How To Use Your Pieces Tactically: The Bishop
How can you make the best use of your bishops? They work well in a team and need open diagonals. GM Dejan Bojkov will show...
Greatest Games: Polgar Beats Mamedyarov
It was a battle between a chess legend and a rising star when Judit Polgar gave the young Shakhriyar Mamedyarov a lesson...
The Best Chess Games Of 2019: #3
Chess is a science, but often it's not a perfect science, according to IM Daniel Rensch. Watch to see how practical, continuous...
Don't Be Afraid To Sacrifice
When you're embarking on an attack against the uncastled king, you cannot be afraid to sacrifice material. In this lesson,...
Don't Let Them Castle: Be A Pest
Sometimes the best attacks in chess happen when you don't let your opponents castle...but it's up to you to keep up the...
Greatest Games You've Never Seen: Maia's Masterpiece
You might have missed this scorching attacking game from the seventh women's world champion, Maia Chiburdanidze, considering...
Sicilian Pin Variation: Lagno vs Muzychuk
How do two of the best women's players in the world deal with the Sicilian Pin variation? Watch this amazing game between...
Sicilian Pin Variation: Leko vs Aronian
Want to learn the Sicilian Pin Variation? Watch two legends of modern chess, Peter Leko and Levon Aronian, play the opening...
Greatest Games You've Never Seen: A Brilliant Miniature
It's rare in a serious game between two grandmasters that checkmate is unavoidable after move 16, but that's what happened...
Sicilian Pin Variation: Yates vs Alekhine
Now that you've had seven lessons on the Sicilian Pin Variation, it's time to see the opening in action in a game with the...
Sicilian Pin Variation: Common Traps
You've seen the main lines of the Sicilian Pin, some sidelines and even the so-called "tricky line." Now you need to know...
Sicilian Pin Variation: The Tricky Line
If your opponent plays the Sicilian Pin variation, you know the best move is to play e5 right after the pin. But what if...
Alekhine's Defense 6: Sidelines
Learn White's less-popular but still poisonous options against Alekhine's Defense in this video, as NM Sam Copeland discusses...
Sicilian Pin Variation: Sidelines
The Sicilian Pin variation is full of all sorts of sidelines, including some tricky moves you need to know. Dive deeper...
Sicilian Pin Variation: 7. Bd2
Playing Bd2 is a solid way for White to handle the Sicilian pin variation, but it may not be the most aggressive way to...
How To Play The Sicilian Pin Variation
Picture this: You're all set to play your normal open Sicilian as White, when suddenly your knight is pinned as early as...
Pro Analysis With Alexandra & Danya: Time In The Opening
How does a grandmaster think compared to a lower-level chess master? Watch this informative new series where WFM Alexandra...
Mcdonnell vs La Bourdonnais 1834: The 1st World Chess Championship
Take a journey with us to the fanciful chess of yesteryear in this review of the first unofficial world chess championship...
How To Be Lucky In Chess: The Art Of Being Practical
There's endless debate about if chess is an art, science, sport, etc.—the truth is it's all of these, but in the moment...
How To Be Lucky In Chess: The Swindle
It's happened to everyone. The game has gotten out of hand. Your opponent is objectively winning. Should you smash that...
How To Be Lucky In Chess: Be A Time Scramble Beast
Time scrambles are an inevitable part of fast chess if you play enough, so you need to know what to do in them. GM Naroditsky...
When The Amateur Wins: Drawing With Karpov
Sometimes your chess opponent is so legendary that you can consider an unlikely draw as a win. Such is the case with Anatoly...
Greatest Games You've Never Seen: Game Of The 21st Century
How many pieces can you sacrifice and still win the game? Enjoy this thriller of a battle with the stunning victory by the...
How To Play The Short Endgame
The Short Endgame, named for GM Nigel Short, arises after a classic opening and middlegame pattern. GM Hammer shows you...
My Best Game: vs Hikaru Nakamura
Ruslan Ponomariov is a chess legend, so it's hard to choose his greatest game. So why not let Ruslan himself show you his...