National Master Caleb Denby reviews three games from the Midwest Collegiate Championships at Mizzou.
2019.10.09
Follow along: https://lichess.org/study/UbFeUQmf
Dmitry Gordievsky vs. Dariusz Swiercz, 2019: A09 Reti, advance variation
Nikolas Theodorou vs. Dmitry Gordievsky, 2019: E71 King's Indian, Makagonov system (5.h3)
Nicholas Bartochowski vs. Stavroula Tsolakidou, 2019: A45 Queen's pawn game
Grandmaster Pepe Cuenca accepts challenges on chess24.com. Along the way, Pepe and Kaleb Gosdin candidly answer chat questions. Can Pepe avoid blunders while talking about current events in the chess world?
2019.10.10
Grandmaster Pepe Cuenca shows one of the craziest games he has ever seen: Vladimir Kramnik vs. Fabiano Caruana from the 2018 Candidates. At the time, Kramnik was winning the double round robin, but Fabi managed magnificently and went on to the world championship match.
2019.10.08
Vladimir Kramnik vs Fabiano Caruana, World Championship Candidates (2018): C42 Petrov, Cozio (Lasker) attack
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1914401
Grandmaster Pepe Cuenca teaches a chess endgame class.
2020.10.27
Grandmaster Varuzhan Akobian looks at the third game of the final match of the 2019 World Cup, a huge 128-player knockout tournament. With Ding up a victory, Radjabov was able to even the score.
Grandmaster Varuzhan Akobian looks at his final round game of the 2019 U.S. Championship against Ray Robson. With Robson half a point ahead, Var had to play for a win.
2019.10.03
Ray Robson vs Varuzhan Eduardovich Akobian, US Championship (2019): D36 Queen's Gambit Declined, exchange, positional line, 6.Qc2
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1952251
Chess superstar Dennis LaRue and his associate Lawrence Hu accept challenges on lichess.org. Also featuring Tony Chen.
Hu? LaRue!
2019.10.08
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Chess Associate Perry Colson and Tony Chen accept challenges on lichess.org. Plus, Nick Risko and Dennis LaRue make appearances.
2019.10.04
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Chess associate Perry Colson accepts challenges on lichess.org. Along the way, Perry candidly answers chat questions. Can Perry avoid blunders while talking about current events in the chess world?
2019.10.04
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Grandmaster Varuzhan Akobian looks at World Cup games from this week.
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