GM Melik Khachiyan and Amateur Brother Josh takle chess.com member games where Josh asks the questions you want to ask and Melik provides the GM insite. Check out this full replay from March 20.
Tired of seeing grandmasters take their advantage to the endgame? FM Kavutskiy has the cure. Today he shows four checkmates in the middlegame, all from the same elite tournament. The queens are ditching their dresses...
In between a Salov and an MVL you have an Ivanchuk, who's actually a player that has spanned several generations. GM Finegold shows him tear apart Svidler's cherished Grunfeld Defense, then Chucky terrorizes another G...
A piece for three pawns - one of the hardest positions to analyze properly in chess. Along with queen against two rooks and two minors for rook and two pawns, the imbalance can be difficult to digest. Enter Houdini -...
Take a lesson in the “old school” of chess with GM Alex Yermolinsky as he starts a trip though the chess world beginning with none other than Paul Keres. Enjoy this full replay of GM Yermolinksy’s li...
Want to know more about the Two Knights Defense? How about some king and pawn endgames? The amateur asks the questions and the GM responds - that's the beauty of Melik and Me. Brother Josh is walked through the paces...
"You're good enough, you're smart enough, and doggone it, people like Danny." Today he raised his Tactics Trainer rating more than 600 points in 30 minutes. Wouldn't it be nice if your Chess.com rating went up that qu...
How often is the position relatively stable, yet the winning move is h3!? Watch and see what GM Harikrishna forsaw well in advance - that his brilliant avalanche against GM Nakamura's king would only work if he first...
A smörgåsbord of chess games and puzzles today come to you from FM Klein, all with one theme - the lady doesn't dance. You'll see underpromotion compositions, two cases in the same game, and a recent Super-GM example....
"It's always nice to see 2700s beating the snot out of each other!" says our video author, FM Kavutskiy. Today he shows more tactical highlights from this year's Tata Steel Tournament. The games remind a little bit of...
Want a unique system against the Closed Sicilian? No longer do you have to just drop knights into d4. GM Khachiyan shows that leaving the long dark-squared diagonal open can restrain all of White's queenside pieces. T...
Unless you've been under a rock, you know that GM Hikaru Nakamura has been playing on Chess.com for a few weeks. Today his games are front and center, as he takes on all challengers while IM Danny Rensch commentates l...
GM Williams shows the first game her ever played against the Budapest Gambit, some 10 years ago. He played the somewhat offbeat e4 and got advanced pawns and better development in return for his fractured structure....
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 French number one mimics Ben's other favorite player, Paul Morphy, by bringing all of the rese...
GM Dzindzichashvili breaks out the big guns, or rather machines, to show us some dynamic lines in the French Defense. First Black offers a piece for active play, then White returns the favor on the opposite wing. But...
Super GM Hikaru Nakamura starts the party off by taking on several of the best bullet players on our site: YaacovN, gmjoey, medinapaz and many others get a crack at America's best player! Playing one game after anothe...
In the exciting conclusion of our first "Nakamura's Knockouts" show, Hikaru opens the door to take on all challengers! He plays members rated from 900 to 2100, winning in amazing fashion multiple times. IM Rensch not...
FM Kavutskiy brings the yin and the yang today - a positional masterpiece and a tactical melee. GMs Aronian and Nakamura were the two winners. Can you guess who played which game? OK enough with the easy questions. Wa...
The TT - not just a sports car from Audi! Today IM Danny Rensch goes into the belly of the beast and solves Tactics Trainer puzzles live. You'll get to hear his stream of consciousness as he attempts to find the right...
Watch the highlights of the "Best match in history" as commentators IM Rensch and GM Finegold put it. The two opponents, GMs Meier and Balog, qualified during December's open competition, and today they showed why. Wi...
Any time a top grandmaster plays ...g5 on move four, that's a game worth watching (it moves to g4 soon after!). Thank you GM Jobava! Our author GM Simon Williams brings his British brogue back to show off his man-crus...
Do tactics serve positional chess or the other way around? Probably both, as GM Alex Yermolinsky argues in the first part of his new series on modern chess. Instead of analyzing more Magnus Carlsen games, he looks at...
Can't get a private lessons from a grandmaster? Actually, yes you can! Watch GM Khachiyan teach his student on Chess.com TV! Don't worry about being a wallflower - sit in on the lesson and learn from the best!
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 know the Seven Elements of Evaluation. Just like the pyramids, they've stood the test of time. Ho...
Have you ever had that dream where you're being chased, and no matter how fast you go, you never outrun the danger? GM Dzindzichashvili's latest video leaves the black king in a similar predicament. White offers a que...
