Olympiads usually offer several nuggets every two years: Worthy champions, Bermuda party excesses, and round-one upsets. But at the 2018 Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia, the opening games in both the open and women's sections didn't produce a single flipped team result from the expected.
In the open section, the biggest story lasted not hours, but minutes. The gold-medal defending team USA had not arrived at their boards at the scheduled starting time of 3 p.m. Nor had any of the team been seated...
The 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia officially opened on Sunday with a spectacular opening ceremony that included dancing and singing performances, speeches and the drawing of colors. Many esteemed members of the chess community called it the best ever, including players like Ivan Cheparinov, who is about to play in his eighth Olympiad.
The rich chess history of Georgia could be felt throughout the opening ceremony, held 45 km away from the Batumi city center in the 10,000-seat...
I think it was GM Tartakower who once said "the wise chess player learns from someone else’s mistakes, the smart one learns from his own mistakes, and the stupid chess players never learn."
So, let's be wise and learn from the games of the best chess players in the world!
The only question is, which games should we use? It is tempting to get a game played by two 2800 players, but I can assure you that in most cases an average club player is not going to learn much from the sophisticated...
Dive into IM Keaton Kiewra's deep lesson on the Trompowsky Attack in this next lesson, as he discusses a tricky line he's had trouble with in his own games.
This is an opening that rewards flexible play and learning this line will make you happy to see 2...c5 in your games.
Hello chess.com friends, welcome back to the 3rd post of the series "Putting on the Bind!" Let me know how you are liking these.
Let us revise what we have learnt once again. Bind is a strong grip or stranglehold on a position that makes it difficult for the opponent to execute useful breaks. What we are doing here is trying to limit the opponent of useful squares- in other words, trying to gain space.
Today's game is a special one, where we are not talking of a bind in a game as...
In 11 days from now, a new FIDE president will be elected in Batumi, Georgia. Today we're providing answers from Arkady Dvorkovich and Nigel Short to Chess.com questions sent to all three candidates. Sadly, Georgios Makropoulos declined to participate.
On Monday, September 3 Chess.com sent the same list of questions to all three candidates. Our goal was to get a clear view of the areas where they agree and disagree, and to learn more about which candidate has what kind of plans for the future...
Here you'll find updated standings and leaderboard information for the Arena Kings Streamers Championship Season 2.
Season 2 press release and announcement.
Rank
Player
Points
Twitch Channel
Name / Title
1
penguingm1
195
www.twitch.tv/penguingm1
GM Andrew Tang
2
DanielNaroditsky
190
www.twitch.tv/dnaroditsky
GM Daniel Naroditsky
3
AlexanderL
160
www.twitch.tv/gmlenderman
GM Alexander Lenderman
4-T
GMKrikor
110
www.twitch.tv/gmkrikor
GM Krikor Mekhitarian
4-T
gkchesstiger
110
www.twitch.tv/igmgatakamsky
GM...
A new blitz and rapid tournament will be held in November in Kolkata, India. Chess.com is partnering with the tournament.
Tata Steel Chess India 2018 is a new super-tournament scheduled for November 9-14. The tournament format is similar to what is used in the Grand Chess Tour: three days of rapid chess and two days of blitz.
The location is the Indian Council for Cultural Relations in Kolkata, India. The participants are a mix of international top grandmasters and Indian stars:
Tata Steel...
The 2018 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship will feature 16 of the world's best chess players in an innovative eSports bracket tournament and a guaranteed prize pool of $55,000.
See the round two results here.
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You can find important information on the event below.
Broadcast and streaming
Bracket
Matchups and pairings
Fantasy prediction contest
SmarterChess predictions
Schedule
Results
Event...
