Defensive Tips: Active Counterplay!
Today GM Khachiyan offers advice on both practical and psychological levels for dealing with worse positions. How bad are...
The Schliemann Gambit - Part 1: Introduction!
It's been a while, but Grandmaster Melik Khachiyan is back just in time to offer a holiday treat to us all! Today he starts...
Crazy Chess: Sacrifice in the Sicilian!
When GM Melik Khachiyan makes an interesting pawn sacrifice in the early stages of the Classical Sicilian, Rauzer Variation,...
Learning from the Best: Tigran Petrosian Part 9
Today GM Khachiyan shows us a different side of his chess coach, revealing some of Petrosian's original ideas and philosophies...
Learning from the Best: Tigran Petrosian Part 8
Through the eyes of a child, in this case a young Chess.com video author, the game you are about to see was a masterpiece....
Learning from the Best: Tigran Petrosian Part 7
Wow, what a Rook! Unlike any of the previous exchange sacrifices by GM Khachiyan's incredible chess coach, the prelude for...
Back to the Sicilian Scheveningen: vs IM Ginsburg
When the e5-break comes through, black better watch out! That's just one of several lessons GM Khachiyan implores upon us...
Learning from the Best: Tigran Petrosian Part 6
Tigran Petrosian was not only a proponent of the Sicilian Defense, but many of the ideas arising in the dynamic middle-games...
Future Champions: Never Give Up! Kayden's Fortress
It's one of the hardest things to do as a chess player, and one of the last things a "child prodigy" learns. What's that?...
Typical Rook Endgame Mistakes 10: Bishop Fortress
Learn this highly useful theoretical draw, and rule the world! Well, maybe you won't rule the world, but at least you won't...
Future Champions: Novelty in the French
A golden game by one of GM Khachiyan's "golden boys"! Today Melik reviews another great performance by one of his students....
US Chess League: vs GM Nakamura
The 2011 US Chess League season is heating up, and what better way to start Chess.com's video lecture coverage of these...
Connecting the Dots & Making Consistent Plans
Grandmaster Khachiyan reviews a game of his own in the Schliemann Defense, and offers several instructive gems along the...
How to Think in the Endgame - Part 4
Grandmaster Khachiyan brings us another interesting game from his personal library today. Here we see an opening quickly...
Typical Rook Endgame Mistakes 9: Rook & Pawn
For advanced players looking to further their endgame knowledge of ideas and technical positions, GM Melik Khachiyan's "Endgame...
Learning from the Best: Tigran Petrosian Part 5
Another game by the 9th World Champion, another brilliant positional exchange sacrifice! Today GM Khachiyan continues to...
Learning from the Best: Tigran Petrosian Part 4
Grandmaster Melik Khachiyan brings us more from his days as a schoolboy, this time providing more insight into how his tutor...
Positional Tips: US Qualifier, vs GM Benjamin
Today GM Melik Khachiyan lectures on the imbalances of positional weaknesses vs activity and the initiative. In the end,...
Practical Pawn Play: The Reverse Benoni
Grandmaster Khachiyan continues his new video series on the subject of recognizing and then exploiting your opponent's sub-par...
Practical Pawn Play: Ideas in the Carlsbad System
Today GM Melik Khachiyan begins a new videos series designed to show examples of exceptional, and sometimes not-so-exceptional,...
Typical Rook Endgame Mistakes 8: Outside Passer!
Another Rook Ending video lecture by GM Khachiyan... another Super-GM blows a theoretical draw! This video lecture contains...
Future Champions: Rebounding from a Tough Loss 2
FIDE Master Kayden Troff earned his first International Master Norm with a thrilling victory over IM-Elect Roman Yankovsky......
Fire on the Board: Chaos in the Schliemann
In honor of the 4th of July, we decided to bring a little "fire" to our boards! When Melik's poor health led to poor results...
Future Champions: Rebounding from a Tough Loss 1
GM Khachiyan has so many talented students, and reviews so many of their games for our "viewing pleasure", that we decided...
Playing with a Space Advantage in Your Games!
Space... the "final frontier" in chess! These are the voyages of the Starship Khachiyan. His continuing mission: To outplay...