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NM Dan Heisman's "Improve Your Chess IV"

April 19, 2013

National Master Dan Heisman is a name that is synonymous with excellence in chess coaching and teaching. Dan authors the award-winning Novice Nook column (winner of three Chess Journalists of America "Best Instruction" awards), aimed at improving adults, for chesscafe.com that are clearly written and offer very practical advice and tips on how to improve your game. More info about Dan can be found here.

In the new Improve Your Chess IV series, Dan provides instruction by reviewing amateur games played on ICC and showing where the players went wrong and how to improve.
Today's show: Tactics that are triggered by moves that initially look unsafe or unreasonable ("invisible moves"). One such example are "sneaky pins": moves that take advantage of the squares that pinned pieces are no longer guarding. Includes original problems and samples from the books Invisible Moves, Power Chess for Kids, and Move First, Think Later.

Invisible Moves and Sneaky Pins

Members: Full Show

April 2014
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
		1	2	3	4	5
		Queen's Gambit Declined #1	Attack with LarryC: It's Only Me	Urusov Gambit #1	GM Quingnan - GM Yangyi	Learning Opening Tactics with The Winning Way
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
A great quasi-comeback - part 1	US Championship - part 2	Queen's Gambit Declined #2	Attack with LarryC: Spring Cleaning!	Urusov Gambit #2	GM Van Kampen - GM Rapport	1900 Plays Fast and Suffers Upset
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
A great quasi-comeback - part 2	US Championship - part 3	Queen's Gambit Declined #3	Attack with LarryC: A Taylor-Made sac-cloth, Carmen's March and How to Landa Punch	Max Lange Attack #1	GM Nepomniachtchi - GM Svidler	Invisible Moves and Sneaky Pins
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Gashimov Memorial GOTD Round 1

March 2014
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
						1
						Endgame Study Negated with Fast Play
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
The Caro-Kann Besieged - part 1	Toward the Candidates - part 5	Trompowsky Attack #7	Attack with LarryC: Gulyev Zhigs the Blues	Benko Gambit #3	GM Nikita Maiorov - GM Ding Liren	Typical Amateur Loss After Up a Piece
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
The Caro-Kann Besieged - part 2	Toward the Candidates - part 6	Trompowsky Attack #8	Attack with LarryC: Ladies Second!	Candidates 2014 - GOTD Rd 1	Candidates 2014 - GOTD Rd 2	Candidates 2014 - GOTD Rd 3
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
The Caro-Kann Besieged - part 3	Candidates 2014 - GOTD Rd 4	Candidates 2014 - GOTD Rd 5	Candidates 2014 - GOTD Rd 6	Benko Gambit #4	Candidates 2014 - GOTD Rd 7	Candidates 2014 - GOTD Rd 8
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
Candidates 2014 - GOTD Rd 9	Toward the Candidates - part 7	Candidates 2014 - GOTD Rd 10	Candidates 2014 - GOTD Rd 11	Candidates 2014 - GOTD Rd 12	GM Mustafa Yilmaz - GM Alexander Motylev	Candidates 2014 - GOTD Rd 13
30	31
Candidates 2014 - GOTD Rd 14	US Championship - part 1

February 2014
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
						1
						Zurich Challenge 2014 - Round 3 GOTD
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Zurich Challenge 2014 - Round 4 GOTD	Zurich Challenge 2014 - Round 5 GOTD	Trompowsky Attack #3	Attack with LarryC: KID on the Rock	Traxler Counter-attack #2	IM Etienne Goudriaan - GM Jan Timman	Philidor and Lucena
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Looking back at 2013 #2	Toward the Candidates - part 2	Trompowsky Attack #4	Attack with LarryC: More Nuggets from the Rock 2014	Traxler Counter-attack #3	GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave- GM Sandro Mareco	Just for Fun Queen Sac
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Looking back at 2013 #3	Toward the Candidates - part 3	Trompowsky Attack #5	Attack with LarryC: Nei doubles down and A Gust of Win	Benko Gambit #1	GM Nikita Vitiugov - GM Vassily Ivanchuk	Solving an Endgame Puzzle
23	24	25	26	27	28
Looking back at 2013 #4	Toward the Candidates - part 4	Trompowsky Attack #6	Attack with LarryC: An Oscar for Kingside Story	Benko Gambit #2	GM Vladimir Akopian - GM Boris Chatalbashev

