Member Analysis: Manjinit v. Takeosao
The Member Analysis sessions are always a fine display of the Video Masters world class. Take the time to observe a fine...
How to be a Better Blitz Player
IM Shankland weighs in on a viewer request for tips on blitz play. He gives some advice about what types of openings and...
Game Analysis: Karpov v. Kasparov, Rapid (1)
IM Shankland wants to start bringing us game analyses of high level games. And he starts out at the highest level, with...
Endgame Technique: Bishops of Opposite Color
IM Shankland takes a look at a very instructive endgame, with bishops of opposite color, one extra pawn, and a couple rooks...
Maintaining the Initiative 2
IM Sam Shankland continues his analysis of Shankland-Molner, with a special guest! In addition to further lessons about...
Maintaining the Initiative
IM Shankland analyzes a crucial segment of a recent game of his from a top US tournament. He looks at the transition from...
Getting Started with the Ruy Lopez 4
IM Shankland completes his short introduction to the Ruy Lopez, analyzing the second half of the Polgar-Morozevich game....
Getting Started with the Ruy Lopez 3
IM Shankland proceeds from theory to practice in the third installment of his series on the Ruy. He goes over an instructive...
Using Computers 2
In the second part (of three) in his series on the role of computers in studying chess, IM Shankland shows two very sharp...
Using Computers 1
Nowadays, players of all levels have access to computer engines able to play chess at the level (at least) of the best human...
Getting Started with the Ruy Lopez 2
IM Shankland represents...the Ruy Lopez. Round 2 of this Ruy Lopez lecture leads us off the beaten path into some more unknown...
Getting Started with the Ruy Lopez 1
IM Shankland begins a series on another A+ opening, the Ruy Lopez. This series is shorter and contains far less variations...
Creating an Opening Repertoire
IM Shankland gives the viewer advice on how to pick a set of openings for themselves. He gives a rapid-fire tour of a host...
Shankland Teaches the Najdorf: 6.h3
The final installment in IM Shankland's comprehensive coverage of the Najdorf Sicilian. If you watch through all these videos,...
Shankland Teaches the Najdorf: 6.Be2
IM Shankland covers the positional 6.Be2 favored by Anatoly Karpov. He reveals several dangerous ideas that black should...
Shankland Teaches the Najdorf: 6.Bg5 Part 2
IM Sam Shankland brings you more on 6. Bg5! in the Najdorf. The conventional lines show white in the clear so Sam offers...
A Lesson in the Scotch
Sam Shankland introduces the Scotch with a beautiful 2009 US Chess Championship game played against GM Alexander Onischuk....
Shankland Teaches the Najdorf: 6.Bg5
IM Shankland continues his Najdorf series with a first look at 6.Bg5. This is one of white's most aggressive lines, a long-standing...
Shankland Teaches the Najdorf: 6.f4
Your Najdorf knowledge is incomplete without a look a 6. f4. IM Sam Shankland’s latest video on the Najdorf investigating...
Shankland Analyzes a Member's Game
IM Sam Shankland takes a break from his Najdorf series to analyze a Chess.com member game. Sam offers his insight of the...
Shankland Teaches the Najdorf: 6.Be3 e5
IM Sam Shankland continues his investigation of the Najdorf, after 6. Be3. Offering you solid lines in a complicated middle...
Shankland Teaches the Najdorf: 6.Be3 e6
IM Shankland's series on the Najdorf continues with a look at the currently most popular move 6.Be3. Sam will provide two...
Copious Sacrifices, Middlegame Zugzwang, and Castl
In this video IM Sam Shankland demonstrates what he himself called "the greatest move" he had ever played. While...
Shankland Teaches the Najdorf: 6.Bc4 part 1
Sam Shankland's series on the Najdorf Sicilian starts with a look at responding to 6.Bc4, the move championed by great Najdorf...
Shankland Teaches the Najdorf: 6.Bc4 part 2
The second in IM Shankland's series on the Najdorf continues his look at the 7...Nbd7 variation against the Fischer-Sozin...