The Technique of Calculation - Part 13: Prophylactic Calculation 2
GM Melik Khachiyan continues his incisive series on prophylaxis and calculation by showing one of his own recent games,...
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...
GM Melik Khachiyan continues to dispel the myth that top players are always calculating very far down the road. Using a...
WGM Tatev Abrahamyan looked to continue her fast start at the 2013 U.S. Women's Championship. Before facing tournament leader...
FM Elliott Liu continues his great explanation of his quest to convert a material advantage in the famed "First Saturday"...
Every popular opening today needed an early adopter, and GM Bojkov continues his series on Gligoric by showing how he advanced...
How often do you see white get hanging pawns, and have them both captured on their home squares? How often do you see a...
GM Dzindzichasvili says computers are only right 80 percent of the time - here he shows you the other 20 percent! Using...
IM Mark Ginsburg begins his discussion of how to deal with white's supercharged intentions in the Smith-Morra Gambit. He...
There is a wealth of information on isolated queen-pawn positions, but how much do you know about Carlsbad pawn structures?...
During her best game of the U.S. Women's Championship, WGM Camilla Baginskaite must have felt like she was playing the entire...