Redeeming Your Positional Advantage
GM Dzindzichashvili explains how a positional advantage is often realized not by slowly increasing it, but by dynamically...
Live Sessions 8; One Move at a Time
Danny makes things more exciting for the viewer by sacrificing his queen on move 6! An exciting game ensues where in particular...
The 10 Best Moves of All Time: #8
Do you feel like crying because you're working too much? Wait until you meet this bishop! The brilliance behind this move...
Good and Bad Bishops; Averbakh v. Furman,1960
GM Khachiyan shows the repercussions of one poor bishop trade... in a brilliant endgame display by Grandmaster Averbakh....
Member Analysis: Instructive Games 2
GM Dzindzichashvili gives another instructive analysis of two chess.com members' game. In this one he covers strategic considerations...
A Universal System vs. The King's Indian Attack
Having problems with the Hyper-modern openings? whats hyper-modern? Charles explains a universal system versus the King's...
The 10 Best Moves of All Time: #9
#9 is one of the most cold-blooded defenses you will ever see. Two world champions, Kramnik and Anand, locked in a tense...
My Giuoco Piano 2
GM Khachiyan shows a second game of his from this mainline Italian Game, but this time he switches to the white pieces,...
Live Sessions 7; One Move at a Time
Gambits!? This time International Master Daniel Rensch gives it a try at the challenging yet very dynamic and entertaining...
My Giuoco Piano
GM Khachiyan shares with us one of four games he played in an important mainline of the Italian game... in one tournament!!...
K+Q vs. K+R
One of the most classic and also most difficult endgames in chess, explained by a Grandmaster. However, don't think you'll...
The 10 Best Moves of All Time: #10
IM Shankland begins an exciting new series: a rundown of the 10 best chess moves he's ever seen. Coming in at #10 is GM...
Most Mysterious World Championship Match 2
GM Dzindzichashvili takes a microscope to the final two games of the Kasparov-Karpov clash of 1987. Not only analyzing the...
Most Mysterious World Championship: The Story
GM Roman Dzindzichashvili tells us the story of the mysterious conclusion of the 1987 World Championship Match between Kasparov...
Game Analysis: Ponomariov v. Gelfand
IM Sam Shankland examines one more game from Gelfand's run to the 2009 World Cup title. In chess, just as important as defeating...
Into the Fire
GM Khachiyan looks at an entirely tactical game. It does however kick off with a piece sacrifice based entirely on positional...
Live Sessions; Through an IM's Eyes!
IM David Pruess plays two games on live chess, while recounting his thought process. The level of the games is not very...
Gelfand goes Berserk
A white player needing just a draw to achieve a desired result-- this is a pretty common scenario in professional chess,...
Isolated Queen Pawns: BONUS Video
Danny's a really nice guy. Nice guys like to give out bonuses. Hopefully you learned a lot of important themes for iqp positions...
Climax in World Championship Matches
GM Dzindzichashvili recaps one of the most nerve-wracking moments in chess history: the final couple games from the Botvinnik-Bronstein...
Ending a Tournament
IM Shankland focuses on the psychology of playing in the last round, when both players tend to be tired from a long event....
Dynamic Theory: Logical Chain
GM Khachiyan again shows how a logical chain can run through an entire game, guiding and informing the player's decisions...
Member Analysis: Instructive Member Game
In this game, black was unable to make anything of a clear positional advantage in the endgame. As GM Dzindzi explains,...
Live Sessions; One Move at a Time 5
FM Galofre lets us in his head in yet another live session. He shares his thoughts as he plays a game, and then when it's...
Concepts in the Grand Prix Attack 2
GM Khachiyan covers the Bc4 line (the previous lecture covered Bb5) of the Grand Prix with analysis of a game from his own...