Nathaniel Green is a staff writer for Chess.com who writes articles, player biographies, Titled Tuesday reports, video scripts, and more. He has been playing chess for about 30 years and resides near Washington, DC, USA.
If you've ever been to a brick-and-mortar chess club, you may think they all offer the same experience: a place to find other chess enthusiasts and play some games in person. The Columbia Chess Club, run by James Brandmair and Brandon Jordan, off...
NM Bryan Tillis is one of Chessable's longest tenured and most prolific authors, with courses on several openings and other topics, and his latest course about 1.e4 openings is out now. Bryan has been the lead coach at Palm Beach Chess since 2014,...
No country in the world has more members associated with Chess.com than the United States—about 44 million as of our last country count. Since it is the third-largest country in the world, and with the largest economy, this level of populari...
IM Anna Rudolf is one of the very best commentators, ambassadors, and creators in chess. After a highly successful playing career that saw her join the Hungarian Olympiad team and win three Hungarian Women's Championships, she became one of the ea...
GM Ivan Sokolov, a former top-15 player in the world with a peak rating of 2706, is also one of the top chess coaches in the world. His individual students have included GMs Alireza Firouzja, Parham Maghsoodloo, and Jorden van Foreest, and he also...
IM Yaacov Norowitz's love of chess is very apparent, and this passion for the game is one of the main things he passes on to his students. Yaacov is also a Chessable author, where his third course, The Yaac Attack - Fajarowicz Gambit for Black, is...
GM Judit Polgar is considered by nearly all chess fans to be the greatest woman player in the history of the sport, and one of the very best players full stop as well. Although she retired from playing chess competitively in 2014, Polgar has remai...
WIM Anna Kantane, known on Twitch and YouTube as KantannaChess always balances her enthusiastic streaming with an active playing career and motherhood. Anna has been streaming and creating content for 2.5 years, and continues to grow her audience ...
Just because you're playing in the 2026 Candidates Tournament doesn't mean you can't rank your opponents ahead of time. Seven grandmasters, including four of the candidates, recently gave their takes about the field and the tournament which begins...
GM Yaroslav "Yaro" Zherebukh has an impressive resume as a player, when he won the 2015 U.S. Masters and later qualified for the 2017 U.S. Championship, where he won his game against defending champion GM Fabiano Caruana. Yaro has an equally impre...
FM Ilija Stanojevic—Eleyah on YouTube and Eleyah.fm on Instagram—is finding ways to both educate and entertain viewers, whether with in-depth, long form analysis of opening variations and other serious chess topics, or dramatic, short ...
GM Judit Polgar, everyone's choice for the greatest woman chess player in history, has been making the rounds since the release of Queen of Chess, the hit Netflix documentary about her life in chess. Last week, she sat down at a board with Chess.c...
A national master from Southern California, NM Craig Clawitter also has a winning career record against a certain grandmaster—technically. (You'll have to read on to see who and under what circumstances!) For more than 20 years, Craig h...
Asmoada (first name Alex) has been streaming chess for only 11 months, yet in that time she has not just already built an audience of thousands of followers, but her chess has greatly improved as well—by 500-800 Elo rating points in various ...
Queen of Chess, the documentary directed by Rory Kennedy about the life and career of GM Judit Polgar, has been informing and entertaining Netflix viewers since February 6. The film hit the global top 10 in its first week as viewers have gotten to...
You know her as Unclejessi on Twitch and Chessi-G on Chess.com. Either way, our Chess.com Creator of the Month for January 2026 knows how to put on a chess stream. It takes a particular love of the game to go from a part-time variety streamer to a...
GM Mauricio Flores started playing chess when he was 10 years old, and didn't have a titled coach until he was 15, improving primarily through chess books and self-analysis of his games. He nonetheless became a grandmaster and a three-time Chilean...
GM Magnus Carlsen may have given up the world championship years ago, but he is still the best player in the world. He proved it in several ways in 2025, not the least of which was a bank account that continued to swell. A quarter-million here, an...
Chess.com wasn't always Chess.com, as you know it today. In the days before millions of members, before Puzzle Rush or Chessable/Courses, before you could even play a game with someone halfway across the world, there was a small chess software com...
Sabri Can Onay Yantar, better known to viewers simply as Sabo, is Turkiye's biggest chess content creator. Long before he caught the eye of Chess24 (which eventually brought him to Chess.com) Sabo was turning short-form content into an art form on...
NM Laura Smith has always loved chess. By the time she was 13, she was the highest-rated player in her age group and was a silver medalist in the Girls Under 14 category at the Pan-American Championship. She has since turned her chess skills and e...
WCM Hannah Sayce has an impressive chess improvement story, and a unique one as well. Hannah worked all the way from a 700 Elo rating in 2021 to a 2200 rating in 2023, all while streaming her journey on Twitch. Earlier this year, Hannah earned the...
GM Ivan Sokolov's accomplishments as a player include reaching the 2700 "super grandmaster" club and a peak world ranking in the top 15. With all that, his coaching accomplishments may be even more impressive. His students have included GMs Alirez...
GM Melikset "Melik" Khachiyan is a coaching legend. The Armenian-born American grandmaster was not only the coach of one of the best players in history, GM Levon Aronian, in the 1990s, he has coached the highly successful U.S. women's team at the ...
IM David Pruess is one of the internet's most experienced content creators, having been in the game in one way or another for the better part of two decades. Along with IM Kostya Kavutskiy and GM Jesse Kraai, he is also a cofounder of ChessDojo, a...