January 2014
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
			1	2	3	4
			Attack with LarryC: Alekseev Fireworks to Start 2014	Fried Liver Attack #1	GM Emil Sutovsky - IM Martin Zumsande	Endgame Turnaround
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Looking back at 2013 #1	Kasparov-Kramnik 2000 - part 3	Repertoire for Black - The English Defense #15	Attack with LarryC: Striking sacrifices at Wijk aan Zee	Fried Liver Attack #2	GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek - GM Ivan Popov	Tata Steel 2014 - Round 1 GOTD
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Tata Steel 2014 - Round 2 GOTD	Tata Steel 2014 - Round 3 GOTD	Trompowsky Attack #1	Tata Steel 2014 - Round 4 GOTD	Traxler counter-attack #1	Tata Steel 2014 - Round 5 GOTD	Tata Steel 2014 - Round 6 GOTD
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
Tata Steel 2014 - Round 7 GOTD	Kasparov-Kramnik 2000 - part 4	Tata Steel 2014 - Round 8 GOTD	Attack with LarryC: In Harmen's Way	Tata Steel 2014 - Round 9 GOTD	GM Josep Oms Pallisse - GM Vugar Gashimov	Tata Steel 2014 - Round 10 GOTD
26	27	28	29	30	31
Tata Steel 2014 - Round 11 GOTD	Toward the Candidates - part 1	Trompowsky Attack #2	Attack with LarryC: How to Attack? Just Ask - A Cup of Jobava	Zurich Challenge 2014 - Round 1 GOTD	Zurich Challenge 2014 - Round 2 GOTD

December 2013
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Next Generation #1	USSR vs. World 1970 - part 2	Repertoire for Black - The English Defense #10	Dubinin been' pinnin' (and liftin')	The Falkbeer Counter Gambit #1	GM Vallejo Pons - GM Miroslaw Grabarczyk	One Big Mistake
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Next Generation #2	USSR vs. World 1984	Repertoire for Black - The English Defense #11	London Chess Classic GOTD - Day 1	London Chess Classic GOTD - Day 2	London Chess Classic GOTD - Day 3	London Chess Classic GOTD - Day 4
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
London Chess Classic GOTD - Day 5	Russia vs. World 2002	Repertoire for Black - The English Defense #12	A Modern Classic from 1943	The Falkbeer Counter Gambit #2	IM Anatoli Shvedchikov - GM Viktor Kupreichik	Hope Chess, Hand-Waving, and Acquiescing
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
Next Generation #3	Kasparov-Kramnik 2000 - part 1	Repertoire for Black - The English Defense #13	Tal and the Spirit of Giving	The Falkbeer Counter Gambit #3	GM David Baramidze - GM Varuzhan Akobian	Positional Maneuvering
29	30	31
Next Generation #4	Kasparov-Kramnik 2000 - part 2	Repertoire for Black - The English Defense #14

November 2013
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
					1	2
					GM Alexander Morozevich - GM Viktor Laznicka	Unbalanced Game - Possible Upset
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Easy Come Easy Go - A story of Modern Opening Preparation #1	Hunt to White King	Repertoire for Black - The English Defense #6	Carlsen Carnage - Relentless & Efficient	The Hennig-Schara Gambit #1	GM Sam Shankland - GM Lubomir Ftacnik	Alekhine-Rubinstein 1921
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Easy Come Easy Go - A story of Modern Opening Preparation #2	Into the Labyrinth	Repertoire for Black - The English Defense #7	More Carlsen Carnage	The Hennig-Schara Gambit #2	GM Dragan Solak - GM Alexander Grischuk	Galaxy Quest
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
Easy Come Easy Go - A story of Modern Opening Preparation #3	Titans in Linares	Repertoire for Black - The English Defense #8	Back the the Future!	GOTD - World Championshp - Game 9	GOTD - World Championshp - Game 10	Tactical R&P Endgame
24	25	26	27	28	20	30
Easy Come Easy Go - A story of Modern Opening Preparation #4	USSR vs. World 1970 - part 1	Repertoire for Black - The English Defense #9	More Championship blasts from the Past	The Hennig-Schara Gambit #3	GM Baadur Jobava - GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	Zugzwang

