London Opening System: How to Play for White and Black
London System is one of the easiest openings to learn and one of the hardest openings to face. It makes it popular among beginners as well as among strong players…
21 Free Chess Video Courses [Watch & Download]
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Anti-Sicilians Complete Guide
Chess players are always looking for favorable, easy-to-understand, and easy-to-play openings. But in the openings like 1.e4 there are so many different structures that it is not easy to choose…
64 Concepts You Should Really Know: A Course by a Chess Team, for the Club Player
The following is a guest post by IM Richard Palliser. A prolific opening theoretician and Chessable author, IM Palliser recently came out with his new course 64 Chess Concepts You Should…
Anti Sicilians for White – Free Course
Love to play 1.e4, but hate to deal with all the theory behind Sicilian Defense? FM Milan Popovic has your back! After playing these lines for over a decade, he’s…
Cheating in Online Chess (Part II): The Analysis of Engine Use
Héctor Laiz Ibáñez and Raúl Sánchez García are currently conducting a qualitative study on cheating in online chess, whose preliminary findings they describe in a two-part blog entry. This blog…
Philidor Defense: Complete Guide
For amateur players, the study of openings should not take up most of their time. Other topics like strategy, tactical vision, and practical decision-making have a far greater impact on…
Going Above and Beyond: Christoph Kuberczyk
Andrew Kauffman Andrew is a chess player and writer from Detroit on a mission to make the Motor City into the chess capital of the world. Keep an eye out…
1…d6 System – Free Course
Looking for a solid, yet flexible opening choice against 1.e4? IM Valentin Baidetskyi recommends… the Philidor Defense. But there is a twist. It’s not that old & boring Philidor. It is completely…
King’s Indian Defense Complete Guide
Kings Indian Defense (KID) is an opening for the fighter. It’s for the player with a never-give-up attitude who will fight for the full point from move 1. The greatest…