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Today Grandmaster Khachiyan starts a new series on another "weapon" of his as black against 1.e4. The series is designed for advanced players who wish to master the Accelerated Dragon. He starts with the most positional variation, the Maroczy Bind, and he reviews the game Shirov-Tiviakov 2007 to highlight black's critical, and yet very modern ideas. | Watch video
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If your opponent blunders a piece, but you don't take it, is it still a blunder? Yes, it is... except now there were two blunders! In IM Rensch's latest Live Session, his superior opening leads to a great middlegame position, but when he fails to take advantage of his opponent's obvious mishap, he must try to convert a small endgame advantage. Does he have enough to win, or does another one bite the dust? | Watch video
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Surprise, surprise! Just when you thought you had seen all you would from GM Shankland for the Complete Caro video series, he hits you with a curve ball! Today's video is the first in a few "sequel parts" designed to show you the ideas you learned from Sam, being used in practice, by the world's best players. First on the agenda is an example game in the Classical Caro Kann. | Watch video
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In what Sam claims as his best game of the tournament, he finds himself holding on for a draw in a much worse position. Playing the black pieces against a fellow Grandmaster (Axel Bachman) is never an easy task, but GM Shankland manages to "pull all the right strings", including finding a very instructive Exchange Sacrifice idea that ultimately saved the game. | 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 video Dzindzi not only covers the most recent theory and critical lines of the Huebner Variation in the Nimzo, but he also provides specific advice on how to keep a position closed when battling Knights vs Bishops. He highlights black's ability to deal with white's temporary kingside pressure, only to eventually refocus efforts against white's positionally week queenside. | Watch video
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This weekend Roman tackles a line he doesn't consider among the "best choices" for white against the Nimzo Indian. Based on basic principles, the move 4.f3 is crippling white's kingside development and should suffer serious consequences after 4...d5, opening the center. Roman gives an alternative, but you will need to take notes as Dzindzi delivers another one of his own recipes... | 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
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Yet another thing the good doctor Tarrasch and the great Aron Nimzowitsch disagreed about was central control! In-particular, Nimzo's theory was that occupying the center with your pieces, on key squares, can be just as effective as gaining a space advantage with your pawns. GM Dejan Bojkov explains, but regardless of where they stood on this debate, we can all thank these two "chess fore-fathers" for pioneering these discussions. | Watch video