GM Sam Shankland, fresh off nine straight draws, needed a victory in the recently completed Tata Steel tournament. All he had to do was not get checkmated first. After a Classical French Defense (Burn Variation), t...
GM Sam Shankland continues his battle with the Dutch legend Jan Timman in the Tata Steel super tournament. Picking right up where he left off in the late middlegame, GM Shankland explains his thinking in a truly wild...
How important is it to pay attention? In chess, it’s everything. In this member-game analysis, GM Roman Dzindzichashvili demonstrates the perils that accompany a lack of concentration, no matter what the level of pl...
GM Alex Yermolinsky cashed in the recently completed North American Open after 10 months without playing any serious chess. Learn how he did it in this new series as GM Yermo reviews selected games move-by-move. Aga...
Take a lesson in the “old school” of chess with GM Alex Yermolinsky. He continues his discussion of the great World Championship matches; this time between Petrosian and Spassky. Enjoy this full replay of...
Take a lesson in the “old school” of chess with GM Alex Yermolinsky as he brings you back to the dark era of the Cold War for some world championship analysis. GM Yermolinsky teaches you about the era of Soviet ches...
GM Sam Shankland faces off with the legendary Dutch grandmaster Jan Tinman on his home turf in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. After starting the Tata Steel challengers tournament with three draws, Shankland is in the...
Who better to learn the Carlsbad pawn structure from than the great Mikhail Tal? GM Melikset Khachiyan continues his series on the Carslbad structure with an enlightening game from the former world champion. Learn...
Melik & Me: Complete Show from 1-29-15 GM Melik Khachiyan and Chess.com’s Shaun McCoy begin a new episode of the Melik & Me show. GM Khachiyan reviews Shaun’s game to get inside the mind of an intermediate player an...
Garry Kasparov is universally considered one of the finest chess tacticians of all time, and for good reason. GM Dejan Bojkov begins a new series on Kasparov’s greatest combinations, and you won’t want to miss these...
When is it theoretically correct to sacrifice your queen early in the game? FM Mike Klein shows you six opening lines that allow — and sometimes require— you to give away your queen for a greater goal. Learn how to...
You’ve seen GM Simon Williams’ crazy gambits against the Sicilian, the Caro-Kann, and the King’s Pawn defenses, but what is there to do against the French, perhaps Black’s most solid response to e4? Don’t worry — the...
GM Alex Yermolinksy and GM Robert Hess team up to bring you the highlights of rounds nine and ten from the Tata Steel supertournament in Wijk aan Zee. Enjoy the most exciting games and the best moves from these criti...
Is sending your queen on a kamikaze mission a good idea? GM Roman Dzindzichashvili doesn’t think so. In this member-game analysis, GM Dzindzichashvili explains that when your opponent has a bad plan, you shouldn’t t...
GM Alex Yermolinksy and GM Robert Hess team up to bring you the highlights of rounds nine and ten from the Tata Steel supertournament in Wijk aan Zee. Enjoy the most exciting games and the best moves from these critic...
When can rooks defeat a queen? FM Mike Klein shows you five exciting games where a queen sacrifice proved that sometimes, the rooks are better. Learn this explosive theme from some of the best players in the world:...
The Carlsbad is a popular topic on Chess.com, and GM Melikset Khachiyan chimes in with an instructive lesson on the opening system from another Harry Nelson Pillsbury game. Even though this game was played more than...
Are you tired of boring chess? Had your fill of “positional rubbish”? GM Simon Williams would like to introduce you to what he calls the Delayed Wing Gambit against Black’s Sicilian Defense. Has GM Williams finally...
IM Thomas Rendle and John Sargent host Chess.com’s highlights show from the 2015 Tata Steel supertournament in Wijk aan Zee. Enjoy the best action from rounds five to eight in this full replay of the live show.
GM Roman Dzindzichashvili is having “knight-mares” about unrealized plans in this member-game analysis. Even though the two combatants are very good players, there are still plenty of mistakes to avoid in this game....
Take a lesson in the “old school” of chess with GM Alex Yermolinsky as he continues his journey though the world champions. Today the “forgotten” champion Euwe and the three time champion Botvinnik. Enjoy this full r...
GM Alex Yermolinksy and GM Suat Atalik team up to host Chess.com’s coverage of the Tata Steel supertournament’s first four rounds. Enjoy the best moments and moves from the early tournament action in this highlights...
GM Simen Agdestein plans to ask World Champion Magnus Carlsen if he can spot the tactics in this video -- but first you get a chance. See if you can solve a variety of instructive positions from three of GM Agdestein...
What’s the secret opening that impressed a young Magnus Carlsen? GM Simon Williams unveils the Hillbilly Attack, a crazy and aggressive gambit your opponent has probably never seen in his life. Learn the key ideas...
What’s the most famous queen sacrifice ever? FM Mike Klein gives you the best-known queen sacs in history, but it’s up to you to decide. Will it be the legendary “gold coin” queen sac by Marshall? Or one of the many...
