Archive

Apr 2025

11: New Slow-Play Video Lesson!

Apr 2025

11: #90 Slow-paced instructive games, featuring discussions of patient dacha and respecting the Golden Bishop

Apr 2025

5: 3 More Dacha Tactics!!

Apr 2025

5: Dacha Tactics #124 - Sneaky golden bishop!

Apr 2025

5: Dacha Tactics #123 - Carlsen gets lost in the dark

Apr 2025

5: Dacha Tactics #122 - Light "Turkey" dacha!"

Mar 2025

21: New Video Lesson #89!

Mar 2025

21: #89 Instructive blitz games with color money imbalances

Mar 2025

8: 3 More Dacha Tactics!!

Mar 2025

8: Dacha Tactics #121 - The wild king: Dark with light intentions part 2

Mar 2025

8: Dacha Tactics #120 - The wild king: Dark with light intentions part 1

Mar 2025

8: Dacha Tactics #119 - Queen and bishop harmony mate in 2!

Feb 2025

27: Lichess Study

Feb 2025

27: Lichess Study & New Videos!

Feb 2025

27: #88 Instructive slow-paced games featuring opposite colored bishops and how to use the Golden Bishop!

Feb 2025

27: #87 Instructive games with golden Bishop. A pawn is a pawn, and here we are!

Feb 2025

7: 25 Free Tactics! Last week!

Jan 2025

31: 25 Free Tactics! Week #5

Jan 2025

24: #86 instructive slow games, bishop pair doing their thing & tying up the knights!

Jan 2025

24: #85 Instructive slow paced games: Featuring Golden bishop and Bishop pair clinic!

Jan 2025

24: 25 Free Tactics! Week #4

Jan 2025

17: 25 Free Tactics! Week #3

Jan 2025

10: 25 Free Tactics! Week #2

Jan 2025

8: Another video lesson posted!

Jan 2025

8: #84 instructive games with color discussions featuring bishop vs knight and a surprise finish

Jan 2025

3: 25 Free Tactics! Week #1

Jan 2025

3: Dacha Tactics #118 - Silent dark!

Jan 2025

3: Dacha Tactics #117 - Pathway to light heaven!

Jan 2025

3: Dacha Tactics #116 - Golden bishop shining bright

Jan 2025

3: Dacha Tactics #115 - Abe turner - dark scorpion tail!

Dec 2024

20: New Tactics!

Dec 2024

20: Dacha Tactics #114 - Abe Turner - oozing dark

Dec 2024

20: Dacha Tactics #113 - All the players participate in the dacha!!

Dec 2024

20: Dacha Tactics #112 - Golden light bishop doing magic

Dec 2024

20: Dacha Tactics #111 - Silent light!!

Dec 2024

13: 3 New Tactics & 2 Video Lessons!

Dec 2024

13: Dacha Tactics #110 - Dark chocolate ... with a hint of light caramel

Dec 2024

13: Dacha Tactics #109 - Queen acts as...

Dec 2024

13: Dacha Tactics #108 - Charlotte's light web

Dec 2024

13: #83 some instructive games and world championship color discussions!

Dec 2024

13: #82 Blitz Battles with young talent Tani discussing dark money and the Queen and Knight dangerous combo

Nov 2024

24: New Tactics!

Nov 2024

24: Dacha Tactics #107 - Queen goes back to acting school.

Nov 2024

24: Dacha Tactics #106 - The light dance!- squeezing that tempo.

Nov 2024

24: Dacha Tactics #105 - Knight is the light undertaker...bishop pair mocked!

Nov 2024

14: #81 Slower paced games! Featuring dark cheesecake and Budapest Boden mate dacha.

Nov 2024

14: Dacha Tactics #104 - Knight got dark bling bling

Oct 2024

14: #80 Instructive games featuring a Yaacattack Stonewall special - bishop followed by queen sacrifice!! with light rebuild.

Oct 2024

14: Dacha Tactics #103 - Cashing in all that dark money

Oct 2024

1: #79 Instructive games, forming plans when color money is balanced , and endgame backgammon dacha!

Oct 2024

1: Dacha Tactics #102 - Hips don't lie...same for color money.

Sep 2024

30: Dacha Tactics #101 - The overly eager king.

Sep 2024

25: Dacha Tactics #100 - Dark Zinger.

Sep 2024

25: #78 Karpov Vs. Yasser the great positional masters battle. Dark nuggets with final dark blow!

