Top 10 Games Of The 2010s: Vladimir Kramnik's No Castling Chess Attack–Aronian vs Kramnik 2018
World Champion Kramnik popularized the Berlin Defense as a way to reach an early endgame. However, in the 2018 Candidates...
Top 10 Games Of The 2010s: A New Kind Of Chess–AlphaZero vs Stockfish 2017
In 2017 the engine, AlphaZero, shocked the chess world with a whole new type of engine chess. Check out this amazing highlight...
Top 10 Games Of The 2010s: Wei Yi's Quiet Move Immortal–Wei Yi vs Bruzon 2015
It's not often that a chess game earns the monicker "Immortal." Young Wei Yi did it with his "Quiet Move Immortal" where...
Top 10 Games Of The 2010s: Anand's Immortal Chess Game–Aronian vs Anand 2013
NM Sam Copeland thinks that Anand's brilliant win against Levon Aronian in 2013 was the best game of the 2010s. Check it...
Learn the Queen's Gambit Declined
Learn the ideas behind the solid Queen's Gambit declined for both White and Black.
Learn The Queen's Gambit Exchange Variation
Learn the key ideas for both sides in the popular Exchange Variation of the Queen's Gambit. This video also covers the active,...
Learn The Semi-Slav Defense
The Semi-Slav is one of Black's best counter-attacking options against 1.d4. Some lines are solid and others are among the...
Learn the Queen's Gambit: Cambridge Springs and Orthodox Defense
Learn the key ideas for both sides in the tactical Cambridge Springs Defense and the solid Orthodox Defense. These openings...
How To Dominate Your Opponent's Pieces: Yuri Solodovnichenko Dominates
GM Romain Edouard is back with one of the most spectacular examples of a dominated piece in recent decades. Check out this...
How To Dominate Your Opponent's Pieces: Aron Nimzowitsch Dominates
GM Romain Edouard concludes his series on domination with a classic game by the great Aron Nimzowitsch. Nimzowitsch takes...
How To Dominate Your Opponent's Pieces: Ray Robson Dominates
GM Romain Edouard is back with another brilliant example of donating the opponent's pieces. GM Ray Robson didn't mind going...
How To Dominate Your Opponent's Pieces: MVL Dominates
If you want to dominate your chess games, you'll need to learn how to dominate your opponent's pieces. If you can trap the...
Mikhail Tal's Top Five Queen Sacs
World Champion Mikhail Tal was probably the greatest sacrificial attacker in the history of chess! NM James Canty demonstrates...
Stockfish Wins TCEC 19
This year Stockfish, with its new neural network won the Computer Chess Chess Championship. NM Sam Copeland demonstrates...
A Chess Coach's Favorite Problems: Test 3
GM Surya Ganguly is back with another batch of training positions. He recommends 10-15 minutes per puzzle because that's...
A Chess Coach's Favorite Problems: Test 4
GM Surya Ganguly has another set of difficult training positions. See if you can find the solutions from his battles with...
A Chess Coach's Favorite Problems: Test 2
GM Surya Ganguly is back with more tricky problems. See if you can find the moves that won from his own games and those...
A Chess Coach's Favorite Problems: Test 1
When you're playing a chess game, no one tells you which positions require tactical or positional solutions. GM Surya Ganguly...
A Chess Coach's Favorite Problems: Test 5
GM Ganguly is back for one final set of tricky puzzles from his games and those of the best players in the world. The chess...
Vasily Smyslov - Master Of Attack: vs Gereben
Even a superstar like Smyslov wasn't above playing speculative gambits on occasion. Watch how he gave away a pawn for development...
Vasily Smyslov - Master Of Attack: vs Kottnauer
What do you do when Black falls behind in development in an Sicilian? You open the center and attack. FM Andrey Terekhov...
Vasily Smyslov - Master Of Attack: vs Kirillov
In a must-win situation, Smyslov played an unusual gambit. FM Andrey Terekhov demonstrates the surprising quiet move and...
Vasily Smyslov - Master Of Attack: vs Gerasimov
Smyslov played his immortal game when he was only fourteen years old. Check out his amazing attacking play and also an amazing...
Vasily Smyslov - Master Of Attack: vs Euwe
Smyslov's brilliant attacking ideas even worked against other World Champions. In the 1948 World Championship tournament,...
Today's Top Juniors: Jeffery Xiong
Jeffery Xiong just finished in second place in the 2020 US Championship. Against Dariusz Swiercz, Jeffery played over 20...