The Greatest Games You've Never Seen
Join WGM Tatev Abrahamyan as she examines four amazing games that many of you have never seen. See if you can calculate your way through these brilliancies and learn from players including past and maybe future World Champions.
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How many pieces can you sacrifice and still win the game? Enjoy this thriller of a battle with the stunning victory by the chess prodigy Alireza Firouzja in this new series on amazing games.
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It was a wild game where both sides' kings were under duress, but in the end the rising chess prodigy Jeffery Xiong came out on top in this battle from the 2016 world junior championship. Take a look at this amazing game you might not have seen.
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Four queens on the board at the same time? It can happen even in a high-level game, like this exciting battle from the Moscow Open. Find out which side used its two queens to beat the other two royal ladies.
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The King's Gambit is supposedly a not-so-serious opening. But if it was good enough for the legendary world champion Boris Spassky, perhaps it's worth another look. Find out how Spassky used the King's Gambit to defeat another famous player, David Bronstein.
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Alexei Shirov is known as a dangerous attacking player, but you might not have seen this masterpiece. In this game, Shirov takes down the Sicilian defense in under 30 moves, using an aggressively placed king to force checkmate.