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TigerLearns
Excellent commentary which shows how instructive a drawn game can be. We must study drawn games!
Black__Knight
Thank you Grandmaster Melikset.
jelo-amie
My favorite series + my favorite author = fantastic lesson
pumpupthevolume247
A classic game! Brilliant lesson and commentary
elindauer
Really instructive series of handilng the Maroczy bind. Well done!
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dzindzifan
Thanks for your remarkable commentary and instruction on this game! I truly appreciate it! Love this series! Learning a LOT!
by GM Melikset Khachiyan
In today's video GM Khachiyan provides a module game from black's point of view, displaying clearly all of black's long term positional goals (mainly, controlling the dark-squares) in the Accelerated Dragon Maroczy Bind structure. The classic game under review is Gligoric-Larsen, 1957 - and it does not disappoint! Ultimately the game ends in a perpetual check, but the instructive ideas shown along the way are worth taking note of from both white's and black's perspective.
Category: Openings Level: Intermediate | Advanced Players: Gligoric, Svetozar vs. Larsen, Bent Opening: Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon, Maroczy Bind (B38) Related: « Part 4 | Part 6 » Play Key Position Vs. Computer
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GM Melikset Khachiyan
GMMelik
Melik began playing chess at the age of 8, won the Baku Junior Championship two years later and became a Soviet Candidate Master two years after that. He began coaching early in his career and has brought up three Junior World Champions (among them Levon Aronian). In 2001, he immigrated to the US, where he qualified to play in the U.S. Championship several times. He earned his Grandmaster title in 2006.