Sep 2024

16: Dacha Tactics #99 - Bughouse dacha.

Jul 2024

22: #77 The great Karpov displays the smoothest of light dachas, featuring an old lesson from GM Edmar Mednis!

Jul 2024

8: #76 Instructive games focusing on fianchetto bishops, dacha opening traps and leverage dacha!

Jun 2024

28: Youtube Yaac Attack!

Jun 2024

21: Win vs Hans! New Video Lesson

Jun 2024

21: #75 Win vs Hans! Instructive dark money edge from opening thru endgame. Featuring dacha blitz tactic for dessert.

Jun 2024

7: Youtube Yaac Attack!

May 2024

31: 4 New Tactics & 1 Video Lesson!

May 2024

31: #74 Blitz battles featuring instructive knight vs bishop endgames and the pawn endgame transitions.

May 2024

31: Dacha Tactics #98 - Classic light faith.

May 2024

31: Dacha Tactics #97 - Unlocking the gates.

May 2024

31: Dacha Tactics #96 - Dark medley.

May 2024

31: Dacha Tactics #95 - Dark surprise - not a coincidence.

May 2024

25: 5 New Tactics & 1 Video Lesson!

May 2024

25: Dacha Tactics #94 - Earthquake Dacha!

May 2024

25: Dacha Tactics #93 - Bronstein opens the dark flood gates.

May 2024

25: Dacha Tactics #92 - Dark highway to Rome.

May 2024

25: Dacha Tactics #91 - Extreme light faith.

May 2024

25: Dacha Tactics #90 - Dark money taken to the bank.

May 2024

21: #73 David Bronstein displays dark sorcery! Classic back to back exchange sacrifices with dark intentions

May 2024

10: Discord & New Video Lesson!

May 2024

10: #72 Instructive examples of Golden bishops, don't be fancy, and prediction Dacha finale!

May 2024

3: Another video lesson posted!

May 2024

2: #71 Humble patient dacha! With classic knight Vs. bishop duels!

Apr 2024

18: Congratulations! 🎉

Apr 2024

12: Another video lesson posted!

Apr 2024

12: #70 Instructive Bishop vs Knight duels Ft. spicy 5-0 finish vs Indian IM

Apr 2024

5: New Membership Tiers!

Apr 2024

5: #69 Blitz battles - spicy dacha endgame mates, learning from the great Lajos Portisch

Mar 2024

26: New Tactics & Video Lessons!

Mar 2024

22: Dacha Tactics #89 - rarest of rare -- dark Dacha stairway to heaven!

Mar 2024

22: Dacha Tactics #88 - dark pin, forks and spoons galore!

Mar 2024

22: Dacha Tactics #87 - full light explosion in real time

Mar 2024

22: Dacha Tactics #86 - the sleeper Golden Bishop

Mar 2024

22: Dacha Tactics #85 - light bishop turns dark

Mar 2024

21: Dacha Tactics #84 - Dark investments paying light dividends

Mar 2024

21: Dacha Tactics #83 - Lil August creating dark magic -- Part 2

Mar 2024

21: Dacha Tactics #82 - Lil August creating dark magic -- Part 1

Mar 2024

20: Dacha Tactics #81 - GothemChess topples the light resistence

Mar 2024

20: Dacha Tactics #80 - Hikaru unleashes the Golden Bishop

Mar 2024

20: Dacha Tactics #79 - yearning for dark, purest of pure

Mar 2024

20: Dacha Tactics #78 - light peekabo Dacha

Mar 2024

20: Dacha Tactics #77 - oozing light!

Mar 2024

18: #68 Blitz battles with symbolic dacha moments, win vs Naroditsky using important light zwischenzug

Mar 2024

11: #67 Nailbiter vs Nigel Short Instructive Golden- -dark Bishop endgames!

Feb 2024

9: #66 Exquisite display of Golden Bishop and bishop pair by Fischer

Feb 2024

1: New Tactics & Video Lessons!

Feb 2024

1: Dacha Tactics #76 - Final light straw!!

Feb 2024

1: Dacha Tactics #75 - Dark dacha by hook or by crook.

Feb 2024

1: Dacha Tactics #74 - King and knight heroic dark!!

Feb 2024

1: Dacha Tactics #73 - Extreme Dark Faith

Feb 2024

1: Dacha Tactics #72 - Carlsen hiccup!! dark pawn dacha.

