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2017 Saint Louis Winter Invitational: Day 6
Ben Simon covers the best of the first rounds of this international tournament. Twenty players from ten nations compete in two ten-player round robins with a combined $20,000 prize fund. Hear from GM Vladimir Fedoseev and GM Irina Krush.
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Match of the Millennials
America’s Most Talented Juniors Challenge the World to a Chess Match
Five prominent chess organizations are partnering to bring the Match of the Millennials to Saint Louis
GM Blog: PRO Chess League - Week 6
During Week 6 of the official PRO Chess League, the Saint Louis Arch Bishops faced the only team with a perfect score, the San Diego Surfers. These elite teams were closely matched and saw a tied score all the way until the final round.
2017 Saint Louis Winter Invitational: Day 5
Jonathan Schrantz challenges you to find the best move. Find a mate or win material with pins, forks, skewers, and more. If you find a good move, see if you can find an even better one.
2017.01.16
2017 Saint Louis Winter Invitational: Day 4
Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan dissects an endgame from the Club's Saturday Night Special on March 4. FM Justus Williams had white against WCM Thalia Cervantes.
2017.03.07
Justus Williams vs. Thalia Cervantes, 2017: D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 3.Nf3
2017 Saint Louis Winter Invitational: Day 3
Dennis LaRue demonstrates the exchange sacrifice: when a rook is given up for a minor piece and positional compensation. Perhaps no player is more closely associated with the concept than is Petrosian.
2017.03.07
Boris Spassky vs Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian, Petrosian - Spassky World Championship Match (1966): A46 Queen's pawn, Torre attack
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2017 Saint Louis Winter Invitational: Day 2
Jonathan Schrantz shows you how to play the Leningrad variation of the Dutch Defence, an opening rarely seen in top level play. In this second part, learn the 7...c6 branch.
2017 Saint Louis Winter Invitational: Day 1
Grandmaster Varuzhan Akobian reviews a Tigran Petrosian game from the 1956 USSR Championship. Petrosian's positional artwork was inspirational to Akobian.
2017.03.02
Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian vs Vladimir Simagin, Ch URS (1956): A15 English opening
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The Dangerous Danish Gambit | Chess Openings Explained
Jonathan Schrantz substitutes for the grandmaster in the debut of this viewer submission lecture. See a game where a player resigned in an engine-declared superior position at the 2016 Wisconsin Memorial.
2017.03.02
Corey A Larson vs. Timothy N Trachok, 2016: A57 Benko gambit
Emily Trask as white, 2017: B20 Sicilian defence
