USCL: Game of the Week | Week 9!
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...
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...
GM Finegold caps off his career-best tournament by showing his game against world champion runner-up GM Boris Gelfand. Though...
International Master Rensch brings you another highlight reel, courtesy of the US Chess League. Week 8 is on display today!...
FM Eric Rodriguez crashed through, in more ways than one. In his second GOTW nomination, he wins top honors thanks to his...
The group of players in the 2-5 positions in the world rankings keeps shuffling, flipping and turning over. What's been...
IM Danny Rensch takes a gallop through the packed week of USCL games, starting with two games in which pieces try to fight...
GM Yermo gives a clinic on the h3 variation of the King's Indian Defense, taking us from a half-century ago into modern...
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....
Today you get to feel much better about your chess abilities! We have five games in which top players lost in fewer than...
Determined not to lose a worse position, GM Khachiyan shows his resolve by using the full complement of his arsenal. First...
Grab a venti coffee and settle in chess fans. The sprightly IM Danny Rensch covers a half-dozen of the U.S. Chess League's...
Look up - is that an anvil on a cliff above your head? If cartoon characters have a sense of danger, so should you! GM Kaidanov...
GM Viktor Mikhalevski plays against a topical anti-Grunfeld setup that even Nakamura just essayed at the 2013 FIDE World...
In another game where prophylaxis rules the day, GM Khachiyan masterfully restricts black's pieces until he obtains the...
IM Mackenzie Molner shows off a highly topical variation of the Austrian Attack, where both sides walk a tightrope. His...
When asked by a group of top juniors for one of his best games, GM Ben Finegold only had to go back a few weeks in his memory...
Two Schliemann Gambits against two former U.S. Champions in the same afternoon? All in a day's work for GM Melik Khachiyan!...
GM Dzindzichashvili sifts through his mailbox to find a game where he totally disapproves of black's play for one simple...
In his best game from one of his best tournaments ever, the witty GM Ben Finegold shows off a very pleasing attack on a...
What happens when a former U.S. Women's Champion and a former U.S. Champion collide? The two engage in a feisty debate over...
IM Mark Ginsburg continues his series on how to deal with the Smith-Morra Gambit by showing how Black should tackle some...
"And the rest is a matter of technique..." - How many times have you heard that from a titled player? Here WGM Camilla Baginskaite...
In her final video from the 2013 U.S. Women's Championship, third-place finisher WGM Tatev Abrahamyan ditches her normally-automatic...
Today's King's Indian practitioners have GM Gligoric to thank. Here GM Bojkov shows the birth of the modern-day "Mar del...
Sure, you watch TMZ every night, but how often do you watch TMB? WGM Camilla Baginskaite uses her silky-smooth delivery...