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The Best of Erik "The Tank" Tkachenko | Road to 2000
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Basic Endgames for Everyone Under 2000 | Road to 2000 - NM Julian Proleiko
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Carlsen's Comeback at Tata Steel 2023 - WGM Thalia Cervantes
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Space in Chess | Beginner Breakdown - NM Ralph Tan
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Opening Principles | Beginner Breakdown - NM Julian Proleiko
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Attacks & Defenses | Beginner Breakdown - GM Alex Yermolinsky
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DESTROY the Scandinavian, CHASE the Lady! | Beginner Breakdown - GM Denes Boros
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Amazing Drawing Combinations! | Beginner Breakdown - NM Ralph Tan
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Create and Utilize Pins | Beginner Breakdown - NM Ralph Tan
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Decoys: Dupe the Defender | Beginner Breakdown - NM Ralph Tan
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Chess Puzzles: Piece-by-Piece | Beginner Breakdown
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How to Learn a New Chess Opening | Beginner Breakdown
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Learn From Master Games! | Beginner Breakdown
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Positional Pros and Cons | Beginner Breakdown
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Progressing with Chess Puzzles | Beginner Breakdown
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How to Get a Promotion! | Beginner Breakdown
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What's Your Alignment? | Beginner Breakdown
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Basic Checkmates Breakdown! | Beginner Breakdown
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Roses are Red, Chess is a Game | Beginner Breakdown
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Hone Your Tactical Radar | Beginner Breakdown
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Clear the Way! Long Diagonals & Open Files | Beginner Breakdown
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Opposition and Outflanking | Beginner Breakdown
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Trading and Counting | Beginner Breakdown
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Beginner's Guide to Calculation and Move Selection | Beginner Breakdown
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Forcing Moves Revisited | Beginner Breakdown
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Alex at the Staff Tournament | Beginner Breakdown
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Simplify Complicated Chess Positions | Beginner Breakdown
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The Pawn Primer | Beginner Breakdown
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This Thanksgiving, Try a Skewer! | Beginner Breakdown
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Loose Pieces Drop Off! | Beginner Breakdown
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Intermezzo: Put Your Plans on Hold! | Beginner Breakdown
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Beautiful Checkmate Patterns | Beginner Breakdown
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Rook Endgames You Should Know | Beginner Breakdown
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Famous Odds Games | Road to 2000 - NM Caleb Denby
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How to Sac and Attack versus the Sicilian
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Mode: Autopilot | Beginner Breakdown
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Oldest Recorded Chess Games | Road to 2000 - NM Caleb Denby
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How to Beat a 2300 in 15 Moves
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How Does White WIN This Endgame?!
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Game Analysis 101 | Beginner Breakdown
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The Endgame | Beginner Breakdown
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Fianchettoed Bishops are OP
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Refuting the Grob | Road to 2000 - NM Caleb Denby
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Forcing Moves | Beginner Breakdown
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I Put My Opponent's Pieces in Jail
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Explaining Positional Plans (while Blindfolded!)
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A Knight's Tale | Beginner Breakdown
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Rook Moves for Rookies | Beginner Breakdown
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Launching My Greek Gift in 13 Moves
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The Pin is Mightier Than The Sword | Beginner Breakdown
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Combinations | Beginner Breakdown
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How to Find the PERFECT Mate! | Beginner Breakdown
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TOP 6 BLUNDERS from the FIDE Grand Prix 2022, Leg 2
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Future World Champion Beats Me Fair and Square
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Instructive Classical Chess: He Got A New Queen...
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Surveying the Scene | Beginner Breakdown
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What is the Portuguese Gambit?
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I Played Perfectly Versus the Ruy Lopez... (Instructive Classical Chess)
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How I Beat 429 People at Chess...
