Alekhine's Defense 6: Sidelines
Learn White's less-popular but still poisonous options against Alekhine's Defense in this video, as NM Sam Copeland discusses...
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Sicilian Pin Variation: Tricky Lines
The Sicilian Pin variation is full of all sorts of sidelines, including some tricky moves you need to know. Dive deeper into...
Sicilian Pin Variation: 7. Qg4
Now that you know the main line of the Sicilian pin variation, it's time to expand to the sidelines, including the important...
Alekhine's Defense: How To Punish 2. Nc3
The move 2.Nc3 is one of the most popular sidelines against Alekhine's Defense. White players seeking to avoid theory often...
Alekhine's Defense: Chase Variation
The Chase Variation is like a pitchfork: dangerous, but it has some gaps. The pawn structure even looks like a pitchfork...
Sicilian Pin Variation: 7. Bd2
Playing Bd2 is a solid way for White to handle the Sicilian pin variation, but it may not be the most aggressive way to go...
Alekhine's Defense: Neutralizing The 4 Pawns Attack
If you've tried Alekhine's Defense, you've probably been a little scared when your opponent pushed all four center pawns...
Alekhine's Defense: Corralling The Exchange
The Exchange Variation is White's simplest option against Alekhine's Defense, but it may also be the best. Learn the simple...
Alekhine's Defense: The Modern Variation
Are you interested in original chess and maybe not so much theory? Alekhine's Defense is perfect for you. In this video,...
How To Play The Sicilian Pin Variation
Picture this: You're all set to play your normal open Sicilian as White, when suddenly your knight is pinned as early as...
Greatest Games: Shirov's 'Fire On Board'
Alexei Shirov is known as a dangerous attacking player, but you might not have seen this masterpiece. In this game, Shirov...
World Chess Championship 1886: Steinitz vs Zukertort
We've now reached the start of the first official world chess championship, with the legendary Steinitz taking the crown....
World Chess Championship 1858: Morphy vs. Anderssen
Paul Morphy was decades if not centuries ahead of his time in chess. Watch how this American chess prodigy became the world...
Pro Analysis With Alexandra & Danya: Time In The Opening
How does a grandmaster think compared to a lower-level chess master? Watch this informative new series where WFM Alexandra...
Mcdonnell vs La Bourdonnais 1834: The 1st World Chess Championship
Take a journey with us to the fanciful chess of yesteryear in this review of the first unofficial world chess championship...
How To Be Lucky In Chess: The Art Of Being Practical
There's endless debate about if chess is an art, science, sport, etc.—the truth is it's all of these, but in the moment it...
How To Be Lucky In Chess: The Swindle
It's happened to everyone. The game has gotten out of hand. Your opponent is objectively winning. Should you smash that resign...
How To Be Lucky In Chess: Be A Time Scramble Beast
Time scrambles are an inevitable part of fast chess if you play enough, so you need to know what to do in them. GM Naroditsky...
How To Be Lucky In Chess: Flagging Basics
There is a saying that applies in many competitive pursuits: It's better to be lucky than good. While that might not be entirely...
Nakamura vs Dobrov: 2019 Speed Chess Championship
Enjoy this replay of the 2019 Speed Chess Championship match between Nakamura and Dobrov, which was played at the start of...
Fischer Random Chess: Danger On Move One
Former FIDE World Champion, Ruslan Ponomariov, discusses his experience in Fischer Random chess and what to do when you don't...
Greatest Games You've Never Seen: A World Champion King's Gambit
The King's Gambit is supposedly a not-so-serious opening. But if it was good enough for the legendary world champion Boris...
Greatest Games You've Never Seen: Quadruple Queens!
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...
Greatest Games You've Never Seen: World Junior Championship
It was a wild game where both sides' kings were under duress, but in the end the rising chess prodigy Jeffery Xiong came...
When The Amateur Wins: Drawing With Karpov
Sometimes your chess opponent is so legendary that you can consider an unlikely draw as a win. Such is the case with Anatoly...