A spectacular and forced combination decides over the battle between the top grandmaster and the former European Champion. Do not miss it.

Exciting sacrifices in a sequence in a game of a world champion candidate, who was one of the strongest players in his time.

Making use of more active pieces against a future world champion candidate in an endgame.

Kings in the firing line. Observe the art of counterattacking from close.

Find the only winning moves - as the Grandmaster did

Surprise your opponent in a seemingly lost position and lead a mating attack against the black king left in the centre.

A really short blitz game between the founder of Microsoft and the newly crowned chess world champion

White uses a rook as bait, and Black takes it. With a more careful play, he could have won. (Difficulty level: easy)

A wonderful combination leads to an exceptional mate with two knights in the middlegame

A rarely played gambit that can quickly decide the game if you are not prepared

The queen is the strongest and most elusive piece. Let's see an exciting combination from a recent game, where the queen still gets trapped in the middle of the board.

Advanced connected pawns are extremely dangerous in an endgame. Prokes demonstrates what motives can be used to win against these pawns in a beautiful endgame

You can see the best combination from the FIDE World Candidates Tournament 2014, where Mamedyarov beat Arionian, who is second on the world ranking list.

Reshevsky, once a chess prodigy, US Grandmaster had one of his off days against the Yugoslavian Champion, Ivanovic.

Computer vs Human. Back to 1989 - eight years before Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov.

There are surprising possibilities to save the game even in lost positions

Super grandmasters can calculate forcing variations 20 moves ahead. Try out yourself on a seven move combination from a recent game between Ponomariov and Vallejo Pons.

We celebrate Judit Polgar's fantastic career with this combination. She has just retired from competitive chess.

You have to expect the unexpected when your king position is weak.

Solve a mini-combination from the young Slovak chess talent, Jergus,

The endgame combinations are rare but beautiful. This lesson also teaches you the problem of the overloaded pieces.

The opening traps can be really dangerous. You can see a queen trap combination in the Rubinstein variation of the Nimzo-Indian defence in this lesson.

Solve a mini-combination from the young Hungarian chess talent, Alex

We do not know whether the spectators really threw gold pieces on the board after the winning queen move but Marshall himself insisted on the legend.

Svidler could think that this queen and opposite colored bishop endgames was draw but Krasenkow calculated further.