Twin Peaks she bought you. Just trying to find a path through the chess videos since it isn't geared progressively like mentor or tactics.

Have you started on the pawn videos yet?

Yes, I am through the first seven. Trying to watch two a day and spend a couple of 30 minute blocks of time doing tactics. I play a few over the board games a day, but those are pretty casual and not long. I could use some advice on the otb play... I need to improve my calculation and discipline my impatience and desire to move intuitively.

I am through the first 11 videos, here is what I've observed: 1. My OTB play has improved significantly. I am positionally better out of the opening and into the middle game. 2. I need to play less and practice tactics more. I've played something like 200 online games elsewhere since starting my trek throughh the videos. 3. My 15 minute ganes ares solid online. Ive been using some trees from Nakamura 1. G3 ganes and win several in a row. 3. The 3 and 5 minute games are absolutely terrible for me, I just don't move at that speed right now, not without hanging pieces or letting structure collapse. 3.

This is a huge selection, and there are many more additional video lectures available which are not mentioned in this list. So some may wish to concentrate on a smaller subset and look for recommendations or suggestions on what to choose as such a subset.

For this, I would warmly recommend the B lectures (David on development) and the G lectures (Danny on rook endgames). Especially for those who do not plan to work their way through the entire list shown here, working through B and G will be a very good thing to concentrate on!

In addition, I especially recommend all lectures by GM Dejan Bojkov, I think they should really be added to a "must view" list here

Wow. Great progress. Looks like someone is already getting their money's worth for paying the Diamond premium membership.

Ok, I am now through the first 17 pawn videos (section A). I switched gears today and watched the first 4 queens gambit videos (section I) and will watt h the next 2 queen gambit videos tonight, then finish out pawns this week. Switching to the queen gambit videos helped me apply the pawn video stuff during some games today and brought the material together for me. Parts of a book i read also make a lot more sense to me now (particularly running into Meran and reversed Meran setups). Where will my game be at the end of all this? Who knows...

Wow, I dunno but I'm sure you're making improvement :)  Take notes and review them afterwards or something, that's a lot of material to try an absorb so quickly.

There's so much information in these videos. It's almost like a library of good chess books.

It really is. I made it through all the queen gambit videos today, then went back and started over by entering the variations I'm shankland discussed into fritz with different trees for the ideas. I got through the first two videos this way a second time and entering the trees with comments is helping with the assimilation. Understanding the queens gambit videos is really putting the positional and pattern material from I'm rensch into perspective. Playing through some games on icc went well. ........ This exercise has really put into perspective for me the sheer amount of work it mustve taken for these guys to get where they are in terms of having such easy, off the cuff, recollectable chess knowledge and perspective. I might have to roll my three year plan out to five....

Don't let a few bad games get you down :)

After so much material, it has to soak into your brain.  Chess skill is in 2 parts, the theory and the practice.  You may have learned tons of info on the QGD, but as you're learning to apply it effectively in games this may mean more losses than usual and your rating may go down at first.  Of course the end result is you'll be a better player and the rating eventually follows the progress.