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This weekend IM Rensch gets back to the never ending, on-going, "Energizer Bunny" that is the Pawn Structure 101 video series. He continues to review the Scheveningen structure, and he reveals some of the deepest points about playing these positions at a high level. We learn that white must establish kingside pressure before black gets to e4, among many other critical ideas! | Watch video
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Grandmaster Dejan Bojkov reviews another dynamic game by one of his students, full of lessons for our members to apply in their own games! "Your Coach" Dejan tries to provide general advice about the Nimzo Indian, the transition from the opening to the middlegame (and common mistakes made therein) as well as advice on maintaining the attack in a complicated struggle. | Watch video
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Coach Dejan continues his new video series today, reviewing another interesting game from one of his best students! He offers general advice applicable in your battles, and he highlights a rather "awkward theme" of how to trap a Tower of Power - even in the middle of the board! His student achieves this feat in the game, but it wasn't easy! Download Dejan's PGN with analysis for more... | Watch video
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Grandmaster Kaidanov provides a great lesson for the tournament player today. A tale of patience, perspective, and virtue! He reviews the game of the one time Super-GM Valeri Salov, and he highlights Salov's ability to gain space quickly but always with an eye on controlling the entire board. Black struggles to find any kind of consistent plan, and Salov finishes the game off in style... | Watch video
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Kaidanov expounds upon the brilliance of former world champion Anatoly Karpov in today's video; particularly, his "lack of dogmatism", feel for the timing of when to "change the course of a game", and his strong desire to "create shapes". This amazing, entertaining, and highly instructive game will leave you yearning for more video lectures of Gregory, and inspire you to play in the center! | Watch video
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Grandmaster Kaidanov is back this weekend with another immensely popular Solitiare Chess video lecture! Today he reviews a game by a much younger Aronian, and he highlights the young Armenian's ability to play patient, simple moves that change his worse (or at least tough) position into a better one. Slowly improving your bad pieces, with discipline, is not easy! Kaidanov suggests you improve this skill by trying to guess Aronian's moves along the way! | Watch video
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GM Dejan Bojkov brings his installment on Aron Nimzowitsch in our Greatest Chess Minds series to a close today. The topic? One of Nimzo's final contributions to "modern chess understanding": The Mysterious Rook Move! It is known that the late Nimzowitsch was a pioneer of "prophylactic thinking" and his play with the Towers of Power was no exception! | Watch video
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In this highly instructive installment to his new video series, Grandmaster Khachiyan reviews critical moments from the games Anand vs Kasparov WCH Match 1995, Timman vs Karpov Montreal 1979, and Radjabov vs Kasparov 2002. Finally, he leaves us with a homework assignment to see whether or not we learned anything from the mistakes of those great players! Enjoy! | Watch video
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The next installment to IM Rensch's Pawn Structure 101 series reviews the critical variations of the Sozin Najdrof in great detail, but most importantly, this video lecture should serve as an example of "black's stem ideas". We follow a stem game by former world champion Garry Kasparov, then we continue onto more variations that display black's most common maneuvers. Enjoy! | Watch video
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Today GM Bojkov highlights another great contribution Nimzowitsch made to the chess community: Developing the theories of the blockade and over-protection as important themes in prophylactic thinking. Here Nimzo employs his own opening (1...Nc6 against 1.e4) and proceeds a deep plan surrounding the d5-square and blockading the bad dark-squared white Bishop. | Watch video