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Basics
- The history of chess
- How the pieces move
- Special moves
- How do pieces capture?
- What are the pieces worth?
- What are “check” and “checkmate”?
- What is a “Fool’s Mate”?
- Checkmate varieties
- Chess notation
- Chess terms
- Chess ratings and titles
- Basic strategies
- Why development matters
- Are early queen attacks a good idea?
- Using rooks in the opening
- How to avoid blunders
- 35 principles
- 8 concepts
Short Videos
- Setting up the board
- Controlling the center
- How to get girls
- The worst opening
- The London System
- The Jobava London
- Scotch Opening
- Fried Liver Attack
- Trompowsky Attack
- Forks
- En passant
- Opposition
- Trangulation
- Englund Gambit
- Wing Gambit
- Jerome Gambit
- Ponziani Trap
- Traxler Trap
- Halosar Trap
- Fishing Pole Trap
- Poisoned Queen Trap
- Italian Game Trap
- Legal Trap
- Fritz Trap
- Heisenberg Trap
- 3 Knights Trick
- 4 Knights Tricks
- Punishing Bg4 pins
- Punishing an attempted Scholar’s mate
- Desperados
- Zwischenzugs
- Zugzwangs
- Greek Gift sacrifice
- Most powerful moves
- King before pawns
- Lucena endgame
- Philidor endgame
- Reti endgame
- Interesting Checkmates
Openings
- How to learn an opening
- Basic openings
- Good opening advice
- If your opponent opens badly…
- Openings for beginners 1
- Openings for beginners 2
- Openings for beginners 3
- King’s pawn openings 1
- King’s pawn openings 2
- King’s pawn openings 3
- King’s Indian Attack
- King’s Indian Defense
- French Defense
- Caro-Kann Defense
- Pirc Defense
- Petroff Defense
- Sicilian Defense
- Rat Defense
- Queen’s pawn openings
- The English Opening
- The London System
- The Torre Attack
- The Colle System
- The Dutch Setup
- The Stonewall Setup
- Queen’s Indian Defense
- Bishop’s Opening
- Ponziani Opening
- Vienna Opening
- The Greek Gift
- The Fried Liver Attack
- Winning pieces in the opening
- Choosing an opening
Gambits
- What is a gambit?
- King’s Gambit
- Queen’s Gambit
- Evan’s Gambit
- Danish Gambit
- Scotch Gambit
- Blackmar-Diemer Gambit
- Rousseau Gambit
- Rousseau Gambit 2
- Smith-Morra Gambit
- Wing Gambit
- Elephant Gambit, Wasp Variation
- Urusov Gambit
- Englund Gambit
- Orthoschnapp Gambit
- Nakhmanson Gambit
- Stafford Gambit
- Lucchini Gambit
- Jalalabad Gambit
- Halloween Gambit
- The Monkey’s Bum
- Schilling-Kostic Gambit
- Greco Gambit
Traps
- 25 best traps
- Traps arising from 1. e4
- Smirnov’s favorite opening traps
- Must-know traps
- Feingold’s lecture
- Lasker Trap
- Ponziani Trap
- Fishing Pole Trap
- Halosar Trap
- Sicilian traps
- Queen’s Gambit traps
- English traps
- Scandinavian traps
- French traps
- Budapest Queen Trap
Middlegames
- The path of middlegames
- Middlegame templates
- How to calculate moves
- Attacking correctly
- Attacking on the h-file
- Attacking a fianchettoed bishop
- Attacking an uncastled king
- Attacking a castled king
- Hanging and unprotected pieces
- Active defense and counterattack
- When to sacrifice pieces
- Cutting the middlegame short
Strategy
- What is strategy?