Feb 2024

1: Dacha Tactics #71 - Dark splash!

Feb 2024

1: Dacha Tactics #70 - Immortal dacha walk!

Feb 2024

1: #65 Blitz battles with a nice win vs Danii Dubov, dark with dark intentions!

Jan 2024

19: New Tactics & Video Lessons!

Jan 2024

17: #64 Immortal king walks -- an ode to Nigel Short!

Jan 2024

17: #63 Blitz Battles, Dark knights run amok, with a grand finale Bonjovi dacha!

Jan 2024

5: Dacha Tactics #69 - The light straw that broke the camel's back

Jan 2024

5: Dacha Tactics #68 - Golden light bishop lurking!

Jan 2024

5: Dacha Tactics #67 - Light Zwischenzug - with dark intentions

Jan 2024

5: Dacha Tactics #66 - Dark blow - not a coincidence

Jan 2024

5: Dacha Tactics #65 - Light with Dark intentions!

Jan 2024

5: Dacha Tactics #64 - Bobby Pin

Dec 2023

27: New Tactics & Video Lessons

Dec 2023

22: Dacha Tactics #63 - Fischer's Light Shocker!

Dec 2023

22: Dacha Tactics #62 - Fischer's oozing light.

Dec 2023

22: Dacha Tactics #61 - Fischer's dark shocker!

Dec 2023

22: Dacha Tactics #60 - Golden Dark bishop strikes in endgame!

Dec 2023

22: Dacha Tactics #59 - The queen acts as a ........

Dec 2023

22: #62 Vintage Logozar with light dacha bloopers featuring Fischer Spassky

Dec 2023

22: #61 Just a lil bit of light... just a lil bit of dark featuring Fischer dacha!

Nov 2023

28: Dacha Wins at World Chessboxing Championship!

Nov 2023

28: Dacha Tactics #58 - Endgame finesse - yearning for light harmony.

Nov 2023

28: Dacha Tactics #57 - Golden light bishop shows what it's got!

Nov 2023

26: #60 Fischer springs the light slow squeeze on Saidy, then an 11 move light shocker vs Reshevsky!!

Nov 2023

26: #59 Fischer!!! First light, then dark. Neither a coincidence.

Nov 2023

9: 2 More Dacha Video Lessons!

Nov 2023

9: 2 More Dacha Video Lessons!!

Nov 2023

9: #58 The legendary Spassky shows us how to use a hidden light advantage!

Nov 2023

3: Dacha Tactics #56 - a dark shocker -- a dacha special!!

Oct 2023

29: #57 blitz battles; Hardcore match vs top Peruvian GM followed by Dark Dacha win vs Nigel Short! Comin' around the mountain!

Oct 2023

29: Dacha Tactics #55 - Oozing dark.

Oct 2023

25: Dacha Tactics #54 - Soft light tickle!

Oct 2023

25: Dacha Tactics #53 - Dzindzi soft dark touch!

Oct 2023

25: Dacha Tactics #52 - Dzindzi wants the juicy golden bishop!

Oct 2023

25: Dacha Tactics #51 - Bishop pair + passed pawn is too much harmony!!

Oct 2023

25: Dacha Tactics #50 - Dzindzi's golden bishop and its henchmen!

Oct 2023

25: Dacha Tactics #49 - Dzindzi's bear hug on the light squares!

Oct 2023

20: 12 More Dacha Tactics!!

Oct 2023

20: 12 More Dacha Tactics!

Oct 2023

20: Dacha Tactics #48 - The light straw that broke the dacha's back!

Oct 2023

20: Dacha Tactics #47 - Dzindi's bishop can change colors!

Oct 2023

20: Dacha Tactics #46 - Dzindzi's dark shocker!

Oct 2023

20: Dacha Tactics #45 - Dzindzi's light saber!

Oct 2023

20: Dacha Tactics #44 - Dzindzi's dark knockout blow!

Oct 2023

13: Dacha Tactics #43 - "sleeping knight" gets a good night's sleep in the dark.

Oct 2023

13: Dacha Tactics #42 - "trapped" horsie shows its worth in light.

Oct 2023

13: Dacha Tactics #41 - another smooth dark knockout!

Oct 2023

13: Dacha Tactics #40 - smooth dark knockout!

Oct 2023

13: Dacha Tactics #39 - Dark "Parachute" Dacha!

Oct 2023

13: Dacha Tactics #38 - Bent Larsen golden bishop queen sacrifice!

