Coach Dejan Explains: Lucas With the Lid Off!
GM Bojkov features another star student's game. You'll see a bevy of dark-squared tactics in Indian Systems, but perhaps...
Coach Dejan Explains: Dom Using the Dark Squares!
GM Bojkov's talented student is back. Today you'll see one of the games that helped Dom gain nearly 500 rating points. Black...
Coach Dejan Explains: Dom Comes Back!
Facing the Accelerated Dragon, Dom makes his coach proud today. Though he fell into an early trap, GM Bojkov's student fought...
Coach Dejan Explains: Dom Gets Out of a Bad Opening
GM Bojkov has chronicled many top grandmasters in his videos, but today he takes a lesson from one of his talented student's...
Greatest Chess Minds: Larsen - Part 5
GM Bojkov laments the end of his intriguing series on GM Bent Larsen. He finishes the compilation by showing an original...
Greatest Chess Minds: Larsen - Part 4
Part 4 of the series highlighting the mastery of GM Bent Larsen. The Danish great starts out with a bluff in the opening...
Greatest Chess Minds: Larsen - Part 3
Be it 1. b3 or 1. g3, GM Bent Larsen loved those fianchettoed bishops! GM Bojkov shows how he preferred playing Black openings,...
Greatest Chess Minds: Gligorić - Part 9
Gligoric was way too good to just show off his best draws, so GM Bojkov is back to give the Yugoslavian GM his full credit....
Attacks with Opposite Colored Bishops - Part 3
Going for opposite colored bishops out of the opening? Why not? GM Bojkov concludes his series by showing that many openings...
Attacks with Opposite Colored Bishops - Part 2
Having explained all the ins and outs of OCB middlegames and endgames, today GM Bojkov shows a pair of examples where the...
Attacks With Opposite Colored Bishops - Part 1
GM Bojkov keeps adding pieces to the board, but the opposite colored bishop keeps marauding. Here we see positions with...
Opposite Colored Bishop Endgames: With Queens
The queen joins the dance floor today, replacing the rook but again choosing the bishop as her partner. Turns out she has...
Opposite-Colored Bishop Endgames: With Rooks
Are you OCD about OCBs? GM Bojkov is here with your daily prescription: take three beautiful endgame wins and call him in...
Opposite Colored Bishop Endgames: The Principle of the One Diagonal
Want to see a Super-GM resign in a drawn position? It happens from time to time, and today it happens on Chess.com. Expanding...
Opposite Colored Bishop Endgames: Quantity vs. Quality
More opposite colored bishop endgames are examined, but this time, some surprising sacrifices are needed to get the job...
Opposite Colored Bishop Endgames: Drawing Tendencies
Our Bulgarian grandmaster treats us to even more complicated examples of defending opposite colored bishop endgames. When...
Opposite Colored Bishop Endgames: Separated Pawns
GM Bojkov ramps up the theory on opposite colored bishop endgames. Having already tackled positions where the pawns are...
Opposite-Colored Bishop Endgames: Basic Knowledge
GM Bojkov begins a series on opposite-colored bishop endings, showing two examples where titled players misplayed the defensive...
Greatest Chess Minds: Larsen - Part 2
What do GM Larsen and GM Carlsen have in common? According to GM Bojkov, more than just a rhyming name. They are both optimists...
Greatest Chess Minds: Larsen - Part 1
Who says romance is dead? GM Bojkov begins an exciting new series on his favorite player, the so-called "Positional...
Member Analysis: King's Flank Attack!
GM Bojkov heaps high praise on a Chess.com member who understood correctly how to attack on one side of the board while...
Greatest Chess Minds: Gligorić - Part 8
In what might be one of the greatest positional sacrifice games ever, GM Bojkov walks us through the genius of how Gligoric...
Greatest Chess Minds: Gligoric - Part 7
Today's King's Indian practitioners have GM Gligoric to thank. Here GM Bojkov shows the birth of the modern-day "Mar del...
Greatest Chess Minds: Gligoric - Part 6
Every popular opening today needed an early adopter, and GM Bojkov continues his series on Gligoric by showing how he advanced...
Greatest Chess Minds: Capablanca - Part 13
GM Bojkov completes his epic 13-part series with two more great wins from the endgame maestro Capablanca. In the first example,...