Video Spotlights

The Square Off board is exquisitely crafted, very intuitive to set up via the app, and easy to use. The motor is quiet and quick to move the pieces. It does not come with detailed instructions for getting started, but the Square Off website is full of helpful videos, and these can be accessed from within the app as well. It is great to be playing over-the-board chess in real time at one’s leisure, rather than looking at a flat computer screen. Square Off is a beautiful product and would be a fantastic gift for anyone! This is an heirloom quality item that you will be proud to display in your home. Read our full review here. Be sure to take advantage of their twin-pack deal, and save an … [Read more...]

Video #679 Welcome to the ChessCafe.com Video Spotlight. Each Wednesday and Saturday we will feature a chess related video for your entertainment. Our next level of achievement, the Blue Belt Curriculum, is under development, and we need your help to complete this project. We hope that you will support our mission and help us implement our programs and initiatives with a tax-deductible contribution to our Blue Belt Capital Campaign. Your support will enhance our program and better our communities. Blue Belt Campaign Most Recent Videos (in order of appearance) Carlsen's Top Tips Magnus Carlsen Recaps the World Championship ChessBase Magazine #162 London Chess … [Read more...]

Video #649 Welcome to the ChessCafe.com Video Spotlight. Each Wednesday and Saturday we will feature a chess related video for your entertainment. World Champion Hou Yifan gives a memorable Masterclass followed by questions from the audience. A remarkable interview hosted by the eloquent Tournament Director Stuart Conquest. Tradewise Gibraltar Master Class #4 Most Recent Videos (in order of appearance) Fischer Demonstrates a Morphy Game Tournament Hopes to Make Game Cool Living Like Kings Dr. Kenneth Regan's TEDx Talk Chess Club Students Need Help Guernsey Brilliancy World Chess Championship Preview Carlsen vs Anand Preview World Chess Championship … [Read more...]

Video #678Welcome to the ChessCafe.com Video Spotlight. Each Wednesday and Saturday we will feature a chess related video for your entertainment.IM Anthony Saidy Lecture at the 2014 Las Vegas International Chess Festival. Saidy looks at some of his games against Bobby Fischer and then does a Q&A session with the audience.IM Anthony Saidy LectureMost Recent Videos (in order of appearance)Carlsen's Top TipsMagnus Carlsen Recaps the World ChampionshipChessBase Magazine #162London Chess Classic 2014A History of Chess OpeningsIM Hjorth vs. IM SolomonPaul Morphy vs Adolf AnderssenKasparov-Karpov, Lyon 1990Interview with Alex DunneA Fork, A Spoon, and A KnightInnovation in the Marshall … [Read more...]

Video #677Welcome to the ChessCafe.com Video Spotlight. Each Wednesday and Saturday we will feature a chess related video for your entertainment.Bobby Fischer analyzes a Queen's Gambit between Johannes Zukertort and William Steinitz.Fischer Demonstrates a Steinitz GameMost Recent Videos (in order of appearance)Carlsen's Top TipsMagnus Carlsen Recaps the World ChampionshipChessBase Magazine #162London Chess Classic 2014A History of Chess OpeningsIM Hjorth vs. IM SolomonPaul Morphy vs Adolf AnderssenKasparov-Karpov, Lyon 1990Interview with Alex DunneA Fork, A Spoon, and A KnightInnovation in the Marshall GambitSo-Aronian, Tata Steel 2015Wijk aan Zee 2015 Round 6Wijk aan Zee 2015 Round 7The … [Read more...]

Video #676Welcome to the ChessCafe.com Video Spotlight. Each Wednesday and Saturday we will feature a chess related video for your entertainment.A sharp miniature with White resigning after only eighteen moves.Loek van Wely vs. Peter Acs, 2002Most Recent Videos (in order of appearance)Carlsen's Top TipsMagnus Carlsen Recaps the World ChampionshipChessBase Magazine #162London Chess Classic 2014A History of Chess OpeningsIM Hjorth vs. IM SolomonPaul Morphy vs Adolf AnderssenKasparov-Karpov, Lyon 1990Interview with Alex DunneA Fork, A Spoon, and A KnightInnovation in the Marshall GambitSo-Aronian, Tata Steel 2015Wijk aan Zee 2015 Round 6Wijk aan Zee 2015 Round 7The Budapest and Benko GambitsThe … [Read more...]

Video #675Welcome to the ChessCafe.com Video Spotlight. Each Wednesday and Saturday we will feature a chess related video for your entertainment.GM Boris Alterman investigates the Frankenstein-Dracula variation in the Vienna Opening. This particular hair-raising exchange sacrifice was given it's ghoulishly Gothic title by correspondence guru Tim Harding, who wrote many articles about it during the late 1970s (see the ChessCafe Archives-ed.). He explained that it is so-called because it is terrifying for both sides, and, much like those two famous gentleman of the night, has an incredible facility for rising - theory-wise at least - from the grave.Alterman's Frankenstein-DraculaMost Recent … [Read more...]

Video #674Welcome to the ChessCafe.com Video Spotlight. Each Wednesday and Saturday we will feature a chess related video for your entertainment.IM Andrew Martin presents the game Carlo Barlocco-Nona Gaprindashvili, European Seniors Championship, Italy 2011.Barlocco-GaprindashviliMost Recent Videos (in order of appearance)NYPD Plays ChessCarlsen's Top TipsMagnus Carlsen Recaps the World ChampionshipChessBase Magazine #162London Chess Classic 2014A History of Chess OpeningsIM Hjorth vs. IM SolomonPaul Morphy vs Adolf AnderssenKasparov-Karpov, Lyon 1990Interview with Alex DunneA Fork, A Spoon, and A KnightInnovation in the Marshall GambitSo-Aronian, Tata Steel 2015Wijk aan Zee 2015 Round 6Wijk … [Read more...]

Video #673Welcome to the ChessCafe.com Video Spotlight. Each Wednesday and Saturday we will feature a chess related video for your entertainment.Mikhail Botvinnik and Vasily Smyslov playing chess for World Title, with various shots of Smyslov being crowned with laurels and being greeted by young chess players.Smyslov World Chess ChampionMost Recent Videos (in order of appearance)2014 Aronian vs Nakamura BlitzNYPD Plays ChessCarlsen's Top TipsMagnus Carlsen Recaps the World ChampionshipChessBase Magazine #162London Chess Classic 2014A History of Chess OpeningsIM Hjorth vs. IM SolomonPaul Morphy vs Adolf AnderssenKasparov-Karpov, Lyon 1990Interview with Alex DunneA Fork, A Spoon, and A … [Read more...]

Video #672Welcome to the ChessCafe.com Video Spotlight. Each Wednesday and Saturday we will feature a chess related video for your entertainment.John Denis Martin Nunn (born 25 April 1955 in London) is an English chess grandmaster, a three-time world champion in chess problem solving, a chess writer and publisher, and a mathematician. He is one of England's strongest chess players and once was in the world's top ten.John Nunn's Chess SacrificesMost Recent Videos (in order of appearance)2014 Aronian vs Nakamura BlitzNYPD Plays ChessCarlsen's Top TipsMagnus Carlsen Recaps the World ChampionshipChessBase Magazine #162London Chess Classic 2014A History of Chess OpeningsIM Hjorth vs. IM … [Read more...]