Member Analysis: Endgame Catastrophe!
What's that you say? All rook endgames are drawn? Well not today! Somehow all three results are possible in a basic rook-and-pawn...
The Principle of Two Weaknesses - Part 7
In Part 6, FM Mike Klein was ahead a pawn and broke through on the opposite flank to create his second weakness. Today,...
The Principle of Two Weaknesses - Part 6
Any good boxer will attack the head and the body, and any good chessboxer will make two points of attack in the endgame....
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...
Paying Attention to Your Opponent's Possibilities: Understanding Pawn Structure
Clear your head before this one, as GM Kaidanov fills your weekend with a video compilation jam-packed with examples of...
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...
Beauty and Entertainment Part 14: Creating a Chess Study from Your Own Game
GM Eugene Perelshteyn has already shown us how to make a chess study from a blank chess board, now he shows us how to create...
Beauty and Entertainment Part 13: Creating Your Own Chess Study
Given up on your dream of becoming a GM? Why not give chess composing a try? GM Eugene Perelshteyn walks you through the...
Practical Chess Endgames: Part 3!
We all know Capablanca's endgame acumen, but GM Eugene Perelshteyn tells us that another world champion is equally deserving...
Practical Chess Endgames: Part 2!
GM Perelshteyn continues his series on practical endings this weekend with the review of a famous "squeezing"...
Practical Chess Endgames: Part 1!
Today GM Perelshteyn starts a new series on the endgame. He defines the difference between knowing "theoretical endgame...
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...
Greatest Chess Minds: Gligoric - Part 3
Gligoric's use of the most common central pawn "weaknesses" in the following two games is amazing, and as Grandmaster Bojkov...
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...
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,...
Battle With Zenyuk - Part 2
In part 2 we witness the instructive conclusion of GM Shankland's recent battle against fellow Chess.com Contributor WIM...
Greatest Chess Minds: Akiba Rubinstein - Part 12
All good things must come to an end. Sadly, perhaps mostly for GM Dejan Bojkov, his coverage of the great Akiba Rubinstein...
The Road to GM - Part 4: vs IM Antal
After a hot start (+3), the then International Master Finegold figured he needed to draw his remaining four games to secure...