Positional Tips: Learning from My Own Play! - Part 6
Not every game is a tactical melee. Today GM Khachiyan admits that he did "nothing special" - but there is beauty in simplicity....
Positional Tips: Learning from My Own Play! - Part 5
Determined not to lose a worse position, GM Khachiyan shows his resolve by using the full complement of his arsenal. First...
Positional Tips: Learning from My Own Play! - Part 4
Continuing his series on the lessons, both on and off the board, Melik draws from his own games this weekend, he reviews...
Positional Tips: Learning from My Own Play! - Part 3
GM Melik Khachiyan shows a useful tip on deciding which side of the board your king belongs in the endgame. Something as...
Positional Tips: Learning from My Own Play! - Part 2
GM Khachiyan shows off a quick defeat over a master who tried the somewhat rare Geller Gambit against his Slav Defense....
Positional Tips: Learning from My Own Play!
In another game where prophylaxis rules the day, GM Khachiyan masterfully restricts black's pieces until he obtains the...
The Schliemann Gambit - Part 8: My Schliemann Gambit
Two Schliemann Gambits against two former U.S. Champions in the same afternoon? All in a day's work for GM Melik Khachiyan!...
The Technique of Calculation - Part 13: Prophylactic Calculation 2
GM Melik Khachiyan continues his incisive series on prophylaxis and calculation by showing one of his own recent games,...
The Technique of Calculation - Part 12: Prophylactic Calculation 1
GM Melik Khachiyan unearths another fascinating position where the calculation won't be easy but will reward the player...
The Technique of Calculation - Part 11
GM Melik Khachiyan continues to dispel the myth that top players are always calculating very far down the road. Using a...
The Technique of Calculation - Part 10
If you want to see the forest through the trees, you have to first see the "bushes"! GM Melikset Khachiyan continues...
The Technique of Calculation - Part 9
Are you trying to become a grandmaster by analyzing positions a dozen moves deep? GM Melikset Khachiyan shows you that two...
My Repertoire: Playing Philidor!
Melik walks us through a recent game of his where he used his "backup opening" to defeat his lower rated opponent, IM Amanov....
Keeping Up With Melik: Positional Struggle!
GM Melikset Khachiyan plays an old foe and gives a clinic on how to slowly pick apart the "Stonewall" pawn formation. He...
Keeping Up With Melik: Battle of Minds!
Fans of the Budapest Gambit will appreciate GM Melikset Khachiyan's treatment of a topical anti-Grunfeld variation. Melik...
Keeping Up With Melik: Consistency!
Here GM Khachiyan reviews a big win he had as black at a tournament he won over President's Day weekend. In his own words,...
Tata Endgames: Nobody's Perfect! - Part 4
Grandmaster Khachiyan brings his series on the greatest and not so greatest endgame moments from this year's Tata Steel...
The Technique of Calculation - Part 8
Here Melik provides interesting positions that require a need for what he likes to call "Combinational Vision". He provides...
The Technique of Calculation - Part 7
Today GM Khachiyan reviews one of his favorite games! A battle full of swindles, surprising (often amazing) tactical shots,...
Keeping Up With Melik: Top Defense
Today GM Melik thanks the Chess.com Members for providing him with the needed encouragement and support to keep playing...
The Technique of Calculation - Part 6
Today Melik provides more proof that "tactics must server strategy"! He shows that with the right positional knowledge,...
The Technique of Calculation - Part 5
Today Melik continues his series on the different process and approaches one can take to "solve" tricky, critical positions....
Tata Endgames: Nobody's Perfect! - Part 3
Here Melik provides two final examples from the recent Tata Steel Super-GM Tourney in the Netherlands. Rather than highlighting...
Tata Endgames: Nobody's Perfect! - Part 2
In his next installment, GM Khachiyan reviews the games Nakamura-Sokolov and Hao-Anand. He highlights instructive moments...
Tata Endgames: Nobody's Perfect! - Part 1
By popular request from our members, today we launch a mini-series designed to review the many instructive, and, at times,...