Learn To Play The Scotch: Instructive Games, Caruana vs Bacrot
The Scotch is an opening prized by beginners and intermediate players for its straightforward nature, but it's serious enough...
The Scotch is an opening prized by beginners and intermediate players for its straightforward nature, but it's serious enough...
Now that you've had a chance to go over the basics of the Scotch game, get ready to learn the advanced ideas of grandmaster...
Tired of the same old chess openings? Chess960 (also known as Fischer Random) is the game for you. Learn how to play this...
If you've followed the Tarrasch lessons so far, you know that it's a serious opening with many important variations. In...
When playing the Scotch, what should you do when Black plays Nf6, like Karpov, Kramnik and Aronian? Learn how to handle...
The Tarrasch Defense is a complex opening, but you can learn the main line with this lesson. Find out how to play the critical...
If you play queen's pawn opening for either Black or White, you need to know the Tarrasch Defense. In this introduction,...
The Scotch is a fun and solid way to open a chess game. Learn the basics of this king's pawn opening in this first lesson,...
When playing against a human opponent, sometimes it pays off to create uncertainty and complications on the chessboard....
As you grow as a chess player you will develop a sense of intuition over the chessboard. Learn how to trust this sense to...
David Bronstein might be one of the best chess players ever who did not become world champion, and you can learn a lot from...
Vladimir Kramnik is a genius at knowing exactly the best moment to break through in a chess position. Take a look at his...
Can you gain an advantage simply by trading pieces? If you're an all-time great like Botvinnik, that's your signature strategy....
How do you bombard your opponent with your heavy pieces? Learn how to form "Alekhine's Gun" and destroy your enemy on an...
Chigorin is often considered among the best chess players ever to never win a world chess championship. Find out how this...
Is there one quick change you could make to your chess game to greatly improve your results? The answer is to simply try...
Sometimes the best fighting piece in the endgame is the king itself, especially in pawn endings. Find out what happens when...
What good are mistakes if you can't identify them and learn from them? Find out how to spot the mistakes in your chess game...
Controlling the center is a key concept in chess, so why not learn from the "best of the best," Siegbert Tarrasch? Watch...
Garry Kasparov is widely considered one of the greatest chess players of all time, but even he lost some games. Find out...
Anatoly Karpov was not only a world champion. He was also one of the most solid chess players to ever pick up a piece. So...
Who was the greatest woman to ever pick up a chess piece? Surely it is Judit Polgar, the living legend of female chess....
As we look back on the historic 2018 world chess championship, we saw that game one of the tiebreaks was a clear turning...
It was the most exciting day of the 2018 world chess championship—the tiebreaks that would finally decide a champion after...
Every past world chess champion eventually had someone take his crown. So how do you beat the king of chess? GM Bojkov starts...