Nick Risko teaches the Rossolimo Variation of the Sicilian Defense, which is 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5. White's usual intention is to play Bxc6, giving Black doubled pawns.
2021.03.29
B30 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rossolimo attack (without ...d6)
Grandmaster Denes Boros teaches a chess endgame class.
2021.03.30
Nick Risko teaches the Rossolimo Variation of the Sicilian Defense, which is 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5. White's usual intention is to play Bxc6, giving Black doubled pawns.
2021.03.29
B30 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rossolimo attack (without ...d6)
Grandmaster Steven Zierk plays a viewer in a G/3 chess blitz on lichess.org.
2021.03.06
Steven Zierk vs. ML121121, 2021: D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin variation
https://lichess.org/pKXyHeJo
National Master Caleb Denby analyzes Garry Kasparov vs. Fabiano Caruana from the online 2020 Champions Showdown: Chess 9LX in 2020. This was a Fischer random chess game, also known as Chess960.
2021.02.02
Garry Kasparov vs. Fabiano Caruana, 2020
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/saint-louis-chess-9lx-2020...
National Master Caleb Denby shows the best fake chess puzzle ever! Every square is occupied, but it's so hard to find the mate!
2021.03.02
The Corporate Chess League continues its Spring league! Join Mike Kummer for the move-by-move. Mike Kummer plays for Maritz as well! How will Mike commentate and play at the same time? Not very well. At the end, Kummer will select the most outstanding game of the tournament. The winner of the most outstanding game will receive a special gift!
2021.03.25
Chess.com
Saint Louis hosted the 2021 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships. Eventual National Champion Gable Steveson of Minnesota joins GMs Irina Krush and Maurice Ashley to demonstrate the undeniable parallels between chess and wrestling.
2021.03.18-20
ESPN
International Master Dorsa Derakhshani analyzes the fourth game between Mikhail Botvinnik and Sam Reshevsky from the quintuple round robin 1948 World Chess Championship. The tournament decided Botvinnik as the new champion, as the title was vacant due to Alexander Alekhine's death.
2021.03.24
Samuel Reshevsky vs Mikhail Botvinnik, FIDE World Championship Tournament (1948): C18 French, Winawer, classical variation
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1032195
International Master Dorsa Derakhshani teaches a chess class on a topic of her choice.
2021.03.24
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