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BEGINNER LEVEL VIDEOS
Lesson 1: What is the difference between check, checkmate and stalemate? (0:25:16)
Lesson 2: The Passed Pawn (0:25:16)
Lesson 3: The Rook and its role (0:31:45)
Lesson 4: The Strength of Bishops (0:26:10)
Lesson 5: The most powerful piece: the Queen (0:29:33)
Lesson 6: The Knight: Its strength and weakness (0:27:16)
Lesson 7: The relative value of all the pieces & the legendary Damiano defense (0:31:07)
Lesson 8: What is the threat? (0:23:08)
Lesson 9: Save the game by Stalemate! (0:27:57)
Lesson 10: Basic Opening Principles (0:25:33)
Lesson 11: What Combination in chess? (0:28:52)
Lesson 12: The Back Rank Problem (0:28:10)
Lesson 13: Forks and Double Attacks (0:28:29)
Lesson 14: Not all Forks work! (0:26:02)
Lesson 15: What is a Pin in chess? (0:25:24)
Lesson 16: How to get out of Pins? (0:27:53)
Lesson 17: Opposition in Pawn Endgames (0:25:53)
Lesson 18: What are Discovered Checks? (0:26:38)
Lesson 19: What is a Discovered Attack? (0:26:43)
Lesson 20: What is a Double Check? (0:27:09)
Lesson 21: Skewers (0:29:11)
Lesson 22: En passant (0:24:25)
Lesson 23: Overloaded piece (0:25:08)
Lesson 24: Endgame : Queen vs pawn (0:26:14)
Lesson 25: Find the weakness (0:26:22)
Lesson 26: Priorities in chess (0:28:27)
Lesson 27: Opening traps (0:26:42)
Lesson 28: A Game from an other century (0:22:50)
Lesson 29: Removing the guard (0:26:58)
Lesson 30: Amazing mate (0:23:16)
Lesson 31: Priorities in chess #2 (0:25:49)
Lesson 32: To check or not to check (0:24:46)
Lesson 33: The valuable target (0:25:24)
Lesson 34: Open file (0:24:22)
Lesson 35: stuffing mate (0:21:06)
Lesson 36: Idea in french defense (0:26:06)
Lesson 37: Tactics in sicilian defense (0:28:16)
Lesson 38: Common mistakes (0:24:54)
Lesson 39: Rook + Bishop vs K (0:25:40)
Lesson 40: Capture or not capture (0:26:36)
Lesson 41: How to win a won game (0:25:30)
Lesson 42: Mating attack (0:25:21)
Lesson 43: A Susan’s game (0:25:42)
Lesson 44: The power of the Bishop pair (0:26:19)
Lesson 45: The pawn can be the hero (0:24:06)
Lesson 46: A Susan’s game from her early years (0:23:41)
Lesson 47: Checkmate ideas with the Rook (0:22:59)
Lesson 48: Knight Fork (0:26:02)
Lesson 49: Stalemate (0:26:14)
Lesson 50: The Pin (0:26:20)
Lesson 51: The Pin (part 2) (0:26:04)
Lesson 52: The Discovery (0:26:01)
Lesson 53: How to prioritize (0:26:34)
Lesson 54: Learning from mistakes (0:27:44)
Lesson 55: The skewer (0:21:06)
Lesson 56: Epaulette mate (0:23:59)
Lesson 57: Passed pawns (0:24:02)
Lesson 58: Natural looking moves (0:24:20)
Lesson 59: Captures (0:23:56)
Lesson 60: Blunders (0:23:24)
Lesson 61: The pin (0:23:05)
Lesson 62: Discoveries (0:23:49)
Lesson 63: Traps/Tricks in the Caro-Kann (0:25:09)
Lesson 64: What to avoid (0:25:52)
Lesson 65: Rook vs. a minor piece (0:25:51)
Lesson 66: Chigorin vs. Alapin (0:25:06)
Lesson 67: An early game of mine (0:27:12)
Lesson 68: A game from the Women’s Olympiad (0:23:55)
Lesson 69: Defense and priorities (0:23:23)
Lesson 70: Interesting ideas in pawn endgames (0:24:47)
Lesson 71: The weakness of the back rank (0:21:57)
Lesson 72: How to defend (0:24:04)
Lesson 73: Different checkmate patterns (0:24:29)
Lesson 74: How to develop a game plan (0:28:17)
Lesson 75: Rook Endgames (0:25:52)
Lesson 76: How to attack and defend (0:25:40)
Lesson 77: How to win material (0:22:03)
