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Lessons of Defense

Feb 23, 2011
40 min
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Today, once again, Chess.com gets to play "tag along" with GM Melik Khachiyan as he continues his own journey of self discovery, self critique, and chess mastery! Today he reviews a game in which he broke a few of his own rules of technique, including making the game tactical and "fancy" when the correct approach would have led to a simple positional victory. However, when all seemed lost, Melik held his nerves together and displayed several important "lessons of good defense".