Today GM Shankland kicks off a new series, reviewing his recent games from the Pan-American Team Championship! Shanky does an excellent job of explaining the basic and general themes of the modern Najdorf, before he l...
Today Chess.com members take their first steps toward achieving "full board nirvana"! IM Rensch provides the critical first steps chess players must take in order to establish strong visualization skills and calculati...
Along with his current coverage of the great, late Jose Raul Capablanca - GM Bojkov kicks off his series covering the incredible player and person Svetozar Gligoric. An orphan from an early age, Gligoric lost many yea...
Today Melik continues his series on the different process and approaches one can take to "solve" tricky, critical positions. He focuses on how to calculate logically and use "process of elimination" calculation techni...
Enjoy this instructive example of why you must always calculate accurately, and not let the emotions of "who you are playing" have any role in your evaluations or approach. GM Lenderman is back as a featured author th...
It's been a while, but IM Daniel Rensch is back today with a Live Session for your viewing pleasure! Danny plays into the black side of a well-known variation of the Hedgehog System, patiently striving to achieve equa...
To bring his debut series to an end, GM Mikahlevski reviews his win over GM Akobian that led to him earning a Best Game Prize at the Gibraltar tournament in 2011. Once again, Victor makes a "long term" sacrifice, with...
In the exciting conclusion of this monumentally important game for the young Sam Shankland's career, we get to see white slowly work his way back from a slightly worse ending, to one of equality, to an endgame where h...
FIDE Master Kavutskiy brings his contribution to the Beauty & Entertainment series to a close today with a video lecture that includes many practical solutions, and logical reasoning skills. He highlights what the cor...
At the crucial stage in his career, Capablanca and his predecessor weren't getting along that well, but their chess games were a cooperative creation of beauty! Here we see a classic battle between these two legends,...
In part 2 Grandmaster Kaidanov gives his recommendations for facing black's 2nd and 3rd most popular moves against the Panov-Botvinnik Attack. He discusses 5...g6 and 5...Nc6, suggesting the slightly "less traveled ro...
Here Melik provides two final examples from the recent Tata Steel Super-GM Tourney in the Netherlands. Rather than highlighting bad technique as he did in part 2, here he focuses on where these strong GMs could have i...
IM Rensch breaks down this well-known, theoretically driven opening (The Sicilian Dragon) not by focusing on all the complex variations available, but rather, explaining the evolution of those lines by revealing the p...
In perhaps the defining moment of his career (or at least one of them) a young Sam Shankland took down one of the world's top talents to claim a tie for first at the 2008 World Youth Chess Championships. Here he revea...
Losing for a second time to an eerily similar idea happens... but falling for the same long term, positional sacrifice to the same opponent? Here GM Mikhalevski takes his opponent to school a second time with a simila...
Today FM Kostya focuses on the theme of domination! Highlighting how creative, and sometimes brilliant ideas can occur when your pieces dominate your opponent's in terms of activity and total power, even in cases when...
In his next installment, GM Khachiyan reviews the games Nakamura-Sokolov and Hao-Anand. He highlights instructive moments regarding Zugzwang, when to setup "goals" within you endgame plans, and how to avoid traps and...
In what would become one of the most infamous maneuvers/decisions of his career, Capablanca played the surprising retreat 10... Bd7! against Janowski, shocked the world, and went onto completely outplay his opponent w...
Today Roman reviews another great game from one of his all time favorite people... and chess players! Roman has more Efim Geller stories than most, so stick around for the post game chat. Until then, enjoy one of the...
Is it really that easy? GM Kaidanov brings us another great video in his now long running series designed to help you build a comprehensive, yet "manageable" opening repertoire! He recommends slightly rare lines in or...
By popular request from our members, today we launch a mini-series designed to review the many instructive, and, at times, many "mis-played" endgames from the recent Tata Steel Super GM Tourney in the Nether...
Active-Positional. Strategical use of the Initiative. Dynamic and Modern. These are the terms used to describe the play of Paul Keres who, in Roman's eyes, is one of the most amazing natural talents ever to play the g...
It's on! Apparently what happens in Vegas, doesn't always stay there! In this exciting battle between two good friends and training partners, GM Shankland vs GM Hammer, we witness a sharp struggle full of interesting...
Our second featured author making his Chess.com debut today is Grandmaster Victor Mikhalevski! In this mini series he reviews the power of the long term sacrifice. He explains how to judge long term compensation, espe...
One of our regular YouTube Authors makes his "main site" video lecture debut today by contributing to one of our most popular, longest running series! FIDE Master Kavutskiy enjoys long walks on the beach, candlelight...