Lesson 78: A game of a student of mine (0:25:25)
Lesson 79: Opening traps to avoid (0:24:55)
Lesson 80: The pawns (0:26:05)
Lesson 81: Discoveries (0:24:07)
Lesson 82: To check or not to check (0:23:55)
Lesson 83: Important chess tactical ideas (0:26:33)
Lesson 84: Trapping of pieces (0:25:40)
Lesson 85: Double checks (0:24:28)
Lesson 86: Checkmating (0:24:48)
Lesson 87: The Pins (0:25:27)
Lesson 88: Defense (0:25:20)
Lesson 89: Intermediate moves and checks (0:24:18)
Lesson 90: Endgames (0:23:30)
Lesson 91: Mistakes happen to the best (0:24:27)
Lesson 92: Different mixed tactics (0:25:02)
Lesson 93: The correct recapture (0:25:05)
Lesson 94: The Pawn endgames (0:25:04)
Lesson 95: Ideas on Endgames (0:25:31)
Lesson 96: Pins and Passed Pawns (0:24:33)
Lesson 97: Critical Moments when you have to make a choice (0:25:44)
Lesson 98: One of my own games from 2004: Planning and strategy (0:25:48)
Lesson 99: How to play against the Philidor defense (0:24:56)
Lesson 100: Why you cannot simply copy your opponent (0:24:43)
Lesson 101: An interesting game by two of the top Women players in the world (0:24:48)
Lesson 102: Garry Kasparov vs. Deep Blue (0:25:07)
Lesson 103: And old instructive game (0:24:53)
Lesson 104: What does my opponent want to do? (0:25:28)
Lesson 105: The importance of controlling the center (0:25:57)
Lesson 106: Forks (0:25:13)
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL VIDEOS
Lesson 1: In the first part of this lesson, Susan will introduce a number of important opening traps. (0:33:29)
Lesson 2: The first topic of this lecture is Space Advantage, which will be illustrated by a famous win of Kasparov, followed by a game of Susan’s (0:31:17)
Lesson 3: The first position in this lesson is an excellent example on how to gain control of an open file and take advantage of it (0:25:23)
Lesson 4: In this first lesson, the power of having your Rooks on the 7th Rank will be discussed, followed by several examples of Pawn Races (0:29:37)
Lesson 5: In this session, Susan demonstrates through a number of practical examples how to exploit Weak Squares in the opponents position (0:32:26)
Lesson 6: This lesson focuses on the strength of the Bishops Pair when they work together in harmony to create a deadly attack (0:27:13)
Lesson 7: In chess strategy, the Pawn structure determines most of our decisions. (0:31:04)
Lesson 8: Rook and pawn vs. Rook endgames: Statistics show that 50% of all endgames are rook endgames in practice (0:24:12)
Lesson 9: Protected Passed Pawns often guarantee a win in endgames. In the first part of the lesson, that will be the theme (0:26:43)
Lesson 10: The topic of this lesson is the Long Diagonal. You will see how to create a Battery to take advantage of the weak squares (0:27:22)
Lesson 11: Critical moments from the past (0:27:02)
Lesson 12: Simplification Combinations and when to trade (0:22:52)
Lesson 13: Catching the King in the middle. This lessons is about “catching the King in the middle”. (0:27:41)
Lesson 14: Why time is important in chess (0:27:36)
Lesson 15: The importance of having pieces on protected squares (0:24:12)
Lesson 16: Take advantage of the mistake when your opponent does not castle timely (0:25:07)
Lesson 17: Attack and defense (0:24:36)
Lesson 18: Closed positions and maneuvering (0:29:19)
Lesson 19: Zugzwang (0:27:28)
