Three pawns vs a Rook, and several blunders to go with it! GM Khachiyan continues today with another "quickie" filled with mistakes for your entertainment. It isn't all a laugh though, as Melik makes some very instruc...
"Perhaps the strongest player in the history of chess who never became World Champion", is on Dzindzi's docket for the second time today. Here we see two examples of Bronstein's fierce calculation abilities: First, a...
Our featured video author for the month of June starts us off with a bang! FM Elliot Liu makes his triumphant return with a video that guarantees to leave you wondering, "is chess really that simple?" Elliot's well-sp...
Shanky's only loss in the preliminary rounds of the 2011 US Championship came at the hands of the "Shabinator" -- and it wasn't pretty! However, Sam's honest and forthcoming review of his missteps and "immature approa...
If you've enjoyed GM Dzindzichashvili's series on the subject of our great predecessors, then you'll be excited to know that someone else just joined the party! Today GM Dejan Bojkov brings us the first in a lengthy s...
After all your hard work learning the Lasker Defense in GM Khachiyan's previous videos, it all gets thrown away by another Super-GM! Today Melik continues his series displaying the typical mistakes made by the world's...
Grandmaster Melik Khachiyan wasn't the only one who learned a thing or two from former World Champion Tigran Petrosian. Roman Dzindzichashvili had as much respect for Petrosian off the chess board as on it, and he wil...
First surprise? Sam's opponent Larry Christiansen played a relatively unambitious strategy -- planning to trade everything off on the a-file for equality. Second surprise? Larry C then abandoned that plan -- reverting...
To bring his latest installment of three videos in this series to a close, Alex reviews one of his own games. After an interesting transposition out of the opening, and instructive reasoning by the young GM, the game...
Alert: We have a prison break! Today GM Bojkov highlights the brilliant, and then not-so-brilliant, play by GMs Sergey Erenburg and Timur Gareev from the Berkeley International earlier this year. The critical features...
Today we witness a battle between two Chess.com Video Authors from this year's US Championship. Unfortunately for one, it was one of the worst (or at least quickest) losses of his career. IM Sam Shankland begins a new...
When the "Iron Tiger" cracked a smile, Reshevsky knew he was in for it! Actually, Petrosian's brilliant exchange sacrifice took the American champion by complete surprise. See another "personal review" of a classic Pe...
"Look up, our only real enemy can come from the skies..." - former World Champion, Vassily Smyslov. GM Roman Dzindzichashili continues his video series on the greatest chess players in history by reviewing two great g...
You have learned the ways of the advanced d5-pawn Queenside space advantage... You have seen the power of the advanced e5-pawn Kingside space advantage lead to devastating attacks... Now it is time your master, courte...
The youngest master in the United States "plays the role" of David in this epic upset, with the detailed review coming from GM Melik Khachiyan. As he has done in the past, Melik finds the hidden gems from the game of...
In today's video, Grandmaster Dejan Bojkov reviews a game by one Nana Dzagnidze. After sacrificing an exchange, her pieces gained super powers and they never looked back! This interesting demonstration provides proof...
One week later... IM Sam Shankland brings you the second installment of his game vs IM Mandiza! Once again, no stone is left unturned in this interesting and very dynamic battle. Did Shanky come out on top in the end,...
He's back! Grandmaster Alex Lenderman brings us part 6 in his video series on the topic of space in chess. Alex's humble recount of his mistakes against GM Robert Hess, both psychological and technical in nature, is i...
Who needs their fix? Check out IM David Pruess's first Live Sessions in over a year. Today David provides us with several instructive games... ok, more like several old fashioned "beat downs" of unsuspecting opponents...
"Tal the Magnificent" was known by many as "the Magician". He inspired a generation of chess players to consider "attacking and sacrificial ideas" intuitively -- an unheard of approach at the time. As Dzindzi explains...
No stone left unturned! Today, soon to be Grandmaster, Sam Shankland brings us a video in the "style of every move explained", attempting to review one of his more recent (and very complex) battles. Listen in on the m...
The concrete version of this story was that white was ahead a piece and winning with best play... but today the "spirit" of the active King overcomes the power of the "physical" pieces! In this incredibly interesting...
This weekend we learn from the best! Grandmaster Melik Khachiyan starts us on a new video series, exposing us to some of the great positional and "deep thinking" principles that his first coach, former World Champion...
In this Amazing Game For Beginners, you learn magic! Tactical magic that is. IM David Pruess reviews another stellar game by the legendary Richard Reti, and as we all know, there is no better way to "get David's juice...
It's Roman's movie, we're all just playing our part! The newest character in his saga? Former World Champion Mikhail Tal. Today Dzindzi sheds new light into the world that is "Mikhail Tal's greatest achievements" with...