October 2013
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
		1	2	3	4	5
		Repertoire for Black - The English Defense #1	Attacking on the g-file	The Evans Gambit #3	GM Urii Eliseev - GM Yu Yangyi	Was the Loss Inevitable?
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Botvinnik... Kramnik, who's next? #1	Candidates 2007: Aronian vs. Carlsen - Part 1	Repertoire for Black - The English Defense #2	Unsound but effective!	The Evans Gambit #4	GM Dmitry Andreikin - GM Sergey Karjakin	Tabiya 16 - Caro Kann, Classical Variation
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
Botvinnik... Kramnik, who's next? #2	Candidates 2007: Aronian vs. Carlsen - Part 2	Repertoire for Black - The English Defense #3	They were Expendable	The Cochrane Gambit #1	GM Nisipeanu - GM Caruana	Fighting Sveshnikov
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Botvinnik... Kramnik, who's next? #3	Candidates 2007: Aronian vs. Carlsen - Part 3	Repertoire for Black - The English Defense #4	Petrosian takeout	The Cochrane Gambit #2	GM Matlakov - GM Eljanov	Exposing King OK but Later Mistakes Fatal
27	28	29	30	31
Botvinnik... Kramnik, who's next? #4	World Cup 2007: Carlsen - Adams and Kamsky - Carlsen	Repertoire for Black - The English Defense #5	The Champ Throws a Mean Punch	The Cochrane Gambit #3

September 2013
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Tromso Heroes #1	Rapid wonder	Repertoire for Black - The Chigorin #4	Attack with Andreikin!	The Dashing Danish #1	GM Viktor Bologan - GM Ian Nepomniachtchi	Sometimes the Underdog Reigns
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Tromso Heroes #2	PCA 1995: Anand vs. Kasparov - Part 1	Repertoire for Black - The Chigorin #5	LarryC Summer Clearance	The Dashing Danish #2	IM Angel Espinosa Aranda vs. GM Ivan Salgado Lopez	Sneaky Pin Missed Repeatedly
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
Tromso Heroes #3	PCA 1995: Anand vs. Kasparov - Part 2	Repertoire for Black - The Chigorin #6	LarryC Summer Clearance Semi-Finals	The Evans Gambit #1	GM Ian Nepomniachtchi vs. GM Alexander Moiseenko	Dan vs Computer #5 Verbalized Slow Game
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
Tromso Heroes #4	PCA 1995: Anand vs. Kasparov - Part 3	Repertoire for Black - The Chigorin #7	LarryC Summer Clearance Finals - A Rousing Rauzer!	The Evans Gambit #2	GM Fabien Libiszewski vs. GM Romain Edouard	Dan vs Computer #5 Verbalized Slow Game #2
29	30
Tromso Heroes #5	PCA 1995: Anand vs. Kasparov - Part 4

August 2013
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
					2	3
					GM Ray Robson - GM Lu Shanglei	Up and Down vs Expert
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Two Pawns down but alive and kicking #1	A decade of rivarly - Part 2	Repertoire for Black - The French #21	Stein's Salute with Two Shots of Ruy		GM Alexander Moiseenko - GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	Just One -Easy- Recapture in the Deep Endgame
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
Two Pawns down but alive and kicking #2	A decade of rivarly - Part 3	Repertoire for Black - The Chigorin #1	Reporting from Tromso, Norway		GM Ray Robson - GM Andrei Volokitin	Recognizing Tactical One Plus Ones
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Two Pawns down but alive and kicking #3	The Game of the Century	Repertoire for Black - The Chigorin #2	Northern highLights from Tromso		GM Nikita Vitiugov - GM Markus Ragger	Another Immortal Game
25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Two Pawns down but alive and kicking #4	Garry's masterpiece	Repertoire for Black - The Chigorin #3	Tomashevky a Surgeon not Swashbuckler		GM Evgeny Tomashevsky - GM Levon Aronian	A Real Spielmann Sacrifice

July 2013
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
	1	2	3	4	5	6
	The Match that changed Chess history - Part 4	Repertoire for Black - The French #16	The G-man Handcuffs Alekseev		GM Ruslan Ponomariov - GM Pavel Eljanov	Silly Mistakes Lead to Instructive Endgame
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Why did Magnus lose that rook ending #1	Botvinnik vs. Bronstein - Part 1	Repertoire for Black - The French #17	Wild Norwegian Slam-on as Adams Smokes Agdestein		GM Dimitri Reinderman - GM Wouter Spoelman	Tabiya 15 - Qc2 (Classical) Nimzo-Indian
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Why did Magnus lose that rook ending #2	Botvinnik vs. Bronstein - Part 2	Repertoire for Black - The French #18	Spassky's shows Kan-do Spirit		GM Ni Hua - GM Eduardo Iturrizaga	The Most Common Opening Inaccuracies
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
Why did Magnus lose that rook ending #3	Botvinnik vs. Bronstein - Part 3	Repertoire for Black - The French #19	Spassky Chimes in Moscow 1973		GM Victor Mikhalevski - GM Parimarjan Negi	One Sneaky Pin Too Many
28	29	30	31
Why did Magnus lose that rook ending #4	A decade of rivarly - Part 1	Repertoire for Black - The French #20	Symphony of Attack with the SteinWay

