My name is Sam Schenk his name is Sam Shankland...

Wow... a lot going on in that game... great exercise for calculating tactical lines which even included positional sacrifices. I had to review twice to really appreciate the game. Shankland goes over so many lines at lighting speed, I worn out my pause button.

I know this video is older, but it's the first time I've seen it, after one of my friends alerted me to its existence.  Thank you very much for the analysis and kind words on the game, Mr. Shankland!  Honestly, I don't know if I even considered exf5 that much; I think I had an e5 push on the brain.

BTW, it's pronounced as just plain "spiff", not "spiffy".

Great Analysis, thanks for that!

Interesting game and very interesting analysis - thank you. Just an observation - similar double-edged positions can arise from the Four Pawns Attack vs the Kings Indian.

David,

Thanks for answering my questions...I was just curious. You said you selected the games based on "instructive values". Both games were instructive no doubt. I would love to see you doing one such game. There is a merit in different authors doing this for us. Many thanks and continue your excellent work.

not a full video?

shoot

hi Ajit,

i selected the games used so far. based on the assumption that people would love to get that level of personal feedback, i selected games from people who had been friendly or helpful on chess.com. so these are chess.com correspondence games so far. oh yeah, i of course also used a criteria of "how instructive" the analysis would probably be, as i played through a mass of games.

:-)

Nice video . When I face benoni, all I try to do is put my Knight on c4... and Sam agrees I second my friend from France that analysing users game is an excellent idea. I also like that our authers take turn commenting on users game...That way no body feels left out. Questions:

1. What is the criteria for selecting the games?

2. Are these games submitted by users or picked by authers?

3. Are these ocer the board tournament games or games played live on chess.com?

Suggestion...perhaps we should actively seek over the board user games. Selected users offer them token incentive like one month free membership or something else.

David, will appreciate answering my questions.

Many thanks

What opening is this again?

I think it's a great idea to have strong players analyze amateur games at different levels. This is the kind of service you can't find in many places, and the audio/video format is really well adapted to this !

Congratulations from a French speaker (I can understand your explanations, that's cool !)