The 2019 Summer Chess Classic is the second of four events this year featuring international chess professionals, consisting of three 6-player double round robin tournaments. These competitors will battle for $75,000 in prize money. Join GM Jesse Kraai and Caleb Denby for the move-by-move.
2019.06.18
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He's Back! Magnus Carlsen joins the Classical Chess action with the 11 other full-Tour players for the 2019 Croatia Grand Chess Tour, the second leg of the 2019 Grand Chess Tour.
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Grandmaster Jesse Kraai looks back on the 1834 unofficial world championship matches between Alexander McDonnell and Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais. Numerous times during the match, a position arose from the Grand Prix attack.
Caleb Denby equips you with tools to get on the road to a 2000 rating.
2019.06.12
Caleb Denby shows three of his games that demonstrate how to think when the opening is done and the middlegame begins.
Grandmaster Jesse Kraai entertains with games and styles from before the 20th century.
2019.06.13
Caleb Denby equips you with tools to get on the road to a 2000 rating.
2019.06.12
After losing his first Blitz Bounty, does club instructor Dennis LaRue have any dignity left to lose? Why would he accept a challenge to a four-round G/5;d0 Blitz match for $36 and two Powerball tickets from a player 250 points higher rated than him?
2019.06.07
Does club instructor Dennis LaRue have any dignity left to lose? Why would he accept a challenge to a 4 Round G/5;d0 Blitz match for $36 and two power-ball tickets from a player 250 points higher rated than him? Tune in on Friday June 7th at 5:30 pm to find out.
Blitz bounty is back! Watch the 2018 Mid-America Mixed Doubles Champion, Dennis LaRue (1263 uscf) play against some over-rated teenager, Michael Pugachev (1511 uscf), in four rounds of rated blitz.
Grandmaster Alex Lenderman relives games where he lost due to his own bad pieces or failing to restrict his opponents’ pieces.
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