Evaluation and Dynamic Thinking I
Grandmaster Melik Khachiyan continues his video series on the subject of improving your positional understanding, with a...
The Evaluation of a Position II; Capablanca - Alek
Grandmaster Melik continues his series on the "art of evaluating" with the quick review of a game played between...
The Evaluation of a Position I; Karpov - Anand 199
An incredible show of positional technique by Anand, accompanied by an even more impressive description of the game itself...
Restriction 2; Karpov vs. Kasparov WCH 1985
In this video, Grandmaster Khachiyan continues his series on the important positional idea of "restriction". What...
Restriction; Winter v. Capablanca 1919
Check out Melik's original review and perspective of one of the most famous games in chess history. Grandmaster Khachiyan...
How to Change the Course of the Game 2
In the second installment of this series, GM Khachiyan displays a very interesting game filled with everything from positional...
How to Change the Course of the Game
Grand Master Khachiyan reviews one of his own games, and in doing so he passes on many great tips of practical and psychological...
Unexpected Turn
In "Unexpected Turn" Grunfeld expert, GM Melik, provides us with an interesting game in which some of his opening...
Spanish Torture; Part II
GM Khachiyan shares two more classic examples of Ruy Lope maneuvering, one favoring black and one favoring white. You can...
Bishop vs. Knight; Fischer-Taimanov, 1971
Showing a Bobby Fischer effort, GM Khachiyan gives an instructive display on how Rook and Bishop can, seemingly effortlessly,...
Isolated Queen Pawns: Good and Bad Knights
If you enjoyed IM Rensch's series on isolated queen pawns, be sure to check out this video, in which GM Khachiyan adds to...
Good and Bad Bishops; vs. IM Tate
GM Khachiyan continues his strategic lessons about bishops with an example from his own recent tournament play. In this...
Good and Bad Bishops; Ivanchuk v. Anand, 1992
GM Khachiyan shows us an incredible strategic conception from [future] World Champion Anand. After showing us how important...
Good and Bad Bishops; Karpov v. Lautier
GM Khachiyan (with the assistance of World Champions Karpov and Kramnik) shows us how to exploit a bad bishop in the opponent's...
Spanish Torture; Part I
GM Khachiyan introduces a very important strategic consideration in the Ruy Lopez (Chigorin lines): the black knight which...
Good and Bad Bishops; Averbakh v. Furman,1960
GM Khachiyan shows the repercussions of one poor bishop trade... in a brilliant endgame display by Grandmaster Averbakh....
My Giuoco Piano 2
GM Khachiyan shows a second game of his from this mainline Italian Game, but this time he switches to the white pieces,...
My Giuoco Piano
GM Khachiyan shares with us one of four games he played in an important mainline of the Italian game... in one tournament!!...
Into the Fire
GM Khachiyan looks at an entirely tactical game. It does however kick off with a piece sacrifice based entirely on positional...
Dynamic Theory: Logical Chain
GM Khachiyan again shows how a logical chain can run through an entire game, guiding and informing the player's decisions...
Concepts in the Grand Prix Attack 2
GM Khachiyan covers the Bc4 line (the previous lecture covered Bb5) of the Grand Prix with analysis of a game from his own...
Concepts in the Grand Prix Attack 1
GM Khachiyan shares his deep understanding of the ideas behind the grand prix attack in the sicilian. For example, he talks...
Believing in Logic
GM Khachiyan gives an important lesson about the importance of having a sense of the logic of a game. Believing in your...
Sicilian Methods; e5 Push for White II
GM Khachiyan shows another game of his employing the e5 break for white in the d6-e6 Sicilian structure. But this game also...
Sicilian Methods; e5 Push for White
GM Khachiyan shares another tournament game of his to illustrate the great impact of the e4-e5 push in the sicilian. He...