Learn To Play The Tarrasch Defense: Attack With Your Pieces
For your next in-depth lesson on the Tarrasch Defense, learn how to activate the power of your pieces in this opening system....
Chess Openings
Learn To Play The Tarrasch Defense: Advancing The Isolated Pawn
In any serious chess opening, the isolated pawn can be both a weakness and a strong point for an attack. Learn how to play...
Learn To Play The Tarrasch Defense: Early Dark-Square Bishop Development
As you understand more about the Tarrasch in this deep lesson series, watch this video to learn about lines where the dark-square...
Learn To Play The Tarrasch Defense: Lines With e3
Continue our lesson series on the complex but fascinating Tarrasch Defense. This video examines the most classical lines,...
Learn To Play The Scotch Game: Rare Variations
If you've followed our comprehensive lessons on the Scotch Game, you know the basics of the opening, key ideas and even some...
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...
Learn To Play The Scotch: Instructive Games, Carlsen vs Leko
Want to learn how to play the Scotch game? Check out this instructive game from a young Magnus Carlsen, who used the opening...
Learn To Play The Scotch Game: Grandmaster Preparation
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...
Learn To Play The Scotch Game: Opening Traps
The Scotch is an opening full of traps on both sides of the board, and if you play it you need to know how to spot them....
Learn To Play The Scotch Game: Qh4 Refuted
When playing the Scotch, you may be troubled by an aggressive-looking Black reply, the early Qh4. This move, though, can...
Learn To Play The Tarrasch Defense: Main Line With 9.dxc5
If you've followed the Tarrasch lessons so far, you know that it's a serious opening with many important variations. In this...
Learn To Play The Scotch Game: Miezes Variation
When playing the Scotch, what should you do when Black plays Nf6, like Karpov, Kramnik and Aronian? Learn how to handle this...
Learn To Play The Tarrasch Defense: Main Line
The Tarrasch Defense is a complex opening, but you can learn the main line with this lesson. Find out how to play the critical...
Learn To Play The Tarrasch Defense: Introduction
If you play queen's pawn opening for either Black or White, you need to know the Tarrasch Defense. In this introduction,...
Learn To Play The Scotch Game: Classic Variation
If you want to play the Scotch, you need to know the main lines that come up in the opening. In this lesson, learn the classic...
Learn To Play The Scotch Game: 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,...
The Max Lange Attack: 'Aggressive And Fun'
The Max Lange attack is a "swashbuckling" way to handle the king's pawn opening. Find out how to play the material imbalance...
Tarrasch Teaches How To Control The Center
Controlling the center is a key concept in chess, so why not learn from the "best of the best," Siegbert Tarrasch? Watch...
The Philidor Defense: Ng5 And Sacrifice
What happens when you or your opponent wants to spice up the Philidor with a dangerous sacrifice? GM Ben Finegold shows you...
The Philidor Defense: Early Bxf7
What happens when White tries a quick Bxf7 sacrifice in the Philidor? You might be surprised at how quickly the game can...
The Philidor Defense: Early f5 For Black
What happens in the Philidor Defense when Black plays the aggressive move f5 quickly? The openings expert Ben Finegold tells...
The Philidor Defense: Exchange With Bf4
GM Ben Finegold continues his deep look into the Philidor Defense with a lesson on another exchange variation. Learn the...
The Philidor Defense: Exchange Variation
It's more Philidor as GM Ben Finegold teaches you the important exchange variation of this opening. Learn from one of the...
The Philidor Defense: Shirov Gambit
Gambits in chess openings are not only fun to play, but can be very effective if your opponent is not familiar with the line....
The Philidor Defense: More Main Line
GM Ben Finegold shows you the rest of the main line in the Philidor Defense in his comprehensive series, Learn what to do...