Improving your Puzzle Rush Score: Discovered Check
Familiarize yourself with common Puzzle Rush patterns in this video from GM Simon Williams on Discovered Attacks! Just lean...
Improving Your Puzzle Rush Score: Qa4 & Qa5
Why should you study puzzles? To get a better score at Puzzle Rush! And to improve as a chess player... Fortunately, the...
Kramnik's Breakthrough: Great Chess Master Methods
Vladimir Kramnik is a genius at knowing exactly the best moment to break through in a chess position. Take a look at his...
Botvinnik's Trades: Great Chess Master Methods
Can you gain an advantage simply by trading pieces? If you're an all-time great like Botvinnik, that's your signature strategy....
Reti's Bishops: Great Chess Master Methods
How did the world's best chess players in history achieve greatness? Some of them had trademark methods, like Richard Reti...
What Is Alekhine’s Gun?
How do you bombard your opponent with your heavy pieces? Learn how to form "Alekhine's Gun" and destroy your enemy on an...
Tactical Ideas In The Endgame: Stalemate
If you find yourself down material and about to lose an endgame, there is one last-ditch tactic you can aim for: stalemate....
Mistakes: Learning To Identify Mistakes
What good are mistakes if you can't identify them and learn from them? Find out how to spot the mistakes in your chess game...
Get Better At Bullet Chess: Checkmate
What good is getting a winning position in bullet chess if you can't deliver the all-important checkmate? GM Aman Hambleton...
Premove Your Way To Bullet Success
You won't reach your bullet chess potential without knowing the best way to premove both in the opening and when the clocks...
Nakamura's No-Good Underpromotion: Funniest Games
Underpromotion, when done correctly, illustrates the subtle beauty of chess. That's not the case here, because Hikaru Nakamura's...
This Is Why You Never Play Copy Cat: Funniest Games
They say cats have nine lives, but in chess you can be sure that copy cats don't. Learn why you should never mirror your...
The Most Amazing Chess Moves: Daring Defense
When most people think amazing chess moves, they think ATTACK! But if you truly appreciate the subtle beauty of the game,...
The Random Stalemate: Funniest Chess Games
Surprise! It's stalemate on the board after a shockingly low number of moves. Was this one of the greatest chess failures...
Winning A Game With No Captures: Funniest Games Ever
The legendary GM Gligoric won a serious tournament game in 29 moves without any captures being made by either side. Find...
The Most Amazing Chess Moves: American Genius
Paul Morphy and Frank Marshall are two titans of American chess history, so it's no surprise that they both have contenders...
Sacrifice On h6: Let's Do It Again From A French Defense Structure
Would you believe that the French Defense presents so much opportunity to sacrifice and attack that GM Williams has another...
Sacrifice On h6: Let's Do It From A French Defense Structure
Everyone knows you can sacrifice on h6 to get an attack on the king, but can you do it against the solid confines of a French...
How To Checkmate: Double Bishop Mate
Can you harness the almighty power of two bishops to checkmate? GM Simon Williams shows you how to deliver death on the...
How To Checkmate: Smothered Mate
This is the checkmate that knight fans dream their whole lives of playing in a real game -- the smothered mate. It's probably...
Magnus Carlsen's 5 Tips For Beginners
Are you a chess beginner? Can you think of anyone better to learn from than the highest-rated chess player of all time,...
How To Checkmate: Dovetail Mate
Do you know the dovetail checkmate? Even GM Simon Williams admits he wasn't familiar with the name, if not the pattern....
More Brilliant: Grischuk or Rapport?
Super-GMs Alexander Grischuk and Richard Rapport are set to battle this Thursday on Chess.com in round one of the 2017 Speed...
Advanced Tactics: Pseudo-Pins
How can you use pseudo-pins to win chess games? GM Ben Finegold explains their power in this tactical lesson.
Top 10 PRO League Tactics
What were the best tactics of this year's PRO Chess League? FM Mike Klein counts them down in this fun and educational video....