Although the name of this defensive idea may be debatable (is it Lasker's or Philidor's 2nd?), the need to learn it is not! Today Grandmaster Khachiyan provides us with another example of what happens when even the be...
In this "Member Analysis" game review video, Dzindzi holds nothing back! His brutally honest criticisms of each players' moves, as well as their post-game notes, is as entertaining as it is enlightening. See what a "r...
By popular request from our members, we are introducing more videos designed to cover the basics of chess principles and patterns. FIDE Master Elliot Liu gets us started by displaying the very simple, yet very importa...
Grandmaster Dejan Bojkov continues his video series describing how to effectively use the different types of "piece couples" in chess. Today he moves on from the rooks and bishops to discuss the most powerful "attacki...
Here GM Melik Khachiyan reviews a game in which two of the world's best players -- in the 19th century mind you -- drastically, and comically misplayed a well-known rook ending. The principles of black's "easy" draw s...
In today's video, GM Roman Dzindzichashvili proves that even Rybka can mis-evaluate an endgame! In an exploration of one of his older games, Dzindzi brilliantly sacrifices a pawn to transition into a favorable knight...
Today GM Dejan Bojkov teaches several fundamental, and very important, positional concepts about using and trapping bishops. After viewing these three examples from Grandmaster games (including Steinitz and Capablanca...
Grandmaster Khachiyan reviews another one of his own games for our viewing pleasure today! Here we see his extremely interesting, and very dynamic struggle against GM Robert Hess from the US Championship just a couple...
Today "The Dzindzinator" walks us through a "less then stellar" performance in regards to the Middlegame. Both players seemed to miscalculate, mis-evaluate, and simply misplay the two critical stages of the game: The...
IM Mark Ginsburg continues his series on the effectiveness, and sometimes lack thereof, of computer analysis engines. As usual, Mark has done his homework to provide us with some well prepared material. Today's topic...
Today we see a video that specifically explains something IM Danny Rensch has referred to a few times during his Pawn Structure 101 series as "Opening Evolution"... The main idea being that when you understand the str...
In today's video FIDE Master Elliot Liu brings us a game full of, well, craziness! With both black and white's kings starting off in the middle of the board, you would think that it couldn't get much crazier, but you...
Today GM Dzindzi enlightens us with yet another set of highly instructive, and greatly misplayed, endgames! The principles taught here by Roman include important tips about the blockade, knight vs bishop tricks, and p...
If you can forgive Danny for talking too fast at times (and for moving the "wrong rooks" to the "wrong squares") you should still find yourself learning a lot about the Caro-Slav Formation. Today's video lecture revea...
At halftime, Sam was in big trouble. Down two touchdowns, and reeling with an injury to his star player... or something like that! Did IM Shanky keep a cool head under pressure? Was he able to stave off Ehlvest's mult...
In part one of this "game in review" video, IM Sam Shankland analyzes, in great detail, his critical second to last round game against Grandmaster Jaan Ehlvest from the Chicago Open a couple month's ago. As the game d...
Grandmaster Khachiyan show us another example of how black can, and perhaps should, approach the modern Maroczy Bind -- Accelerated Dragon. Today's video lecture is instructive once again in terms of the ideas black c...
Today Roman provides us with another great video lecture on the endgame. The particular lessons of this video focus mainly on the bishops: same color; opposite color; and the transition from those "complex bishop endg...
International Master Daniel Rensch continues his never-ending "Pawn Structure 101" series with another video on the Caro-Slav Formation. Today, he reviews more of black's options when white has made the mistake of tra...
Today Melik Khachiyan reviews his win against Grandmaster Alex Lenderman from the 2010 U.S. Championship. Although the game itself is very instructive and climaxes in a very well-played rook endgame by Melik, the main...
If you are a French Defense player, and you enjoyed International Master Thomas Rendle's first video on this topic, then you have come to the right place! Here we see, in much greater detail, the strengths, as well as...
IM Sam Shankland continues his video series on the topic of "how to win when you are winning" with his second video regarding the conversion of extra material. In today's lecture Sam highlights the "three-step process...
Grandmaster Bojkov follows up his debut video about piece activity with an extremely instructive lecture on "piece couples" in chess. Mainly, the evaluation of Rook and Bishop vs. Rook and Knight comes under close exa...
Grandmaster Melik Khachiyan reviews another classical game between two former world chess champions for our "educational pleasure". Today's featured game is a famous one indeed, and we hope you will find Melik's origi...
IM Sam Shankland is back on the "video making circuit"! This time, Sam describes the necessary approach and required tools of having good technique -- mainly, how to convert your material advantage. Our featured game...
