Lectures with Woman Grandmaster (WGM) Anna Sharevich

 

    
     
    


    
    

Pavel Ponkratov - Vugar Rasulov, David Bronstein Memorial 2014, Minsk

Game collections
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 Bd6 6.Nf3 O-O 7.g3 Bc7
8.d6
8.Bg2 
  

Lecture with Grandmaster David Smerdon

    
   

Vitaliy Bernadskiy - Aleksandr Shimanov, David Bronstein Memorial 2014, Minsk

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Sergei Tiviakov - Jaan Ehlvest, David Bronstein Memorial 2014, Minsk

Game collections 
1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d3 Nc6 4.Nf3 h6 5.O-O d6 6.Re1 g6
1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d3 Nc6 4.Nf3 h6 5.O-O d6 6.Re1 Na5
1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d3 Nc6 4.Nf3 h6 5.O-O d6 6.c3 g6 7.d4 Qe7
   

Surprise the Black Chess King

White to move
  
    

   
Solution (in the analysis)
    

Discover Weaknesses in Your Opponents Position

What squares are no longer enough defended?
A square might be defended by one or two pieces, but that's not always enough.
    
The position after 13.f4-f5   
Srdjan Zakić - Srdjan Cvetković, Aosta 1989

       

 
        

 

Black should have played 13...Nde5. There is no time to wait with playing Nde5 and instead playing first 13...exf5, with the idea 14.Nxf5 Nde5.

      
After 13...exf5 white has no plans to automatically recapture the f5-pawn, since it isn't enough for black that only the king protects the f7-square.

  

Black played 13...exf5?
      

      

  
...and white replied with 14.Qxf7+!!



       

 

 

 

        

Black is lost.
           

     

Gyula Sax - Lev Polugaevsky, Haninge 1989
  
       

Learning Chess with the Rochester Chess Center

Chess video with instructors Ken McBride and David Petty from the Rochester Chess Center. 
     

Chess Match #3 from J Ornelas on Vimeo.
    
      

Carlot-ta - Make me a picture of the sun

   
    

Pawn Breaks and Attack

 

  
The game Jan Timman - Ivan Sokolov, 1996 (Chessgames.com)
Majnu2006 YouTube Channel
     

Key Moments in Chess History

The position after 16...Ra8-e8 in the 2nd game of the World Chess Championship match between Wilhelm Steinitz and Isidor Gunsberg.
      

Link to Greg Shahade's YouTube Channel
     

Jennifer Shahade speaks at TEDxBaltimore

    
   

Magnus Carlsen YouTube Channel

Link to Magnus Carlsen's YouTube Channel    
    

Vox Archangeli - Alleluia Raphael

    
    

What YOU Think the Kids Need to Know

    
    

Vassily Ivanchuk - Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Gibraltar Masters 2014

Game analysis at ChessVibes
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Masterclass 2014 with Vassily Ivanchuk

The video starts after 1 minute, 20 seconds.
    

Fabiano Caruana - Levon Aronian, Zurich Chess Challenge 2014

Game analysis at ChessBase News 
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Endgame study by Leonid Kubbel

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Collection endgame studies 

Magnus Carlsen - Fabiano Caruana, Zurich Chess Challenge 2014

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Levon Aronian - Hikaru Nakamura, Zurich Chess Challenge 2014

Game analysis at ChessBase News 
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - Sandro Mareco, Gibraltar Masters 2014

The game at Chessgames.com
ChessVibes article about Gibraltar Chess Festival 2014

Hikaru Nakamura - Magnus Carlsen, Zurich Chess Challenge 2014

Comments and analysis to the game Hikaru Nakamura - Magnus Carlsen, Zurich Chess Challenge 2014:

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Magnus Carlsen - Boris Gelfand, Zurich Chess Challenge 2014

The game at Chessgames.com

Endgame puzzle

White to move

Judit Polgar published a nice puzzle on Facebook. She wrote: "Working on the 3rd and last volume of my book Judit Polgar Teaches Chess I found this amazing endgame! Can white do anything against Kg7 and Rh2?"

A beautiful finish that wasn't played