The Pirc Defense - Part 8: The Austrian Attack 2!
IM Mackenzie Molner shows off a highly topical variation of the Austrian Attack, where both sides walk a tightrope. His...
IM Mackenzie Molner shows off a highly topical variation of the Austrian Attack, where both sides walk a tightrope. His...
In an addendum to his last member video on development, GM Dzindzichashvili shows why sacrificing without complete development...
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...
What do GM Larsen and GM Carlsen have in common? According to GM Bojkov, more than just a rhyming name. They are both optimists...
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...
GM Kaidanov has many useful maxims to help bridge the gap from amateur to master. One of them is to focus more on piece...
In his best game from one of his best tournaments ever, the witty GM Ben Finegold shows off a very pleasing attack on a...
Who says romance is dead? GM Bojkov begins an exciting new series on his favorite player, the so-called "Positional...
GM Melik Khachiyan continues his incisive series on prophylaxis and calculation by showing one of his own recent games,...
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...
GM Bojkov heaps high praise on a Chess.com member who understood correctly how to attack on one side of the board while...
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...
GM Eugene Perelshteyn has already shown us how to make a chess study from a blank chess board, now he shows us how to create...
In what might be one of the greatest positional sacrifice games ever, GM Bojkov walks us through the genius of how Gligoric...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sure, you watch TMZ every night, but how often do you watch TMB? WGM Camilla Baginskaite uses her silky-smooth delivery...