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This Labor Day weekend, Grandmaster Gregory Kaidanov makes his return to the Chess.com Video Authors “club” by debuting his new series: How To Improve Your Chess! With the first in this sequence of videos designed to help you develop critical thinking skills (on your own) — GM Kaidanov uses “power-point” teaching methods to help us [...]
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Today Roman continues with his second “Member Analysis” video this week by taking a detailed look at how amateur players transition from the Opening to the Middlegame. In particular, he stresses the difference between positional understanding and concrete analysis. He warns against making piece sacrifices without having calculated a “solid follow through variation”. Full video [...]
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In this sample GM Jan Gustafsson shows his recommandation against the Antimarshall Line with 8.d4. His upcoming DVD will be soon available in the Chessbase Shop!…
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In this sample GM Jan Gustafsson shows his recommandation against the trendy Marshall Line with 15.Qe2. His upcoming DVD will be soon available in the Chessbase Shop!…
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Ein kleiner Ausschnitt aus einer TV Chessbase Sendung! Jan Gustafsson kommentiert seine Bundesligapartie gegen König Tegel!…
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Although the name of this defensive idea may be debatable (is it Lasker’s or Philidor’s 2nd?), the need to learn it is not! Today Grandmaster Khachiyan provides us with another example of what happens when even the best players in the world (and this time we really mean the best: Magnus Carlsen) misunderstand and therefore [...]
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GM Maurice Ashley upcoming DVD in the Chess Media Format: The Secret to Chess! If you wann know what the secret to chess is, watch the Clip! DVD available under:
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GM Nigel Davies presents tricks and traps in the 1.e4 Openings. In this sample clip he shows a trap in the french defence….
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Grandmaster Danny Gormally gave a simultaneous at Leeds Chess Club last weekend – here is one of my games with him!…
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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 [...]