June 2013
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
						1
						Playing Too Fast at Wrong Time
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Back from Chicago #1	The Great Struggle - Part 3	Repertoire for Black - The French #12	Steady, Focused Attack gets a Leg Up in Legica	Play with Pawns #1	GM Gata Kamsky - GM Alexander Grischuk	Endgame Advantage Fades to Loss
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Back from Chicago #2	The Match that changed Chess history - Part 1	Repertoire for Black - The French #13	Larry on the European Championship - Part 4	Play with Pawns #2	GM Leon Hoyos - GM Ray Robson	Clever Defense and Good Technique
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Back from Chicago #3	The Match that changed Chess history - Part 2	Repertoire for Black - The French #14	Tal's Telltale Talent tills Tolya to tap Tallin Tally	Play with Pawns #3	GM Tornike Sanikidze - GM Konstantin Landa	The Real and Mythical Outside Passed Pawn
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
Back from Chicago #4	The Match that changed Chess history - Part 3	Repertoire for Black - The French #15	Pearl from Porz--Brilliant but Flawed	Play with Pawns #4	GM Alexander Areshchenko - GM Anatoly Karpov	A Ton of Instructive Mistakes
30
Back from Chicago #5

May 2013
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
			1	2	3	4
			1983 U.S. Championship - Whitehead vs. Benjamin	Bishop Pair advantage #8	GM Veselin Topalov - GM Peter Leko	Throwing the Kitchen Sink Failed
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Same Color Bishop Endings #1	Jussupov vs. Ivanchuk - 1991 Candidates Match	Repertoire for Black - The French #8	1986 U.S. Championship - Rohde vs. Kogan	'Good' and 'Bad' Bishops #1	GM Li Chao - GM Zhou Weiqi	Little Mistakes Add up - Then Subtract
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Same Color Bishop Endings #2	Ivanchuk vs. Jussupov- 1991 Candidates Match	Repertoire for Black - The French #9	Larry reports from the US Championship	'Good' and 'Bad' Bishops #2	GM Ray Robson - FM John Bryant	Strong Player's Fast Play Not Punished
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
Same Color Bishop Endings #3	The Great Struggle - Part 1	Repertoire for Black - The French #10	Liviu and Let Fly - Romanian Rollup in Legica	'Good' and 'Bad' Bishops #3	GM Maxim Rodshtein - GM Ian Nepomniachtchi	The Better Analyst Wins - Barely
26	27	28	29	30	31
Same Color Bishop Endings #4	The Great Struggle - Part 2	Repertoire for Black - The French #11	The Importance of Beating Ernst	'Good' and 'Bad' Bishops #4	GM Yannick Pelletier - IM Andreas Hagen

April 2013
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Anand vs. Gelfand – World Championship 2012	Repertoire for Black - The French #3	March Magnus! Magniloquent Magic of Magnificent Magnitude	Bishop Pair advantage #4	GM Peter Svidler - GM Alexander Grischuk	White Wins First Half, Black Wins Second
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Heroes of the Candidates #1	Topalov vs. Anand - 2010 World Chess Championship	Repertoire for Black - The French #4	Attacking Lines for Attacking Players #5	Bishop Pair advantage #5	GM Peter Svidler - GM Alexander Grischuk	White Wins First Half, Black Wins Second
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Heroes of the Candidates #2	Kramnik vs. Anand - 2008 World Championship Match	Repertoire for Black - The French #5	Attacking Lines for Attacking Players #6	Bishop Pair advantage #6	GM Eugenio Torre - GM Robert Byrne	The Great Quiescence Error Game
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
Heroes of the Candidates #3	Gurevich vs. Short - 1990 Manila Interzonal	Repertoire for Black - The French #6	U.S. Championship - 40 years ago	Bishop Pair advantage #7	GM Peter Svidler - GM Pentala Harikrishna	The mythical Capture with the Least Valuable Piece principle
28	29	30
Heroes of the Candidates #4	Leko vs. Topalov - 2005 World Championship	Repertoire for Black - The French #7

