Online chess community where you can play chess, learn strategies and tactics, read chess news, see book reviews, find rules & tips, get free downloads, and more! http://www.chess.com/ 2007 Chess.com Jorge Sammour-Hasbun (pictured) of the Boston Blitz has won an award for the best game of the US Chess League, for his win against IM Davorin Kuljsevic. Here are the judges comments followed by the game: FM Robby Adamson (2nd Place, 19 points): Th... http://www.chess.com/news/us-chess-league-game-of-the-year Fri, 16 May 2008 12:33:15 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/us-chess-league-game-of-the-year Lvov, Ukraine to host match After many delays, extended deadlines and negotiations behind the scenes, the date, venue and prize fund for the Gata Kamsky (pictured)  - Veselin Topalov semi-final candidates match has finally been announced. The... http://www.chess.com/news/venue-set-for-kamsky-v-topalov Fri, 16 May 2008 10:53:35 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/venue-set-for-kamsky-v-topalov A new Chess.com Vote Chess game starts today - Positional vs. Tactical players! Who will win this battle of styles? Can tactical players land a knockout blow, or will they punch themselves out and get squeezed? Can positional players choke out the... http://www.chess.com/news/positional-vs-tactical-players---new-vote-chess-game Wed, 14 May 2008 09:09:16 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/positional-vs-tactical-players---new-vote-chess-game An Iranian player at the Dubai open has been caught cheating by receiving moves on his phone.  Mr.Sadatnajafi, rated 2288, was thrown out of the tournament in disgrace. It is believed that his accomplices followed his games as they were br... http://www.chess.com/news/chess-phone-cheat-caught Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:27:20 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/chess-phone-cheat-caught The Danish Grandmaster and popular chess author Jacob Aagaard will be signing copies of his latest book, "The Attacking Manual 1" at the London Chess Centre on the 15th April. GM Aagaard will also be giving a lecture and answering chess ... http://www.chess.com/news/meet-gm-jacob-aagaard Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:44:36 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/meet-gm-jacob-aagaard The 1st Chess.com Quick Knockouts tournament is starting next week on April 10th! Get registered now for super-fast tournament play. Games are faster and only quick players can register. Click here to register for the tournament in your rating ban... http://www.chess.com/news/quick-knockout-tournaments-starting-next-week Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:25:11 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/quick-knockout-tournaments-starting-next-week When we started Chess.com about 2 year ago we began with one simple idea: make this a website for the MEMBERS. Have the members tell us what they want, and then create the best possible online experience. And we have been running hard at that idea... http://www.chess.com/news/building-chesscom-part-11---reaching-out Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:08:55 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/building-chesscom-part-11---reaching-out Do you ever get into a crucial chess position and not only not know what to do, but not even know how to THINK about what to do? Let acclaimed author and coach IM Igor Khmelnitsky teach you Decision Making in Critical Positions! Every game you pla... http://www.chess.com/news/im-igor-khmelnitsky-teaches-decision-making Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:04:08 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/im-igor-khmelnitsky-teaches-decision-making Chess.com is looking for chess authors to write regular columns and articles. If you are an expert level or above and would be interested in being paid for articles, please click below to send us your contact information and we can discuss working... http://www.chess.com/news/we-are-looking-for-chess-authors Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:05:11 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/we-are-looking-for-chess-authors We've been cranking away on cool new features, bug fixes, and improvements for the last several weeks and we are adding them all to the site today! Most of the improvements have come from YOUR suggestions and YOUR bug reports! Below is a list ... http://www.chess.com/news/big-release-of-features-bug-fixes-and-upgrades Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:06:07 -0700 http://www.chess.com/news/big-release-of-features-bug-fixes-and-upgrades Chess.com is lucky today! We are fortunate to have GM Nigel Davies with us in two amazing new roles! First off, GM Davies has created a new Chess Mentor course on Understanding the Colle-Zukertort which is an aggressive opening with deadly intent... http://www.chess.com/news/gm-nigel-davies---new-chess-mentor-course--vote-chess Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:23:51 -0800 http://www.chess.com/news/gm-nigel-davies---new-chess-mentor-course--vote-chess Today Chess.com was featured in a great video news piece in which I (Erik) had a few embarrassing interview clips. In the video I was referred to as the "creator" of Chess.com, and I just wanted to let everyone know how far from true tha... http://www.chess.com/news/building-chesscom-part-9---the-team Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:43:26 -0800 http://www.chess.com/news/building-chesscom-part-9---the-team Chess.com now has online tournaments! We have been working hard to create the fastest and best possible tournaments. We hope you will enjoy them! If you have any questions about how the tournaments work, first check here. If you can't find the... http://www.chess.com/news/chesscom---online-tournaments-are-here Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:25:17 -0800 http://www.chess.com/news/chesscom---online-tournaments-are-here Chess.com is giving away SIX FREE 1-year subscriptions to Chess Mentor! Here is how you can win: Each day for the next 5 days anyone who subscribes as a Chess.com Premium Member (Gold, Platinum, or Diamond [not Silver]) will be automatically ente... http://www.chess.com/news/5-free-1-year-chess-mentor-memberships Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:52:02 -0800 http://www.chess.com/news/5-free-1-year-chess-mentor-memberships Chess.com has commited to releasing at LEAST one new course every month for Chess Mentor. In January you got awesome new courses from IM Jeremy Silman and one from our very own Bill Wall (both EXCELLENT courses!!). For February we are releasing tw... http://www.chess.com/news/2-new-chess-mentor-courses-from-fm-eric-schiller Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:48:12 -0800 http://www.chess.com/news/2-new-chess-mentor-courses-from-fm-eric-schiller As many of you know, Chess.com launched its Premium Membership Program just a short while ago, and yesterday we had our very first Diamond Member sign up! We just wanted to write a short news piece to say "Thanks!" to Frank Alejandro (fr... http://www.chess.com/news/chesscoms-first-diamond-member Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:13:13 -0800 http://www.chess.com/news/chesscoms-first-diamond-member It was three years ago that I first thought that the world needed a global chess community and set my eyes on Chess.com as the home for that community. Then in June 2007, after more than 2 years of work, Chess.com was opened to the public. It was ... http://www.chess.com/news/building-chesscom-part-9---transition-from-the-opening-to-the-middlegame Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:10:31 -0800 http://www.chess.com/news/building-chesscom-part-9---transition-from-the-opening-to-the-middlegame A long long long time ago in a chess galaxy far far away an idea was conceived to create the best interactive chess software in the world using proven teaching methods. From that concept was born "Chess Mentor" which launched in the earl... http://www.chess.com/news/chess-mentor-classic-chess-software-comes-to-the-web Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:12:09 -0800 http://www.chess.com/news/chess-mentor-classic-chess-software-comes-to-the-web Congratulations to Northern California youngster FM Daniel Naroditsky for winning the under 12 division at the World Youth Chess Festival in Turkey! Ranked #1 for his age in America for the past two years and as the 2007 CalChess High School Champ... http://www.chess.com/news/new-chess-world-champion-from-northern-california Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:08:17 -0800 http://www.chess.com/news/new-chess-world-champion-from-northern-california    Well it seems that a chess master have managed to finally become famous in the most unusuall way, master Ike S Miller  http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?12501097 was defeated at a tournament by a ... http://www.chess.com/news/9-year-old-beats-master-to-win-tournament Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:41:49 -0800 http://www.chess.com/news/9-year-old-beats-master-to-win-tournament