Nick Risko teaches all about the Elephant Gambit, a rare opening starting with 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5!?
2021.05.10
C40 QP counter-gambit (elephant gambit)
C40 QP counter-gambit, Maroczy gambit
National Master Caleb Denby hosts a live three round G/3 tournament on Chess.com. The winner earns an entry into a raffle for a grandmaster lesson. This was the first stream from Chess House II.
2021.05.11
Grandmaster Josh Friedel looks at the importance of the king in chess endgames, using games from Lev Psakhis and Friedel himself.
2021.05.11
Lev Psakhis vs. Mark Hebden, 1983
https://old.chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/1844637
Bernd Salvermoser vs. Josh Friedel, 2007
Nick Risko teaches all about a specific chess opening.
2021.05.10
C40 QP counter-gambit (elephant gambit)
C40 QP counter-gambit, Maroczy gambit
National Master Caleb Denby hosts a live seven round G/3 tournament on Chess.com. The winner earns an entry into a raffle for a grandmaster lesson.
2021.05.11
National Master Caleb Denby shows a beginner's chess blunder by Anatoly Karpov at Wijk aan Zee 1993 against Larry Christiansen.
2021.04.28
Larry Christiansen vs Anatoly Karpov, Hoogovens (1993)
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1069116
National Master Caleb Denby shows a chess game where Nigel Short got the best of the greatest ever, Garry Kasparov, in a 1993 King's Gambit thematic exhibition in London.
2021.04.28
Nigel Short vs Garry Kasparov, Exhibition Game (thematic) (1993): C33 King's Gambit Accepted, bishop's gambit, Bryan counter-gambit
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070668
Grandmaster Dariusz Swiercz reviews the games of Radoslaw Wojtaszek from the ongoing 2021 Polish Chess Championship. See the first game of the final match of the 16-player knockout between Wojtaszek and Wojciech Moranda.
Grandmaster Dariusz Swiercz gives his take on sacrificing one's knight on d5, usually from the Sicilian Defense. See when it's good and when it's bad.
Grandmaster Dariusz Swiercz teaches a chess class on a topic of his choice.
2021.05.05
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