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Queen Pawn Openings

• New! - What is the Slav Defense? Exploring IM Tom Bartell's "The Practical Slav Defense
• Queen Pawn videos
• The Strongest reply to the Queen Pawn Opening - Derieque Kelley
• Chess traps in the queen pawn gambit opening
• The Semi-Slav
• Part 1 - The classical Meran
• Part 2  - The moderan Meran
• Part 3 - The Reynolds Attack
• Part 4 - The Anti-Merans
• there are many more parts, up to part 9. You'll see the links

King Pawn Openings

• New! - The Most Realiable Chess Defence to 1.e4
• New! - Urusov Gambit response to Nf3
• King Pawn Opening videos
• 5 Best Chess Traps in the Italian Game by GM Nadya Kosintseva
• The Most Realiable Chess Defence to 1.e4

Sicilian Defense

• New! - Crush the Sicilian with 2.Nc3 | Games to Know by Heart - IM Eric Rosen
• Sicilian Defense videos
• Interesting article on the Sicilian. The first image is not a video (buttons on it don't work on my PC). Scroll down to see the video.
• Accelerated Dragon - GM Yasser Seirawan
• Sicilian Najdorg / French  / Alekhine / Chigorin - GM Yasser Seirawan

English Opening

• MSK Chess Videos on the English Opening from Dynamic English book
• Introduction
• Botvinnik System
  
• Botvinnik :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymjTI74ZJRY 
• Botvinnik :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGTDRfUeWWI 
• Botvinnik :https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=A_Her9Ucg1E 
• Botvinnik :https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=LtcrWrm5ZbI
• Reversed Grandprix Attack - GM Tony Kosten
• Three Knight System
• Reverse Dragon
• Karin? System
• Symetrical Variation
• Rubinstein Variation
• Karispan Variation
• Reversed Grunfeld System
• Dutch
• Other responses
• Chess Openings : A system against the English Opening for Black
• Aggressive response to the English
• English Opening Trap
• English Opening videos
• The English Opening: A simple but strong opening to learn! - GM Roman Dzindzichashvili
• Complete system for Black against the English opening - multiple videos
• The English Opening - Chess Openings explained

French Defense

• New! - Effective Development | French Defense - GM Yasser Seirawan
• New! - Mastering the French Defense - Critical Variations for Black (Chess Openings) - GM Susan Polgar
• French Defense videos
• The Killer French by GM Williams - Beating the advanced variation

King's Indian Attack and Defense

• New! - The Classical King's Indian Defence - Chess Openings Explained
• King's Indian Attack and Defense videos

The London System - a strong response to many defenses

• New! - Beat Good Players with the London | Games to Know by Heart - IM Eric Rosen

How to Think and Plan in Chess

• New! - Excellent summary of how to analyze
• New! - Karpov's top 5 tactics
• New! - Are You Ready for the Most Powerful Positional Play? - GM Maxim Dlugy 
• New! - Advanced Chess Strategy
• New! - Simplify into a Winning Endgame | Strategy Session with Jonathan Schrantz
• New! - Trading: When Does it Benefit You? | Strategy Session with Jonathan Schrantz
• How to calculate variations efficiently
• Recognizing Combos - GM Yasser Seirawan - Always an excellent presenter.
• How to Think in Chess GM Simon Williams!
• 5 Chess Shortcuts to Improve FAST 🚀 with GM Eugene Perelshteyn
• Strategic Ideas in the Opening | Seirawan vs. Miles - GM Yasser Seirawan
• Chess Life article on how to reduce your blunders
  The article defaults to a easy to read text only page.  However, one doesn't get to see chess board examples.  To see boards, press on the open book like button in the very top right.  You can now see boards, but the text is too tiny!  To make the text larger, double click.  Then to scroll, click and hold and move the page around, Use the < and > buttons to go to different pages
• Botvinnik's Winning Method - World champion for 8 years

Interesting Articles, Videos, and Sites

• Two interesting games by  8th World Chess Champion, Mikhail Tal that illustrate attacking chess
• The Most Common Opening Inaccuracies - some comments on too much advertising.... But start is interesting.
• More YouTube videos by GM Yasser Seirwan
• Opening Problems | Scotch | French | King's Indian - GM Yasser Seirawan
• More YouTube videos by GM Simon Williams
• The Chess Web Site
• Chess Openings by Dereque Kelley

Last, but Not Least:

• Write down your opponent's move.
• Ask yourself: what are all the things your opponent's move does? Look at checks, captures and threats, in that order.
• What are all the positive things you want to do? This includes potential tactics.
• What are all the candidate moves which might accomplish on or more of your goals.
• Which of these candidate moves can you reject immediately because they are not safe? (Find checks, captures and threats that defeat the move.)
• Of the final candidate moves, which one is the best you can find in a reasonable amount of time?