Amazing Games For Beginners: Unusual Wizardry!
In this Amazing Game For Beginners, you learn magic! Tactical magic that is. IM David Pruess reviews another stellar game...
Every Chess Opening: The First Move!
Calling all "beginning" chess Players! Have you ever wanted to invent your own opening? Or have you at least wondered why...
Amazing Games For Beginners: Dominate The Center!
IM David Pruess brings us another Amazing Game For Beginners, and today's topic is of the utmost "central" importance! Today,...
Amazing Games for Beginners: Rubi's Smooth Rook!
Beginner chess players, meet brilliant technique! IM David Pruess brings us the second video installment on the subject...
Amazing Games for Beginners: Rubinstein's Endgame!
Calling all beginners! Have you ever heard of a novelty... in the Endgame? Well, just as theory develops in the Opening...
Pawn Structure 101: Chain Reactions 3: Quiz!
Pencils down! Seriously, you are about to take a quiz. Subject? The principles, attacking patterns, and tactical motifs...
Pawn Structure 101: Chain Reactions Part 2
"This way! Follow your pawn-chains to victory" - Mythological Chess Player, a very long time ago... IM David Pruess follows...
Pawn Structure 101: Chain Reactions Part 1
We're back! IM David Pruess "pinch-hits" for Daniel Rensch's "Pawn Structure 101" series this weekend -- and man does he...
Amazing Games for Beginners: Tunnel Vision
To play with "tunnel vision" is to not consider all of your opponent's options, and by extension, many of your own opportunities...
Member Analysis: Principles in the King's Gambit
Learn about a man named Fischer who used to fish and play a little chess in his spare time! Today we have a member's King's...
Amazing Games for Beginners: Alekhine's Attacking
Our Amazing Games for Beginner's series continues with another gem from IM David Pruess! Here we see the legendary Alexander...
Tactics Do Grow On Strategies 2
The power of pressure on an open file... oh what a beautiful thing! IM David Pruess continues his video series describing...
Tactics Do Grow On Strategies
"Tactics are the servants of strategy." -- Some Chess Nut-Job. Oh wait, that was former World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik!...
Amazing Games for Beginners: Pillsbury's Attack
Today International Master David Pruess continues our new video series designed for beginners to learn tactical, instructive,...
Amazing Games for Beginners: Strike While It's Hot
With this new "running-video-series", our authors plan to display some of the more beautiful and fundamentally vital ideas...
Applying Principles in The King's Gambit III
David's climax video on the King's Gambit truly "pushes the envelope" on what conventional wisdom says ANYONE should EVER...
Applying Principles in the King's Gambit II
There is a reason why chess is known as the Game of "Kings" and not the game of "any other piece"... There is also reason...
Applying Principles in the King's Gambit I
IM David Pruess gives Chess.com viewers a taste into what the King's Gambit is all about! With this introduction "preview"...
MA: Finding (and Using!) Your Advantages
In this video, IM David Pruess recaps the second half of this great "Member Analysis" game. In doing so, he expands on the...
MA: Slave to your Preferences
In this video review of a "Member Analysis" game, International Master David Pruess hits on many instructive points: Issues...
Live Sessions; Through an IM's Eyes!
IM David Pruess plays two games on live chess, while recounting his thought process. The level of the games is not very...
Conquering Cochrane Concepts 3
IM Pruess goes over the lessons learned from playing through several Cochrane games, highlighting all the important concepts....
Conquering Cochrane Concepts 2
IM David Pruess analyzes an instructive game of GM Sarunas Sulskis, the top Cochrane Gambit player, as well as a couple...
Conquering Cochrane Concepts
IM Pruess shares his own learning process with the viewers. In three parts he goes over how he studied the Cochrane, explaining...
Play Against the Petroff? 2
IM Pruess shows another masterful recent GM game in the Petroff Defense. There are good lessons here about using a development...