Become a Premium Member for just pennies a day to improve your chess and get more features & benefits!
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Video Lessons from Top Players
Watch and listen as Grandmasters and top players explain chess to you! From openings to brilliant games to endgame technique, there are videos covering all chess topics. So sit back, put your feet up, and give your brain a workout!
- In-depth video analysis of games and positions
- A new lesson released almost every day!

Video Lessons with Top Players
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Free Chess Mentor Membership Time
Premium Members get FREE Chess Mentor time (normally $12.95 a month or $99.95 per year)! Those who already subscribe to Chess Mentor receive a 5-15% discount!
Click here to try Chess Mentor for FREE!

ChessMentor Online Training
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Computer Analysis
Do you wonder why you lost a game? What were your critical mistakes and what winning moves did you miss? Our super-computers analyze your game and give you a fully-annotated report!
- Grandmaster-level computer game analysis
- Full notation on mistakes and blunders

Computer Analysis of Games
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Chess.com TV
Watch Chess.com TV for live broadcasts of major chess events, interviews with top players, weekly radio shows, game analysis, and much more!
Click here to watch Chess.com TV!

Chess.com TV - Live Shows
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Game Explorer
Search your games, your opponents' games, or millions of master chess games to see what openings are being playing with full win/draw/loss statistics! Or, look through a database of standard openings and discuss the opening with other Chess.com members.
- Access to millions of Master+ games
- Search through all games from Chess.com
- Ability to save your favorite openings/positions
Platinum and Diamond Members have unlimited access. Gold Members have unlimited access to the Master+ Games and their own games, but limited access to other members' games. Basic Members are limited in their searches and cannot search their own games.
Click here to check out the Game Explorer!

Openings & Game Explorer
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Tactics Trainer
"Chess is 99% tactics!" Hone your tactics skills by spending time going through thousands and thousands of tactical positions where you are challenged to find the best moves!
- Track your "Tactics Rating" over time
- See full computer analysis of the moves
- Comment on tactics with other players
Platinum/Diamond Members have unlimited access. Gold Members are limited to 25 problems per day. Basic Members are limited to 2 problems per day.
Click here to check out the Tactics Trainer!

Tactics Trainer
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Unlimited |
Unlimited |
25 /day |
Live Tournaments
Live Tournaments start every 10 minutes, with your choice of popular bullet, blitz & rapid time-controls! Premium members can play in more tournaments!

Live Tournaments
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Unlimited |
Unlimited |
3 /day |
Chess.com Turn-based Tournaments
Compete in Official Chess.com turn-based tournaments or smaller round-robin tournaments. Premium Members can play in more turn-based tournaments. Premium Members can also run their own turn-based tournaments with more players, more options, and more total tournaments!
Click here to see Chess.com Tournaments!

Turn-Based Tournaments
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Unlimited |
Unlimited |
10 /time |
Performance Stats
Check out rating and statistics for Turn-based and Live Chess! Premium Members can view graphs on rating, wins/losses, ranking, best wins, worst loss, and other stats including performance against other individual players. Basic members get rating, win/loss/draw, and time per move.

Performance Stats
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Full (all members) |
Full (all members) |
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Vacation Time
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Max 90 Days |
Max 90 Days |
Max 60 Days |
Computer Workout
The Chess.com Computer Workout tool helps you improve your knowledge of key chess positions by setting you up to play them against the computer!
Premium Members have access to ALL key chess positions. Basic members have access to a sample set of positions.
Click here to start a Computer Workout!
Computer Workout
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Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Games Archive
Chess.com stores all of your games (Online Turn-based and Live) so you can download or access them at any time.
Premium Members have access to ALL games ever played on Chess.com. Basic members have access to all games played within the last 30 days. Keep in mind, we never delete games, so once you subscribe, you will have access to all your old games once again!
Click here to view your Game Archive!
Games Archive
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Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Auto-Timeout Protection
Premium Members get auto-timeout protection! If you are about to lose an Online (Turn-based) Chess game because of timeout you will automatically get put "on vacation". This can save you from silly losses and lost rating points due to timeouts!
Auto-Timeout Protection
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Premium Members will not see any external ads on Chess.com (other than the main homepage) and will see very few internal ads (announcing new products and services).

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