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How To: Build a wooden chessboard
Have you ever wanted to build your own chessboard? Well, you're in luck. This video tutorial series will show you how to build a wooden chessboard. If you follow these seven videos, you'll be playing chess in no time.
How To: Make a homemade fridge checkers game
For too long the family refrigerator has had to endure a boring existence. Merely a place to store food and the occasional family photo, its place as an enduring destination for family entertainment has been overlooked for too long!
How To: Win a game of chess with two rooks against one
See how to play a game of chess with Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk. This chess video tutorial will show you how to win a game of chess with two Rooks against one.
How To: Catch Black from all sides to win the chess game
Learn chess from Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk. This chess video tutorial will show you how to play a game of chess, like the masters. See how to catch Black from all sides to win the chess game.
How To: Solve a chess study in geometry by Troitzky
Let Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk teach you how to play a game of chess in this chess video tutorial.
How To: Win the chess game with an invincible rook
Yes, Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk is here to teach you how to play a game of chess. Just watch this chess video tutorial to see how to win the chess game with an invincible Rook.
How To: Solve a difficult chess study from Ryabinin
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk shows you how to play a difficult chess study from Ryabinin in this chess video tutorial.
How To: Take the initiative in a chess game to win
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk teaches you how to... you guessed it, play a game of chess. This chess video tutorial will show you how to take the initiative in a chess game to win.
How To: Use Philidor's position to win the chess endgame
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk shows you how to play a magnificent game of chess in this chess video tutorial on the very difficult Rook and Bishop against Rook endgame. See how to use the Philidor's position to win the endgame of chess.
How To: Win the endgame of chess with a pawn and king
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk, in this chess video tutorial, you guessed it, teaches you how to play a game of chess.
How To: Win chess with the Poisoned Pawn Sicilian Defense
Let Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk teach you how to play a game of chess in this chess video tutorial.
How To: Prove that black is better off without his chess pawns
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk shows you how to play chess like a master in this chess video tutorial.
How To: Mate with a bishop and knight versus a king in chess
Let Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk teach you how to play a game of chess. This chess video tutorial will show you how to checkmate with a Bishop and Knight versus a King.
How To: Beat a rook with a queen in chess endgames
Watch as Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk teaches you how to play chess in this chess video tutorial. This will show you how to use a winning strategy in Queen vs Rook endgames.
How To: Solve an extremely difficult chess problem
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk shows you how to play chess in this chess video tutorial. This chess position is a very difficult checkmate in three moves. If you want to challenge your chess brain, try to solve it.
How To: Solve a miniature chess problem
Let Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk teach you how to play a simple game of chess! This video tutorial will have you up on your feet, just begging to play a game of chess with someone.
How To: Checkmate your chess opponent in six moves
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk shows you how to play chess. Just watch this video tutorial to learn how to play like the masters.
How To: Win a chess game with a transatlantic flight
Join Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk in this chess video tutorial and learn how to play a cool game of chess.
How To: Play chess with concrete tactics
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk shows you how to play chess in this chess video tutorial, but wait, where's Alexandra? For this chess master class, guest star GM Laurent Fressinet from France will be filling in to show you how to play one of his games from Warsaw (2005), Fressinet vs Postny.
How To: Move the pieces correctly on a chessboard
Check out this video tutorial on the very basics of a chess game. In chess the very first thing you need to know is how to move your pieces. That's what this chess video is all about.
How To: Checkmate your chess opponent in one tricky move
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk gives you one hell of a chess lesson in this video tutorial for the determined. This chess game will show you how to perform a tricky checkmate in one move with a useful moral, presented by guest star Almira Skripchenko.
How To: Improve your chess strategy
This video tutorial is from Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk, who shows you how to play a game of chess, like the masters play.
How To: Play the seven steps to nirvana in a game of chess
Check out this chess game video tutorial from Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk, presented by guest star Almira Skripchenko. Here, you will see the end of the game Robert Fontaine vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, in Aix-les-Bains (2007).
How To: Avoid loosing a chess game by stalemating
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk ponders the question in this chess video tutorial, "Should White resign or play on?" This chess example that will get you on your way to being a Grandmaster yourself is from a study in 1922 by Kraemer.
How To: Use retrograde analysis to perfect your chess skills
This chess tutorial from Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk is a perfect example of Retrograde Analysis.
