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When the e5-break comes through, black better watch out! That's just one of several lessons GM Khachiyan implores upon us today, while displaying a particularly flawless game against fellow Chess.com Video Author, IM Mark Ginsburg. However, after facing tough defense from his opponent, Melik misses his best chance to drive the win home. Does he recover and manage to earn the full point? | Watch video
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We know, we know... it's been a while since you got your Live Sessions fix! Forgive us for the more than a month delay, get excited, and come on in! You're invited to this party with IM Daniel Rensch. When white takes on a rare positional weakness (Tripled Pawns), hoping to stifle his opponent's queenside attacking chances, play becomes crazy and dynamic. Will Danny's kingside bind compensate for his horrible pawns? Watch and find out... | Watch video
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Learning a new opening is about more than just the "main line theory". You must understand the position from a general sense, as well as all the critical side lines. That's where GM Eugene Perelshteyn comes in! Take a look into white's early Ne5 options with Eugene, and note black's, on occasion, slightly "UN-orthodoxed" approach. Enjoy! | Watch video
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It's one of the hardest things to do as a chess player, and one of the last things a "child prodigy" learns. What's that? To defend a worse position, keeping a cool head and strong will, against tough opposition. That's exactly what GM Khachiyan's student, FM Kayden Troff, was able to do in this game against GM Sergey Kudrin. Enjoy Melik's recap and build your own defensive fortress! | Watch video
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Quite the ambitious claim is made by IM Daniel Rensch in this weekend's featured video: 40 Openings in 40 minutes, providing a basic description of the pawn structures therein with each one! Does he manage the task? Check it out for yourself, and take your fundamental knowledge of every "main line" opening to a higher level. Beginner's gold, and great review for advanced players alike! | Watch video
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"Wowzer", "bam" and "kapow" might be some of the phases you'll find yourself saying after watching the awesome tactics that take place in this video! GM Bojkov instructs beautifully on the power of attacking the enemy king in Isolated Queen Pawn positions! After gaining but just a couple tempos in the opening, white's initiative becomes unstoppable even against good defense from his opponent. Enjoy! | Watch video
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Grandmaster Khachiyan brings us another interesting game from his personal library today. Here we see an opening quickly convert into a "pawn up" endgame. Listen in on Melik's thought process as he explains more about "thinking from the end" and anticipating your opponent's threats. He "keeps it simple" and breaks down his opponent's queenside blockade with style! | Watch video
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Just when you thought you had escaped IM Rensch's "unbalanced" and sometimes rather unstable claims in this video series, he throws you a curve ball you can't ignore! Check out this exciting bonus video where Danny proves his own theories about the Pawns vs the Pieces wrong (with a little help from fellow video author Sam Shankland). If you watch this, you are officially a graduate of these crazy positions! | Watch video
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Today the "Dzindzinator" concludes his most recent video series on the Bogo-Indian Defense, taken mainly as a recommendation from black's perspective. Here he provides a couple more examples games, one that highlights how the Bishop Pair can outplay the Knights (even in a closed position) and another that displays more "misplayed evaluations" of these positions by white. | Watch video
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Grandmaster Shanky tries his hand at a "Live Sessions" today, hoping to provide some education as well as entertainment while he embarrasses his opponents all over the chess board! Unfortunately for his challengers, Sam's play was abusively much stronger, however we can still enjoy the post-game review from Sam, and hopefully take away some instructive points to apply in our own games. Enjoy! | Watch video