Beating Your Nemesis: Punishing the Philidor
People that play the Philidor - don't you just want to wipe them off the board? Now you can! An early g4 is always a quick...
People that play the Philidor - don't you just want to wipe them off the board? Now you can! An early g4 is always a quick...
Two scintillating attacks are on display from GM Finegold. After a tricky move order than Black won't be prepared for, he...
A well-compiled collection of five ridiculous bishop moves are on display from FM Klein today! And we bet there's almost...
Newly-minted Staff Member Ben Finegold is on the payroll but he works for you! Today his first assignment was to show off...
Coach Keaton has two more kingside attacks for you. One is the traditional opposite-side castling pawn storm. The h-file...
So you want to complicate the position against a lower-rated player? GM Finegold plays what he thinks is an unorthodox setup...
Tired of seeing grandmasters take their advantage to the endgame? FM Kavutskiy has the cure. Today he shows four checkmates...
In-between move. Intermediate move. Zwischenzug. Intermezzo. You pick the language, and let GM Kaidanov pick the positions....
Sometimes the teacher just can't hide his reactions! GM Dzindzi has more than subtle criticism for both sides in this Member...
Do you like it when grandmasters get to checkmate each other? Yeah, we thought so. Today we feature two devastating attacks...
Part 3 of GM Perelshteyn's offbeat approach against the Sämisch shows that if you are flexible with your pawn structures,...
Playing completely uncompromising chess, GM Mikhalevski plays an early novelty and gets great development and open lines...
As usual, another video potpourri from the always unpredictable IM Danny Rensch. Commenting live in a 10-minute game, Rensch...
The student sees more than the teacher in this fantastic attack conducted by one of GM Khachiyan's protégés. After Black...
With chagrin, IM Keaton Kiewra shows us three worse or losing positions from the same tournament. How many did he actually...
GM Kaidanov explains how Magnus Carlsen wins most of his chess games, then shows a prototypical example. The Norwegian wonder...
Part 4 of the series highlighting the mastery of GM Bent Larsen. The Danish great starts out with a bluff in the opening...
Double your pleasure? How about six times the pleasure? IM Danny Rensch shows that his first love is really pawn structure,...
In perhaps the greatest piece of calculation in Kasparov's storied career, IM Kiewra shows the masterpiece at Wijk aan Zee...
GM Finegold caps off his career-best tournament by showing his game against world champion runner-up GM Boris Gelfand. Though...
FM Eric Rodriguez crashed through, in more ways than one. In his second GOTW nomination, he wins top honors thanks to his...
Going for opposite colored bishops out of the opening? Why not? GM Bojkov concludes his series by showing that many openings...
GM Gata Kamsky is sometimes known as a solid player, but lately he's been playing some inspired chess. At the World Cup,...
GM Dzindzi's continuation of his series on the Grunfeld spotlights two of his favorite games. In a rarity, he shows of one...
Today you get to feel much better about your chess abilities! We have five games in which top players lost in fewer than...