March 2013
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
					1	2
					GM Bassem Amin - GM Grzegorz Gajewski	White Wins First Half, Black Wins Second
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
KID by method #1	Ronen through History: Karpov vs. Kasparov	1.e4 - unusual replies #1	Attacking Lines for Attacking Players #1	Exploiting OPEN FILES #7	GM Boris Gelfand - GM Vladimir Kramnik	Book Knowledge Loses Value if you Blunder
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
KID by method #2	Ronen through History: Karpov vs. Kasparov	1.e4 - unusual replies #2	Attacking Lines for Attacking Players #2	Bishop Pair advantage #1	IM Valentina Gunina - WGM Ju Wenjun	Game with Instructive Counting Tactics
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
KID by method #3	Karpov vs. Korchnoi - 1978 World Championship	Repertoire for Black - The French #1	Attacking Lines for Attacking Players #3	Bishop Pair advantage #2	GM Vladislav Tkachiev - GM Vladimir Dobrov	Two 1800s in a See-saw Battle
24	25	26	27	28	29	30
KID by method #4	Spassky vs. Petrosian – 1969 World Championship	Repertoire for Black - The French #2	Attacking Lines for Attacking Players #4	Bishop Pair advantage #3	GM Vladimir Kramnik - GM Vassily Ivanchuk	20-minute exercise #5
31
KID by method #5

February 2013
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
					1	2
					GM Ivan Sokolov - GM Peter Leko	Keeping Your Cool in Critical Positions is Key
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Endgames by method #5	The Sicilian O'Kelly (2. …a6) #2	Scandinavian #2	Tournament of Steel--75 Years of Brilliant Chess #5	Exploiting OPEN FILES #3	GM Nikita Vitiugov - GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	What Happens When Break Move Unplayed
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Endgames by method #6	The Sicilian O'Kelly (2. …a6) #3	Scandinavian #3	Come on Up and Take Me Sometime	Exploiting OPEN FILES #4	GM Chanda Sandipan - GM Baskaran Adhiban	A Guilty Pleasure
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
Endgames by method #7	The Sicilian O'Kelly (2. …a6) #4	Alekhine Defense #1	A Pinteresting game	Exploiting OPEN FILES #5	GM Daniel Fridman - GM Arkadij Naiditsch	Using Computer Engine to Analyze on ICC
24	25	26	27	28
Endgames by method #8	The Sicilian O'Kelly (2. …a6) #5	Alekhine Defense #2	Beliavsky Fifis Assem	Exploiting OPEN FILES #6

January 2013
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
		1	2	3	4	5
		Bishop Opening #5	Tournament of Steel--75 Years of Brilliant Chess	The Positional sacrifice #5	GM Anotn Korobov - GM Krishnan Sasikiran	Upset Missed by Cashing in Chips for Too Little
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Endgames by method #1	Sicilian Chekhover #5	Pirc #1		The Positional sacrifice #6	GM Sergei Tiviakov - GM Evgeny Romanov	Pawns: Majority Rolls and Bishops in the Opening
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
Endgames by method #2	Sicilian Chekhover #6	Pirc #2	Tournament of Steel--75 Years of Brilliant Chess #2	The Positional sacrifice #7	GM Thomas Ernst - GM Andrei Deviatkin	Gambit Overview
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Endgames by method #3	Sicilian Chekhover #7	Pirc #3	Tournament of Steel--75 Years of Brilliant Chess #3	Exploiting OPEN FILES	GM Nils Grandelius - GM Alexander Ipatov	The Sneaky Pin Double Blunder Game
27	28	29	30	31
Endgames by method #4	The Sicilian O'Kelly (2. …a6).	Scandinavian #1	Tournament of Steel--75 Years of Brilliant Chess #4	Exploiting OPEN FILES #2

