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IM Sam Shankland is back, and today he continues his video series on the topic of technique. Though there were several instructional moments in this game between Gelfand and Ponomariov, Sam places special emphasis on white’s patient relocation of the pieces to defend the center, as well as Gelfand’s disciplined approach in stopping his opponent’s [...]
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IM Rensch continues to brings us the immensely popular “Live Sessions” videos in which we get a rare glimpse inside the “mid-game” thought process of an International Master. Today, we see an even more exciting version of this story, as Danny decides to play several fast games against slightly stronger competition, rather than one long [...]
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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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International Master Daniel Rensch continues his never-ending “Pawn Structure 101″ series with another video on the Caro-Slav Formation. Today, he reviews more of black’s options when white has made the mistake of trading too many pieces in a position with a space advantage. How can black exploit this, and what exactly are white’s weaknesses in [...]
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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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If you are a French Defense player, and you enjoyed International Master Thomas Rendle’s first video on this topic, then you have come to the right place! Here we see, in much greater detail, the strengths, as well as potential risks, behind the sideline 3…a6 in the Tarrasch French. Specifically, black’s aggressive plan foreshadowed in [...]
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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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There is a reason why chess is known as the Game of “Kings” and not the game of “any other piece”… There is also reason why the King’s Gambit was one of the most feared weapons in white’s opening arsenal for almost a century… And finally, there is a reason why IM David Pruess is [...]