Kasparov's Trainer Smashes Keres Attack: The Best Games Of The 1970s
The Sicilian Defense requires great precision from both sides. Watch how Kasparov's trainer and Sicilian specialist, GM...
Karpov's 1st Loss As World Chess Champion: The Best Games Of The 1970s
Anatoly Karpov's 1st defeat as the newly crowned World Chess Champion was a stunner! Don't miss his battle with Ulf Andersson...
The Greatest French Defense Ever Played: The Best Games Of The 1970s
The following game against Sammy Reshevsky is one of the great masterpieces in the French Defense, possibly the greatest...
An INSANE Chess Move: The Best Games Of The 1970s
Emil Diemer was a deeply troubled chess player. He was the co-author of the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, a committed madman,...
Is This The Most Crushing Isolated Pawn Attack Ever: The Best Games Of The 1970s
In the 1975-76 Hastings tournament, two English future grandmasters (the first English grandmasters in fact!) did battle...
Karpov - Kasparov: Games Of The 80s
This game really begins with Kasparov offering his famous ...d5?! gambit. Today we know this gambit to be unsound, but at...
Kopylov vs. Korelov: Games Of The 80s
Check out a little-known correspondence chess king hunt!
Portisch vs. Pinter: Games Of The 80s
In one of the prettiest chess games of all time, Jozsef Pinter conducted a spectacular king hunt in the endgame, using his...
van de Loo vs. Hesseling: Games Of The 80s
According to GM Andy Soltis, the following game features the most stunning chess novelty ever played—19.Qa4!!
Tal vs. Hjartarson: Games Of The 80s
Tal combines exquisite positional play with a beautiful final tactical denouement, winning a game that I consider one of...
Smirin vs. Beliavsky: Games Of The 80s
Many great chess players have lived in Garry Kasparov's chess shadow. Alexander Beliavsky is one of those players - a brilliant...
Kasparov vs. Petrosian: Games Of The 80s
In Tilburg, 1981, the 18-year-old prodigy Garry Kasparov faced the great world chess champion Tigran Petrosian. Kasparov,...
Beliavsky vs. Nunn: Games Of The 80s
In this game, we see Nunn punishing Beliavsky's Saemish variation as the move 9.h3? provides him the opportunity to initiate...
Korchnoi vs Karpov: Games Of The 1980s
Anatoly Karpov is absolutely central to the story of chess in the 1980s. Karpov dominated the early half of the decade and...
Polugaevsky vs. Torre: Games Of The 80s
Lev Polugaevsky shows off one of the most brilliant chess opening ideas ever played, his positional rook sacrifice against...
Karpov (Age 70) Defeats Karjakin In Epic Endgame!
Join NM Sam Copeland as he breaks down this chess game between Anatoly Karpov and Sergey Karjakin that took place at the...
Checkmate With Bishop And Knight
The hardest forced checkmate against a lone king is the bishop and knight mate. It's tricky, but if you learn the best plan,...
Checkmate With Two Bishops
Often in an endgame, the defending side will try to sacrifice a piece to eliminate the attacker's final pawn. When that...
World Cup Highlights: Fedoseev - Carlsen
Magnus Carlsen faced off against Vladimir Fedoseev in the 3rd place match of the 2021 FIDE World Cup. In Game 1, Carlsen...
Top 10 Games Of The 1990s: 11-Year-Old Chess Prodigy Wins Brilliancy–Passov vs Sammour-Hasbun 1991
Sam Copeland's pick for the tenth best game of the 1990s was played by an 11 year old! Was this the greatest game ever played...
Top 10 Games Of The 1990s: Shirov's Miraculous Chess Swindle–Kramnik vs Shirov 1994
Alexey Shirov is a famed attacker and in this game against the great Vladimir Kramnik, Shirov's desperation attack broke...
Top 10 Games Of The 1990s: Kramnik Crushes Kasparov–Kasparov vs Kramnik 1996
Garry Kasparov didn't lose many games in the 1990s, but in Dos Hermanas, 1996, Vladimir Kramnik played a daring sacrificial...
Top 10 Games Of The 1990s: The Perfect f2 Attack In Chess–Nunn Vs. Nataf, 1999
John Nunn is known as a great attacking player, but in Sam Copeland's number seven game of the 90s Igor Nataf took the initiative...
Top 10 Games Of The 1990s: Anand's Positional Chess Masterpiece!–Ivanchuk vs. Anand, 1992
How can a positional game be one of the greatest of the 90s? Sam Copeland explains how each counter-intuitive decision by...
Top 10 Games Of The 1990s: A Human AlphaZero–Isaev vs. Timoshenko 1991
Sam Copeland's pick for the number five game of the 90s is a spectacularly deep correspondence game. It feels like Timoshenko...