New Chess Videos for March 11 – 15
Monday, March 11
IM Bill Paschall – Crushing the Caro-Kann, Part 5 | Opening, Tactics
Legendary GM Judit Polgar brings her attacking talents to the Advance variation of the Caro-Kann. In this battle against a fellow Hungarian GM, Polgar uses a system that has gained much popularity in recent years. This game is a great display of both positional and tactical skill. Black dubiously gives up the bishop pair and never finds compensation for his spacial disadvantage, inherent in this line.
Tuesday, March 12
GM Eugene Perelshteyn – Instructive Positional Win in the Grand Prix Attack | Opening, Strategy
We know of standard plan for White to attack in the Grand Prix Attack. Yet, in this video GM Perelshteyn shows you a cool positional idea that totally locks up Black’s bishop on c8. White controls the entire board and Black is left with no counterplay whatsoever!
Wednesday, March 13
GM Leonid Kritz – New Look in Rare But Increasingly Popular Opening | Opening, Tactics
The 3.e5 c5 line in Caro-Kann is getting more and more popular as white finds better ways to get an advantage in against 3….Bf5. Anand demonstrates a new approach to this position by transposing into a French Defense pawn structure with an extra move time. I think black was okay until he played too impulsively 13….a5, after which his position got worse. Some nice tactical tricks at the end are worth calculating for yourself, before seeing the remainder of the game.
Thursday, March 14
GM Nadya Kosintseva – A Nimzo-Indian Repertoire for Black, Part 1 – Meeting 4.Qc2 & 5.e4 | Opening, Strategy
I’m starting a new, seven-part series about the Nimzo-Indian Defense (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4). This defense is well known from ancient times but still very popular at any skill level, including at the top. Personally, I used to play this opening for many years from the black point of view and always appreciated its solidness together with the variety of counter play it promised for black, and I’ll present my recommended approaches here for you.
Friday, March 15
FM Dennis Monokroussos – Getting the Last Laugh | Tactics
In the previous game Vladimir Kramnik had White in a Sicilian against Veselin Topalov; this time he’s playing Black. In the mid-1990s Kramnik generally played the Classical Sicilian (in the happy days before he put the Berlin Defense on the map; practically turning the Berlin Defense into the whole map), regularly achieving insanely complicated positions. (Recall his 1993 game with Shirov, covered in one of my recent videos.) This was a see-saw affair, with Kramnik finding most of the most interesting ideas and finally winning the tactical battle. Get ready for a mind-bogglingly complex game, and try your hand at figuring things out for yourself.