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Grandmaster Khachiyan brings his series on the greatest and not so greatest endgame moments from this year's Tata Steel Super-GM Tournament in January. Here he reviews the reigning world champions misplayed endgame against Wang Hao, as well as Aronian's interesting, "unbalanced endgame" against Fabiano Caruana. | Watch video
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Here Melik provides two final examples from the recent Tata Steel Super-GM Tourney in the Netherlands. Rather than highlighting bad technique as he did in part 2, here he focuses on where these strong GMs could have improved their defensive technique. He highlights the need to look to give up small amounts of material for activity or to head towards endings you know are drawn (like Opposite Colored Bishop Endings). | Watch video
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By popular request from our members, today we launch a mini-series designed to review the many instructive, and, at times, many "mis-played" endgames from the recent Tata Steel Super GM Tourney in the Netherlands. GM Khachiyan starts by reviewing the highly interesting rook endgame from round 1 between GMs Harikrishna and Giri. Learn from their mistakes and enjoy Melik's in depth analysis. | Watch video
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World Champion Viswanathan Anand provided the world with a special treat in Round 4 of Tata Steel's Super Chess Tournament, being held in Wijk aan Zee, when he smashed the world #3 Levon Aronian with the black pieces! The game itself was beautiful, creative, and most importantly for this video lecture, proof that liberating black's pieces with the c5-break in the Caro-Slav Structure can lead to wonderful things. Enjoy Danny's replay of this brilliant performance! | Watch video