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Black__Knight
Thank you Grandmaster Melik.
pumpupthevolume247
This is great, it's taken me a while to start watching the last few weeks' videos because of otb games, blogs, reading material... then I see this great game!! Amazing strategy - g5!! a similar concept I used to "arrest" a bishop in my last tournament, your enthusiasm for the game shines through here and this is top-quality chess!
narek_sargsyan
Very good game and thanx for this lesson!
TeamHayastan
Nice lesson
ienj0ychess
Very interesting game and highly instructive analysis. Thanks for sharing!
kauboy
That's very impressive. I'll never be able to see far ahead like that; but I understand about putting on pressure and making your opponent prove it's wrong. Good old Ruy Lopez, eh; what year was he from? 1560, or something. ha. ha.
nicschne
By far the best video series to understand deep thinking in chess. Please mentor GM Shankland so his video series are more usefull. Thanks.
baddogno
High level chess always seems so logical once it's explained. It may be a cliche to say even a bad plan is better than no plan but that doesn't make it any less true. The clarity of your thought processes, and the honesty with which you describe them, is inspirational. Thanks.
by GM Melikset Khachiyan
In one of his most recent tournaments, GM Khachiyan faced off against a fellow Chess.com Video Author to create a dynamic, Classical Spanish struggle! International Master Keaton Kiewra took the white pieces into this main line Lopez, but when Melik engineered the threat of a d5-pawn break, Keaton was forced to concede the advantage, and found himself slowly outplayed into the late middlegame/endgame.
Category: Amazing Games Level: Advanced Players: Kiewra, Keaton vs. Khachiyan, Melik Opening: Ruy Lopez: Closed Variations (C92) Related: « Previous Video | Next Video » 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.