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These Puzzles Will Make You Rage: The 10 Hardest Puzzles On Chess.com
We've all been there. You are happily solving some puzzles on Chess.com, feeling good, rattling off forced checkmates and snappy tactics, and then %*&$—you get that dreaded, red "X." What?! How could...
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Who The Stats Say Will Be The Next World Championship Challenger
As eight of the world's very best grandmasters—GMs Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Alireza Firouzja, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, Gukesh Dommaraju, Vidit Gujrathi, and Nijat Abasov—descend...
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WIM Dolly Teasley Recalls Her Life In Chess
WIM Dorothy “Dolly” Teasley is a chess player with a unique place in the history of chess. She was a former champion for her home state Florida but entered a Fischer-esque disappearance before reemerging...
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Isa Kasimi (Igors Rausis) 1961-2024
Isa Kasimi, better known as Igors Rausis, the Latvian International Master and coach who was banned for six years and was stripped of his GM title after being caught cheating, has died at the age of 62. The news...
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Carlsen Storms Into Sole Lead In Karlsruhe
World number-one Magnus Carlsen called it "kind of insane to get two Benoni games in one day" as he defeated GM Vincent Keymer with the black pieces and then GM Richard Rapport with White to upend the standings...
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'Top-Level Chess Is A Bubble': GothamChess, Rensch, Canty Discuss Game’s Future At MIT
It is the prestigious annual event that brings together the global sports industry's big players—and yet again Chess.com was there to discuss the hot topics facing the game. Cheating, format changes, branding,...