- Strategy in the opening
- Immediate strengths and weaknesses
- Evaluating a position
- Common strategies in the middlegame
- The Importance of pawns
- Strategy with an open center
- Strategy with a closed center
- “The least active piece” principle
- Space advantage
- Outposts
- When to trade
- Prevention (Prophylaxis)
- Strategy test
Forcing Moves
- What are forcing moves
- The hierarchy of attacking moves
- Definitions of attacking concepts
- A cascade of forcing moves
Tactics
- All tactics
- Must-know tactical ideas
- 5 amazing forks
- 5 amazing pins
- 5 amazing discovered checks
- 5 kinds of skewers
- Deflection
- Clearance sacrifices
- Desperado sacrifices
- What is a “zwischenzug”?
- Checkmating tactics 1
- Checkmating tactics 2
- Morphy’s brilliant moves
- Tal’s queen sacrifices
- Fischer’s brilliant moves
- Kasparov’s brilliant moves
- Carlsen’s brilliant moves
- Nepo’s brilliant moves
Endgames
- Endgame principles
- 15 Rules
- The importance of king activity
- The opposition
- Distant opposition
- A famous endgame study
- Textbook endgame positions
- King and pawn endgames
- Rook and pawn endgames
- Connected passed pawns on the 6th rank
- Rook v. bishop
- Checkmate with a bishop and knight
- Checkmate with two bishops
- Pawn majorities
- What is “zugzwang”?
- The Philidor position
- The Lucena position
- The Saavedra position
- Capablanca’s best endgames
- Fischer’s famous endgames
Memorable Games
- Greco’s games
- Morphy
- Anderssen’s Immortal Game
- The Evergreen Game (Anderssen v. Dufresne)
- The Gold Coin Game (Levitsky v. Marshall)
- The Marshall Attack (Capablanca v. Marshall)
- Kasparov v. The World
- Kasparov’s best game ever
- Fischer
- Nakamura v. Carlsen
- Tal v. no name
- Anand v. Lautier
- Mamedyarev
- Firouzja’s best games
- Firouzja’s brilliancies
- Chess at its most savage
- Stockfish (3617) v. KomodoDragon (3600)
Screwups
- Top chess mistakes
- Why you lose
- How NOT to play chess
- Endgames that people mess up
- Punishing dumb openings
- Magnus Carlsen plays like you!
- Battle of the know-nothings
- Never resign 1
- Never resign 2
Capablanca’s Lessons
- Pawn promotion
- Pawn endings
- Some winning positions in the middlegame
- Opening theory and central control
- Further principles in endgame play
- The opposition, and some opening traps
- Bishop vs. knight
- Mating with knight and bishop
- Planning a win in the middlegame
- Winning by indirect attack
Levy Rozman Teaches Chess
- Gotham Guide 1
- Gotham Guide 2
- Gotham Guide 3
- Gotham Guide 4
- Gotham Guide 5
- Gotham Guide 6
- Gotham Guide 7
- How to Win at Chess 1
- How to Win at Chess 2
- How to Win at Chess 3
- How to Win at Chess 4
- How to Win at Chess 5
- How to Win at Chess 6
- How to Win at Chess 7
- How to Win at Chess 8
- How to Win at Chess 9
- How to Win at Chess 10
- How to Win at Chess 11
- How to Win at Chess 12
- How to Win at Chess 13
- How to Win at Chess 14
- How to Win at Chess 15
- How to Win at Chess 16
Other Teachers
- Robert Ramirez 1
- Robert Ramirez 2
- Robert Ramirez 3
- Robert Ramirez 4
- Robert Ramirez 5
- Robert Ramirez 6
- Jonathan Schrantz 1
- Jonathan Schrantz 2
- John Bartholomew 1
- John Bartholomew 2
- John Bartholomew 3
- John Bartholomew 4
- John Bartholomew 5
- John Bartholomew 6
Quizzes
- #1
- #2
- #3
- #4
- #5
- #6
- #7
- #8
- #9
- #10
- #11
- #12
- #13
- #14
- #15
- #16
- #17
- #18 (substitution)
- #19
- #20
- #21
- #22
- #23
- #24
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