IM Greg Shahade is worried about keeping up with Irina Krush's commentating skills, but IM John Bartholomew gets their confidence back. Today it is the Western Conference in action. When the week ends, several teams h...
Two huge reasons existed for watching the opening matches of week 8. The USCL entered its three-week divisional round-robin to close the season. Also, the introduction of Chess.com's newest commentator and America's f...
GM Sosonko is from Troitsk, but it's GM Finegold who acts like Troitsky in this study-like game from his youth. Though only an FM at the time, Finegold spots a winning tactic, and heads into the endgame an exchange up...
In Part 6, FM Mike Klein was ahead a pawn and broke through on the opposite flank to create his second weakness. Today, he takes an equal position and attempts to win both sides of the board as well. Don't be afraid t...
Next up in WGM Abrahamyan's all-things-French series is the Advance Variation, which goes well with fois gras and is paired with an earthy Bordeaux. While it is not played much at the highest levels, Black must know h...
Five queens on the board by move 20? Is Chess.com featuring games from six-year-olds? Just the opposite - it was from a world champion's game. IM Kiewra also shows his own version of queen multiplicity madness. His ki...
GM Khachiyan channels the advice of his boyhood teacher, GM Tigran Petrosian. What do you think happens when you follow the wisdom of a world champion? You win in style of course. The recent game takes us down a well-...
GM Yermolinsky chronicles the offbeat opening but ultimate success of 2...b6 in the French. GM Tamaz Gelashvili trotted it out in Week 6 of the USCL, developed his pieces harmoniously, then found a crushing breakthrou...
Day 2 of the USCL's week 7. IMs John Barholomew and Greg Shahade are back to show off the Atlantic vs. South Divisions. At day's end, some teams are on the verge of clinching a playoff birth, while others are complete...
Like classic openings? Fan of the Greek Gift sacrifice? Eager to see the Arabian Mate in a real game? All the traditional motifs are present in GM Dzindzi's selection for today's member analysis video. Black gets the...
The Russians are coming! Actually, the Russians are leaving! Watch GM Yermolinsky's final broadcast of the regular season. After week 7, he heads back out on the tournament trail, perhaps trying to get his 56th and 57...
In the three-minute portion of Death Match 18, GM Judit Polgar goes on a run against GM Nigel Short, including one brilliancy where she sacrifices her queen and lines up a brutal discovered attack. She opens up a near...
The scene: Amsterdam, 1989. A grandmaster-in-waiting cuts his teeth against some of Europe's best players. Our protagonist? GM Ben Finegold, who was just a wee lad back then. He begins his series on his youthful encou...
Death Match 18 - our biggest ever! World's best woman, GM Judit Polgar, takes on former World Championship Runner-Up GM Nigel Short. More than 2700 viewers watched as the two titans of chess played 28 games over the t...
In the bullet portion of Death Match 18, GM Judit Polgar tries to protect her lead against GM Nigel Short. He misses mate in one in the second one-minute game, recovers to go on a few mini-runs, but ultimately is unab...
Going for opposite colored bishops out of the opening? Why not? GM Bojkov concludes his series by showing that many openings have this as a possibility, and if you know what you're doing, you can still fight for the w...
The group of players in the 2-5 positions in the world rankings keeps shuffling, flipping and turning over. What's been consistent is the man at the top - GM Magnus Carlsen. Today FM Kavutskiy shows how he handles Que...
Is it a defensive effort or a brilliant counterattack? Either way, GM Joel Benjamin wins another Game of the Week (and Move of the Week!). After the obliteration of his king's safety, Benjamin shirks his monarch's pro...
The Wednesday commentators, IM Greg Shahade and IM John Bartholomew, are back with the second day of Week 6 action in the USCL. Two other gems from the Black pieces occurred - IM Larry Remlinger's sparking exchange sa...
WGM Abrahamyan continues to divulge all of her French secrets! Today she expands upon her great series by showing the "annoying" Tarrasch - 3. Nd2. She focuses on the 3...Be7 system, where White has a few satisfactory...
Week 6 in the USCL, hosted by the regular Tuesday commentators FM Mike Klein and GM Alex Yermolinsky. Among the exciting games, you'll see the blistering attack of GM Tamaz Gelashvili, who easily won Game of the Week...
IM Danny Rensch takes a gallop through the packed week of USCL games, starting with two games in which pieces try to fight against queens. You'll learn how to convert the subtly-difficult queen versus rook ending. Fro...
The Polgar sisters called and Chess.com answered! As part of the Polgar Chess Festival, the best and brightest young players from Hungary played a two-game mini-match against their American counterparts. The time cont...
The twin IMs - Greg Shahade and Victor Shen - commentate on USCL Week 3 action, where some teams try to continue to stay perfect (like San Francisco, Dallas and Miami), while others just try to earn their first win (l...
Having explained all the ins and outs of OCB middlegames and endgames, today GM Bojkov shows a pair of examples where the winning side transitions to the OCB position. Often this means trading for your opponent's knig...
