Member Analysis: Endgame Mistake!
GM Dzindzichashvili is back with another member game. This was one played fairly well, but some critical endgame mistakes...
GM Dzindzichashvili is back with another member game. This was one played fairly well, but some critical endgame mistakes...
Needing to win to help his team get into the USCL Playoffs, GM Khachiyan plays a pet line in the Alekhine-Chatard Attack....
Special K is back as FM Kostya Kavutskiy brings a close to the USCL regular season. He shows several no-holds-barred attacks...
Who needs "Game of Thrones" when we have a Game of the Week that is just as epic of a battle? When honors are shared, both...
Double your pleasure? How about six times the pleasure? IM Danny Rensch shows that his first love is really pawn structure,...
A little something for everyone in this Live Session with IM Danny Rensch. We've got his ubiquitous GEICO gecko voice, a...
Be it 1. b3 or 1. g3, GM Bent Larsen loved those fianchettoed bishops! GM Bojkov shows how he preferred playing Black openings,...
What's that you say? All rook endgames are drawn? Well not today! Somehow all three results are possible in a basic rook-and-pawn...
The Schliemann is a draw?! GM Melik is surprised to learn that such an aggressive response to the Ruy Lopez has been yielding...
GM Sosonko is from Troitsk, but it's GM Finegold who acts like Troitsky in this study-like game from his youth. Though only...
In Part 6, FM Mike Klein was ahead a pawn and broke through on the opposite flank to create his second weakness. Today,...
Five queens on the board by move 20? Is Chess.com featuring games from six-year-olds? Just the opposite - it was from a...
IM Danny Rensch takes a gallop through the packed week of USCL games, starting with two games in which pieces try to fight...
Having explained all the ins and outs of OCB middlegames and endgames, today GM Bojkov shows a pair of examples where the...
Fans of GM Khachiyan's series should know, when he needs a win as Black against a lower-rated player, get ready for a Philidor....
Not every game is a tactical melee. Today GM Khachiyan admits that he did "nothing special" - but there is beauty in simplicity....
Any good boxer will attack the head and the body, and any good chessboxer will make two points of attack in the endgame....
Determined not to lose a worse position, GM Khachiyan shows his resolve by using the full complement of his arsenal. First...
Carlsen wins with such minute precision that sometimes it may seem magical. Here, a pair of his games is examined, and in...
GM Alex Yermolinsky makes his Chess.com debut by highlighting the US Chess League Game of the Week winner for the opening...
One of the hardest imbalances in chess to gauge is queen for two rooks. In a recent game from the World Open, GM Mikhalevski...
Continuing his series on the lessons, both on and off the board, Melik draws from his own games this weekend, he reviews...
Action movies usually end with the main actor trying to decide which wire to cut as the bomb ticks down to zero. Here IM...
IM Danny Rensch kicks off Member Analysis August with a game full of pivotal moments and key amateur errors. After yet another...
GM Ben Finegold sacrifices the exchange again in another brilliant combination. He channels his inner 19th-century persona...