Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the Dortmund super-GM tournament and smashed through the 2800 rating barrier to become number-two in the world. How did MVL do it? IM Daniel Rensch analyzes the fascinating Najdorf Sicilia...
GM Dejan Bojkov brings you another incredible game by Dawid Janowski. This game, played near the end of his career, might well have been his greatest triumph, but in the crowning moment, a single misstep lets victory...
World championship preview? Carlsen absolutely wrecks Karjakin with a ridiculous g-file battery. IM Daniel Rensch has your full analysis.
IM Rensch takes on "The Lizard" in another round of Man vs Machine at material odds! He starts off playing with Queens odds but its blitz so who know what kind of craziness will happen on the board! But it really come...
Call Of The Wild is back as IM Daniel Rensch plays none other GM Nakamura and GM MVL! in Chess.com's new wild variants including Chess960, King of the Hill, 3 Check and of course Crazyhouse! Its a ton of fun and some...
In the 40th episode of ChessCenter, we review the highlights after round one in Bilbao, where Hikaru Nakamura beat Magnus Carlsen. As WFM Alexandra Botez makes her debut, the team also checks in with Maxime Vachier-La...
World Champion Magnus Carlsen put a tremendous hurting on Wesley So in the Berlin Defense and forced capitulation in only 26 moves in round four of the Blibao Masters. Watch GM Simon Williams analysis of the game, and...
The world chess champion Magnus Carlsen bounced back today to score a win over GM Wei Yi in round two of the Bilbao Chess Masters Final. GM Simon Williams gives you the full play-by-play and analysis.
Hikaru Nakamura won his first classical game over the world chess champion Magnus Carlsen in the first round of the Bilbao Chess Masters Final. International Master Danny Rensch analyzes the game with a little help fr...
The legendary Polish master, Dawid Janowski, could never be accused of cowardly play. In this video, GM Dejan Bojkov shows you how he used an audacious exchange sacrifice to topple Emanuel Lasker, the second world cha...
Playing the elite grandmaster, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Shankland is confronted with a tricky and threatening pawn advance. Can you accurately assess the threats and find the best course of action?
Who will win the 2016 Bilbao Masters chess tournament? With heavyweights like Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura in the mix, this is one tournament worth following. The ChessCenter team has a special preview.
Call Of The Wild is back as IM Daniel Rensch plays Chess.com members in Chess.com's new wild variants including Chess960, King of the Hill, 3 Check and of course Crazyhouse! Its a ton of fun and some great educational...
The ChessCenter team reflects on a wild month in chess and chooses the best and worst moments of June. Don't miss a look ahead to the game's best this summer, including matches with Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura.
IM Danny Kopec was for decades a beloved and respected teacher and player in the U.S. chess community. Chess.com's Mike Klein honors his death in 2016 by presenting his self-titled Kopec system in the Sicilian and div...
GM Sam Shankland is back to show you how to handle your opponent's threats. In this video he demonstrates the correct way to suppress counterplay from GM Sam Sevian who puts up tough resistance in a rook and opposite-...
Properly responding to an opponent's threat is one of the most difficult balancing acts in the game of chess. GM Sam Shankland shows you the myriad ways one may respond to a threat and discusses how he failed to prope...
Back for 4th and final round vs the lizard, GM Perelshteyn tries to beat Komodo after another funky piece sac opening! Will it be enough for mankind to have an extra piece as black against the stongest engine of all t...
GM Georg Meier returns with another in-depth look at the Catalan opening and the dominant ideas for both White and Black. Learn how quickly taking queenside space can be the determining factor of which side emerges...
GM Simon Williams continues his series on the greatest piece maneuvers of all time with a shocking knight maneuver played by Fischer in a five-minute game. Williams then presents one of his own games where he outplaye...
The knight is the trickiest piece in chess, so it's no surprise that some of the most famous moves involve this unorthodox piece. But what was the best knight maneuver of all time? "Spicy" GM Simon Williams returns w...
GM Dejan Bojkov brings you two miniatures from David Janowski, a single-minded attacking daredevil. How did Janowski attack? With all his pieces, with haste, and without compromise!
Magnus Carlsen won the Leuven Grand Chess Tour rapid and blitz, and then capped off a great month by absolutely destroying GM Tigran Petrosian in their semifinal GM Blitz Battle match. Find out how he did it on this w...
In her final video from the Reykjavik Open, WGM Tatev Abrahamyan has plenty of new test positions for you to solve. Match wits with the tournament leaders as they demonstrate the attacking, positional, and endgame ski...
The match we've all be waiting for! World Champion Magnus Carlsen takes on the Chess.com Grandmaster Blitz Battle Championship qualifier GM Tigran Petrosian. While the result was one-sided, the action is fantastic, w...