Oct 2023

13: Dacha Tactics #37 - Petrosian queen sacrifice is Nehz's inspiration!

Oct 2023

13: Dacha Tactics #36 - dark and light.

Oct 2023

11: #56 Blitz battles - Epic match vs Australian GM -- the queen keeps acting as a dark bishop!

Oct 2023

11: #55 Petrosian gives us a clinic in Golden Bishop

Oct 2023

6: YAACATTACK Academy Live!

Sep 2023

22: #54 Blitz! Trapping rooks in broad daylight, battling GingerGm and a spicy knight Vs. bishop endgame!

Sep 2023

8: #53 Welcome back Hans! Featuring YaacAttack dark with light intentions

Sep 2023

2: #52 Blitz Battles--Soft light touch in pawn endgame, and queen sacrifice vs young Hungarian prodigy GM Gledura

Sep 2023

2: #51 Blitz battles featuring Black and White Cookie dacha with a pawn endgame & a swindle finale!

Sep 2023

2: #50 Golden Anniversary!! Featuring the Gold Coin dark dacha brilliancy, and it's successors

Sep 2023

2: #49 Blitz battles Featuring fancy knight dacha, 3 pieces vs queen (!!) and some instructive rook endgames

Sep 2023

2: #48 Blitz! The ultimate knight vs bishop duels

Sep 2023

2: #47 Petrosian vs. Smyslov - Light and Dark!

Sep 2023

2: #46 A Colorful Grunfeld

Sep 2023

2: #45 Blitz battles -- some light tickles , an extreme dark inspiration from Petrosian , and battling vs 3(!!) Queens successful

Sep 2023

2: #44 Queen sacrifice extravaganza... Tigran Petrosian queen sacrifice for dark, Bent Larsen repays the favor on light!

Aug 2023

25: Dacha Tactics #35 - Nezh's dark magic!

Aug 2023

25: Dacha Tactics #34 - cracking Naroditsky with strict cheesecake dark dacha.

Aug 2023

25: Dacha Tactics #33 - king shows dark chops to hold draw!

Aug 2023

25: Dacha Tactics #32 - knight shows off dark.

Aug 2023

25: Dacha Tactics #31 - battle versus Caruana, knight showing light juice!

Aug 2023

25: Dacha Tactics #30 - oozing dark juices.

Aug 2023

25: Dacha Tactics #29 - light rebuild.

Aug 2023

25: Dacha Tactics #28 - Max Euwe shows faith in light golden bishop.

Aug 2023

25: Dacha Tactics #27 - Reshevsky shows off golden light bishop.

Aug 2023

25: Dacha Tactics #26 - oozing dark for the win!

Aug 2023

25: Dacha Tactics #25 - dark nugget incoming!

Aug 2023

24: Dacha Tactics #24 - Nimzo light squeeze featuring triangulation!

Aug 2023

24: Dacha Tactics #23 - Reti vs Romanovsky light magic.

Aug 2023

24: Dacha Tactics #22 - Alekhine vs Yates dark magic.

Aug 2023

24: Dacha Tactics #21 - Capablanca dreams big for the golden bishop.

Aug 2023

24: Dacha Tactics #20 - Capablanca finds dark amidst the light!

Aug 2023

23: Dacha Tactics #19 - dark dacha Capablanca vs Vidmar.

Aug 2023

23: Dacha Tactics #18 - light dacha finale.

Aug 2023

23: Dacha Tactics #17 - full board light squeeze, featuring a sleeping bishop!

Aug 2023

23: Dacha Tactics #16 - hardcore dark dacha.

Aug 2023

23: Hello from the YAACATTACK Academy!

Jul 2023

21: Dacha Tactics #15 - lighthouse dacha!

Jul 2023

21: Dacha Tactics #14 - tactical dark rebuild.

Jul 2023

21: Dacha Tactics #13 - cashing in the light money.

Jul 2023

21: Dacha Tactics #12 - light with DARK intentions!

Jul 2023

21: Dacha Tactics #11 - pawn sacrifice enabling the knight to crush on its color!

Jul 2023

21: Dacha Tactics #10 - golden bishop oozing dark energies.

Jul 2023

5: Dacha Tactics #9 - yearning for dark rebuild!

Jun 2023

16: New Puzzle Design

May 2023

26: #43 Blitz Roller coasters , we find the recipe of humble and pure dacha style with a side dish of Budapest!

