Endgames Then & Now: All the Same | Romantic Chess - GM Elshan Moradiabadi
Grandmaster Elshan Moradiabadi demonstrates how endgames have hardly changed since the beginning of the game. Explore pawn races and other common themes.
Grandmaster Elshan Moradiabadi demonstrates how endgames have hardly changed since the beginning of the game. Explore pawn races and other common themes.
Grandmaster Elshan Moradiabadi analyzes viewer submissions. Send yours to info@saintlouischessclub.org.
Caleb Denby looks at two of his games from the 2017 Saint Louis Open, an event where he earned 70 USCF rating points.
2019.04.24
https://lichess.org/study/hqB3nMJJ
Caleb Denby vs. Michael Brooks, 2017: A41 Robatsch defence, Rossolimo variation
Denby vs. Katerina Nemcova, 2017: A90 Dutch defence
Grandmaster Elshan Moradiabadi shows games from the GRENKE Classic and more. Identify turning points and identify the bias each player lets influence his decisions.
Does Jonathan Schrantz Beat a Grandmaster on lichess.org? Watch to find out!
2019.04.23
Jonathan Schrantz vs. GM Ianchester1: E20 Nimzo-Indian, Kmoch variation
Eight scholastic players from the Saint Louis Chess Club play students from the Zugdidi Chess School in the country of Georgia in a friendly one-round rapid match on lichess.org. Join Mike Kummer & Ben Simon for the move-by-move.
2019.04.20
https://chesszugdidi.bitrix24.site/ZugdidivsSaintLouis/#block220
G/25;+10
Grandmaster Elshan Moradiabadi profiles Wilhelm Steinitz, Johannes Zukertort, and Joseph Henry Blackburne and the early tournaments of international chess.
Grandmaster Elshan Moradiabadi analyzes a submission from Lenhardt, which was probably played in the German League.
2019.04.18
NN vs. Lenhardt: A81 Dutch defence, Blackburne variation
NN vs. Henry Rankin, 2019
Check out the results of our April schoalstic tournament, Spring Fever!
It has been nearly five years since I was last in Saint Louis. In 2014, shortly after I became a Grandmaster, I was invited to be the Grandmaster-In-Residence at the Saint Louis Chess Club – a position I had not even known existed.