Spicy Gambits: The Belgrade Gambit - Main Line
GM Simon Williams brings you more spicy openings! This one so secret that the ginger GM only just now discovered it for...
Positional Thinking In Chess
GM Melikset Khachiyan already used his experience at the World Youth to teach dynamic thinking, but now he zooms out and...
Dynamic Thinking In Chess
What did GM Melikset Khachiyan and his students learn from the World Youth chess championships? One lesson was the importance...
Tania Sachdev On Botvinnik's IQP Lesson
IM Tania Sachdev makes her Chess.com video debut with this comprehensive lesson on the isolated queen’s pawn. Should you...
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...
How To Beat Slow Plans
What do you do when your opponent insists on going slow? IM Keaton Kiewra shows you an entertaining game from the “San...
Attack Like Tal
How can you attack like Mikhail Tal, one of the most ferocious chess players in history? GM Simon Williams shows you how...
Sicilian Attacks: Queen And Rook Lifts
What are some of the most devastating ways to attack with White against the Sicilian Defense? Queen and rook lifts! GM...
The Boa Constrictor: Squeezing Harder
GM Melikset Khachiyan continues his lesson on applying pressure in chess with another instructive review of one of his recent...
How To Attack: Short vs Timman
Have you ever begun an attack only to be cruelly rebuffed by timely counterplay from your opponent? GM Simon Williams has...
Kasparov Attacks: The Immortal Game
If you want to learn how to attack, why not learn from one of the greatest attackers ever? GM Simon Williams shows you...
How To Attack And Win
Simon Williams continues his series on the very fun and important topic of how to attack in chess. Drawing upon one of...
How To Attack: Polugaevsky vs Nezhmetdinov
Do your attacks sometimes fizzle and falter? GM Simon Williams is here to help with part one of five of his "How to...
The Boa Constrictor
How do you squeeze your opponent like a snake? GM Melik Khachiyan shows you the way in this important lesson. Watch GM...
Exchange With Capablanca
Can you simplify your way to a win? You can if you’re Capablanca. Follow the game of the great Cuban master to see...
Restriction In The Ruy Lopez
GM Melikset Khachiyan continues his lesson on restriction in indisputably the most important king’s pawn opening there is:...
How To Handle Central Passed Pawns
All passed pawns are not created equally. Dejan Bojkov shows you the power of centralized passed pawns, and how to handle...
More Restrict And Win
Want to learn how to execute the perfect positional squeeze? Learn from one of the greatest, Efim Geller. GM Melikset Khachiyan...
How To Restrict And Win
Big attacks and spectacular sacrifices might get all the attention, but there are other ways to win a chess game. GM Melikset...
How A World Champion Improves His Position
Hikaru Nakamura took on a former world champion, and IM Keaton Kiewra has a comprehensive analysis of the game. Which world...
What You Don't Know About Defeating Pawn Majorities
What you don’t know about playing against pawn majorities in chess can hurt you, as GM Melikset Khachiyan explains in his...
The Easy Way To Defeat A Pawn Majority
Does the idea of an opposing pawn majority keep you up at nights? Fear no longer. GM Melikset Khachiyan shows you an easy...
5 Grandmaster Tips To Improve Your Strategy
Tactics decide most chess games, but as you advance in strength, you will find that strategy becomes increasingly important. So...
How To Trust Yourself In Chess
If you’re going to succeed in chess, you’ve got to trust yourself. While you can study and learn from the best, all you...
More Deadly Queenside Pawns
GM Melikset Khachiyan is back with another pawn majority lesson, this time drawing from a game by one of the greatest players...