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I Beat the King's Gambit in 14 Moves
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Every Chess Player Should Know THIS Structure
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Playing Perfectly Against the Danish Gambit
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How To Travel Through Space and Time
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How To Stalemate Like Eric Rosen
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How To WIN FAST with the MAX LANGE
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Alex Moellering's 1400 Journey | Road to 2000
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12 of Paul Morphy's Greatest Games! | The Dynamic Dozen
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A Shot of Scotch #1: Third Move Sidelines | Chess Openings Explained
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A Shot of Scotch: The Napoleon Gambit | Chess Openings Explained
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12 Endgames That Every Player Should Know! | The Dynamic Dozen
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The Road to 2000 Championship III | Road to 2000 - NM Caleb Denby
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The Road to 2000 Championship II | Road to 2000 - NM Caleb Denby
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Netflix's The Queen's Gambit: Episodes 1-2 | Chess Openings Explained - NM Caleb Denby
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Weak Squares & Bad Gambits | Chess Openings Explained - NM Caleb Denby
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Escape Beginner Opening Mistakes | Road to 2000 - NM Caleb Denby
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More Essential Endgames | Endgame Class - NM Caleb Denby
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Essential Endgames for Beginners | Endgame Class - NM Caleb Denby
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The Chess Club Staff Throws Down! | Road to 2000 - NM Caleb Denby
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Chess Openings for Beginners: Fight against the Italian Opening!
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The Ragozin | Chess Openings Explained - NM Caleb Denby
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March 27, 2020 King and Pawn Warfare - IM Dorsa Derakhshani
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March 17, 2020 Chess Openings Explained | NM Jim McLaughlin
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Artificial Intelligence: The Most Exciting Thing in Chess - GM Patrick Wolff
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“Rubinstein’s Immortal” and More Classics | Romantic Chess - GM Aleksandr Lenderman
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Peter & Perry’s Games | Viewers’ Choice - GM Aleksandr Lenderman
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The King Hunt - FM Sunil Weeramantry
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The Immortal Draw & Petrov’s Immortal | Romantic Chess - GM Aman Hambleton
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Morphy & Anderssen vs. the French Defense | Romantic Chess - NM Jim McLaughlin
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Evan Kelly vs. Nick Risko | Viewers’ Choice
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Games from Nikolas, Sirmaur, & Shivam | Viewers’ Choice - GM Pepe Cuenca
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Glance at the Greek Youth Championship | Viewers’ Choice - GM Pepe Cuenca
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Valentine's Day Games | Viewers' Choice - GM Pepe Cuenca
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Interesting Moments & Opening Advice | Viewers’ Choice - GM Atanas Kolev
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The Old Benoni | Chess Openings Explained
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Games from Dam Sehgal & Perry Colson | Viewers’ Choice - GM Denes Boros
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Don’t Close the Center! | Viewers’ Choice - GM Denes Boros
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Responses to the Evans Gambit | Chess Openings Explained
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Amateur Openings & Gambits | Play Like a Pro - IM Eric Rosen
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Underpromotion: When a Queen Just Won't Work | Secret Life of Pawns - IM Eric Rosen
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A Beginner Opening Lesson | Chess Openings Explained
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Losing & Learning on Lichess.org | Strategy Session - IM Eric Rosen
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Pros Losing Really Quickly | Play Like a Pro - IM Eric Rosen
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Crushing (and Getting Crushed) on Lichess.org | Strategy Session - IM Eric Rosen
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Attack the G-Pawn! | Tactics Time!
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The Courageous King's Gambit | Chess Openings Explained
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Zwischenzug | Puzzler's Paradise - IM Vitaly Neimer
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Double Attack Unprotected Pieces | Tactics Time!
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Get Over Here: Force the King down the Board | Tactics Time!
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Traps & Miniatures from Morphy & Napoleon | Play Like a Pro - IM Vitaly Neimer
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Pawn Structures: Double, TRIPLE the Pawns! | Secret Life of Pawns - IM Vitaly Neimer
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Force a Creative Stalemate, & more | Tactics Time!
