Nothing much to know in the Exchange Variation, right? Wrong. Watch French aficionado WGM Tatev Abrahmyan (who just secured a third IM norm) show you the intricate maneuvering required of the deceptive opening. White...
The crime: Bringing the queen out too early. The setting: f3. The motive: Attacking down the long diagonal. But Grandmaster Sheriff Dzindzichashvili shows the the swift hand of justice should have been meted out by Bl...
Three stalemate traps for your viewing pleasure today. The first is a study, the second is a recent game and the third is just mind-boggling. Well, it can't really be mind-boggling since neither of the players in the...
Watch the complete show dedicated to the opening blitz tournament of the Zurich Chess Challenge. The top three scorers are awarded with more Whites than Blacks in the classical event. Carlsen, Aronian, Nakamura, Carua...
The rout is on! Wait, not it's not! GM Daniel Fridman played faster in the opening two hours of Death Match 20 and opened up a decent lead going into the bullet segment. Shulman then wakes up, accelerates his play, an...
In-between move. Intermediate move. Zwischenzug. Intermezzo. You pick the language, and let GM Kaidanov pick the positions. Today, four hard-to-see in-between moves - two middlegames and two endgames. In several posit...
Poor Vishy. Only a few weeks after losing the world championship in front of a billion countrymen, he travels to London and gets massacred by the man whom he beat in their 2008 match - Vladimir Kramnik. But wait, this...
Sometimes the teacher just can't hide his reactions! GM Dzindzi has more than subtle criticism for both sides in this Member Analysis game. His critique ranges from disdainful to vitriolic, especially when White plays...
Three games in 15 minutes! The Chigorin is spicier than a chili pepper. GM Finegold shows how he uses this occasional weapon to get imbalanced positions against lower-rated foes. You'll learn some theory, some importa...
Losses are painful but losses are also lessons. Today GM Khachiyan flips the tables on his "Handling the French" series. He shows how his decision to avoid a theoretical move cost him in the French. GM Vinay Bhat star...
How far can preparation get you? Well, certain GMs play 40 moves and win entire games from preparation. Today you'll see an amateur player get an advantage from his homework. But GM Bojkov's big warning - careful simp...
Should you analyze the games of lower-rated players? GM Dzindzi does, and he used to compete against world champions! Even our lecturer benefitted form today's game. The lesson? Speed kills, or rather, lack thereof. B...
White has a plethora of formations against the Scheveningen, so IM Ginsburg first tackles the lesser-quality options 6. Bg5 and 6. f4. He doesn't hold these moves in high esteem. Against the former, Black chucks some...
Two decades of Death Matches on Chess.com!? No, not really. The monthly matches are about two years old. Today you'll see two men, GM Yury Shulman and GM Daniel Fridman, linked by their wives - they're both married to...
In part 2 of Death Match 20, one of the players "pitches a shutout." That's right, one GM doesn't lose a single game in this hour. Watch and see who dominated the 3-minute portion and took a sizable lead into the bullet.
GM Shulman makes a run and chops into GM Daniel Fridman's lead, but is it too little, too late? Anything is possible when 12-14 bullet games are played back-to-back-to-back. Watch and see if history is made!
Stalemates aren't just for kids, dear viewers. IM Kiewra's series returns with a trio of "alternate endings." The first trick is pleasant. The second is radical. The third example is simply epic. Both sides are sacrif...
Things that make GM Finegold happy: 1) Active pieces; 2) The Qc2 Variation of the Nimzo-Indian; 3) Killer rooks that move so many times you forget which rook started on which side of the board. Watch him beat two stro...
Finally - the main line Max Lange arrives! But, two problems. Firstly, White only garners a small advantage if Black plays properly. Secondly, Black can avoid the Max Lange whenever he wishes! Because there are other...
Do you like it when grandmasters get to checkmate each other? Yeah, we thought so. Today we feature two devastating attacks from White on the black king. The first is a straightforward but aesthetically pleasing tacti...
Complete Show of Death Match #2
Playing the same opponent in the same line countless times can either be tedious or revelatory. For GM Khachiyan, he jumped at the chance to go down a well-trodden path with fellow Californian GM Sevillano. Our author...
We continue with our "theme" of pet lines in the King's Indian, but this time it's White's turn to surprise. GM Finegold shows a pair of games with an early Bf4, a move that "you are sure to know better than your oppo...
What do you get when you mix an FM, a GM, and four of the top players in the world? You get the Sinquefield Cup, the highest-rated tournament in history, brought to you by FM Kostya Kavutskiy and GM Dejan Bojkov. In t...
We've got brownies as ersatz rooks, knife-wielding chess players, and some occasional chess analysis thrown in as well from NM Dan Heisman's Q & A TV show. If you didn't watch it live, just watch the wide array of que...
