Amazing Games for Beginners: Positional Strangulation - Part 4
FM Liu concludes this month's Amazing Games series with a two part video reviewing one of Carl Schlecter's greatest achievements!...
FM Liu concludes this month's Amazing Games series with a two part video reviewing one of Carl Schlecter's greatest achievements!...
With good reason, most players who aren't, well, chess professionals, would prefer to avoid the many complicated variations...
To conclude the second half of his game with Grandmaster Alexander Ivanov from the Western States Open in Reno, Nevada a...
It's been a while, and the rust shows! Today Danny faces a familiar opening foe in the Dragon Sicilian, but soon after achieving...
Recently, GM Melik Khachiyan journeyed to Reno, Nevada to compete in the Western State Open. Here he attempts to break down...
You must be vigilant! Your "Spidey-Senses" can only be developed through practicing the art of, well, blundering! After...
Making a very natural transition from his last video series on the Queen's Gambit Decline, GM Sam Shankland begins his coverage...
Sometimes it takes a little homework to get ahead! It certainly was the case for the then International Master Finegold....
What happens when one endgame master attempts to outplay another? It's dynamite! Today the good doctor Rubinstein puts on...
A tragic chess comedy? Not for Smyslov! The first game GM Dzindzichashvili reviews shows the former World Champion's defensive...
In the last round of the 2008 National Open in Las Vegas, GM Khachiyan looked across his board at a young, talented FIDE...
What happens when a well known "mating pattern" doesn't work? As Grandmaster Gregory Kaidanov explains, at the highest levels...
With his second installment GM Shankland reviews perhaps the most topical variation of the classic QGD structure, when he...
As a perfect follow up to Friday's video, the weekend feature highlights more principles of the "race style" position, and...
We continue with our second Member Analysis video lecture on the subject of "race positions". Today's video lecture highlights...
Another Diamond -- or should be say "Rubi" -- in the rough! GM Dejan Bojkov keeps the Greatest Chess Minds train rolling...
Grandmaster Dejan Bojkov's review of Rubinstein's positional dominance over his peers continues today with a brilliant win...
In today's Member Analysis video lecture, IM Rensch discusses the "evolution" of the Queen's Gambit Accepted, highlighting...
Struggling to find his "rhythm" after a rough few games at the 2012 World Open, GM Shankland was paired up against Mongolian...
This Amazing Games for Beginners video lecture is, well... Amazing! FIDE Master Elliot Liu is back this month with more...
Today GM Kaidanov reviews a highly instructional game from his past, and offers his best advice on how to not only find...
Melik's "most recent memory" comes to us from the year 1996. GM Khachiyan was just entering the prime of his career, and...
This weekend GM Lenderman reveals all! Displaying his own games, criticizing his own practical and psychological short comings,...
The Tarrasch Defense was "down and out" for a very long time at the highest levels of chess (until Spassky, and much later...
Never let up! As GM Shankland explains here today, sometimes over-confidence can lead to a slight lapse in focus, and when...