This edition of the Arena Kings tournament on chess.com started great for me: I managed to win my game against Jon Ludvig Hammer - famous grandmaster and second of Magnus Carlsen. My play that followed this spectacular battle was far from efficie...
Do you know the feeling when everything goes somehow wrong right from the start? That is what happened to me during the second #ArenaKings tournament on chess.com. In the first round, I was paired with Aman Hambleton. After a strange opening and s...
I have been solving a lot of tactics recently! It means, we have a lot of material for our training In this video, you will get the access to challenging chess exercises and my real-time thinking process. The best way to benefit from this chess ...
If you are a positional player, every checkmating attack you perform matters. It feels especially good if you manage to find a cute checkmate in 4 moves against a Grandmaster ... in a matter of seconds! This video starts new series on my memorable...
In this video, you will get the access to challenging chess exercises and my real-time thinking process. The best way to benefit from this chess calculation training is to try to solve all the puzzles yourself! Put the video on pause whenever y...
I wish I were in better shape! Playing against a great opponent is always a challenge, so you want to play your best chess. Well, I lost 3 blitz games in a row, although having good positions. Here is our 4th blitz battle, which finally gave me wh...
It happens from time to time: you start a blitz game, play several stupid moves quickly just to watch your position becoming a total mess... You have two options after that. The first one is to resign and start a new game. The second is to keep u...
What is a chess harmony? There are many definitions I guess. One of them is like this: appropriate placement of the pieces that makes it possible to maintain the balance. This balance is sometimes fragile. This excellent chess study teaches us to ...
This chess video covers one very instructive recent game between Topalov and Anton played in Gibraltar Masters 2017. I analyzed it in-depth trying to squeeze as many instructive details as I could. My primary goal was not to recap the game an...
After becoming a father, I sense the world around me slightly differently. It started affecting my chess. I don't know what's that - experiencing something entirely new or just a lack of sleep, but I consider strange moves and find me in strange p...
This excellent chess study of Vladimir Pachman demonstrates subtle and spectacular play for the zugzwang. Unusual sacrifices and triangulations, outstanding coordination of pieces, helpless queen - you will enjoy this one and learn a lot from it!
Hey, everyone! I am the host of Training Tuesday and Late Friday Night Banter Blitz shows at chess24, so... With this post, I am happy to announce the contest. The prize is individual 1 hour Banter Blitz session with explaining mistakes after ...
Once upon a time Nimzowitsch compared a pawn with a dangerous criminal. It is not enough just to watch him if you want to prevent the worst. Imprisoning is the only rational decision! In chess terms, it means blockading. In this excerpt from the ...
New chess lesson! In this video, I analyze an excellent chess study composed by Davit Gurgenidze in 1985. In addition to being a brilliant composition, it is an amazing source of useful information about rook endgames particularly and chess in g...
One of the greatest features of chess blitz is that you can play something crazy, something that you would hardly ever play in the serious tournament game. It leads to very odd patterns, and sometimes this oddity shows up at the very start! Enjoy ...
This chess lesson includes in-depth analysis of my game against Patrick Friedrich. This exciting Caro-Kann encounter happened to me in the middle of August 2016. At the critical moment, I came up with the non-standard intuitive exchange sacrifice ...
When I face a GM, I have a great incentive to play my best. Sometimes it leads to quite aggressive play In this 3 min blitz game, I won with a help of a bit straightforward yet effective attack in the Sicilian. Enjoy!
It is a part of my video series dedicated to advanced techniques of calculation in chess. You can find the whole series on my YouTube channel - bit.ly/mostrovski.
This game is one of the loveliest chess pictures I have ever created within 3 minutes
You may find an excellent combination that seems to be winning. Unexpected opponent's resource may change everything, though! It is the third part of the series dedicated to the core algorithm of making effective decisions in chess. A game of c...
Happy Chess Day, folks! I have a sort of gift for those of you, who wants to improve in chess. You are welcome to go through the analysis of the modern positional masterpiece - a game between Kramnik and Topalov played in 2015. There are three v...
It was my coverage of the Danzhou Super-GM 2016 after five rounds. In the following four rounds, Ian scored only 2 points. However, it was enough to ensure the first place still a full point ahead of the closest runner-up. 6/9 - great result, co...
The game we analyze in this episode, started with the King's Indian Defense and ended in a draw. However, Black had serious problems after the opening stage. So, we try to understand why it happened and come up with some insights that will be usef...
My student and a good friend of mine NM Mike Zaloznyy AKA visa, who is currently a manager of the LV Desert Rats team (which is participating in the United States Chess League 2015), decided to make video series that highlight most important parts...
