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 8 features Gustavo, a 16-year-old from Puerto Rico rated around 1600 online.
0:00 Intro/training discussion
8:53 Game 1: Petroff Defense
20:08 Game 2: Sicilian Defense
35:00 Game 3: Philidor Defense
41:49 Game 4: French Defense
50:39 Game 5: Grand-Prix Attack
55:58 Game 6: French Winawer
59:38 Game 7: King’s Indian Defense
1:04:50 Diagnosis/training recommendations
New episodes of Diagnose Your Chess are streamed live every Thursday 3:30 PM PST on twitch.tv/chess24
If you’re interested in chess coaching, make sure to visit cochess.com!
For more educational chess content, check out my other channel, ChessDojo:
youtube.com/chessdojo
twitch.tv/chessdojolive
twitter.com/chess_dojo
;
