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This weekend's Live Session sees IM Rensch face off against a fellow titled player in the Live Chess Arena for a wild battle in the Grand Prix Attack Sicilian. Shortly after over-pressing a small advantage in the middlegame, by playing the unnecessarily risky 20...Nxd3, Danny is forced to "roll the dice" with a Queen Sacrifice in the hopes of taking advantage of his opponent's weak king under time pressure... | Watch video
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GM Kaidanov launches a new series today in the spirit of Kotov, bringing you the modern day version of how to think like a grandmaster! Gregory provides useful tips on what "critical decisions" are worthy of a good think (like changes to the pawn structure or big piece trades) and as usual, he provides a great example game to go along with his advice! | Watch video
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Today Grandmaster Finegold provides insights into his own high level preparation, sheds light on the psychology of dealing with your opponent's refutations, and everything else that rhymes in between! In reviewing his sharp, Botvinnik-Slav battle from the 2010 SPICE Cup against the young FM Yang, Ben analyzes all the details of his amazing, and perhaps last, win against Darwin. | Watch video
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If you weren't excited already about this afternoon's upcoming Blindfold Simul Show on Chess.com/TV, GM Gareev reviews his perfect 5-0 sweep of last week's Simul here for you today! In his second video this week, Timur breaks down each phase of the games, trying to provide as many "take aways" for our members as possible! Once again, his wide variety of opening choices should provide something instructional for everyone. Tune in tonight as GM Gareev players, and IM Rensch provides commentary! | Watch video
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Here GM Khachiyan reviews a big win he had as black at a tournament he won over President's Day weekend. In his own words, winning this event was a "recession buster", and Melik talks about his philosophy both on and off the chess board going into his game against Matamoros. He ultimately finds a way to convert a better pawn structure into a winning Knight vs Bishop ending, and as usual, he provides great advice on the techniques used to beat his opponent. | Watch video
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We start off our week with GM Gareev's detailed breakdown of his Blindfold Simultaneous Exhibition Match, played in our Live Chess Arena a few weeks ago! Timur really mixed it up in this Simul, with games in the Bird's, the Dutch, the Vienna Game, the English and the Open Sicilian! What more can you ask for from this guy? Awesome post game review? Wish granted... Enjoy! | Watch video
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Today's Member Analysis video features a wild game in the King's Gambit, with an early piece sacrifice, that ultimately leads to several instructive moments on how to play with the initiative, both "on and off the board". IM Rensch takes his own life in his hands when pokes some fun and gives direct criticism of his boss's approach to the game. Chess.com Co-Founder (Jay) conducts a strong attack, but does he deliver the goods in the critical moment? Watch and find out! | Watch video
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In part 4 of his series on the Dark Square Opening Strategy, GM Perelshteyn reviews a game of his own from a local tournament in New Hampshire. He highlights the "cohesiveness" of black's development, the common goals shared by all the pieces, and how this ultimately led to a crushing attack on the kingside against FIDE Master Braden Bournival. | Watch video
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Today we see the slightly more aggressive side of the third world champion, when GM Bojkov reviews several games that end with attacks against his opponent's kings, rather than a technically beautiful endgame! In this video lecture, the young Cuban takes down the likes of Steiner, Bernstein and Tartokower - all in tactical fashion. Enjoy Dejan's crisp explanations of how Capa got things done! | Watch video
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Sam brings his review of the games from the Pan-American Team Championships to a close today by providing in-depth analysis of his second encounter against GM Suarez. Sam takes you through his goals of the game, first to equalize and then to succeed with an attack on the queenside. Ultimately, his team's strong position may have caused him to "let up" slightly in the end, but his analysis proves that his strong play could have led to much more... | Watch video