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Today GM Lenderman continues his video series on the subjects of space, time and harmony in chess. "Centralization and Domination", according to Grandmaster Lombardy, are the keys to chess. Does Alex agree with this theory? From white's perspective in this line of the Nimzo-Indian, they seem like pretty good pieces of advice. The strong-hold on d5 proves as useful as ever in this game. Enjoy! | Watch video
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What to do when you lose a tough game of chess? Time to go to the ZOO! Well, that's what Karpov did... Though Khachiyan's student, Kayden Troff, didn't quite "visit the animals" for relief, he did find a way to maintain his spirits and win a nice game in round 10 of this year's World Youth Championships in Greece. Maintaining his cool against an aggressive gambit and seizing his opportunity to grab the initiative, were the only two thing's Kayden needed to do... So much for the ZOO! | Watch video
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GM Dejan Bojkov recites beautiful chess poetry for our ears! In today's video we learn the many ways in which an open file can lead to success in chess: Pressure along the 7th-Rank; Restriction of the enemy King; The ability to target pawns on both the King's and Queen's flanks; Finally the "freedom of choice" for your own King's climactic entrance. Watch and learn! | Watch video
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GM Bojkov continues his excellent description of each piece, expounding upon their merit and faults in a brilliant systematic manner. Today we see several highly instructive examples of the "false prophet" that is an Empty Bishop! Despite its open-square control and seemingly multiple options, we learn that without targets or a "purpose" the bishop can become irrelevant in the critical moments. Watch as greats such as Petrosian help Dejan to illustrate these points! | Watch video
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Grandmaster Melik Khachiyan throws a few more pearls of wisdom our way in today's video, featuring a game review of his recent victory over GM Jesse Kraai in the last round of the Western States Open in Reno, Nevada. A complete game indeed, watch as Melik allows his advantage to "evolve" from a queen-side pawn majority and better grip on the center -- to a devastating pawn advance and domination by the bishop pair. Enjoy! | Watch video
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This weekend our "feature presentation" comes from GM Alexander Lenderman on the topic of Space in chess. Two games, one featuring the brilliant maneuverings of Super-GM Boris Gelfand -- and another coming at the personal expense of our author... Pay special attention to white's patience, pattern in development (d3-square for the knight on e5) and willingness to "take it slow"... Enjoy! | Watch video
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Today GM Dzindzi takes us on a wild ride (via the Scotch Game Opening) through a maze of tactics, sacrifices, and complex evaluations! The "unbalanced material" feature of this game makes for several particularly tricky moments. BUT we have some BREAKING NEWS: After all these years of chess study, theory and practice -- leaving your king in the center of an open board is "still" a bad idea! | Watch video
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Today Grandmaster Dejan Bojkov brings us the sequel, and unfortunately for the knight, this movie also spells doom for the horsey! Where our first video showed tricky, and at times very original examples of the knights "dysfunction" -- here it is much more simple: The knight is dominated by the long range pieces in the open board, particularly the bishops and the rooks. Perhaps the knight should "stay out of the way" when the "big boys come to play"? | Watch video
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Today GM Roman Dzindzichashvili reviews two games from a previous Chess Olympiad in which he played board 1 for the United States. Both games being highly instructive and original, we can take away several points: "Rybka doesn't always know what she is talking about"; Even Grandmasters can forget basic development and opening principles (2nd game); and the Dzindzinator has still got it! | Watch video
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International Master Shankland concludes his video series on the topic of good technique and material conversion today. Here we see a classic game between Super-GMs Peter Svidler and Vishy Anand (before he was World Champion). After a brilliant opening and stellar middlegame by the Russian, Svidler begins to lose his focus and allow Anand back in the game. This game has an amazing, and sort of surprising ending, so check it out! | Watch video