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Today IM Rensch faces off against National Master Evan Rosenberg in an exciting game that goes down to the wire! The new "video format" features the time of both players to add to the excitement, and we look forward to your feedback! After Danny misplays the opening he finds himself fighting on the worse side of an IQP position. Does he have enough in the tank to stage a comeback, or does he fall just short? Watch and find out! | Watch video
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This weekend's Live Session sees IM Rensch face off against a fellow titled player in the Live Chess Arena for a wild battle in the Grand Prix Attack Sicilian. Shortly after over-pressing a small advantage in the middlegame, by playing the unnecessarily risky 20...Nxd3, Danny is forced to "roll the dice" with a Queen Sacrifice in the hopes of taking advantage of his opponent's weak king under time pressure... | Watch video
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Today's Member Analysis video features a wild game in the King's Gambit, with an early piece sacrifice, that ultimately leads to several instructive moments on how to play with the initiative, both "on and off the board". IM Rensch takes his own life in his hands when pokes some fun and gives direct criticism of his boss's approach to the game. Chess.com Co-Founder (Jay) conducts a strong attack, but does he deliver the goods in the critical moment? Watch and find out! | Watch video
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Today IM Daniel Rensch tries a faster time control in order to "attract" stronger competition for his Live Session games! He's hoping this new format/time control will provide a happy "middle-ground" for our members. His opponent today is well known in the live chess arean. Candidate Master James Coleman achieves a clearly better position out of the opening as black, forcing Danny to fight back in hopes of equalizing, and maybe more. | Watch video
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(NOTE: This was an April Fools joke video!) Just a few days ago, IM Daniel Rensch played one of the best games of his career, right here on Chess.com! Today Danny reviews this game for all us, where demonstrated one of the most instructive, creative and forceful attacks on any chess board... ever! He summarizes the game with humility and eloquence for our members in this video lecture. Enjoy... | Watch video
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Today IM Rensch takes a break from helping you achieve the "full board nirvana" you so desire to play a Live Session game. The catch? He's playing blindfolded! The first ever Blindfold Live Session takes place today, but don't worry, Danny "mixes it up" between using the blindfold pieces (for our advanced users) and showing the pieces so the less advanced users can still follow the progress of the game. Try to follow along in your head, work hard, and enjoy! | Watch video
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Your spiritual chess journey towards full board enlightenment continues today. Will you put IM Rensch's training methods, passed down to him from the gurus and masters of old, to work? Or will you succumb to your own self-imposed limitations and give up in your search for nirvana? Follow Danny's advice and "break the roof off" your calculation skills and see further and more clearly than you ever have before... May the board be with you! | Watch video
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Today Chess.com members take their first steps toward achieving "full board nirvana"! IM Rensch provides the critical first steps chess players must take in order to establish strong visualization skills and calculating abilities. If they follow Danny's training exercises, Beginner and Intermediate players will learn how to keep track of all the details of the board in their head, and have the strong foundation needed to master the board and play Blindfold Chess. | Watch video
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It's been a while, but IM Daniel Rensch is back today with a Live Session for your viewing pleasure! Danny plays into the black side of a well-known variation of the Hedgehog System, patiently striving to achieve equality for a long time. When he eventually does, it doesn't seem to take long for his opponent to falter. His patience in many of the critical moments teaches us that you can't play for a win in chess until you achieve an equal position first... | Watch video
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IM Rensch breaks down this well-known, theoretically driven opening (The Sicilian Dragon) not by focusing on all the complex variations available, but rather, explaining the evolution of those lines by revealing the patterns and repeating ideas within the pawn structure. Danny reviews the "stem game" Karpov-Kortchnoi, Moscow 1974 and he shows how Karpov changed white's approach in the Yugoslav forever, which inevitably led to black's modern approach (The Chinese Dragon)... | Watch video