December 2012
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
						1
						Minor Strategic Errors Add Up
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
A Tribute to WGM Elena Akhmilovskaya-Donaldson	French out of nothing! - Part 4	Bishop Opening #1	Supine Play invites Equine Slay	The Positional sacrifice #1	IM Anna Ushenina GM Antoaneta Stefanova	Crazy Fast Play keeps Players Weak
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Endgames: Bishop vs. Knight	Sicilian Chekhover #1	Bishop Opening #2	Taking a Kro-bar to Krobot and I'll Have Some Fries With That	The Positional sacrifice #2	IGM Vladimir Kramnik - GM Judit Polgar	Exciting Game - Both Sides Missed Chances
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Endgames: Rook + 1 Pawn vs Rook + 2 Pawns	Sicilian Chekhover #2	Bishop Opening #3	Korchmar's Marvel	The Positional sacrifice #3	GM Anish Giri - GM Alexander Morozevich	White misses one idea, Black misses one move
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
On the Road...	Sicilian Chekhover #3	Bishop Opening #4	Zwish You Happy Holidays!	The Positional sacrifice #4	GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - GM Etienne Bacrot	Lower Level Commentary to Aid the Needy
30	31
Instructive game	Sicilian Chekhover #4

November 2012
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
				1	2	3
				Queen's-side attack #2	GM Georg Meier - GM Ding Liren	Dan vs. Computer #4 (Part 1)
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Isolated Pawn #1	The Sicilian Nimzovich - Part 8	Caro-Kann #2	He Keres a Powerful Punch	Queen's-side attack #3	GM Ray Robson - GM Manuel Leon Hoyos	Dan vs. Computer #4 (Part 2)
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
Isolated Pawn #2	French out of nothing! - Part 1	French #1	Liebert's Halle of Fame & Combinations in the Mail	Queen's-side attack #4	GM Falko Bindrich - GM Pavel Tregubov	AWL: Attack it with something Worth Less
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Isolated Pawn #3	French out of nothing! - Part 2	French #2	Discovering an awesome obscure game	Queen's-side attack #5	Pavlo Vorontsov - FM Kayden TroffTregubov	Sharp Opening, One Mistake: Fast Game
25	26	27	28	29	30
Isolated Pawn #4	French out of nothing! - Part 3	French #3	Epic Rook Maneuver ends in sac, mate	Queen's-side attack #6	GM Alexander Morozevich - GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

October 2012
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
	1	2	3	4	5	6
	The Sicilian Nimzovich - Part 3	Sicilian - Part 2	Lowly Pawn Sac Quiet but Deadly	Space Advantage #4	GM Anna Muzychuk - GM Tatiana Kosintseva	Beating the Lower Rated Player with Kingside Attack
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Positional Queen Sac #1	The Sicilian Nimzovich - Part 4	Sicilian - Part 3	Najdorf Becomes Grefe-stricken in Lone Bout	Space Advantage #5	GM Dmitry Jakovenko - GM Alexander Onischuk	Playing Aggressively Vs Opponent 500 Points Higher
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Positional Queen Sac #2	The Sicilian Nimzovich - Part 5	Sicilian - Part 4	Savage, Saavy Savchenko Attack Proves Kostin	Space Advantage #6	GM Akexander Volokitin - GM Shakiyar Mamedyarov	20-minute exercise #4
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
Positional Queen Sac #3	The Sicilian Nimzovich - Part 6	Sicilian - Part 5	Attack on All Fronts	Queen's-side attack #1	IM Thies Heinemann - GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu	Strong Player, Weak Move
28	29	30	31
Positional Queen Sac #4	The Sicilian Nimzovich - Part 7	Caro-Kann #1	Exchange bait for Black

September 2012
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
						1
						Big Errors Reverse Fortunes
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Rook + opposite color Bishop Part 5	Classical King's Indian with 7 ... exd4 - Part 6	Sharpen your chess-sense with IM Watson: London system - Part 2	Ganbold can play bold and thunder strikes Donner	Strong Outpost #6	GM Alexander Ipatov GM Nils Grandelius	Amateur Correspondence Game Close Battle
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Rook + opposite color Bishop Part 6	Classical King's Indian with 7 ... exd4 - Part 7	Sharpen your chess-sense with IM Watson: London system - Part 3	Shanava Throws Some Lava	Space Advantage #1	GM Parimarjan Negi - GM Yuniesky Quesada Perez	Unsafe play - throws away 500 pt upset
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Rook + opposite color Bishop Part 7	The Sicilian Nimzovich - Part 1	Sharpen your chess-sense with IM Watson: London system - Part 4	Premature Attack Invites Crushing Response	Space Advantage #2	GM Judit Polgar - GM Daiusz Swiercz	Tabiya 14 - g3 English
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
Rook + opposite color Bishop Part 8	The Sicilian Nimzovich - Part 2	Sicilian - Part 1	Pin comes Unstuck by Bold Planinc	Space Advantage #3	GM Badur Jobava vs GM Vladimir Malakhov	Tough Rook and Pawn Endgame Not Held
30
Rook + opposite color Bishop Part 9

