Kostya Kavutskiy

Diagnose Your Chess is a brand new show where IM Kostya Kavutskiy will work with a different student every week, assessing their strengths and weaknesses while breaking down their recent games. At the end of the lesson Kostya and his student will form a training plan, with the goal of checking back in after a few months. Episode 7 features Joel, a player from Canada rated … [Read more...] about Dealing With Blunders | Diagnose Your Chess #7 | Joel from Canada (1750)

Diagnose Your Chess is a brand new show where IM Kostya Kavutskiy will work with a different student every week, assessing their strengths and weaknesses while breaking down their recent games. At the end of the lesson Kostya and his student will form a training plan, with the goal of checking back in after a few months. Episode 6 features Dino, a player from Montenegro rated … [Read more...] about Diagnosing A 1950 | Diagnose Your Chess: Ep. 6 – Dino from Montenegro

Diagnose Your Chess is a brand new show where IM Kostya Kavutskiy will work with a different student every week, assessing their strengths and weaknesses while breaking down their recent games. At the end of the lesson Kostya and his student will form a training plan, with the goal of checking back in after a few months. Episode 5 features Henry Hughes, a 19-year-old from … [Read more...] about Diagnosing An 1800 | Diagnose Your Chess: Ep. 5 – Henry Hughes

Diagnose Your Chess is a brand new show where IM Kostya Kavutskiy will work with a different student every week, assessing their strengths and weaknesses while breaking down their recent games. At the end of the lesson Kostya and his student will form a training plan, with the goal of checking back in after a few months. Episode 4 features Danny Cao, a 50-year-old rated about … [Read more...] about Diagnosing A 1200 | Diagnose Your Chess: Ep. 4 – Danny Cao

This video comes from a recent stream I did with ChessDojo, where we made recommendations for White against all the major openings after 1.d4. Enjoy! Featuring GM Jesse Kraai, IM David Pruess, and special guest GM Eugene Perelshteyn Check out the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdok6c04WwQ … [Read more...] about Kostya’s 1.d4 Recommendations For White