The FIDE Chess Olympiad 2022 has finished! Coach JD and I highlight Armenia's Gabriel Sargissian against Spain's Alexei Shirov. We have ChessGoals courses that are currently 25% off during the olympiad with coupon code olympiad. We have a ...
Round 10 of the FIDE Chess Olympiad 2022 has finished! Coach JD and I highlight India's Gukesh D versus Uzbekistan's Nordibek Abdusattorov. These are the 2nd and 3rd highest-rated juniors, only behind Alireza Firouzja. Gukesh D is only 16, and Nor...
Round 9 of the FIDE Chess Olympiad 2022 has finished! I highlight America's Fabiano Caruana versus Greece's Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios. The game starts with a Sicilian Sveshnikov, and Fabiano plays aggressively out of the gates. Dimitrios misses a f...
Round 8 of the FIDE Chess Olympiad 2022 has finished! Coach JD & I highlight America's Fabiano Caruana versus India's prodigy Gukesh D. The game starts with a Sicilian, and Fabiano chooses a positional sideline. Caruana was able to get a good ...
Round 7 of the FIDE Chess Olympiad 2022 has finished! Coach JD & I highlight America's Wesley So versus Armenia's Melkumyan, Hrant. The game starts with a Caro-Kann Two Knights variation. An excellent offbeat system that is gaining popularity ...
Round 6 of the FIDE Chess Olympiad 2022 has finished! Coach JD & I highlight India 2's Gukesh D game against Armenia's Gabriel Sargissian. Gukesh D is a perfect 6/6 on board 1, and he's only 16! His rating has increased to 2719, ranking him 26...
Round 5 of the FIDE Chess Olympiad 2022 has finished! Coach JD & I highlight the Magnus Carlsen game against Zambia's Gillan Bwalya. The game is similar to yesterday's, with colors reversed for Magnus. We have ChessGoals courses that are curre...
Round 4 of the FIDE Chess Olympiad 2022 has finished! Coach JD & I want highlight the Magnus Carlsen game against Mongolia's Dambasuren Batsuren. The game starts out as a Ragozin and looks similar to a Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variati...
Round 3 of the FIDE Chess Olympiad 2022 has finished! I want to highlight the India 2 team today and their dominance thus far. Nihal Sarin played an interesting line in the Catalan with an early Qd3. I'd like to implement this in my games with the...
Round 2 of the FIDE Chess Olympiad 2022 has finished! I want to focus on the USA team today and their close match-up against Paraguay. Three of the four games were draws, leaving only Leinier Dominguez left to earn the USA team a victory. Check ou...
The FIDE Chess Olympiad 2022 event has begun! The top teams had a considerable rating advantage in the first round, with no big team vs. team upsets. The USA team did well but should have swept Angola 4-0. Coach JD and I went through the game Davi...
The fifth and final round in the Open section of the Rochester Open 2022. I'm reviewing all of the games on the ChessGoals YouTube channel. The final game was against WFM and NM Nastassja Matus. She went for a Catalan, and I brought out the Stonew...
This past weekend I played in the Open section of the Rochester Open 2022. I'm reviewing all of the games on the ChessGoals YouTube channel. The second round was against Eric Bell, an expert who I've played multiple times. We played the Catlan and...
This past weekend I played in the Open section of the Rochester Open 2022. I'm reviewing all of the games on the ChessGoals YouTube channel. The first round was against Cub Noble, an expert from Iowa. We played the Caro-Kann Advance Variation with...
Recap of the final four games and overview of the standings. How did things turn out compared to how you expected? Do you think Magnus will play in the next WCC? The ChessGoals Candidates sale is ending soon, so make sure to check out the link i...
An exciting round today in terms of the race for second place! I recap all four games and then we go through the standings and odds to finish 2nd. Also, check out our website after the video for our Candidates sale. Who will win tom...
Hikaru! Wanna play chess? We have the shortest game of the event so far. Check out my recaps and odds update: Who will get 2nd place?
A huge game in Caruana vs Ding Liren! One of these players notches the win to try to either Catch Nepomniachtchi or secure second place in the event that Magnus Carlsen doesn't battle for the title. Firouzja also goes at Nepomniachtchi hard ...
What a round! Lots of excitement and a shake-up in the odds. I go through the odds before the games, recap all four games, and review the odds after today's round. Check it out, leave a comment and share with your chess friends :-) Who do you...
Can Fabiano Caruana beat Ian Nepomniachtchi with the white pieces? Can Hikaru Nakamura beat the struggling Teimour Radjabov to get back into the hunt? We get a lot of exciting games today including 3 chess.com Brilliant moves by one player! W...
Wowza! Hikaru Nakamura vs. Fabiano Caruana was a can't-miss game! We also had some excitement in the Rapport vs. Duda matchup. Check out the odds going into the round, the game recaps, and the odds going into tomorrow's round in today's recap. ...
A huge day for the leaders of the event. Check out the odds pre- and post-round and my quick recaps of the four games. Who do you think will win?
Round 6 was the most exciting round of the tournament so far! Like the previous days, I highlight the odds heading into the round, the game recaps, and the odds afterward. Ian, I'm sorry the models don't respect you enough. I know you'll let your ...
A huge match-up between Hikaru Nakamura and Ian Nepomniachtchi this round. If Hikaru can win, that puts both players at a +1 score. This would be tied with Fabiano Caruana for the lead if he draws his game. Some exciting chess this round! Check ou...
Wow, wow, wow! What a start to the event we've had. Today's round had a shake-up at the top of the leaderboard. I won't spoil the results for you. In this video, I go through the odds before the games and after. Fabiano Caruana was a big favorite ...
