2017 Spring Chess Classic: Day 7
Ben Simon covers the best of the seventh day of this international tournament. Twenty-six players from eleven nations compete in two ten-player round robins and one six-player double round robin with a...
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Ben Simon covers the best of the penultimate day of this international tournament. Twenty-six players from eleven nations compete in two ten-player round robins and one six-player double round robin...
View Article2017 Mayhem in May Tournament Results
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View ArticleScholastic Tournament Blog: Mayhem in May Recap
The CCSCSL scholastic tournament series headed to West County this past Saturday for our Mayhem in May event at Christian Brothers College High School. Ninety-five young contestants braved...
View Article2017 Spring Chess Classic: Final Day
Ben Simon covers the best of the ninth and final day of this international tournament. Twenty-six players from eleven nations compete in two ten-player round robins and one six-player double round...
View ArticleYour Entertaining Sacrifices & Blunders | Viewers' Choice - IM Eric Rosen
International Master Eric Rosen analyzes YouTube game submissions. Take a look at the good and bad, including a crazy final game of (unsound) sacrifices.2017.05.04 Hiro Higuchi vs. Daniel Bronfeyn,...
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Crush the Sicilian with 2.Nc3 | Games to Know by Heart - IM Eric Rosen
International Master Eric Rosen looks at Sicilian games you can learn by heart with 2. Nc3. See the best continuations. Transpositions are included.
View ArticleEndgame Tactics: Pigs on the Seventh | Endgame Exclam!! - IM Eric Rosen
International Master Eric Rosen challenges you with a bunch of endgame tactics. Several themes are explored, such as "pig on the seventh" or both rooks dominating the seventh rank.2017.05.09 Eric S...
View ArticleBlitz Bounty: Gangsta Edition, Analyzed! | Viewers' Choice - IM Eric Rosen
International Master Eric Rosen takes a look at the blunder-fest that was the blitz game in Forest Park between Mike Kummer and Club member Junior Banks. Plus, toxic_hunter sends his games...
View ArticleBlack Wins Against 1.d4 | Games to Know by Heart - IM Eric Rosen
International Master Eric Rosen equips you with some openings for Black against 1.d4. See games where Black wins when White opens with the queen pawn.
View ArticleAwonder Liang vs. Aleksandr Lenderman, Spring Classic 2017 | Games to Know by...
Caleb Denby substitutes for the GM to review a game from the 2017 Spring Chess Classic, held at the Club. See one of Awonder's victories that helped him secure 1st Place in Group B.2017.05.25 Awonder...
View ArticleEvgeny Alekseev vs. Irina Krush, Baku 2013 | Games to Know by Heart
Caleb Denby substitutes for the GM to review a game he does not yet know by heart: Alekseev vs. Krush from the 2013 Baku Open. This game is only 25 moves long and is an entertaining attacking game you...
View ArticleEuwe vs. Yanofsky, Groningen 1946 | Endgame Exclam!! - GM Eric Hansen
Grandmaster Eric Hansen tours through a fascinating opposite-colored bishops endgame between Max Euwe and the first Canadian grandmaster Daniel Yanofsky. Despite White's advantage of two connected...
View ArticleTata Steel 2017: Hansen Takes on Smirin | Games to Know by Heart - GM Eric...
Grandmaster Eric Hansen relives his favorite game from Wijk aan Zee 2017: his final round victory over Israeli grandmaster Ilya Smirin.2017.06.08 Eric Hansen vs Ilya Smirin, Tata Steel (Challengers)...
View ArticleFinegold's Great Endgame vs. Robert Fischer (not THE...) | Endgame Exclam!! -...
Grandmaster Ben Finegold shows four different endgames spanning from the mid-80s to the mid-90s. Remind yourselves of active pieces vs. passive pieces and when to trade.
View ArticleIsaac Schrantz vs. Sasha Chapin | Viewers' Choice - GM Ben Finegold
Grandmaster Ben Finegold reviews a viewer submission and a game between a Club employee and author Sasha Chapin. Recommendations for playing the London system and Chigorin defense are given.2017.06.15...
View Article2017 Paris Grand Chess Tour: Day 1
The 2017 Paris Grand Chess Tour is the first stop of the Grand Chess Tour. Today is the first of three days of rapid chess. The ten players will play nine rapid games and 18 blitz games over five days....
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The 2017 Paris Grand Chess Tour is the first stop of the Grand Chess Tour. Today is the first of three days of rapid chess. The ten players will play nine rapid games and 18 blitz games over five days....
View Article2017 Paris Grand Chess Tour: Day 2
The 2017 Paris Grand Chess Tour is the first stop of the Grand Chess Tour. Today is the second of three days of rapid chess. The ten players will play nine rapid games and 18 blitz games over five...
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