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CHESS KILLER TIPS

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Description:	Improve your chess skills by watching a daily short free chess video podcast, presented by well-known Chess Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk. Each episode covers a chess position, either from the opening, the middle game or the endgame. You will be given a chance to think about the position, after which Alexandra will run you through the solution, explaining all the right moves. Each podcast is marked Easy, Intermediate or Difficult. Watching this podcast regularly, you will improve your chess skills, guaranteed. Chess Killer Tips will help you improve your chess, by training your mind and showing you new chess techniques and tricks.
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Title:	CKT 063: Kramnik in Top Form
Date:	Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:50:12 -0600
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Description:	Intermediate - Middle Game: From the game Arkady Naiditsch - Vladimir Kramnik, Dortmund 2009. Black plays and wins.

Title:	CKT 062: Remember Saavedra?
Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:03:30 -0600
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Description:	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.

Title:	CKT 061: The weak link.
Date:	Thu, 28 May 2009 08:22:41 -0600
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Description:	Difficult - Middle Game: From the game Alexandra Kosteniuk - Shen Yang, Beijing 2008. White plays and wins. True strategical thinking required.

Title:	CKT 060: Female Diversion.
Date:	Wed, 27 May 2009 03:31:43 -0600
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Description:	Easy - Middle Game: From the game Jakob Rosanes vs. Adolf Anderssen, 1863. Black plays and wins.

Title:	CKT 059: Go home early
Date:	Tue, 26 May 2009 07:27:38 -0600
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Description:	Intermediate - Opening: From the game Sangla - Karpov, 1968. Black plays and wins.

Title:	CKT 058: Don't hurry. Think!
Date:	Mon, 25 May 2009 11:18:59 -0600
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Description:	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.

Title:	CKT 057: Unavoidable.
Date:	Sun, 24 May 2009 09:02:36 -0600
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Description:	Easy - Middle Game: From the Book of Stamma, 1737. White plays and wins.

Title:	CKT 056: Close the Door.
Date:	Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:53:21 -0600
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Description:	Easy - Middle Game: Black plays and wins. From the game Romieux - Kosteniuk, Paris 2008.

Title:	CKT 055: Miracles almost happen.
Date:	Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:12:04 -0600
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Description:	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?

Title:	CKT 054: Two rooks vs one.
Date:	Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:08:47 -0600
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Description:	Intermediate - Study: A 1948 Study by WOTAWA, white plays and wins.

Title:	CKT 053: Energetic Teamwork
Date:	Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:46:48 -0600
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Description:	Intermediate - Middle Game: A key position from the game Aronian - Van Wely, Corus Wijk aan Zee 2008. White plays and wins.

Title:	CKT 052: Caught from all Sides
Date:	Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:20:43 -0600
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Description:	Intermediate - Middle Game: From the game Klinger - Blatny, 1988, white plays and wins.

Title:	CKT 051: A Lesson in Geometry
Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:17:56 -0700
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Description:	Difficult - Study: Solution of Christmas Competition Position 3. Study by Troitzky, 1910. White plays and wins.

Title:	CKT 050: No Hesitation at all
Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:10:12 -0700
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Description:	Easy - Middle Game: Solution of Christmas Competition Position 2. Taken from a game Paulsen - Morphy, New York 1857. Find Black's next move.

Title:	CKT 049: Invincible Rook
Date:	Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:48:15 -0700
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Description:	Intermediate - Middle Game: Solution of Christmas Competition Position 1. End of game Steinitz - Van Bardeleben, Hastings 1895. White plays and wins.

Title:	CKT 048: How to Solve a Difficult Study
Date:	Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:38:16 -0700
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Description:	Difficult - Study: Grandmaster Kosteniuk tells you precisely her thinking process while solving a difficult chess study by Ryabinin. White plays and draws.

Title:	CKT 047: Only precision wins
Date:	Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:15:52 -0700
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Description:	Intermediate - Middle Game: A fragment of the World Blitz Championship Qualifyers GM Kosteniuk - GM Amonatov, Moscow 2007. White plays and wins.

Title:	CKT 046: Take the initiative
Date:	Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:00:54 -0700
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Description:	Intermediate - Middle Game: From the game Danielian - Kosteniuk, European Team Championships, Crete 2007. Black plays and wins.

Title:	CKT 045: Philidor in the R+B vs. R
Date:	Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:53:29 -0600
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Description:	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.

Title:	CKT 044: Try to go home early
Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:12:09 -0600
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Description:	Intermediate - Endgame: From the game Fressinet - Kosteniuk, Villandry 2007. Black to play and win. Variation missed during the game.

Title:	CKT 043: A Magnificent Royal Tango
Date:	Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:38:51 -0600
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Description:	Intermediate - Study: A 1926 Chess Study by Rinck, white plays and wins.

Title:	CKT 042: Surrealistic Cavalry
Date:	Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:22:14 -0600
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Description:	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.

Title:	CKT 041: High Level of Preparation Required
Date:	Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:53:48 -0600
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Description:	Intermediate - Middle Game: From the game Radjabov - Anand of the 2006 Blitz World Championship, white wins in the Poisoned Pawn Sicilian Defence.

Title:	CKT 040: Give him a move
Date:	Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:02:05 -0600
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Description:	Easy - Problem: Mate in 3 chess problem by Galitsky. Prove to Black that he'd be better off without his pawns.

Title:	CKT 039: B + N vs. K
Date:	Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:05:21 -0600
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Description:	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.

Title:	CKT 038: Pure Pawn Masterpiece
Date:	Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:30:02 -0600
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Description:	Difficult - Study: Train your concentration skills by finding the forced 14-move line that wins for white. Chess Study by Grigoriev.

Title:	CKT 037: How does a Queen beat a Rook?
Date:	Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:43:11 -0600
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Description:	Easy - Endgame: Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk explains the way to win endgames with Queen versus Rook.

Title:	CKT 036: A Tough Nut to Crack
Date:	Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:53:10 -0600
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Description:	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! Composed by Jiri Chocholous, 4th Prize, Cesky Spolek Sachovni, 1895.

Title:	CKT 035: Solve this Miniature
Date:	Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:08:46 -0600
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Description:	Intermediate - Study: You'll feel good after you solve this 1898 miniature chess study by Troitzky.

Title:	CKT 034: The Prodigal Son
Date:	Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:26:26 -0600
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Description:	Difficult - Problem: A mate in 6 chess problem delightful in its purity. Composed in 1910 by Nissl. Correction: Composed by Thomas Davidson (horizontal mirror) in Montreal Daily Witness, 1899.