How to Win 'Must Win' Games 2: Avoiding the Draw!
Today we learn how a Super-GM does it! Grandmaster Peter Svidler, on his way to winning the Russian Super-Final, won in...
Solitaire Chess - Part 2: Positional vs Attack, 1!
In this two part Solitaire Chess video lecture, GM Kaidanov chooses the game of a "well-known positional player", hoping...
How to Win 'Must Win' Games 1: The Ultimate Test!
In Grandmaster Shankland's newest video series he intends to offer advice, leading by example, on the different psychological...
When to Exchange: Knight vs Bishop - Part 1
Shut those Bishops down! Grandmaster Dzindzichashvili provides us with a new two part video series on one of the most debated...
Pawn Structure 101: Scheveningen 3 - Modern Ideas!
In the third installment of the Scheveningen structure we witness an amazing, well coordinated attack that holds striking...
Sensing the Critical Moment - Part 3
In the third installment, John provides a few practical examples of a "critical moment", including one from his own recent...
Sensing the Critical Moment - Part 2
This weekend, International Master John "Bart-the-Licious" takes you on a wild ride of tactics, tricks, surprising defensive...
Pawn Structure 101: Scheveningen 2 - White's g4!
All the cool kids are doing it! Watching IM Daniel Rensch's Pawn Structure 101 video series that is! Apparently, playing...
Learning from the Best: Tigran Petrosian Part 9
Today GM Khachiyan shows us a different side of his chess coach, revealing some of Petrosian's original ideas and philosophies...
Sensing the Critical Moment - Part 1
Making his Video Author debut today is the long time Chess.com Blogger, International Master John Bartholomew. Straying...
Learning from the Best: Tigran Petrosian Part 8
Through the eyes of a child, in this case a young Chess.com video author, the game you are about to see was a masterpiece....
Shankland's Summer Travels 4: vs GM Pawel Jaracz
Nothing like ending a tournament playing two white's in a row! For Grandmaster Shankland, it meant his opponent would feel...
Learning from the Best: Tigran Petrosian Part 7
Wow, what a Rook! Unlike any of the previous exchange sacrifices by GM Khachiyan's incredible chess coach, the prelude for...
Pawn Structure 101: Scheveningen Intro!
Today IM Rensch finally opens the "can of worms" that is the Open Sicilians, and with that, all the glorious Pawn Structures...
Back to the Sicilian Scheveningen: vs IM Ginsburg
When the e5-break comes through, black better watch out! That's just one of several lessons GM Khachiyan implores upon us...
Learning from the Best: Tigran Petrosian Part 6
Tigran Petrosian was not only a proponent of the Sicilian Defense, but many of the ideas arising in the dynamic middle-games...
How to Exploit a Space Advantage - Part 2
In the climax to his mini video series on space in chess, IM Pruess summarizes for us what it really means to "build strength",...
How to Exploit a Space Advantage - Part 1
IM Pruess lists for us the four major ways to exploit a space advantage in a chess game, and he covers two of his "power-points"...
How to Think in the Endgame - Part 4
Grandmaster Khachiyan brings us another interesting game from his personal library today. Here we see an opening quickly...
Learning from the Best: Tigran Petrosian Part 5
Another game by the 9th World Champion, another brilliant positional exchange sacrifice! Today GM Khachiyan continues to...
Unbalanced Material: Minor Pieces vs Pawns!
International Master Daniel Rensch brings his latest topic to a close today, with the tenth and final lecture in the Unbalanced...
Learning from the Best: Tigran Petrosian Part 4
Grandmaster Melik Khachiyan brings us more from his days as a schoolboy, this time providing more insight into how his tutor...
Greatest Chess Minds: Wilhelm Steinitz - Part 5
Once upon a time, there was a chess land with no crowned champion... but that ended in the match that takes place here....
Unbalanced Material: Rooks vs Queen!
To follow up on the "First Lady's" dominance over the Rooks a couple weeks ago, we now get to see the "Towers of Power"...
Unbalanced Material: Queen vs Two Rooks!
Today we make our transition into arguably the most common type of material imbalance in chess: The "first lady" vs the...