Material Imbalance - Шахматни Уроци

Play Like Anish Giri

Anish Giri is a candidate to challenge for the world title and is one of the top trash talkers on Twitter as well. Check out how he backs up his words with amazing wins against the world elite.

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Jeremy Kane

5 Уроци

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Vasily Smyslov: Master Of Attack

Vasily Smyslov a World Champion known for his positional play. However, you don't get to be a champion without also possessing attacking genius. FM Andrey Terekhov demonstrates five of Smyslov's best attacking gems.

Play Like A Speed Chess Champion

Nezhmetdinov Was Wrong: You Can Learn from Blitz! Learn from the best games of the SCC, including the most recent matches this year!

The Latvian School Of Chess

Latvian chess players have been some of the best attackers for generations! GM Arturs Neiksans shows you the best moments of Mikhail Tal, Alexei Shirov, Alexander Shabalov, and Alvin Vitolinsh.

Learn From The Best: AlphaZero

In December 2017, AlphaZero took the world by storm! The organization Deep Mind announced that their new self-taught engine had won a match against Stockfish, previously the strongest engine in history. Join IM Danny Rensch in a review of AlphaZero's most amazing games from that historic match.

Play Like Wilhelm Steinitz

Wilhelm Steinitz was the first official chess World Champion. He held the title from 1886–1894. Steinitz was the strongest player of his day and developed the theory that you should accumulate small advantages to prepare a winning attack. See if you can find the moves from five of Steinitz's greatest games.

Playing with Material Imbalances

Join GM Ben Finegold as he demonstrates how to play with unbalanced material. He shows two of his own games against young American masters and demonstrates how minor pieces can attack effectively, even when the opposing side has an extra rook!

CCSCATL

2 Уроци

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Bishop Battles

Join Jon Ludvig Hammer as he competes with strong Grandmasters including former World Champion Vishy Anand. Each game is influenced by Jon Ludvig's handling of bishops. Watch his masterful use of the bishop pair, fights between bishops and knights and opposite colored bishops. Enjoy and keep a close eye on Hammer's bishops!

Expect the Unexpected

Want to see how a Grandmaster and famous chess coach like Melik Khachiyan approaches his own tournament games? Join Melik as he demonstrates his thought process on his way to winning an open tournament. Melik demonstrates the importance of in-between-moves and other surprising tactics that can make the difference between winning and losing key games.

Knights vs Bishops

Follow along with GM Dejan Bojkov as he demonstrates the advantages of knights and bishops. Learn how to use any imbalance in your favor and win the fight between minor pieces.

How To Sacrifice Your Queen

Follow along with FM Mike Klein as he demonstrates the most famous and educational queen sacrifices of all time. See if you can keep up and find the best ways to sacrifice your own queen.

Immortal Games

Study some of the most amazing games in chess history with GM Simon Williams. See if you can find some of the most brilliant combinations ever played.

Complete Scotch #1:The Mieses Endgames

This course is designed to help familiarize you with the most commonly reached endgame positions through the Scotch Game Opening: Mieses Variation. We have also taken a detailed look at a number of "critical" Scotch Game positions: From Opening Theory; to Middle game Strategies; to converting into Endgame advantages. We have created a MUST READ lecture if you are an aspiring Scotch Game player, and we have shown how many critical situations should be approached.

Bishop versus Knight (Part 1)

It is generally known that the bishop is stronger than the knight in most cases. Some experts even call such an advantage "a small exchange." Why the bishop is better, and when in the endgame-- this is what we are going to discover in our course. I tried to choose only fresh samples from modern practice when strong players were following their plans in the best possible way.

Knight versus Bishop (Part 2)

In this course we shall see when the knight can overtake the other minor piece- the bishop; when the knight is better than its colleague; and why. I tried again to use mainly fresh samples from modern practice, although some old interesting positions were also taken into account. Enjoy the course.