GM Melik Khachiyan reviews his game against fellow Video Author, FIDE Master Elliot Liu, from the US Open last month in Los Angeles. When Liu surprises Grandmaster Khachiyan with his opening choice, Melik decides to s...
Monday morning quarterback...we mean game review! Today IM Shankland continues on his mission to show us the critical moments of his epic US Junior Championship comeback. After beating FM Bryant (last video) in the wi...
Listening in on Grandmaster Kaidanov's "post game analysis pearls" and the self-critical views taken towards his own mistakes, is pure "chess candy"!!! Recognizing a negative pattern in his approach to the game of che...
Today International Master Sam Shankland continues with "post-mortem" coverage of his epic comeback at this year's US Junior Championship. After starting off with two losses (the second of which was reviewed in the fi...
In hindsight, playing so many "Live Sessions", it was only a matter of time before the inevitable happened: A Mouse Slip! After playing an interesting first game, in which he blows an attack with a blunder but holds o...
Featured in Grandmaster Roman Dzindzichashvili's video lecture today is an effective, practical, and easy to learn "Opening System" against the ultra-solid Caro-Kann Defense. Roman may have "lost the battle" to Karpov...
Today Grandmaster Melik Khachiyan reviews his first ever win in the United State Chess League. This game features two of America's best in our own Melik Khachiyan and GM Dmitry Gurevich. The game starts off in a Class...
This weekend we work on our technique! IM Sam Shankland reviews a recent Super GM battle between Naiditsch and Kramnik in which the former world champion sacrifices a piece for attacking chances and tremendous practic...
With this new "running-video-series", our authors plan to display some of the more beautiful and fundamentally vital ideas for a beginner's understanding and chess improvement. Today, IM Pruess covers an important "cl...
In today's video, International Master Rensch explains in detail what happened in one of the better games of chess he has ever played. His win over WFM Abrahamyan earned him Game of the Week honors in the United State...
International Master Thomas Rendle continues his video series on the recent and topical variations of the French Defense. As he transitions into one of the more popular sidelines for black (3...Nc6) -- he displays an...
In today's lecture, Grandmaster Dejan Bojkov brings us the second installment in his video series about the "actual" value of the chess pieces. Here we see several incredible examples of when large material deficits a...
GM Dzindzi doesn't take game analysis lightly... is one way to put it! In today's video, Roman has a lot of fun reviewing a game between two Chess.com members. He critiques the bad development, lack of "consistent" pl...
IM Rensch loses his way right out of the opening against the Fried Liver Attack. When Danny makes the decision to avoid the most "topical" variations and take his opponent "out of the comfort zone" -- his choice begin...
After providing in depth variations and great advice for black against the Tarrasch French, IM Thomas Rendle now attempts to tackle the "Main Line" 3.Nc3 French variations. However, rather then spending the significan...
GM Melik Khachiyan finds more instructive concepts from his own games and shares them with us in today's video! Here he takes the black pieces against IM Walter Shipman at the US Open just a few weeks ago. After a sli...
After getting off to a rough start at this year's US Junior Championships, IM Sam Shankland was somehow able to find his stride... Was his game with FM Warren Harper the first "step in the right direction" or was he u...
IM Daniel Rensch brings us the climax of the Caro-Slav Formation in his Pawn Structure 101 video series this weekend. His summary focuses on a couple new ideas he hasn't displayed yet, as well as a "tying together" of...
GM Gregory Kaidanov brings us the second installment in his video series designed to "Improve Your Chess"! Here we see a much more practical example, stemming from one of the most important games of his chess career.....
Grandmaster Melik Khachiyan brings us a game in which he used a dominate structure and space advantage to create favorable tactics. When his young opponent, FM Tatev Abrahamyan, miscalculates his response (fxg3) -- th...
IM Rensch struggles to find an edge of any kind in today's Live Sessions video. Did he miss his opportunity by choosing a "non-dynamic" approach in the opening? Was his opponent's play solid enough to stave off any so...
IM Sam Shankland is back, and today he continues his video series on the topic of technique. Though there were several instructional moments in this game between Gelfand and Ponomariov, Sam places special emphasis on...
Grandmaster Gregory Kaidanov makes his return to the Chess.com Video Authors "club" by debuting his new series: How To Improve Your Chess! With the first in this sequence of videos designed to help you develop critica...
Today Roman continues with his second "Member Analysis" video this week by taking a detailed look at how amateur players transition from the Opening to the Middlegame. In particular, he stresses the difference between...
IM Rensch continues to brings us the immensely popular "Live Sessions" videos in which we get a rare glimpse inside the "mid-game" thought process of an International Master. Today, we see an even more exciting versio...
