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Stay ConnectedChess Killer Tips will help you improve your chess, by training your mind and showing you new chess techniques and tricks. Presented by Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk, in a free short daily video podcast format, they are instructive and fun at the same time.
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Intermediate - Middle Game: From the game Arkady Naiditsch - Vladimir Kramnik, Dortmund 2009. Black plays and wins.
Difficult - Study: A very beautiful 1924 chess study by Troitsky. In this short video, Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk shows you how to solve it to the end, you will enjoy it for sure.
Difficult - Middle Game: From the game Alexandra Kosteniuk - Shen Yang, Beijing 2008. White plays and wins. True strategical thinking required.
Easy - Middle Game: From the game Jakob Rosanes vs. Adolf Anderssen, 1863. Black plays and wins.
Intermediate - Opening: From the game Sangla - Karpov, 1968. Black plays and wins.
Difficult - Study: A difficult study by Kubbel from 1925. White plays and wins. The goal is simple: mate the Black King or win the Black Queen. It's forced.
Easy - Middle Game: From the Book of Stamma, 1737.
White plays and wins.
Easy - Middle Game: Black plays and wins. From the game Romieux - Kosteniuk, Paris 2008.
Intermediate - Middle Game: A position from the game GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave against GM Alexandra Kosteniuk. What would have happened, had Maxime played 1. h8 = Q?
Intermediate - Study: A 1948 Study by WOTAWA, white plays and wins.
Intermediate - Middle Game: A key position from the game Aronian - Van Wely, Corus Wijk aan Zee 2008. White plays and wins.
Intermediate - Middle Game: From the game Klinger - Blatny, 1988, white plays and wins.
Difficult - Study: Solution of Christmas Competition Position 3. Study by Troitzky, 1910. White plays and wins.
Easy - Middle Game: Solution of Christmas Competition Position 2. Taken from a game Paulsen - Morphy, New York 1857. Find Black's next move.
Intermediate - Middle Game: Solution of Christmas Competition Position 1. End of game Steinitz - Van Bardeleben, Hastings 1895. White plays and wins.
Difficult - Study: Grandmaster Kosteniuk tells you precisely her thinking process while solving a difficult chess study by Ryabinin. White plays and draws.
Intermediate - Middle Game: A fragment of the World Blitz Championship Qualifyers GM Kosteniuk - GM Amonatov, Moscow 2007. White plays and wins.
Intermediate - Middle Game: From the game Danielian - Kosteniuk, European Team Championships, Crete 2007. Black plays and wins.
Very Difficult - Endgame: The Philidor position is one of the key positions in which the stronger side wins in Rook + Bishop vs. Rook. It's useful to know about it in case you get that endgame in your tournament practice.
Intermediate - Endgame: From the game Fressinet - Kosteniuk, Villandry 2007. Black to play and win. Variation missed during the game.
Intermediate - Study: A 1926 Chess Study by Rinck, white plays and wins.
Very Difficult - Study: An amazing 1937 study by Korolkov, with an incredible final mating position. Watch and listen to Alexandra run you through the solution.
Intermediate - Middle Game: From the game Radjabov - Anand of the 2006 Blitz World Championship, white wins in the Poisoned Pawn Sicilian Defence.
Easy - Problem: Mate in 3 chess problem by Galitsky. Prove to Black that he'd be better off without his pawns.
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.
Difficult - Study: Train your concentration skills by finding the forced 14-move line that wins for white. Chess Study by Grigoriev.
Easy - Endgame: Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk explains the way to win endgames with Queen versus Rook.
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!
Intermediate - Study: You'll feel good after you solve this 1898 miniature chess study by Troitzky.
Difficult - Problem: A mate in 6 chess problem delightful in its purity. Composed in 1910 by Nissl.
Easy - Problem: White plays and mates in two moves. Chess Problem published in Musical World, 1860.
Difficult - Study: 1903 Study by Henri Rinck. White plays and wins. Beautiful and more complex examples of the Enfilade technique introduced in CKT 002.
Intermediate - Middle Game: A position from the game Fressinet - Postny, Warsaw 2005, white plays and wins. Presented by Guest Star Laurent Fressinet.
Easy - Game: The Immortal 1858 Game between Paul Morphy and Duke Carl and Count Isouard.
Easy - Problem: Chess problem, mate in two moves.
Intermediate - Retro: A tricky mate in one with a useful moral, presented by Guest Star Almira Skripchenko.
Difficult - Middle Game: Anatoly Karpov gives Unzicker a lesson in strategy of particularly high level. Find the best strategic plan for white.
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.
Intermediate - Study: Should White resign or play on? 1922 Study by Kraemer.
Difficult - Study: White plays and wins. 1927 Study by Leonid Kubbel.
Intermediate - Study: White plays and draws, 1947 Study by Chekhover.
Intermediate - Problem: Mate in three moves, Problem by Del Rio, 1750.
Difficult - Retro: A perfect example of Retrograde Analysis.
Easy - Opening: From the game Aronian - Radjabov, Monaco 2007.
Intermediate - Middle Game: From a game Reshevsky - Najdorf.
Intermediate - Problem: Mate in 2 Chess Problem that Fritz 10 cannot solve.
Easy - Problem: Mate in 3 Problem by Carlo de Grandi.
Easy - Middle Game: From the game Kosteniuk - Gaeva, Verdun 1995.
Intermediate - Endgame: From the game Grischuk - J. Polgar, Biel 2007.
Easy - Middle Game: From the game Onischuk - Carlsen, Biel 2007.
Intermediate - Middle Game: From the game Anand - Van Wely, Monaco 2007.
Intermediate - Study: Study by Schultz, 1941.
Easy - Middle Game: From a game Napoleon - General Bertrand, St. Helena 1818
Intermediate - Study: White plays and wins.
Intermediate - Study: White plays and wins.
Easy - Middle Game: White plays and wins.
Easy - Opening: A refresher on what happens after 2...f6?
Difficult - Study: You will certainly enjoy the solution to this chess study. Very instructive.
Easy - Endgame: It's important to know the Philidor Position which shows the easiest way to draw as the weaker side in R + P vs. R
Intermediate - Middle Game: This position was taken from a game between A. Kosteniuk and S. Cherednichenko, Szeged 1994.
Intermediate - Middle Game: From a game DesChapelles - De Labourdonnais, Paris 1836
Easy - Endgame: This position was taken from a 1737 chess book.
Easy - Middle Game: This position was taken from a game Carlsen - Leko, Dortmund 2007.
The first episode of the CKT video podcast introduces you to the format of the podcast, and how you can view it. It features GM Alexandra Kosteniuk's talk about future episodes.
