
Learn The Nimzo Indian Defense
The Nimzo Indian Defense is one of the most solid defenses to 1.d4, but the game can take many different directions right...
The Nimzo Indian Defense is one of the most solid defenses to 1.d4, but the game can take many different directions right...
The Grunfeld is possibly the sharpest response to 1.d4. Learn the key tactical and strategic ideas for both sides!
The Benoni Defense is a sharp way to fight for a win against 1.d4. Learn the key ideas for both sides.
Learn the key strategies and tactics for both sides in the Queen's Gambit Accepted.
Not every game that begins with d4-d5 turns into a Queen's Gambit. Learn the popular London System, with 2.Bf4 and the related...
The Slav is one of Black's safest and strongest defenses against the Queen's Gambit. Learn the key ideas and tactics for...
Rashid Nezhmetdinov played many brilliant and beautiful chess games, but in his own estimation, his victory with the black...
Bobby Fischer's Game of the Century is widely considered one of the greatest chess games of all time. The 13-year-old Bobby...
Possibly the most famous game from the 1953 Zurich candidates tournament was Efim Geller vs. Max Euwe. Euwe had lost the...
Chess legend Ossip Bernstein had his greatest chess successes in the early 1900s, but 50 years later he had an incredible...
David Bronstein is one of the greatest and most innovative chess grandmasters in the last century. Against the top Norwegian...
Soon-to-be grandmaster Gosta Stoltz offered an incredible queen sacrifice in his masterful game against Herman Steiner....
World Chess Champions Mikhail Botvinnik and Vasily Smyslov competed in three world championship matches! Here is probably...
Isaac Lipnitsky wrote the classic chess book, "Questions of Modern Chess Theory." In his beautiful game against Beylin,...
The brilliant attacking player, Paul Keres, is one of the greatest chess players never to have become world champion. We...
To paraphrase Anton Ego, not everyone can become a great chess artist; but anyone can create great chess art! Pablo Moran...
The Closed Sicilian is a tricky weapon against the Sicilian Defense and frequently occurs with reversed colors in the English...
The Rossolimo Variation of the Sicilian has become the dominant Anti-Sicilian today. The same structure occurs frequently...
When White's pawn chain reaches from b2 to e5, it could lead to a kingside attack, but Black also can target the pawns and...
In many openings, one side has more pawns on the kingside and the other has more on the queenside. GM Johan Hellsten demonstrates...
At the very highest level, many grandmasters meet Black's capture on d4 with the immediate e4-e5 to target the black knight....
The last two variations have been popular for generations, but this gambit has only caught on in the last several years....
When White prefers to keep material equality the d4 Italian often leads to isolated pawn positions. GM Kosteniuk shows the...
GM Kosteniuk begins her series on sharp variations of the Italian with the classic Greco Gambit. This line was popular in...
In 2020 GM Daniil Dubov played a rare gambit to defeat GM Sergey Karjakin in a spectacular game. GM Alexandra Kosteniuk...