The exciting climax to the final round in Shamkir! Carlsen's queenside pawns look menacing - can Caruana create any counterplay and find a way to finish first place?
You want draw? No draw for you! FM Melekhina shows the way to combat another drawing technique: the player who wants to close the position. She manages to open several files, all of which expose the enemy king. We'd c...
Not many players skip over the IM title on their way to GM, but a young Armenian kid is attempting to do just that. After opening with the London System, he shows fantastic positional understanding by offering an exch...
Watch the critical moment of the World Champion's first loss in classical chess in nearly one year. The dragon slayer, GM Fabiano Caruana, was also the last to beat him. GMs Yermolinsky and Shabalov (making his Chess....
How do you go from +1 to -25 in only one move? You play your nemesis! GM Finegold shows off three interesting blunders, the last of which he goes down in flames against GM Shabalov, who always seems to have Ben's numb...
Placing your bishop on an inferior square is a recoverable mistake, but opening up your king without reason can be decisive. Today GM Dzindzichashvili shows a game between two experts in the Boleslavsky Sicilian, an o...
From the "Here's something you don't see every day" file...GM Gata Kamsky getting outplayed. Our author GM Mikhalevski accepts the doubled pawns, but he gets a bevy of positional compensation. His open file, 7th-rank...
GMs Yermolinsky and Shabalov enter their own "middle game" as they attempt to understand how Carlsen's Berlin Wall got devastated. Watch and see it crumble!
After more than nine months without a loss in classical chess, it finally happened - watch GM Fabiano Caruana continue his impressive head-to-head record against World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen.
The action is heating up in Shamkir. Magnus Carlsen sits on 2.5/3 and has a full point lead going in to round four. Can he increase his distance on the Elo 2780 field?
Coach Keaton is back on assignment - this time looking at a stellar endgame played by Vishy Anand. What should have been a technical conversion was made to look easy. Queen and pawn endgames are of different thought p...
Blunders are not like fine wine - they don't get better with age. But don't tell GM Finegold that! He eagerly shows off two games in which he was quickly dispatched due to early oversights. See if you can spot the blu...
Take a lesson in the “old school” of chess with GM Alex Yermolinsky as investigates the exciting play of Alexander Shabalov, and the Latvian School of chess. Enjoy this full replay of GM Yermolinksy&rsquo...
Chess.com takes lemons and makes lemonade. After the live server crashes, IM Rensch calls up an old pal and Death Match graduate, GM Shankland. The two discuss who is the most beatable opponent in the upcoming Tournam...
One and a half out of two as Black against two titled players, whilst keeping the initiative the whole time? Sign me up! GM Perelshteyn continues to open the keyhole to his secret preparation against the Fianchetto Sy...
GM Bojkov is back! Today he begins a well-researched series on a pawn structure that will surely occur in your games sooner or later. Make sure you're good with the Carlsbad. In today's part 1, he focuses on the infam...
Why play the main line when you can instead play a perfectly reasonable move that confused your opponent? GM Finegold is full of these tricks, and today he illuminates one more - the "mysterious" Qd2. Where is she goi...
Was it a close call, or was it just another day at the office for Magnus? GM Yermolinsky examines how he handles a worse middlegame against GM Anish Giri. You'll learn a little bit of everything - Grunfeld ideas, King...
The Queen's Gambit Declined. Game doesn't heat up until move 20, right? Not today - GM Dzindzichashvili shows you that some early queen sorties can create dynamic play before either king gets castled. Watch and learn...
The few survivors at this point in IM Danny Rensch's 10-person simul are down to the endgame. Good for them for making it this far, but bad for them that he only has a few games to tackle! Watch and see some tricky ro...
Death Match 23 held such promise - two of the most active and successful players on Chess.com faced off. The first game exploded with a fantastic (and successful!) queen sac. Things were tied up after three games when...
Making her Chess.com debut, FM Alisa Melekhina shows her modesty with a loss against a GM. Her lesson: don't just shuffle your pieces around expecting to draw. Higher-rated players know some secrets for overcoming com...
What happens when you start an attack on the flank without establishing control of the center? That's like putting on your shoes before your socks. It's so basic, even a 10-year-old can understand (OK, OK this is a pr...
Most of us are not professional chess players, and if you are an amateur, this is the show for you! GM Melik Khachiyan teams up with host Josh Sampson to analyze member games of all strengths. Watch this full replay o...
After tackling 2800-level and 1200-level tactics, IM Rensch focuses on the middle level as he tries to work his way back to master level. Watch and hear how he analyzes, using mostly calculation but also much pattern...
