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Black__Knight
thank you Grandmaster.
DutchBagel
supermessi
Good video! Very instructive! Thanks!
Hermes374
Awesome vidoe melik thanks for posting it!
cryptic_cave
This is more of what I need to know and come to understand. Thanks again.
h777
Very good video!
mrbruce
thank you melik!
KillaNinja
good lecture ya. khachiyan's always good for the wise tips :)
ajitsampat
Many good pointers in this short but instructive video. One can use these pointers in many games we play. Many thanks.
Dodgy
Great video and very instructive. I need to work on this as dynamic defense can chew up the time on the clock.
KoherC
Very Interesting
by GM Melikset Khachiyan
Grandmaster Khachiyan continues his video series on the "art of evaluating" with the review of yet another game from the 2004 World Championship Match between Kramnik and Leko. In this case, Leko finds himself in a positionally lost ending, but saves the game with "dynamic" defensive moves. What exactly is the difference between "normal defense" and "dynamic defense"? You will have to watch and find out...
Category: Strategy Level: Intermediate
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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.