How To: Catch the black queen in a chess middle game
This chess game video tutorial from Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk shows you how to catch the black queen in a chess game. This example is from the game Najdorf vs Reshevsky.
How To: Solve a checkmate in two moves chess game problem
In this chess video tutorial, Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk, with guest star Almira Skripchenko, will show you how to checkmate in just two moves that the Fritz 10 software program doesn't even recognize. Fritz 10 just can't solve this mate in 2 chess problem.
How To: Checkmate in three moves on your chess game
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk shows you in this chess video tutorial how to checkmate your opponent in just three simple moves. This mate in three moves problem is by Carlo de Grandi.
How To: Pin your opponent from the chess middle game
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk teaches you in this chess video tutorial, how to pin your opponent down from the middle game of chess. This chess example is from the game Kosteniuk vs Gaeva in Verdun (1995). White plays and wins by checkmating with the queen and rook. To see how to master the chess move, just watch and see.
How To: Keep a criminal pawn at bay in a chess middle game
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk teaches you how to play a real game of chess in this video tutorial. From the game Onischuk vs Carlsen in Biel (2007). Black plays and wins, by first taking white's rook and checking the king. The white king then takes the black queen, and so on. This will show you how to keep a criminal pawn at bay in a chess middle game, causing your chess opponent to resign like the loser that he/she is.
How To: Solve Shultz's unstoppable pawn chess game study
Solve this chess study by Schultz (1941). Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk shows you just how to do it in this chess video tutorial. White plays and wins. In order to win, white needs to promote his pawn down the board -- the unstoppable pawn, to get a queen in this chess endgame.
How To: Play chess like Napoleon Bonaparte
Check out this chess video tutorial from Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk on how to play chess like Napoleon Bonaparte. This chess game is from Napoleon vs General Bertrand in St. Helena (1818). White plays and wins, but how? Well, see for yourself. Let's just say that Napoleon wins the chess game with his queen.
How To: Play from the Saavedra position in endgame chess
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk teaches you how to play from the Saavedra position in endgame chess. White plays and wins, but remember to look for the best defense for black. Your rook and kings will get a workout, but if you do it right, you might just get out of a chess jam and win the endgame. You'll have to advance the pawn to get a rook, yes, not a queen, a rook.
How To: Solve a chess game study from the Book of Salvio
Learn from this chess video tutorial, hosted by Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk, on how to solve the chess game study from the Book of Salvio (1604). White plays and wins by sacrificing his rook and moving his pawn up the chessboard to get queened. It's as simple as that. Endgame chess is a great thing to learn to become a master.
How To: Smothermate the king in a complicated chess game
Check out this chess video tutorial Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk on how to win the game. This game is taken from the Book of Stamma (1737). White plays and wins. You will see a good example of a smothered mate in the chess conundrum. Here, you will learn how to smothermate the king, which is just like checkmating, but smothering it, causing one sacrifice after another.
How To: Use opening moves game strategy in chess
This is a very informative video tutorial from Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk on how to use opening moves game strategy in chess. What happens after 2...f6? You'll find out in this chess how-to. Find out how to take out the rook quickly with the knight.
How To: Play the Philidor position in a chess endgame
This chess game video tutorial from Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk shows you how to use an important postition in rook endgmaes. It's important to know the Philidor Position which shows the easiest way to draw as the weaker side in R + P (rook and pawn) vs. R (rook). Black plays and draws the chess game. How can black save the game?
How To: Capture the king with two variations in endgame chess
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk shows you how to play a real game of chess in this video tutorial, showing you how to checkmate the king with two variations in endgame/middle game chess. This example is from the game DesChapelles - De Labourdonnais, Paris 1836. White plays and wins the chess game by first playing the knight to check the king, with a sacrifice. Then the queen moves in for the endgame/middle game chess kill.
How To: Use the technique called enfilade in chess
Enfilade is a concept in military tactics used to describe a military formation's exposure to enemy fire. Well, the same concept applies in a game of chess. Check out this video tutorial from Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk that shows you how to use the technique called enfilade. This chess position was taken from a 1737 chess book. White plays and wins by playing the rook and sacrificing it. See how the endgame of chess is really played.
How To: Play the board and card game Cloud 9
Do you like games like Monopoly, Risk, Stratego, Dungeons and Dragons, Chess, Checkers, Uno, Battleship and Connect Four? If so, this board/card game could be next for you.