August 2012
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
			1	2	3	4
			Counter-attack with Lastin Effect	Strong Outpost #1	GM Anish Giri GM Robin Swinkels	Endgame Techniques
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Rook + opposite color Bishop Part 1	Classical King's Indian with 7 … exd4 - Part 2	Wrapping up "Beyond the Opening" - Part 1	Shakyn Down the House	Strong Outpost #2	GM Wang Hao - GM Hikaru Nakamura	Two Weaker Players Play Short Instructive Game
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Rook + opposite color Bishop Part 2	Classical King's Indian with 7 … exd4 - Part 3	Wrapping up "Beyond the Opening" - Part 2	A tribute to GM Gligoric - Part 1	Strong Outpost #3	GM Anton Korobov - GM Evgeny Miroshnichenko	Rooks in the Openings
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
Rook + opposite color Bishop Part 3	Classical King's Indian with 7 … exd4 - Part 4	Sharpen your chess-sense with IM Watson: Let's get started!	A tribute to GM Gligoric - Part 2	Strong Outpost #4	GM Svetozar Gligoric - GM Tigran Petrosian	Tabiya 13: Queen's Gambit Accepted
26	27	28	29	30	31
Rook + opposite color Bishop Part 4	Classical King's Indian with 7 … exd4 - Part 5	Sharpen your chess-sense with IM Watson: London system - Part 1	A tribute to GM Gligoric - Part 3	Strong Outpost #5	GM Peter Svidler - GM Nikita Vitiugov

July 2012
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Rook vs. Minor pieces - part 1	The Vienna Opening in the QGD - Part 4	Indian systems: Introduction #10	4th of July - Fireworks on the board!!	The Art of Defense #3	William Stewart vs. GM Ray Robson	Two 1900s on a Roller Coaster
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Rook vs. Minor pieces - part 2	The Vienna Opening in the QGD - Part 5	Indian systems: Introduction #11	A Capital Game at the 2012 World Open	The Art of Defense #4	GM David Navara vs. GM Peter Svidler	Identifying Candidate Moves
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
Rook vs. Minor pieces - part 3	The Vienna Opening in the QGD - Part 6	Indian systems: Introduction #12	Not too Shabby at the World Open	The Art of Defense #5	GM David Navara vs. GM Peter Svidler	Immortal Coulda Traded Queens Game
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
Rook vs. Minor pieces - part 4	The Vienna Opening in the QGD - Part 7	Indian systems: Introduction #13	A CAROusing Brawl ends in Perp Walk	The Art of Defense #6	GM Le Quang Liem vs. GM Vassily Ivanchuk	Another Kingside Attack
29	30	31
Rook vs. Minor pieces - part 5	Classical King's Indian with 7 … exd4 - Part 1	Indian systems: Introduction #14

June 2012
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
					1	2
					GM Gabriel Sargissian vs. IM John Bartholomew	Dan vs Computer #3 - Part 2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Bishop vs. Knight - Part 1	Openings from the World Championship Matches - Part 7	Indian systems: Introduction #6	Model Games: Model Games: Nimzo-Indian - the final shot	Opposite Side Castling Attack #5	GM Diego Flores vs. GM Alexei Shirov	Wacky, Complicated Game
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Bishop vs. Knight - Part 2	The Vienna Opening in the QGD - Part 1	Indian systems: Introduction #7	Tal gives 'em Hecht	Opposite Side Castling Attack #6	GM Zhao Jun vs. GM Zhou Janchao	King's Indian Attack Had One Chance
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
Bishop vs. Knight - Part 3	The Vienna Opening in the QGD - Part 2	Indian systems: Introduction #8	Another Tribute to the Great Tal	The Art of Defense #1	GM Francisco Vallejo Pons GM Veselin Topalov	Pretty Correspondence Finish
24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Bishop vs. Knight - Part 4	The Vienna Opening in the QGD - Part 3	Indian systems: Introduction #9	Holzke Brings in the Reeves!	The Art of Defense #2	GM Alexander Morozevich GM Luke McShane	One Big Mistake Takes Down the 2200

