And we are back for Best of the Week! Any suggestions? Post here and tell us about your favorite videos and threads!

The forums have been exceptionally busy and there were many passionate and interesting discussions going on. The merits and disadvatages of ebooks,
the Hippo, the KID, and"hope chess" were some of the topics. There was also a revival of katar's e4 e5 repertoire thread with a discussion about Italian lines.

The training journals section has seen a new journal by coobe. We also have a "boring training diary" now. That's new, and not all that boring really ;-). In addition to that, studentofchess has posted a few long updates in his journal.

Finally, some videos! Steve Farmer strikes again with a historic game. It's Nezhmetdinov-Cernikov from 1962, and if you know Nezhmetdinov, you know there will be sacs! Andrewrun has made a lot videos about games against cvtv members in the last month, but this time we got JWhis doing the commentary. And Veteran cvtv member whiskeytown has resurfaced with a video about absorbing positional ideas.

That's that for this week, keep the pieces moving!

This week, FM Dennis Monokroussos analyzes a recent Grandmaster game which concluded in a bishop vs knight ending in: A Textbook Bishop vs. Knight Ending? In the video Dennis goes over some key concepts in B v N endgames, and highlights how each piece should be used to try and gain the advantage.

PS: I recommend you pay attention and watch a little slower than usual to get the most out of this ... [Read More]

In the Chess Articles section, we've posted two new book reviews. Josh Specht examines Maurice Ashley's The Most Valuable Skills in Chess and John Nunn's Understanding Chess Endgames. Ashley's book is targeted toward beginning players and focuses on the elements of tactics, while Nunn's endgame book is a ... [Read More]

Best of the Week time! From now on we're going to run this feature on Friday, so that you can plan your weekend better. ;-)

Our forum has been really busy lately: We had a collection of assorted chess wisdom, Armis started an interesting discussion about the virtues of 1.Nf3, and katar put a lot of work into collecting lots of endgame videos on the site. He also listed them by endgame type. Have a look at this ... [Read More]