Secrets to a Simple Game!
Take a trip in GM Roman Dzindzichashvili’s time machine back 30 years to the 1984 Chess Olympiad in Greece. GM Dzindzichashvili...
How to Play the King's Indian Defense: Four Pawns Attack! -- Part 2
GM Dzindzichashvili continues his series on the Four Pawns Attack in the King’s Indian Defense. Expanding on the analysis...
How to Play the King's Indian Defense: Four Pawns Attack! -- Part 1
GM Roman Dzindzichashvili unlocks the secrets of an aggressive response to the King’s Indian Defense: the Four Pawns Attack. What...
How to Play the King's Indian Defense: Sämisch Variation
With so many lines available, what does GM Dzindzichashvili recommend as the "guideline" you should use when choosing a...
How to Win a Won Endgame!
GM Roman Dzindzichashvili analyzes one of his own games from start to finish, paying special attention to the transition...
Endgame Horror Show: Member Game Analysis
You need to know what not to do in the endgame! GM Roman Dzindzichashvili breaks down the blunders and bad ideas in this...
Member Game Analysis: Game Like No Other!
Wow! Roman is not short on superlatives for this one! First he shows you several positions where the discussion is whether...
Ruy Lopez: Steinitz Defense! - Part 2
GM Dzindzi wants to be a trend setter. For years he has played and studied 3...d6 in the Spanish Game and he can't figure...
Ruy Lopez: Steinitz Defense! - Part 1
Sure, the Closed Spanish, Open Spanish and Berlin have all been popular at times in the last 30 years, but don't forget...
Member Game Analysis: Take Care of Your King!
What happens when a member takes Dzindzi's exact advice in the opening? Watch and see the student imitate the teacher by...
Roman's Novelty Shop: Trompowsky - Part 3
GM Dzindzichashvili concludes his Trompowsky Trio with an edition focused on 3. Bh4. He doesn't hide his disdain for the...
Roman's Novelty Shop: Trompowsky - Part 2
GM Dzindzichashvili is not a believer in the Trompowsky. Today he is not satisfied with equality as Black - he wants the...
Roman's Novelty Shop: Trompowsky - Part 1
GM Dzindzi starts with a discussion of a trap that nearly everyone falls into! Although it wasn't mentioned, regular Chess.com...
Member Game Analysis: Unnecessary Weakening!
Placing your bishop on an inferior square is a recoverable mistake, but opening up your king without reason can be decisive....
Roman's Novelty Shop: Queen's Gambit Declined Novelty!
The Queen's Gambit Declined. Game doesn't heat up until move 20, right? Not today - GM Dzindzichashvili shows you that some...
Roman's Novelty Shop: Queen's Pawn Novelties!
If the CIA had files on opening theory, then consider GM Dzindzi a latter-day Daniel Ellsburg. He didn't steal the files...
Member Analysis: Neutral Moves!
If you're not trying to get better, GM Dzindzichashvili says he doesn't want you to bother watching this video! You'll see...
Roman's Novelty Shop: French Defense - Part 2
A piece for three pawns - one of the hardest positions to analyze properly in chess. Along with queen against two rooks...
Roman's Novelty Shop: French Defense - Part 1
GM Dzindzichashvili breaks out the big guns, or rather machines, to show us some dynamic lines in the French Defense. First...
Roman's Novelty Shop: Grand Prix Attack
Have you ever had that dream where you're being chased, and no matter how fast you go, you never outrun the danger? GM Dzindzichashvili's...
Member Analysis: From Lost to Winning in One Move!
The name of the game is pawn thrust today. White misses not one but two chances to end the game with advances on the enemy...
Roman's Novelty Shop: Taimanov Sicilian
What was GM Dzindzichashvili doing when the Beatles were on the Ed Sullivan Show? He was crafting his own ballads on the...
Beating Your Nemesis: The Alekhine Defense
In the Alekhine, your opponent is ceding a space advantage in hopes of destroying your central pawn advances. But don't...
Member Analysis: Just Win Already!
The crime: Bringing the queen out too early. The setting: f3. The motive: Attacking down the long diagonal. But Grandmaster...
Member Analysis: The Move From Hell!
Sometimes the teacher just can't hide his reactions! GM Dzindzi has more than subtle criticism for both sides in this Member...