Nick Risko continues his series on the Scotch Game or Scotch Opening. Learn Black's Nf6 response to the Scotch Gambit and the Nakhmanson Gambit. Originally on Twitch.
2021.09.27
C44 Scotch gambit, Dubois-Reti defence
C56 Two knights defence
International Master Dorsa Derakhshani continues her series on her favorite ways to play against the Sicilian Defense with White.
2021.11.24
B40 Sicilian, Anderssen variation
B80 Sicilian, Scheveningen variation
International Master Dorsa Derakhshani continues her series on her favorite ways to play against the Sicilian Defense with White.
2021.11.24
Club Chess Associate Alex Moellering substitutes this week. Get in the mind of the mysterious masked 1400 on his journey to a 2000 chess rating.
Grandmaster Bryan Smith teaches a chess endgame class about triangulation and related squares, and switching the player to move on the same position. Learn about zugzwang and waiting moves.
2021.11.23
Trébuchet
Luigi Centurini position
Bryan Smith vs. Nelson Castaneda, 2009
Walter Henneberger vs Aron Nimzowitsch, Swiss Championship (1931)
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1273732
Smith vs. Dennis Wagner, 2015
Club Chess Associate Alex Moellering substitutes this week. Get in the mind of the mysterious masked 1400 on his journey to a 2000 chess rating.
2021.11.23
Alex Moellering vs. Luke Herbst, 2012: B06 Robatsch (modern) defence
Moellering vs. Tyrell Perry, 2014: B30 Sicilian defence
Moellering vs. Kevin Ding, 2014: C44 Scotch gambit
Mike Kummer vs. Moellering, 2020: E81 King's Indian, Saemisch, 5...O-O
Moellering vs. N.N., ???: C03 French, Tarrasch
Moellering vs. N.N., ???:
Nick Risko continues his series on the Scotch Game or Scotch Opening. Learn Black's Nf6 response to the Scotch Gambit and the Nakhmanson Gambit. Originally on Twitch.
2021.09.27
C44 Scotch gambit, Dubois-Reti defence
C56 Two knights defence
Nick Risko continues his series on the Scotch Game or Scotch Opening. Learn the London Defense of the Scotch Gambit: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4 Bb4+ and more. Originally on Twitch.
2021.09.20
C44 Scotch gambit
C44 Scotch gambit, Vitzhum attack
C44 Scotch gambit, Cochrane-Shumov defence
C53 Giuoco Piano, Ghulam Kassim variation
Nick Risko begins his series on the Scotch Game or Scotch Opening. See the deviations beginning on Black's third move. It's 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4. Originally on Twitch.
2021.09.13
C44 Scotch opening
Napoleon Bonaparte vs Henri Gatien Bertrand, St. Helena (1820): C44 Scotch, Lolli variation
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1250609Foi
International Master Dorsa Derakhshani continues her series on her favorite ways to play against the Sicilian Defense with White, with the main lines of the Kan (or Paulsen).
2021.11.17
B47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) variation
B46 Sicilian, Taimanov variation
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