The Classical Dutch - Part 5
The final chapter in the Dutch Defense covers various other responses, including what to do when White fails to fianchetto....
The final chapter in the Dutch Defense covers various other responses, including what to do when White fails to fianchetto....
Want to study the games of one the greatest positional aggressors of all time? GM Khachiyan says look no further than Efim...
GM Simon Williams, one of the most frequent practitioners of the Dutch Defense, shows why it isn't the opening's fault that...
Doubled pawns? No problem. Now they're isolated too? GM Melik can handle that! Today he plays his favorite Philidor setup...
"The Immortal Mushroom Game" is how GM Jon Speelman dubbed this superb attack. We're not sure if the Ginger GM cooks with...
You've heard GM Finegold's take on this game, now get the analysis straight from the source. GM Shankland walks you through...
Making her Chess.com debut, FM Alisa Melekhina shows her modesty with a loss against a GM. Her lesson: don't just shuffle...
Coach Eugene reveals another pet system against a supposed Anti-King's Indian System. This time his antidote involves an...
Many fans predict that Levon Aronian will be Magnus Carlsen's main challenger in the next few years. GM Yermolinsky takes...
Today GM Khachiyan opens up his book on the classics. This instructive position from a former World Champion shows how simple...
Who's afraid of 1. b3? Well, after this video you might be! IM Rensch plays and analyzes live as he gets a rotten pawn structure...
Want a unique system against the Closed Sicilian? No longer do you have to just drop knights into d4. GM Khachiyan shows...
GM Williams shows the first game her ever played against the Budapest Gambit, some 10 years ago. He played the somewhat...
MVL is GM Finegold's MVP! According to our author, he has faith in his ideas and loves to attack. In the opening game, the...
FM Kavutskiy brings the yin and the yang today - a positional masterpiece and a tactical melee. GMs Aronian and Nakamura...
Any time a top grandmaster plays ...g5 on move four, that's a game worth watching (it moves to g4 soon after!). Thank you...
How many of the Seven Wonders of the World can you name? It doesn't matter - what GM Khachiyan wants more is for you to...
WGM Abrahamyan concludes her mammoth series on all things French. You should pair today's video with an earthy Bordeaux...
Our French Defense maestro illuminates the rest of what Black needs to know in the Exchange Variation of the French Defense....
The double-fianchetto - it's all the rage, but GM Khachiyan has the antidote! Watch and see how White gets all the play,...
Nothing much to know in the Exchange Variation, right? Wrong. Watch French aficionado WGM Tatev Abrahmyan (who just secured...
Three stalemate traps for your viewing pleasure today. The first is a study, the second is a recent game and the third is...
Losses are painful but losses are also lessons. Today GM Khachiyan flips the tables on his "Handling the French" series....
Should you analyze the games of lower-rated players? GM Dzindzi does, and he used to compete against world champions! Even...
White has a plethora of formations against the Scheveningen, so IM Ginsburg first tackles the lesser-quality options 6....