Final Round: How Shankland Won The U.S. Championship
This is it—the final round of the U.S. championship, with the title on the line. Learn from the U.S. champion himself as...
How Shankland Won The US Champs: Piece vs Pawns
Having an extra piece vs a bunch of pawns is a classic chess conundrum. The piece should be more powerful, but if those...
How To Win With Black: Shankland U.S. Championship
Dive deep into GM Sam Shankland's critical victories in the 2018 U.S. Chess Championship! See how he plays for the advantage...
How Shankland Won The U.S. Champs: Turning A Game Around
To win an important chess tournament, sometimes you have to turn a shaky start into a win on the chessboard. That's what...
How Shankland Won The U.S. Champs: 'Don't Tear My Head Off!'
Sam Shankland was the surprise winner of the 2018 U.S. chess championship, and now he is here to explain how he did it....
How Shankland Won The U.S. Champs: Bay Area Battle
Sam Shankland shocked the chess world by winning the 2018 U.S. Champs ahead of the "big three," Caruana, Nakamura, and So....
The Biggest Win In The Tournament
Sometimes everything depends on a single game, GM Sam Shankland takes you deep into his thoughts on one of these games as...
How To Lose And Improve: vs GM Vachier-Lagrave
Playing the elite grandmaster, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Shankland is confronted with a tricky and threatening pawn advance....
How To Lose And Improve: vs GM Sam Sevian
GM Sam Shankland is back to show you how to handle your opponent's threats. In this video he demonstrates the correct way...
How To Lose And Improve: vs GM Wang Hao
Properly responding to an opponent's threat is one of the most difficult balancing acts in the game of chess. GM Sam Shankland...
Shanky In The Money
You've watched GM Sam Shankland play most of this tournament, now see how he got in the money. GM Shankland reviews his...
Chess Patience And Punishment
What is the value of patience in chess? GM Sam Shankland reviews one of his own games to show how to wait for exactly the...
Pawns Victorious!
GM Sam Shankland is back to show you his games from an interesting round-robin event where he managed to take clear first. How...
Even Grandmasters Can Get Stuck In Mud
What does it take to confuse a grandmaster? Quite a lot as GM Shankland finds against GM Romanov. Who will falter as this...
Positional Buildup In The Opening
Is equal really equal? GM Shankland defies the engine and pursues an opening that it insists is just equal, but his deeper...
Win Or Go Home: Shankland vs Nakamura
GM Shankland concludes his educational series on his own recent World Cup run with a must-win game against newly minted...
My World Cup: Nakamura vs Shankland Rapid
GM Sam Shankland continues his battle with now-world-number-two Hikaru Nakamura in this video lesson pulled from the rapid...
My World Cup: Shankland vs Nakamura
GM Sam Shankland had an eventful run in the recent FIDE World Cup knockout tournament, taking on strong opponents one-by-one...
My World Cup: Popov vs Shankland
GM Sam Shankland continues the enlightening series on his experience in the just-completed FIDE World Cup with this review...
My World Cup: Shankland vs Popov
The FIDE World Cup final is still going, as Svidler and Karjakin vie for the title in the tiebreaker. GM Sam Shankland...
My First Super Tournament: vs Leinier Domínguez Pérez
How do you approach a game you know is going to get complicated? GM Sam Shankland concluded his super-tournament series...
My First Super Tournament: vs Alexander Grischuk
GM Sam Shankland is back with another deep game analysis against one of the top players in the world. This time, Shankland...
My First Super Tournament: vs Ding Liren
GM Sam Shankland found himself at board one of the FIDE world team championship last month, facing the best players each...
Shankland's Super Tournament: vs Robin van Kampen
GM Sam Shankland, fresh off nine straight draws, needed a victory in the recently completed Tata Steel tournament. All...
Shankland's Super Tournament: vs Jan Timman -- Part 2
GM Sam Shankland continues his battle with the Dutch legend Jan Timman in the Tata Steel super tournament. Picking right...