Grandmaster Eric Hansen subs for Mike Kummer in Beginner Breakdown. Hansen reviews a ~1400 level game from a
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QGD Semi-Slav Noteboom Variation – Chess Openings Explained
Jonathan Schrantz debuts a new series that profiles an opening every week. In the QGD Semi-Slav, 4…dxc4 begins
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LIVE Blitz Chess Commentary #328: QGD, Tartakower w/o h6
This is a blitz chess game I played as black with time control 3|2. The opening was the
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Tal vs. Botvinnik | World Championship 1961 – GM Varuzhan Akobian – 2015.10.22
Grandmaster Varuzhan Akobian takes us back to the 1961 rematch of the prior year’s world championship. Mikhail Tal
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QGD Ragozin Variation Middlegame – GM Varuzhan Akobian – 2015.10.20
Grandmaster Varuzhan Akobian teaches you how to play the middlegame out of the Queen’s Gambit Declined Ragozin variation.
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The Exchange Slav – GM Varuzhan Akobian – 2015.10.18
Grandmaster Varuzhan Akobian teaches the kids how to decline the Queen’s Gambit. He reviews names of several openings
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Chigorin Defense Middlegames – GM Ben Finegold – 2015.10.13
Grandmaster Ben Finegold shows games where he met the Queen’s Gambit with the Chigorin Defense. Memorize the opening
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Basic Class: Teachers vs. Student – Beginner Breakdown – 2015.09.29
Mike Kummer shows games where he and Jonathan Schrantz played their student. Details are explained with little bravado.
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World Championships 2004, 2010, 2013 – FM Aviv Friedman – 2015.09.24
FIDE Master Aviv Friedman covers three recent world championship matches featuring Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Peter Leko, Veselin
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Play With/Against the Isolated Pawn – FM Aviv Friedman – 2015.09.22
FIDE Master Aviv Friedman uses Anatoly Karpov’s games to recognize the relevance of isolated Pawns (and Pawn structure
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