Chess Openings For Beginners: The Pirc
When selecting your opening repertoire as a beginner, you have to choose lines you like to play. Watch this introduction...
Opening Traps for Beginners: Countering the King's Gambit
To bring his video series on opening traps that all beginner players should know to a close today, FM Lilov gives his recommendation...
Opening Traps for Beginners: Liver and Lolli!
To aid the beginners perspective, FM Lilov provides a follow up video to GM Kaidanov's lecture last weekend. TigerLilov...
Opening Traps for Beginners: Scholar's & Other f7 Tricks!
With his latest video lecture targeted towards beginner level players, FM Lilov reviews the common traps and tricks white...
Openings for Beginners: The English Opening!
The English Opening has been considered one of white's most solid approaches to the first stage of a chess game for more...
Openings for Beginners: The Old Indian Defense!
In the next installment to his ten part video series on Openings for Beginners, FIDE Master Valeri Lilov reviews one of...
Openings for Beginners: The Queen's Gambit!
This weekend FM Valeri Lilov transitions into the "Queen's Pawn Game" by reviewing the main lines of the Queen's Gambit...
Openings for Beginners: The French Defense!
The Tiger Returns today with another great video lecture in his series about opening play for the beginner level! Today...
Nimzowitsch's Defense | Chess Openings for Beginners
FIDE Master Valeri Lilov is back again with another Opening Lecture for beginners! Today he covers the defensive ideas of...
Chess Openings for Beginners: The Sicilian Defense!
FM Lilov is back with the next installment to his "Openings for Beginners" video series. Today he discusses one of the most...
Openings for Beginners: The Two Knight's Defense!
FIDE Master Lilov's fourth installment to his new, highly popular video series comes to us today on the subject of the Two...
Openings for Beginners: The Caro Kann!
FIDE Master Lilov brings us the third installment in his new video series designed just for beginners! Take notes on this...
Openings for Beginners: The Ruy Lopez!
FM Lilov follows up his popular introduction to this series with a video lecture on perhaps the most commonly played opening...
Openings for Beginners: The Italian Game!
One of April's featured authors starts a new video series this weekend, designed to answer a reoccurring question from many...
The Complete Grunfeld: Finale!
FIDE Master Lilov reaches the climax in his display of the Grunfeld Defense in this video. What better way to end this topic...
Byrne vs Fischer (1956) | The Game of the Century
As the author, FIDE Master Lilov, points out, this game was one of Bobby Fischer's finer moments (at the age of 14 no less)...
The Complete Grunfeld: Example Game 1
We continue this series for the "lovers of the Grunfeld" with a great example game by, well, one of the greats! Former World...
The Complete Grunfeld: Exchange Sac
As promised, FM Valeri Lilov brings you the ideas, plans and some perspective regarding one of the most topical and theoretically...
The Complete Grunfeld: Sidelines
FIDE Master Lilov continues his video series designed to review the Grunfeld Defense in its entirety. Today's subject -...
The Complete Grunfeld: Piece Play
In the fourth video of "The Complete Grunfeld" series, FM Lilov explains how important it is to not only have have your...
The Complete Grunfeld: Dynamic Provoking
FIDE Master Lilov continues his dissection of the Grunfeld Defense by reviewing a more recent game between strong Grandmasters....
The Complete Grunfeld: Majority
In the second video of "The Complete Grunfeld" series, FIDE Master Lilov reviews another main line of this dynamic...
The Complete Grunfeld: Introduction
Get ready to learn everything you ever wanted to know about the Grunfeld Defense! FM Lilov kicks off this video series with...
The Ideas Behind Planning
FM Lilov gives us more insight into the thought process that should go into making a plan, and prosecuting it. He takes...
Positional Operations: Regrouping
In this video FM Lilov tackles another important practical skill: regrouping. Sometimes terribly placed pieces warn us that...