May 2023

26: #42 Nezhmetdinov aka Super Nezh Digs Deep for Dark Gems and Treats us to a Beautiful Queen Sacrifice

May 2023

26: Dacha Tactics #8

May 2023

26: Dacha Tactics #7

May 2023

26: Dacha Tactics #6

May 2023

26: Dacha Tactics #5

May 2023

26: Dacha Tactics #4

May 2023

26: Dacha Tactics #3

May 2023

26: Dacha Tactics #2

May 2023

26: Dacha Tactics #1

May 2023

23: IM Armago (2222) - Brilliancy Prize!

May 2023

15: #41 Blitz Battles, Featuring the Slow Squeeze Babysitter Dacha + Budapest Gambit move 4 Accidental Novelty!

May 2023

15: #40 Ding Liren vs. Ian Nepomniachtchi, World Championship Round 4

May 2023

15: #39 Dynamic Dark Money

May 2023

15: #38 Isaak Birbrager vs. Mikhail Tal

May 2023

15: #37 Queen sacrifice saga! The Golden Dark Bishop is worth a Queen... By the great Mikhail Tal

May 2023

15: #36 Botvinnik vs. Tal, 1960

May 2023

15: #35 Blitz Battles including a sneak peak into Budapest Yaac Attack!! Taking 2900 IM's queen on move 10

May 2023

15: #34 Showdown vs Daniel Naroditsky Doubled pawns adding Harmony + a taste of Cheesecake for dessert

May 2023

15: #33 Blitz Special -- A Bit of Style!

May 2023

15: #32 Blitz Special - Yaacov versus Caruana!

May 2023

15: #31 Blitz Battles, Color Wars and hopping knights with a Bulgarian Female Phenom!

May 2023

15: #30 Max Euwe springs one of the most iconic moves in chess history teaching us light faith

May 2023

15: #29 The Great Reshevsky shows the beauty of trades and vigilant harmony, with light at the end of the tunnel

May 2023

15: #28 Blitz Special!

May 2023

15: #27 Nimzovitch shows knight vs bishop light Dacha... knight on rim -- not so grim! Featuring rare DOUBLE triangulation

May 2023

15: #26 Blitz Special!

May 2023

15: #25 Richard Reti vs. Peter Romanovsky Light vs Dark -- Dacha Showdown

May 2023

15: #24 Botvinnik invents the Dacha exchange sacrifice dark with light intentions

May 2023

15: #23 Richard Reti vs. Peter Romanovsky

May 2023

15: #22 Alekhine vs. Yates

May 2023

15: #21 Stapfer vs. Capablanca

May 2023

15: #20 Brick or Bug the age old question Capablanca shows us there is light (and dark!!) at the end of the tunnel ...

May 2023

15: #19 Capablanca grabs dark $ and takes it straight to the (endgame) bank

May 2023

15: #18 Capablanca Light Square Tease Dacha

May 2023

15: #17 Capa the sleeping giant shows off his shiny bishop pair

May 2023

15: #16 Dark with light intentions , immortal Zugzwang and sleeping bishop!!

May 2023

15: #15 Nimzovitch shows us how a blockade is done -- with a smooth dacha twist!

May 2023

15: #14 Akiba Rubinstein vs. Karel Hromadka

May 2023

15: #13 Akiba Rubenstein's Slow Squeeze and Fireworks

May 2023

15: #12 Frank Marshall Introduces Pipe Dacha

May 2023

15: #11 Maroczy Shows Off His Knights and Dark $

May 2023

12: #10 Schlechter's Dark Dacha

May 2023

12: #9 Lasker Shows Off His Sleeping Knight

May 2023

12: #8 Lasker Shows His Dacha Chops

May 2023

12: #7 More Tarrasch

May 2023

12: #6 Old School Tarrasch

May 2023

12: #5 Old School Positional Masters

May 2023

12: #4 Famous Morphy Games

May 2023

12: #3 Old School Dacha

May 2023

12: #2 Dacha Fundamentals

May 2023

12: #1 Dacha Fundamentals

May 2023

10: Yaacov on Perpetual Chess Podcast

May 2023

5: IM Mykola-Bortnyk (2952)

Apr 2023

24: Test Puzzle Embed

Apr 2023

24: Test GIF Embed

Apr 2023

21: Course: The Yaac Attack Stonewall Attack for White

Apr 2023

18: Course: The Yaac Attack: Caro-Kann for Black

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