How do you overcome a player who wants all the pieces off the board? Often, you take him up at his own game! Here FM Alisa Melekhina tries to get from full chess to the pawn game, but her higher-rated opponent slowly...
GM Finegold retires from tournament chess? Well, probably not, but he wonders if he should since he's giving away all of his opening secrets. Today he reveals his preferred setup against the Benko Gambit. He crams thr...
Which side of the board should you play on? You have to read the tea leaves, or in this case, the pawn structure. GM Khachiyan shows a surprising middlegame king walk that allows Black the full power of his rooks in t...
The master and the understudy: that's the framework of Melik and Me. Sure, you could pay $100/hour for GM lessons, or you could let Chess.com foot the bill. Today our experienced teacher analyzes member games in-depth...
People that play the Philidor - don't you just want to wipe them off the board? Now you can! An early g4 is always a quick shock to Black's system, and today you'll see why. An open g-file, pressure on f7, and the sec...
Didn't get an invite to play in this year's U.S. Championship? That's alright, neither did we. Luckily, a two-time winner of the event is here to show you the genius of the grandmasters who did play. Watch and see som...
The Super-GM Mountain keeps getting higher, but GM Mikhalevksi has done his high-altitude training. Today he ascends the peak of a former World Champion runner-up. The age-old Botvinnik structure leads to two unsafe k...
"Just keep your pieces active and everything is going to be fine," Coach and GM Dejan Bojkov says. In the imbalanced Carlsbad structure, it seems White will just methodically press the minority attack, but Black has e...
How do you like your queen endings - crazy or technical? No matter - Coach Keaton has both for you today. First, a queen ending that morphs into a four-queen ending - not once, but twice! How is that even possible? Oh...
Two scintillating attacks are on display from GM Finegold. After a tricky move order than Black won't be prepared for, he gambits as many as three pawns to gain a lead in development. Fortunately, White has all five l...
When two rising stars, both Super-GMs, face off in the highest average rated Death Match ever, surely we must be in for a close finish, right? Think again! Though the young Russian got the better of his Vietnamese opp...
The highest-rated staff member at Chess.com again puts his skills to the test. Can IM Danny Rensch solve 2000+ level problems while providing his usual blend of witty and insightful analysis of his thought process? He...
Who wants to slay the fianchetto? GM Perelshteyn does! He shows even more replies to his ...c6, ...Qa5 system. Nothing seems to work, as Black achieves equality or better in all the games showcased. The strength of .....
GM Dzindzi starts with a discussion of a trap that nearly everyone falls into! Although it wasn't mentioned, regular Chess.com video author GM Sam Shankland also had it happen to him earlier in 2014. Then we get down...
The Ginger GM, Simon Williams, shows off how precious timing can be in an opposite side castling position. Material might as well be forgotten, as it is all about who wins the race. He gets the best of his opponent, b...
If you like bishops, watch this video. If you hate bishops, watch this video! Bishops are both the heroes and the sacrificial lambs in these five games. The first is the most famous example of the lot, though it took...
Take a lesson in the “old school” of chess with GM Alex Yermolinsky when he turn his lense on the fantasic play of Maxime Vachier Lagrave. Enjoy this full replay of GM Yermolinksy’s live show that w...
Our twin towers - GMs Williams and Bojkov - focus mostly on Carlsen-Caruana in the final round of the Gashimov Memorial. It's not often that the two leaders happen to clash at the end of a round robin, but the pairing...
From start to finish, it was Russia's rising star Dmitry Andreikin who seemed to have all the right moves: Playing just that much faster; Playing just that much better; Le Quang Liem couldn't quite keep up! IM Rensch...
GM Yermolinsky gives a more in-depth look to what happened to the betting favorite at the 2014 Candidates Tournament. In his words, GM Aronian is "too driven by his emotions" and that got him in trouble after the tour...
Q & A with Coach Heisman where you are the star and ask the questions. Tune into NM Dan fielding Chess.com member's questions in this monthly Q & A session originally broadcast on May 2.
A well-compiled collection of five ridiculous bishop moves are on display from FM Klein today! And we bet there's almost no one in the world who has seen all five. In fact, we'd be surprised if you've seen any (if you...
So the Caro-Kann is super solid you say? I say not today! GM Finegold produces one of his favorite videos, with the Black king getting checkmated three times in the Advance Variation. You'll see some home cooking from...
Some pundits think GM Fabiano Caruana is the man who will give GM Magnus Carlsen a serious challenge to the World Championship some day. Before he gets that chance, he faces him in the final round of a tournament, wit...
GM Bojkov and GM Williams take you through the three middlegames of the inaugural Gashimov Memorial. Watch and see if the players made the fallen master proud with some inventive, attacking chess.