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Opening Principles in the Ruy Lopez | Chess Openings Explained
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Passed Pawns: What to Do? | Secret Life of Pawns - GM Varuzhan Akobian
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The Ruy Lopez, Chigorin Variation #2 | Chess Openings Explained
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Rolling In: Pawn Promotion | Secret Life of Pawns - GM Atanas Kolev
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Finishing Tarrasch's Tactics Book | Tactics Time!
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Friedel Crumbles the Pawn Clump! | Secret Life of Pawns - GM Josh Friedel
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X-Rays & Pawn Wedges | Tactics Time!
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Kamsky vs. Karpov at Linares '91 | Strategy Session - GM Josh Friedel
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Play the Breyer like Peter Svidler! | Chess Openings Explained
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Svidler vs. Hou Yifan, Tata Steel 2018 | Secret Life of Pawns - GM Josh Friedel
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Perpetual Check & Rooks on the 7th Rank | Tactics Time!
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Find the Under-Defended Back Rank Weakness | Tactics Time!
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The Passed Pawn is Making a Run for It! | Secret Life of Pawns - GM Denes Boros
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Puzzles: Attack Your Opponent's King | Tactics Time!
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Bust the London System! | Strategy Session - GM Denes Boros
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KeshavJindal19 Wins with White & Black | Viewers' Choice
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King & Pawn vs. King: Take the Opposition | Endgame Exclam!!
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Attack "King's Rook 7" with the Queen & a Piece, Part 2 | Tactics Time!
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Ben Simon Wins Big at the Holiday Bash | Viewers' Choice - GM Denes Boros
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Attack "King's Rook 7" with the Queen & a Piece, Part 1 | Tactics Time!
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Games of James Allen, Rebeca_L, and trickortreat08 | Viewers' Choice - GM Denes Boros
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Shapiro, Woolem, & Benson submit their Best | Viewers' Choice - GM Varuzhan Akobian
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Crushing People on lichess.org | Viewers' Choice - IM Eric Rosen
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Destruction of a Guard + Illusory Protection | Tactics Time!
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Akobian vs. Mareco, 2017 Spring Classic | Games to Know by Heart - GM Varuzhan Akobian
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Dangerous Tales of Unguarded Men | Tactics Time!
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Get Cocky with the Cochrane Gambit | Chess Openings Explained
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Find the Double Attacks | Tactics Time!
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Vladimir Kramnik vs. Smbat Lputian, 1992 | Games to Know by Heart - GM Cristian Chirila
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"JamesKirkland" Knocks out "BanelingKing" | Viewers' Choice - GM Cristian Chirila
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Pins: Absolutely No Way to Move | Tactics Time!
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Hectogon & rillip3 do NOT impress the GM! | Viewers' Choice - GM Cristian Chirila
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Aronian vs. Naiditsch, GRENKE 2017 | Games to Know by Heart - GM Cristian Chirila
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The Four Knights, Spanish Variation: Part 2 | Chess Openings Explained
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The Four Knights, Spanish Variation: Part 1 | Chess Openings Explained
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The Petrosian Exchange Sacrifice | Games to Know by Heart - GM Denes Boros
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S.P. Hoefer Breaks through with Black | Viewers' Choice - GM Denes Boros
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Shining Games from Elijah & Andrew | Viewers' Choice - GM Denes Boros
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Greek George's Accuracy & Ken West's Loss | Viewers' Choice - IM Vitaly Neimer
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The Budapest Gambit | Chess Openings Explained
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Richard Réti & Judit Polgár Hypermodern Games | Games to Know by Heart - WGM Sabina Foisor
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TheAnonymousGM Brad Mates in Brutal Fashion! | Viewers' Choice - WGM Sabina Foisor
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Judit Polgár puts away Kasparov | Games to Know by Heart - WGM Sabina Foisor
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Games from Blakeus, Meine Velze, and Mr. Pinto | Viewers' Choice - WGM Sabina Foisor
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Ethan Gagliano plays up against the Paulsen Sicilian | Viewers' Choice - WGM Anna Sharevich
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Play the Panov-Botvinnik Attack | Chess Openings Explained
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Larsen's Opening: 1.b3 | Chess Openings Explained
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John Moorman's Educational Loss as Black | Viewers' Choice - GM Josh Friedel
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Your Scandinavian Games Reviewed! | Viewers' Choice - GM Josh Friedel
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Games from Garrett Deutermann | Viewers' Choice - GM Ben Finegold
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Don't Queen, Underpromote for the Victory! | Tactics Time!
