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Today “The Dzindzinator” walks us through a “less then stellar” performance in regards to the Middlegame. Both players seemed to miscalculate, mis-evaluate, and simply misplay the two critical stages of the game: The transition from Opening to Middlegame, and then transition of Middlegame to Endgame. These faulty approaches ultimately climax in black accepting a draw [...]
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Today we see a video that specifically explains something IM Danny Rensch has referred to a few times during his Pawn Structure 101 series as “Opening Evolution”… The main idea being that when you understand the structure and “philosophies” of a position, this enables you to understand how the position/opening is evolving in terms of [...]
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Grandmaster Khachiyan show us another example of how black can, and perhaps should, approach the modern Maroczy Bind — Accelerated Dragon. Today’s video lecture is instructive once again in terms of the ideas black can play for in the opening stage; however, even more educational is Melik’s description of the resulting Opposite Colored Bishop ending, [...]
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Today Melik Khachiyan reviews his win against Grandmaster Alex Lenderman from the 2010 US Championship. Although the game itself is very instructive and climaxes in a very well-played rook endgame by Melik, the main topic of this video lecture (and the sequel coming soon) is how to play against the Maroczy Bind from the black [...]
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Grandmaster Melik Khachiyan reviews another classical game between two former world chess champions for our “educational pleasure”. Today’s featured game is a famous one indeed, and we hope you will find Melik’s original explanations of what happened in this match interesting and instructive. Where did the young Capablanca go wrong, and more importantly, where should [...]
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“Do not try and learn every opening, for that is impossible… Instead, only try and realize the truth: There are no openings, only Pawn Structures!” I guess we should do what IM Daniel Rensch says and start approaching our openings, opening repertoires, and these videos from the perspective of the little guys. Go pawns! Full [...]
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International Master Sam Shankland finishes off his video survey of “all things Queen’s Gambit” by answering one of the most natural, yet somehow uncommon ideas: Accepting the gambit! Here he provides the main line theory, some sideline tricks, and the importance of black not trying “too” hard to hold onto the pawn, as black might [...]
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As promised, FM Valeri Lilov brings you the ideas, plans and some perspective regarding one of the most topical and theoretically driven variations of the Grunfeld for the last decade: The Exchange Sacrifice on a1! After some great tactics from that line, he finishes with a final review of one of white’s most popular ways [...]
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Ever wonder how GM Roman became the positional genius he is today? Check out the brilliant play by HIS coach, from very early on in his career… Here we see two great examples of technique in converting small, but clear positional advantages. The pristine winning plan(s) executed in this video, and the use of “Principal [...]
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The “Battle for Chess.com Author Supremacy” has begun! Really, this was just a fun correspondence game between two of Chess.com’s most active contributors, but boy was it exciting and full of tactics! In this video, IM Shankland explains how he got the best of IM Rensch in what we plan to build into a “running [...]