The conclusion to the opening round games of the 2013 Sinquefield Cup. Two winners emerged from the pair of games, but in two very different ways. One was the conclusion to a positional grind, while the other featured...
GM Hikaru Nakamura led the first Sinquefield Cup at the halfway point, but GM Magnus Carlsen was not far behind. Gm Levon Aronian and GM Gata Kamsky were hoping that the baseball game they took in on the day off would...
Clear your head before this one, as GM Kaidanov fills your weekend with a video compilation jam-packed with examples of bishops against knights. The name of the game is pawn structure, and you'd better be focusing on...
Determined not to lose a worse position, GM Khachiyan shows his resolve by using the full complement of his arsenal. First he uses some fork tactics, then he activates his limited army, then he uses some stalemate tri...
Grab a venti coffee and settle in chess fans. The sprightly IM Danny Rensch covers a half-dozen of the U.S. Chess League's most dynamic positions from the opening week of the season. You'll see all of the Game of the...
Carlsen wins with such minute precision that sometimes it may seem magical. Here, a pair of his games is examined, and in both he eschews complications in favor of small endgame advantages. FM Kavutskiy shows that he...
The second part of week 2 USCL action once again has the tandem of BrotherJosh and IM John Bartholomew. The entire Western Conference battles each other. At the end of the day, several teams move to 2-0, while others...
GM Alex Yermolinsky makes his Chess.com debut by highlighting the US Chess League Game of the Week winner for the opening matches. Here the top players for New Jersey and New York treat the fifth rank like the Hudson...
FM Mike Klein and IM Greg Shahade both make their Chess.com USCL broadcasting debut. You'll hear their prognostications and see at the end who was right. You'll also get a second chance for Greg's famous trivia (thoug...
After a seemingly innocent pawn-grab by GM Mikhalevski's opponent, White suffers for the the rest of the game. His undeveloped pieces continue to struggle against the pressure, and although he survived until the endga...
You heard it here first members: the h4 variation of the Grunfeld will be refuted soon! Do we have the refutation? Almost! GM Dzindzi opens his vault once again and shows us the early thrust is just a paper tiger. The...
Look up - is that an anvil on a cliff above your head? If cartoon characters have a sense of danger, so should you! GM Kaidanov will help you cultivate this necessary skill so you'll see bad things happening to you be...
Are you OCD about OCBs? GM Bojkov is here with your daily prescription: take three beautiful endgame wins and call him in the morning. A trio of perfectly executed rook and bishop endings show that mate is possible ev...
Take the teeth out of your opponent's aggression by calmly playing ...c5 against the Four Pawns Attack. GM Perelshteyn continues his explanation by giving the main plans against the d5 response. He shows how a savvy s...
The rest of the USCL teams play their opening matches in the 9th season of action. This time IM John Bartholomew and Brother Josh are joined live by special guests IM Danny Rensch and FM Mike Klein, reporting live fro...
One of the hardest imbalances in chess to gauge is queen for two rooks. In a recent game from the World Open, GM Mikhalevski amazingly had the chance to get two rooks for the queen in a winning position, but instead c...
The season kickoff show! The United States Chess League (USCL) begins anew with its 9th Season. Everyone is on equal footing, and IM John Bartholomew and Brother Josh are here to get you going. They cover all the tact...
Captain obvious here with some questions: Do you like crazy sacrifices that lead to mate? Do you like the excitement of the knockout matches in the World Cup? Do you like to learn chess while trying to guess IM Danny...
Continuing his series on the lessons, both on and off the board, Melik draws from his own games this weekend, he reviews a more dynamic struggle he had from a recent tournament that did not feature the GM in his best...
From child prodigy to world number three right before our eyes: GM Gregory Kaidanov, former coach of GM Fabiano Caruana, discusses his student's one childhood weakness and the long process of overcoming it. Caruana's...
Want to see a Super-GM resign in a drawn position? It happens from time to time, and today it happens on Chess.com. Expanding his incisive series on opposite colored bishop endings, GM Bojkov examines a handful of pos...
Calling it "one of the most instructive games" that he has analyzed for Chess.com, GM Dzindzi examines all the fireworks, real and imagined, from a member game. Black makes the brave and frankly mistaken decision to o...
After tackling the classical setup against the King's Indian Defense, GM Perelshteyn highlights an easy setup against the Four Pawns Attack. He advocates for an early ...c5, wasting no time going after White's provoc...
Action movies usually end with the main actor trying to decide which wire to cut as the bomb ticks down to zero. Here IM Danny Rensch races against a similar clock - the Chess.com server shutdown! He channels his inne...
GM Viktor Mikhalevski plays against a topical anti-Grunfeld setup that even Nakamura just essayed at the 2013 FIDE World Cup. But unlike in Norway, Black takes over the initiative early, and gets the strongest bishops...
