So - Aronian: Fighting For The Initiative
The 2015 Sinquefield Cup marked Aronian's return to greatness and his victory with black against Wesley played a big part...
The 2015 Sinquefield Cup marked Aronian's return to greatness and his victory with black against Wesley played a big part...
Learn about the art of the initiative from one of the greatest players of our time. Or just enjoy some high-level games...
Remember all those Anish Giri jokes? They call him "The Artist", because he likes to draw... He certainly is hard to beat,...
This is the final tournament game of Tal's career, played in an open tournament just three weeks before his death. His...
One of the most exciting games from the 1960 World Championship match. Tal was leading after one win and four draws. This...
A famous game from the Bled Candidates semi-final match. The tenth and decisive game from their match which was tied at...
Game 2 of their candidates match. Game 1 had been a draw, but Tal had the better of it. In this game, Tal was surprised...
Mikhail Tal's win in the 1962 Olympiad in Varna, Bulgaria over the German Hans-Joachim Hecht. A Nimzo-Indian Defense. "It...
Two games from early in Mikhail Tal's career: Bukhuti Gurgenidze vs. Tal (Moscow, 1957) Benoni Defense: Classical Variation,...
Two more examples: Yusupov-Magem, Barcelona 2010 and Hort-Kuzmin, BRD 1981. We hope you learned something!
Even in an endgame, prophylactic thinking can be used to keep and increase an advantage. The stem game is Yusupov-Timoshenko,...
More damage done by prophylaxis, with the examples: Petrosian-Bannik, Riga 1958 and Yusupov-Hickl, Nussloch 1996.
Artur shows why prophylaxis is superior to just improving your position without impeding your opponent's ideas.
Artur explains the effect it can have on an opponent when his or her ideas are constantly prevented. The model game is Yusupov-Van...
Time to rack our brains! The examples used are: Simagin-Abramson, USSR 1960, Yusupov-Timman, Linares 1992 and Yusupov-Luther,...
We start to learn about the concept of preventing our opponent's plans while improving our own position by looking at the...
Mark reminds us of one critical aspect of calculation - we are not alone on the chessboard! It's crucial to not only look...
We keep training our awareness of counter chances with a longer excerpt from the game Inarkiev-Vitiugov and a few more exercises.
Calculating would be much easier if we knew what candidate moves to calculate. But how do we find those? Mark has a modern...
The old candidate moves technique still deserves a place in modern chess. Mark Dvoretsky shows us some more examples and...
Prophylaxis is another important tool for finding the best move in a position. Mark shows us some examples that illustrate...
Feel like you need some more practice with that prophylaxis idea? We've got you covered!
What's so good about the bishop pair? In this final video Loek explains all while talking about his win over Hrvoje Stevic...
The most obvious line is not always the best. Find out how to look for points where we can refine our main line once we've...
As you can see, exhausting your opponent is an almost inexhaustible topic.