How To Use Your Pieces Tactically: The Rook
How can White you use your rooks to win games? GM Dejan Bojkov demonstrates how to attack with rooks and win more games!
How To Use Your Pieces Tactically: The Bishop
How can you make the best use of your bishops? They work well in a team and need open diagonals. GM Dejan Bojkov will show...
How To Use Your Pieces Tactically: The Knight
No other piece moves like the knight, which gives it an amazing attacking potential. Watch as GM Dejan Bojkov demonstrates...
How To Swindle Your Opponent: Magnus Carlsen vs Gawain Jones
What should you do when you're losing a chess game? If it's not time to resign, it's time to swindle your opponent. Watch...
Tatev's Favorite Studies: Introduction
Tatev Abrahamyan kicks off her review of some of the best studies ever, with this short but tricky puzzle by Alois Wotawa....
Tatev's Favorite Studies: Too Many D-Pawns
Tatev Abrahamyan continues her look at studies by Alois Wotawa. Figure out White's unique path to survival. This study was...
Tatev's Favorite Studies: Stopping The Pawns
Tatev Abrahamyan brings you another great study by Alois Wotawa. How can you make White's rook and one pawn more valuable...
Tatev's Favorite Studies: How To Promote
Tatev Abrahamyan demonstrates another study by the great composer Alois Wotawa. Your pawn is nearly ready to promote, but...
Tatev's Favorite Studies: Checkmate Or Stalemate?
Tatev Abrahamyan demonstrates the most difficult study yet! White's king looks like it's about to get checkmate but there's...
How To Defend: The Magic Of The Fortress
Sometimes in chess, you don't need an active plan to draw the game. If you can set up a fortress then all you need to do...
How To Defend: Last Chance Stalemate
Stalemate is the most famous and one of the most important ways to make a draw in chess. Always be on the lookout to sacrifice...
How To Defend: The Perpetual Defense
When you're behind in a chess game, it often helps to focus your efforts against the opposing king. Even if you can't checkmate,...
How To Defend: The Sticking Defense
GM Dejan Bojkov finishes his coverage of defensive strategies with the little known, but essential Sticking Defense! Often...
How To Defend In Chess: Simplify!
How do you defend tough positions in chess? One strategy is to simplify to a salvageable position. Look for stalemates,...
How To Be Lucky In Chess: Blitz Tactics
What's the best way to be a so-called "lucky" player in blitz chess? It's not your favorite four-leaf clover...it's about...
Greatest Games: Gaprindashvili's King Hunt
Nona Gaprindashvili was the first woman to be awarded the grandmaster title, and her achievement is no surprise after this...
Don't Be Afraid To Sacrifice
When you're embarking on an attack against the uncastled king, you cannot be afraid to sacrifice material. In this lesson,...
Don't Let Them Castle: Be A Pest
Sometimes the best attacks in chess happen when you don't let your opponents castle...but it's up to you to keep up the...
Greatest Games You've Never Seen: A Brilliant Miniature
It's rare in a serious game between two grandmasters that checkmate is unavoidable after move 16, but that's what happened...
Why You Should Always Pause To Calculate In Chess
Chess games often hinge on the results of a single move, so it's important to take your time to calculate during critical...
Boost Your Puzzle Rush Score: Playing Puzzle Rush
Now that GM Simon Williams has taught you many techniques to improve your Puzzle Rush score, he is ready to put his knowledge...
Boost Your Puzzle Rush Score: Seal The King
You wouldn't believe some of the ways you can use a subtle tactic in a chess game. Find out how to seal up the king so it...
Boost Your Puzzle Rush Score: Remove The Defender
Removing the defender is a critical concept in many chess tactics, so you need to know how to do it to be a master of Puzzle...
Boost Your Puzzle Rush Score: Loose Pieces
One of the quickest ways to get better at Puzzle Rush is to recognize loose pieces, both yours and your opponent's. Learn...
Boost Your Puzzle Rush Score: Queen Traps
Want to get your Puzzle Rush score to a new all-time high? This video will teach you how to spot queen traps in the Puzzle...