Lesson 20: Keep your King safe (0:26:53)
Lesson 21: Patchwork checks (0:25:20)
Lesson 22: f2 and f7, the weak pawns (0:24:52)
Lesson 23: The h7 bishop sacrifice (0:27:12)
Lesson 24: g7 pawn, the castle guard (0:25:55)
Lesson 25: Bishop vs 2 pawns (0:30:12)
Lesson 26: Attack and defense (0:26:49)
Lesson 27: Trade and win (0:30:21)
Lesson 28: Open file and pin (0:25:29)
Lesson 29: weakness vs weakness (0:23:36)
Lesson 30: Game Botvinnik vs Kann (0:25:39)
Lesson 31: Theoritical draws (0:24:42)
Lesson 32: Endgames from GM’s games (0:26:12)
Lesson 33: Find out the critical moment of a game (0:24:49)
Lesson 34: Attack the fianchettoed Bishop, (featuring Bobby Fisher) (0:25:32)
Lesson 35: Openings and how to elaborate a plan (0:24:46)
Lesson 36: Doubled pawns with examples from Botvinik games (0:24:41)
Lesson 37: Passed pawn and pawn endgames (0:24:08)
Lesson 38: The 7th rank, illustrated by a Capablanca vs Tartakower’s game (0:22:16)
Lesson 39: Attack with the Queen (and some help) (0:21:54)
Lesson 40: the ‘in-between’ moves (0:25:45)
Lesson 41: Some Bobby’s games (0:24:46)
Lesson 42: Knight and Bishop endgames, (Bobby Fischer) (0:24:38)
Lesson 43: Common patterns in openings, Sac the Bishop on f7 (0:25:17)
Lesson 44: Let the King join the party ! (0:25:07)
Lesson 45: Stay zen and avoid the loss (0:24:28)
Lesson 46: Opposite side castle, illustrated with a Petrosian’s game (0:22:14)
Lesson 47: Intermediate moves and technics (Korchnoi’s game) (0:23:10)
Lesson 48: The QGD illustrated by Susan’s own game (0:27:14)
Lesson 49: The Importance of pawn structure (0:26:11)
Lesson 50: Backrank weakness (Capablanca game) (0:26:54)
Lesson 51: Forthful variation (0:25:26)
Lesson 52: Importance of pawns (Capablanca vs Blackburn) (0:24:43)
Lesson 53: Tribute to Smyslov (0:24:16)
Lesson 54: Skewers in endgames (0:26:05)
Lesson 55: The check (0:22:51)
Lesson 56: Back rank weaknesses (0:23:28)
Lesson 57: Pawns (0:23:44)
Lesson 58: Blunders (0:23:29)
Lesson 59: Intermediate and defensive moves (0:22:52)
Lesson 60: The intermediate moves (0:25:17)
Lesson 61: Time vs. Material (0:21:30)
Lesson 62: A game by Wilhelm Steinitz (0:23:18)
Lesson 63: Ideas in the King’s Indian (0:24:56)
Lesson 64: The Carlsbad theme (0:25:52)
Lesson 65: Good Knight vs. Bad Bishop (0:24:29)
Lesson 66: Analyzing classic games (0:24:25)
Lesson 67: My own experiences (0:25:33)
Lesson 68: Most amazing endgame studies (0:23:59)
Lesson 69: Surprising early Queen moves (0:26:15)
Lesson 70: An old game of mine (0:22:59)
Lesson 71: Castling on the opposite side (0:22:14)
Lesson 72: Attack and Defense (0:26:46)
Lesson 73: Avoiding opening traps (0:25:51)
Lesson 74: Opening ideas and traps in the Queen’s Indian Defense (0:23:24)
Lesson 75: 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Nxe4? (0:23:13)
Lesson 76: Thoughts on how to attack (0:22:02)
Lesson 77: Restrict your opponent’s pieces (0:24:04)
Lesson 78: Thoughts on a classic game by Alekhine (0:24:29)
Lesson 79: The open file (0:24:54)
Lesson 80: Initiative vs. material (0:26:15)
Lesson 81: A Ruy Lopez by Alexander Alekhine (0:27:18)
Lesson 82: How to remove a guard (0:24:04)
Lesson 83: Interesting tactical ideas (0:28:11)
Lesson 84: Forks (0:25:37)
Lesson 85: Tactical ideas in endgames (0:24:31)
Lesson 86: Interesting attacking games of Bobby Fischer (0:23:44)
Lesson 87: Critical moments from Fisher’s games (0:24:39)