May 2012
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
		1	2	3	4	5
		Indian systems: Introduction	Model Games: The Samish Nimzo-Indian #2	Rook on the 7th Rank #6	IM Liu Qingnan - GM Nigel Short	Tabiyas 12: The Trappy Cambridge Springs Defense
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
The Rook: the best defender your money can buy - Part 1	Openings from the World Championship Matches - Part 3	Indian systems: Introduction #2	Model Games: The Samish Nimzo-Indian #3	Opposite Side Castling Attack	IM G. Petar Arnaudov - GM Ivan Cheparinov	King and Pawn vs. King and Pawn
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
The Rook: the best defender your money can buy - Part 2	Openings from the World Championship Matches - Part 4	Indian systems: Introduction #3	Model Games: Leningrad Nimzo-Indian	Opposite Side Castling Attack #2	GM Vassily Ivanchuk vs. GM Leinier Dominguez Perez	20 Minute Exercise #3
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
The Rook: the best defender your money can buy - Part 3	Openings from the World Championship Matches - Part 5	Indian systems: Introduction #4	Model Games: Rubinstein Nimzo-Indian	Opposite Side Castling Attack #3	GM Emanuel Berg vs. Jonny Hector	Dan vs Computer #3 - Part 1
27	28	29	30	31	01	02
The Rook: the best defender your money can buy - Part 4	Openings from the World Championship Matches - Part 6	Indian systems: Introduction #5	Model Games: Nimzo-indian - a true model game	Opposite Side Castling Attack #4	GM Gabriel Sargissian vs. IM John Bartholomew	Dan vs Computer #3 - Part 2

April 2012
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Pawn Endings have no Secrets	Caro-Kann Defense: Fantasy variation #3	The Triangle Structure in the Semi-Slav #2	Model Games: The Old Indian Defense - Perspective	Rook on the 7th Rank #2	FM Avital Boruchovsky vs. GM Boris Savchenko	It Doesn't Take Much to Lose
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Pawn Endings have no Secrets #2	Caro-Kann Defense: Fantasy variation #4	The Triangle Structure in the Semi-Slav #3	Model Games: The Old Indian Defense - The Final Cut	Rook on the 7th Rank #3	GM Peter Svidler vs. GM Dmitry Jakovenko	Well Played Slow Game
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
Pawn Endings have no Secrets #3	Caro-Kann Defense: Fantasy variation #5	The Triangle Structure in the Semi-Slav #4	Nice Tango in Capelle	Rook on the 7th Rank #4	GM Sergei Tiviakov vs. GM Viswanathan Anand	Initial and Final Candidate Moves
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
Pawn Endings have no Secrets #4	Openings from the World Championship Matches - Part 1	Indian systems: Introduction	Model Games: The Samish Nimzo-Indian	Rook on the 7th Rank #5	IM Anastasia Savina vs. IM Alisa Galliamova	Tabiyas 12: The Trappy Cambridge Springs Defense
29	30
Pawn Endings have no Secrets #5	Openings from the World Championship Matches - Part 2	Indian systems: Introduction	Model Games: The Samish Nimzo-Indian #2	Rook on the 7th Rank #6	IM Liu Qingnan - GM Nigel Short	Tabiyas 12: The Trappy Cambridge Springs Defense

March 2012
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
				1	2	3
				The power of passed pawns #2	GM Viktor Bologan vs. GM Arkadij Naiditsch	Piece Against Two Pawns Early
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Typical Patterns of Play in the Kings Indian Defense	The Chinese Dragon Part 3	A final Word on Pawn Structures in the QGD	Model Games: Benko Gambit Declined	The power of passed pawns #3	GM Gawain Jones vs. GM Nigel Short	Tabiyas 11: Avoiding the Exchange Gruenfeld
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
Typical Patterns of Play in the Kings Indian Defense #2	The Chinese Dragon Part 4	Restraint Structures #1	Model Games: Benko Gambit Declined #2	The power of passed pawns #4	GM Tornike Sanidizke vs. GM Pentala Harikrishna	A Cautionary Tale
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Typical Patterns of Play in the Kings Indian Defense #3	Caro-Kann Defense: Fantasy variation #1	Restraint Structures #2	Model games: The Benko Gambit - The Black Perspective	The power of passed pawns #5	GM Hou Yifan vs. GM Fabiano Caruana	Trading Pawns When Ahead
25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Typical Patterns of Play in the Kings Indian Defense #4	Caro-Kann Defense: Fantasy variation #2	The Triangle Structure in the Semi-Slav #1	Model Games: The Old Indian Defense - Tony Does Jamison Shots	Rook on the 7th Rank #1	GM Francisco Vallejo Pons vs. GM Tamir Nabaty	This Time Fast Play Not Punished

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