Chess is a rich game, dating back over a millennia. On Chess.com alone, over 2,000,000,000 games have been played!
Which games are the very best ever played? No one can answer that conclusively, but we are going to give you Chess.com's opinion.
We asked Chess.com staff and contributors to give us their top 10 lists, and then we ordered each list, awarding 10 points to their top game and one point to their 10tg game.
Here's our top 10!
1: Kasparov vs. Topalov, Linares 1999
Despite losing a historic...
Three Grand Chess Tour events are in the books, and one book just came out. A lot has happened in the last 48 hours in St. Louis since Hikaru Nakamura won his second leg of the GCT season to lead the tour standings.
To wit:
The Saint Louis Chess Club released a comprehensive book on the five years of the Sinquefield Cup, with unique authors for each of the tournaments.
The annual "Ultimate Moves" battle was contested with Rex and Randy Sinquefield filling their usual roles as player-captains.
The...
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Are you surprised that a drawn game could live on forever in chess history? GM Simon Williams shows you the immortal draw, a game he calls "completely crazy" despite its peaceful ending.
The venue of the legendary Wimbledon of Chess!
I stepped back into the lobby of the Anibal after exactly 16 and a half years! Now the venue of the Spanish Segunda Division, it felt phenomenal to play in the same playing hall as the greats in 2002.
I scored 100% on Board 1 for my team (6/6) and generally felt good. Please read my impressions of my return where I also analyse my best game.
At the age of 14 years, one month, and one day, the Indian prodigy Nihal Sarin became the 12th-youngest grandmaster in chess history. He scored his third grandmaster norm at the 25th Abu Dhabi Masters held at Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Nihal started strongly with 3/4. His round-four win against Australian IM Ikeda Junta was particularly impressive.
In round five, Nihal played GM Ivan Cheparinov, who recently switched his federation to Georgia. He was pressing but had to...
The day my daughter was due was approaching. There was not much to do but wait. Another day passed. I couldn’t concentrate on work. Another day, and then another. I couldn’t write; my words were blocked. I couldn’t sleep. Another and another. When I tried to read, my attention wandered. Another, another, another.
I couldn’t play chess—or shouldn’t have played chess, but I did.
I played chess very badly. It had been my habit for some time to play a 30-minute rapid...
Hikaru Nakamura thought he needed 5.5/9 in today's second blitz session to clinch his first Grand Chess Tour win on home soil. He scored exactly that, winning the 2018 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz over a still-surging Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and a pesky Shakhriyar Mamedyarov.
The win is his second of the season. He also won the 2018 Paris event.
Chess.com conducted a video interview with Nakamura on his success.
Watch Hikaru Nakamura On Winning The Saint Louis Rapid And Blitz from Chess...
On March 24, 1937, the leading Soviet chess magazine 64 published a theoretical article about a new opening system the magazine called the "Panov Defense."
I challenge you to identify the moves of this opening line. Yes, you can Google it if you wish! Just don't confuse the "Panov Defense" with the "Panov Attack" in the Caro-Kann defense.
Give up already? OK, here is the game that started the new system:
I almost can hear your protests that the opening of this game is called The...
