GM Khachiyan provides his own instructive take on a famous Isolated Queen Pawn position. Highlighting how to improve your calculation skills, and where to avoid common pitfalls, Melik reveals white's best approach in...
Sometimes you just need one game to go your way, and you can turn an entire tournament around! GM Dejan Bojkov takes a break from reviewing the great masters of the past, to review some of his own great games. As he p...
Part 3 of GM Kaidanov's latest video series on the Alapin continues today with more great examples of IQP attacking potential! He provides several examples from the games of GM Vajda, and points out many of the common...
David's recommended theories for how to get the most out of your "self evaluations" and studies continues today! IM Pruess provides slightly more advanced examples when compared to his first installment, and focuses o...
After missing a complicated tactical shot from his opponent right out of the opening, IM Danny Rensch finds himself relying on accurate calculation and the "hope" of a better dynamic future for his pieces! If this kin...
GM Shankland reviews a game from recent tournament play against a fellow Chess.com Contributor. The game highlights many key positional factors in the dynamic "Hanging Pawn" structures that tend to occur in the Nimzo/...
Though part 3 premieres more than a few weeks after the previous video, the game reviewed and variation covered could not be more topical! Just a few days after GM Dzindzichashvili recommended 5...Qb6 as "his" line, G...
Today Grandmaster Khachiyan begins a new series on the subject of concrete, accurate calculation and how important it is to have this approach when trying to convert and advantage. Often when your opponent has pressur...
Chess players develop many good "critical thinking" skills as they continue to improve. Perhaps none more important or useful than the ability to self-assess, self-evaluate, and ultimately, determine what plans of act...
All good things must come to an end. Sadly, perhaps mostly for GM Dejan Bojkov, his coverage of the great Akiba Rubinstein must also have a stopping point. We reach that mark this weekend. No collection of "Dr Rubi's...
After a weird move order, an Accelerated Dragon is reached. IM Rensch then converts his initiative into a small material advantage and expects smooth sailing from there on out... But when his opponent finds the best d...
GM Sam Shankland brings his coverage of the sharp Semi-Slav, Queen's Gambit Declined to a close today by providing an overview of the main line, 6.Bd3 Meran Variation. Though he doesn't dive too deeply into all the co...
GM Dzindzichashvili does it again! This must watch video lecture is amazingly personal and heartfelt. Roman continues to tell his story about one of the greatest, though least known, chess players of all time. He revi...
In part 2, GM Kaidanov reviews the popular 2...d5 variation for black. He highlights the important principals for white to remember while developing into the middlegame, and shows many of the common tactics that can o...
As instructive as it is heartwarming, in this video lecture GM Melik Khachiyan talks about his decision to walk away from high level competition after learning a hard, yet valuable lesson from Grandmaster Alex Shabalo...
Patterns do exist, even in compositions! Don't believe us? Watch International Master Rensch's latest installment to the Beauty and Entertainment series, and you just might. In rapid fire succession, Danny provides yo...
In eerily similar fashion to both Mieses and Steinetz, Schlecter finishes off his opponent with complete domination on the dark-squares, a powerful pony versus a horrific light-square bishop, and the ability to expand...
In this epic King and Pawn Endgame battle, Rubinstein possessed one small, positional advantage on the kingside, and he turned it into a forced win! Realizing how the tiniest of weaknesses can come back to bite you is...
Today GM Sam Shankland gives his recommendations for black in the main line Meran Variation (6.Qc2) of the Semi Slav. He focuses on black's e5-pawn break, the "dos and don'ts" of that idea, when it works out to a draw...
Today you will learn two of Danny's three most important lessons for life... and some chess too! IM Rensch continues this ongoing video series with several extremely difficult, and deep composition puzzles for our mem...
The long awaited sequel arrives just in time for another Chess.com Video Author to bring you black's perspective next month! Players who enjoyed Roman's take on the 5.h3 Variation of the Pirc Defense have more to sink...
Grandmaster Khachiyan moved into the last round of the 2012 Western States Open in a massive tie for first place. Where did that leave him? In a must win situation! Realizing his opponent was likely fatigued from the...
FM Liu concludes this month's Amazing Games series with a two part video reviewing one of Carl Schlecter's greatest achievements! At the early turn of the 20th century, few could grind down an opponent with the positi...
With good reason, most players who aren't, well, chess professionals, would prefer to avoid the many complicated variations of the Open Sicilian. So what are your options? As GM Kaidanov explains, you have one major w...
Is chess really that easy? Akiba Rubinstein achieves a simple, positional advantage, trades down, goes right into a nearly dead equal Rook Ending, and somehow wins with ease... Again! As GM Bojkov explains, Dr. Akiba...