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The Shirov Attack in the Advance Caro-Kann | Chess Openings Explained
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Ben Dubuque Blunders into a Draw | Viewers' Choice - GM Ben Finegold
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Isaac Schrantz vs. Sasha Chapin | Viewers' Choice - GM Ben Finegold
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Evgeny Alekseev vs. Irina Krush, Baku 2013 | Games to Know by Heart
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Awonder Liang vs. Aleksandr Lenderman, Spring Classic 2017 | Games to Know by Heart
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Blitz Bounty: Gangsta Edition, Analyzed! | Viewers' Choice - IM Eric Rosen
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Your Entertaining Sacrifices & Blunders | Viewers' Choice - IM Eric Rosen
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It's not Scary, Gambit like Milner-Barry | Chess Openings Explained
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Two Knights Defense with 4. Ng5 | Chess Openings Explained
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Ivanchuk vs. Yusupov, Brussels '91 | Games to Know by Heart - GM Yasser Seirawan
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Smothered Mate and an Urusov Gambit | Viewers' Choice - GM Yasser Seirawan
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Fischer, Spassky, Larsen Miniatures | Games to Know by Heart - GM Yasser Seirawan
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Exchange Sacrifice: Spassky vs. Petrosian | Tactics Time!
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Learn the Leningrad Dutch Part 2: 7...c6 | Chess Openings Explained
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Redemption at the Wisconsin Memorial | Viewers' Choice
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Double Attack: Making the Most of a Move | Tactics Time!
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Learn the Leningrad Dutch Part 1: 7...Nc6 | Chess Openings Explained
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Don't Eat Capablanca's Danish! | Tactics Time!
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The Dangerous Danish Gambit | Chess Openings Explained
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E. Williams vs. Staunton, London 1851 | Tactics Time!
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The Complete Semi-Slav Part 10: Anti-Moscow Variation (6.Bh4) | Chess Openings Explained
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Learn these Akiba Rubinstein Classics! | Games to Know by Heart
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Club Players Love the Colle and Sveshnikov | Two Wrongs Make a Knight
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The Complete Semi-Slav Part 9: Moscow Variation (5…h6) | Chess Openings Explained
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The Complete Semi-Slav Part 8: Botvinnik (16. Na4 Main Line) | Chess Openings Explained
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Kamsky, Fischer, and the PRO Chess League | Games to Know by Heart - GM Denes Boros
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Local Endgames, Castling, & Tactics | Two Wrongs Make a Knight - GM Denes Boros
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Rosen's Awesome Miniatures | Games to Know by Heart - IM Eric Rosen
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Beat Fischer, Karjakin, & Kummer | Games to Know by Heart - IM Eric Rosen
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The Complete Semi-Slav Part 7: Botvinnik (16. Rb1 Lines) | Chess Openings Explained
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Maximillian Lu: The Best 11 Year Old | Chess in the 21st Century - GM Ben Finegold
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The Complete Semi-Slav Part 6: Botvinnik Sidelines | Chess Openings Explained
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Arthur Guo: The Best 10 Year Old | Chess in the 21st Century - GM Ben Finegold
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The Complete Semi-Slav Part 5: Shirov-Shabalov Gambit (7.g4) | Chess Openings Explained
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Sam Sevian: 20th Century Wonder | Chess in the 21st Century - GM Ben Finegold
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The Complete Semi-Slav Part 4: The Anti-Merans (7.b3 & 7.Bd3) | Chess Openings Explained
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Rochelle Wu at the World U12 | Chess in the 21st Century - GM Ben Finegold
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The Complete Semi-Slav Part 3: The Reynolds Attack | Chess Openings Explained
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