Positional Tips: Learning from My Own Play!
In another game where prophylaxis rules the day, GM Khachiyan masterfully restricts black's pieces until he obtains the...
In another game where prophylaxis rules the day, GM Khachiyan masterfully restricts black's pieces until he obtains the...
In an addendum to his last member video on development, GM Dzindzichashvili shows why sacrificing without complete development...
The symphony comes to an end for FM Elliott Liu, as he simplifies into a two-bishops ending. Still not believing he could...
GM Melik Khachiyan unearths another fascinating position where the calculation won't be easy but will reward the player...
"And the rest is a matter of technique..." - How many times have you heard that from a titled player? Here WGM Camilla Baginskaite...
FM Elliott Liu won a piece in Part 1, simplified in Part 2, and now it is time to bring home the point in Part 3. In the...
IM Danny Rensch is back, and so is his British accent and 80s music references! This Live Session is a longer game, where...
Another masterpiece from the pedagogue GM Kaidanov! This time he cobbles together a handful of similar positions to produce...
Before tackling the main lines of the Smith-Morra, IM Mark Ginsburg first shows a pair of "coffeehouse" variations...
GM Melik Khachiyan continues to dispel the myth that top players are always calculating very far down the road. Using a...
FM Elliott Liu continues his great explanation of his quest to convert a material advantage in the famed "First Saturday"...
During her best game of the U.S. Women's Championship, WGM Camilla Baginskaite must have felt like she was playing the entire...
Using a tenacious will to win, GM Timur Gareev fights for six hours at the end of a long tournament, and grinds out an endgame,...
After blundering a pair of pawns on separate occasions, WGM Tatev Abrahamyan was determined to still convert a rook-and-pawn...
After a long hiatus, FM Elliott Liu is back, this time with a game from his childhood that instructs in all facets of the...
Are you constantly playing opponents who play solid, boring lines, hoping to trade everything right away and never spicing...
IM Keaton Kiewra finishes his complete series on the Dragon by showing his attempt to garner a second GM norm. In a crazy...
What happens when you let GM Larry Christiansen storm the barricades? GM Gareev found out at the 2013 U.S. Championship,...
How often do you see a rook pawn advancing two squares on move five? Today GM Timur Gareev explains the latest opening trend...
The ever-modest GM Gregory Kaidanov begins his video series on positional play with, what else, a loss! He builds an attacking...
We all know Capablanca's endgame acumen, but GM Eugene Perelshteyn tells us that another world champion is equally deserving...
Melik walks us through a recent game of his where he used his "backup opening" to defeat his lower rated opponent, IM Amanov....
In today's Member Analysis video, Roman reviews a variation of the Exchange Ruy that seems to offer "little action" after...
Enough examples of the "other things" Capablanca did well, let's review some endgames! Grandmaster Bojkov heard your call!...
GM Perelshteyn continues his series on practical endings this weekend with the review of a famous "squeezing"...