Lesson 88: Attack (0:24:14)
Lesson 89: The trapping of pieces (0:26:19)
Lesson 90: Attacks (0:25:31)
Lesson 91: Examples of blunders (0:23:37)
Lesson 92: Typical ideas in the QGD (0:25:13)
Lesson 93: Unexpected intermediate moves (0:25:14)
Lesson 94: Attack and Counter-Attack (0:27:20)
Lesson 95: Opposite side castling (0:24:59)
Lesson 96: Critical positions from the Spice Spring Invitational tournament (0:27:34)
Lesson 97: Strategy: The Isolated Pawn (0:25:30)
Lesson 98: An interesting tactic and interesting technical endgames (0:24:28)
Lesson 99: Strategy: Rooks on the 7th rank (0:25:35)
Lesson 100: Openings and Opening Traps (0:24:37)
Lesson 101: A famous game: Adams vs. Carlsen (0:26:06)
Lesson 102: Intermediate moves (0:25:23)
Lesson 103: A game of former Women’s World Champion Maia Chiburdanidze (0:25:51)
Lesson 104: Paying tribute to Bent Larsen (0:24:38)
Lesson 105: GM Bacrot vs. GM Kempinski (0:24:54)
Lesson 106: Paying attention to the opponent’s resources (0:24:33)
ADVANCED LEVEL VIDEOS
Lesson 1: An instructive game of the late world champion Alekhine (0:25:55)
Lesson 2: Space Advantage in Chess through a Capablanca classic (0:29:30)
Lesson 3: The concept of Open File and how it can be implemented for a killer attack or for strategical gains. (0:25:51)
Lesson 4: The importance of a Rook(s) entering to the 7th (2nd) Rank (0:29:13)
Lesson 5: The element of Weak Squares & Outposts, through a tactical and then strategical example (0:23:26)
Lesson 6: The amazing power of the Pair of Bishops when they are ideally coordinated. (0:31:22)
Lesson 7: Double Pawns. (0:30:02)
Lesson 8: The most important Rook and Pawn versus Rook endgames, including the famous Lucena and Philidor positions (0:28:19)
Lesson 9: Two very important elements in chess. Protected Passed Pawns and The Wrong corner in King, Bishop, and Rook Pawn versus King endgames (0:28:20)
Lesson 10: The Weakened Long Diagonal (0:29:29)
Lesson 11: Critical moments from the past (0:26:09)
Lesson 12: Simplification Combinations and when to trade (0:28:50)
Lesson 13: Bishops and Knights (0:27:26)
Lesson 14: Deflection (0:29:07)
Lesson 15: Why time is important in chess (0:23:49)
Lesson 16: Typical tactical motives, strategical ideas, and plans in the Dutch defense, Stonewall variation (0:25:42)
Lesson 17: Attack and defense (0:26:24)
Lesson 18: Strategy in closed positions (0:24:38)
Lesson 19: King stuck in the Middle – trouble (0:25:12)
Lesson 20: Susan examines a classic battle between Petrosian and Smyslov (0:30:05)
Lesson 21: Clear up the square (0:28:09)
Lesson 22: Importance of passed pawn (0:24:41)
Lesson 23: Blockated a passed pawn (dedicated to Pal Benko) (0:30:20)
Lesson 24: Bishop sac on h7 (0:29:20)
Lesson 25: Create weaknesses in your opponent’s game (0:25:07)
Lesson 26: Attack and Defense (0:26:35)
Lesson 27: Simplify by trading (0:27:53)
Lesson 28: Collaboration of a Rook and a Knight (0:24:06)
Lesson 29: The Pillsbury attack (0:26:44)
Lesson 30: Ideas in endgames (0:24:40)
Lesson 31: Critical moments in Bobby Fischer’s games (0:22:39)
Lesson 32: To trade or not to trade : 2 Bobby Fischer’s games (0:23:28)
Lesson 33: Middlegames, critical moments (0:24:46)
Lesson 34: Middlegames, critical moments 2 (0:24:13)
Lesson 35: Play against the KID (0:23:42)
Lesson 36: Opening files, Botvinik’s game (0:22:49)
Lesson 37: Amazing situations (0:21:00)
