While chess fans worldwide may have had their eyes glued to PRO Chess League action, the World Team Championship or Prague, here are some stories you may have missed this past month:
Chess Therapy for Panic Disorders
Catching Up with the Queen of Katwe
Chess in Namibia
Chess in Detroit
World Chess Survey
Ennio Morricone Plays Chess
Chess Therapy For Panic Disorders
A recent study from the Asian Journal of Psychiatry suggests that chess therapy may help individuals with panic...
It's playoff time for the PRO Chess League, and the teams from the Atlantic and Pacific Division aim to get one step closer to the live esports final in San Francisco.
Play starts Tuesday at 1:20 p.m. PDT (4:20 p.m. EDT, 8:20 p.m. GMT). The Eastern and Central divisions play on Saturday.
Preview by IM Greg Shahade.
After 10 weeks of exciting battles, 16 teams are left in this season's PRO Chess League. The knockout phase is starting today with the Atlantic and Pacific divisions.
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In his famous comedy routine, Richard Pryor tells a story about being caught cheating with another woman by his wife. Since the wife entered the room at the worst possible moment, it was pointless to deny the fact of cheating and yet, he tried his best.
As his last argument, he asks: "Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?"
Richard Pryor. Photo by Alan Light / Wikipedia.
While that was just a comedy performance, I've seen many chess players who trust anything but their own eyes!
Some...
All chess players make mistakes. The key to improvement is how well you learn from them. In this new series, find out how to make the most of your mistakes by turning them into lessons.
My book reviews for Chess.com have generally been favourably received but one of the feedback that I've gotten is that my work is over-detailed and hence I will be doing more concise reviews but hopefully cover significantly more ground. Chess books come thick and fast these days and I think readers will prefer this somewhat traditional structure of coming up with a list of reads in one post.
I have just finished two tournaments in Austria, the excellently organised Lienz Open and Graz Open...
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Chess.com brings Professional Rapid Online (PRO) Chess League championship to Twitch.
San Francisco, March 18, 2019—Chess.com, the world's largest chess site, and Twitch, the leading service and community for multiplayer entertainment, announced today that some of the world's top chess players will travel to San Francisco to compete in a live championship.
The event will be the culmination of Chess.com's Professional Rapid Online (PRO) Chess League, a groundbreaking,...
This is our archive of older, completed chess tournaments and events. Click here for our calendar of current chess events!
DECEMBER 2018
Date
Event
Location
December 9-16
London Chess ClassicHikaru Nakamura won the 2018 Grand Chess Tour and its $120,000 first prize after beating Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the fourth blitz game of the final at the London Chess Classic. Fabiano Caruana came in third as he defeated Levon Aronian in their match. News report. (Classical, rapid,...
Top seed GM Wang Hao of China stamped his authority on the HD Bank International Masters 2019 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to win yet another GM open in Asia.
The HD Bank International is already into its ninth edition since its inception in 2011 and has established itself as one of the strongest opens of Asia. This event was a nine-round Swiss-system for players with a 2000 rating or more and featured a staggering prize fund of USD $60,000.
The tournament was held March 6-14, 2019 at...
Chess.com is looking to recruit volunteers for a study on the effectiveness of Chess.com lessons and training.
Participants will be randomized into three groups: (1) members who complete exactly one Chess.com lesson per day; (2) members who complete as many lessons as they want every day; (3) members who are not selected to be in the study.
Eligibility:To be eligible for the study, participants must meet the following criteria:
Chess.com member for more than six months
Rated below 1000...
