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The second installment in GM Bojkov's new video series brings us another game full of practical lessons for our learning! Many typical and instructive mistakes were made by Ashrita (and her opponent), but she also executed some very nice middlegame plans against white's IQP, arising from an Alapin Sicilian, to gain a small advantage heading into the endgame. | 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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With this new series, GM Roman Dzindzichashvili intends to provide a "stop gap" opening for players struggling against the Sicilian Defense. This is the first of 5 videos in a series that will hopefully jump start your approach/repertoire against black's most popular weapon against 1.e4. Today he covers 1...d5 and 1...d6 (the d-pawn) moves for black! | 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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With his new video series, GM Bojkov intends to provide useful insights into the world of amateur chess by reviewing the games of his own private students. He will also teach the members of Chess.com what he teaches his students -- highlighting their triumphs and failures along the way. Here we learn many critical ideas in the Alapin Sicilian structure (d5 break) and then some interesting "Major Piece Ending" technique. Enjoy! | Watch video
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IM Pruess and his "study subject" are back again today with another Live Session Hybrid! Member GambitGareth's success in the two games here not withstanding, IM Pruess begins to wonder if Gareth is not sometimes too aggressive, neglecting the use of all his pieces for a more "polished approach". However, it's pretty hard to argue with how quickly Gambit knocks em' out. Enjoy! | 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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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