Lesson 38: The power of the Knight (0:25:13)
Lesson 39: More on open files (0:24:28)
Lesson 40: Middlegames, critical moments 3 (0:23:38)
Lesson 41: Examples of intermediate moves (0:23:34)
Lesson 42: Attack and defense, Bobby Fischer’s games (0:30:27)
Lesson 43: Susan’s favorite game (0:24:09)
Lesson 44: Susan analyses one of her old games (0:25:33)
Lesson 45: Attack and defense, Susan’s own game (0:24:09)
Lesson 46: Ideas in endgames, Petrosian (0:23:04)
Lesson 47: A GM’s game by Akopian (0:21:55)
Lesson 48: Open files, illustrated by 2 games (0:22:02)
Lesson 49: A Susan’s Game (0:22:25)
Lesson 50: A positional game of Alekhine (0:19:56)
Lesson 51: Endgames : Bishop vs Knight (0:24:53)
Lesson 52: Games from Lubbock Spice 2010 tournament (0:26:42)
Lesson 53: Tribute to Smyslov (0:22:19)
Lesson 54: Gambit in the Ruy Lopez (0:24:38)
Lesson 55: Good bishop vs Bad Bishop (0:22:53)
Lesson 56: Game Spassky vs Petrosian World Championship 1966 (0:21:32)
Lesson 57: Gruenfeld opening (0:21:19)
Lesson 58: Endgames : Rook vs pawns (0:23:48)
Lesson 59: the right calculation to find the best move (0:26:59)
Lesson 60: Endgames played in real games (0:27:58)
Lesson 61: Tactical Ideas (0:23:01)
Lesson 62: Outpost : 2 games by Capablanca (0:28:05)
Lesson 63: Attacking game from… Larry Christiansen (0:27:18)
Lesson 64: Suzan: my favorite opening (0:23:17)
Lesson 65: A long game from Kramnik (0:28:47)
Lesson 66: A Classical game from Anderssen -1878 (0:26:09)
Lesson 67: Karpov vs Sokolov (0:24:33)
Lesson 68: Endgames (0:25:58)
Lesson 69: A Susan’s game – No castle for black (0:24:10)
Lesson 70: Najdorf’s game (0:23:56)
Lesson 71: How to create plan (0:23:16)
Lesson 72: Attack and Defense (0:26:12)
Lesson 73: Kaidanonv vs Taimanov (0:24:21)
Lesson 74: Magical Tal (0:23:24)
Lesson 75: When to strike (0:26:44)
Lesson 76: Breakthrough in pawn engames (0:25:47)
Lesson 77: Pawn structure : doubled or isolated pawn (0:28:44)
Lesson 78: Positional sacrifice, game from Kasparov (0:27:48)
Lesson 79: Positional sacrifice, game from Kasparov (0:27:00)
Lesson 80: Developping before attacking (0:23:42)
Lesson 81: Defense (0:25:45)
Lesson 82: Human and Computer (0:22:49)
Lesson 83: Sacrifice on f7 square (0:26:01)
Lesson 84: Attack in Sicilian (0:24:38)
Lesson 85: Cut off your opponent’s pieces of activity (0:24:34)
Lesson 86: How to respond to Black in 1. d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 (0:24:23)
Lesson 87: How to find a plan (0:24:35)
Lesson 88: Space Advantage (0:26:24)
Lesson 89: Strategy: space advantage (0:27:23)
Lesson 90: Asymetrical position (0:26:52)
Lesson 91: Attack (0:23:47)
Lesson 92: Tactical Ideas from practical games (0:22:27)
Lesson 93: Hammer vs Anand (0:25:49)
Lesson 94: Analysis of a game (0:24:24)
Lesson 95: Carlsen vs Bacrot (0:25:07)
Lesson 96: Games from the Spice Spring Invitational tournament (0:27:14)
Lesson 97: Ideas in Evan’s Gambit (0:24:55)
Lesson 98: instructive moment from tournaments (0:23:44)
Lesson 99: Games from romantic era of Chess (0:26:36)
Lesson 100: Exchange advantage (0:27:16)
Lesson 101: Endgames jewels (0:23:00)
Lesson 102: A super exciting position (0:26:34)
Lesson 103: Two GM’s Game, Shirov and Kramnik (0:28:53)
Lesson 104: Endgames: Karpov (0:27:53)
Lesson 105: Ivanchuk vs Kamsky (0:27:04)
Lesson 106: Analysis of a game (Nimzo-Indian) (0:26:16)