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International Master Rensch brings you the long awaited "sequel" series to the Everything You Need to Know on the Endgame video brought to you many moons ago! Well, maybe it wasn't long awaited, but it's here and it doesn't disappoint! Danny does his best to give you practical advice, along with critical "x's and o's" about the final stage of a chess game. Enjoy! | 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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Roman does it again! What exactly? Brings us another gem of a Member Analysis video lecture, holding nothing back in his critique of our two helpless victims. He focuses on where white's middlegame plan went wrong, and offers his advice on what the correct path was. Stick around for the King and Pawn ending though, as the final result may surprise you. Enjoy this highly instructive game! | Watch video
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Get ready for one of the most interesting "Passed Pawns vs a Rook" battles you have ever seen! Of course, you have to sit through twenty minutes of awesome endgame technique by Dr. Tarrasch first, but the wait is well worth it! Try to learn something from how he maneuvers the Rook and dark squared Bishop too. GM Dejan Bojkov is, once again, your guide! | Watch video
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GM Lenderman's final three examples also come from his own library, but unfortunately, this time there will be no "happy endings". After reviewing his interesting game with GM Ray Robson, Alex displays two games with common Rook Ending mistakes. These positions are highly instructive by themselves, even without Alex's brilliant teaching methods on how to avoid the "Quiescence" error. Enjoy! | Watch video
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Before delivering the amazing answer to the homework he assigned in Part 4, GM Bojkov lectures on the idea of trading off your opponent's pieces in order to clear squares for your own pieces. Trading off a key bishop to free a diagonal for your own, trading off your opponent's "majors" in order to gain access to open files, and eventually the 7th rank, are just a couple of the key pointers. | Watch video
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In the second half of the Beyond the Basics installment, International Master Daniel Rensch takes you, well, beyond the basics! Part two is kicked off with the "deflection" pattern, and this fast paced video never looks back! Remember to pause your video every time a new position occurs on the chess board, giving yourself an opportunity to try and solve it before Danny gives you the answer. | Watch video
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Today you take your quest to master all the critical tactical patterns in chess to the next level! IM Daniel Rensch is your guide, and you will certainly need one as some of these positions are a "big jump" from the last video in this series. Beginners will need to have truly mastered the fundamentals in given in the first two videos, and even some advanced players might find these positions a little tricky. Enjoy! | Watch video
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Perhaps the most critical element of knowing when to simplify, the recognition of a sidelined enemy piece, is once again on display in today's video lecture. The follow up plan of trading off all the other pieces in order to exploit the out of play" weak piece is the key element here. Former World Champ Kasparov leads us off, and we end with an instructive and fun puzzle! | Watch video
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When the dynamic middlegames of the Panov Attack (Caro Kann) quickly enter an endgame where both sides posses an isolated pawn, making the correct evaluation can be awfully tricky! IM Rensch believes if he can gain control over the critical c-file, the game should be his, but when he loses his "Batman and Robin" duo in a trade, can the Knight stand up against black's Bishop alone in the ending? Watch and see! | Watch video