Episodes
Difficult - Endgame: It's necessary for you to know how to mate with Bishop and Knight versus King, since that endgame will likely show up in your tournament practice. Alexandra shows you how.
Published 09/26/07
Difficult - Study: Train your concentration skills by finding the forced 14-move line that wins for white. Chess Study by Grigoriev.
Published 09/15/07
Easy - Endgame: Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk explains the way to win endgames with Queen versus Rook.
Published 09/14/07
Very Difficult - Problem: A tough to solve mate in three chess problem. If you solve it in less than an hour, you're on your way to becoming a Grandmaster! Composed by Jiri Chocholous, 4th Prize, Cesky Spolek Sachovni, 1895.
Published 09/14/07
Intermediate - Study: You'll feel good after you solve this 1898 miniature chess study by Troitzky.
Published 09/13/07
Difficult - Problem: A mate in 6 chess problem delightful in its purity. Composed in 1910 by Nissl. Correction: Composed by Thomas Davidson (horizontal mirror) in Montreal Daily Witness, 1899.
Published 09/10/07
Easy - Problem: White plays and mates in two moves. Chess Problem published in Musical World, 1860.
Published 09/09/07
Difficult - Study: 1903 Study by Henri Rinck. White plays and wins. Beautiful and more complex examples of the Enfilade technique introduced in CKT 002.
Published 09/02/07
Intermediate - Middle Game: A position from the game Fressinet - Postny, Warsaw 2005, white plays and wins. Presented by Guest Star Laurent Fressinet.
Published 08/29/07
Easy - Game: The Immortal 1858 Game between Paul Morphy and Duke Carl and Count Isouard.
Published 08/29/07
Easy - Problem: Chess problem, mate in two moves. Composed by Paul Morphy.
Published 08/29/07
Intermediate - Retro: A tricky mate in one with a useful moral, presented by Guest Star Almira Skripchenko. Composed by Karl Fabel, New Statesman, 1963.
Published 08/28/07
Difficult - Middle Game: Anatoly Karpov gives Unzicker a lesson in strategy of particularly high level. Find the best strategic plan for white.
Published 08/28/07
Difficult - Middle Game: End of the game Robert Fontaine - Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Aix-les-Bains 2007. Black plays and mates in 7 moves. Presented by Guest Star Almira Skripchenko.
Published 08/26/07
Intermediate - Study: Should White resign or play on? 1922 Study by Kraemer.
Published 08/23/07
Difficult - Study: White plays and wins. 1927 Study by Leonid Kubbel.
Published 08/22/07
Intermediate - Study: White plays and draws, 1947 Study by Chekhover.
Published 08/21/07
Intermediate - Problem: Mate in three moves, Problem by Del Rio, 1750.
Published 08/20/07
Difficult - Retro: A perfect example of Retrograde Analysis. On which square was the White Queen captured?
Published 08/17/07
Easy - Opening: From the game Aronian - Radjabov, Monaco 2007. White just played 6. c4, how does Black continue?
Published 08/16/07
Intermediate - Middle Game: From a game Reshevsky - Najdorf. What happens after Black plays 1...Bxb2?
Published 08/15/07
Intermediate - Problem: Mate in 2 Chess Problem that Fritz 10 cannot solve. White plays and mates in 2 moves. Presented by Guest Star Almira Skripchenko.
Published 08/14/07
Easy - Problem: Mate in 3 Problem by Carlo de Grandi. White plays and mates in 3 moves.
Published 08/13/07
Easy - Middle Game: From the game Kosteniuk - Gaeva, Verdun 1995. White plays and wins .
Published 08/12/07
Intermediate - Endgame: From the game Grischuk - J. Polgar, Biel 2007. Find a Drawing Plan for Black.
Published 08/09/07