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.
WGM Sabina Foisor has been coaching and teaching chess for more than a decade, in addition to continuing her playing career and writing a book. Now, she is the Chess.com Coach of the Month for March 2025! The Romanian-American woman grandmaster ...
Coach of the Month last February, DaVaun Williams, a.k.a. H1Chess, is now the Creator of the Month for March 2025! DaVaun has over 220,000 TikTok followers, nearly 100,000 on YouTube, and 4,000 on Twitch. In all three places, you can find him prof...
GM Artur Jussupow is one of the greatest chess players ever, and now the best player to be named the Chess.com Coach of the Month. At one time he was the number three player in the world, behind only GMs Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. He has p...
Agne Semonaviciute is a Lithuanian Twitch streamer, YouTube creator, chess player (whose 1934 FIDE rating is nothing to sneeze at!), and more. In just a year and a half of creating content, she has already built an audience in the thousands. Agne ...
The first official World Chess Championship occurred in 1886, with the first Women's World Championship following in 1927. The World Rapid Championship and World Blitz Championship are much more recent developments. FIDE held a one-off World Rapid...
Chess only continues to grow, and this year, the game will reach perhaps its largest audience ever when it appears at the 2025 Esports World Cup in Riyadh from July 31 to August 3, with a prize fund of $1.5 million. Lest you thought esports only m...
Our first Coach of the Month in 2025 is GM Danyyil Dvirnyy! Danyyil moved to Italy with his family in 2003, turned professional in chess before graduating high school, and obtained his grandmaster title in 2013 at the age of 22. That same year, he...
Matt Perchard, a.k.a. houseline, is a relative newcomer to the field of chess content creation, but he has already accomplished something few creators have: organize a successful online chess streaming tournament. The Creator Cup is but the first ...
The 2024 prize money figures are in, and it was another big year for the world's best chess players. Just in tournament winnings alone, two players won over a million dollars, six made $400,000—more than the President of the United States!&m...
IM Andras Toth is an international master, decades-long chess coach, popular Chessable author, streamer, and more. Andras was the 2021 Chessable Author of the Year and has even co-authored a course with fellow Hungarian GM Judit Polgar. Now based ...
IM Sagar Shah, cofounder and CEO of ChessBase India, is a major force for chess not just in India, but throughout the entire chess world. Chess would not be where it is today without the work that Sagar and ChessBase India have done to cover and p...
WGM Dina Belenkaya recently reached the major milestone of 250,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel! It was a natural occasion to finally honor her as the Chess.com Creator of the Month. Dina's content is always a hit, whether she is playing and...
GM Srinath Narayanan is one of Chess.com's most impressive and accomplished Coaches of the Month yet. Most recently, Srinath made headlines as the captain of India's team at the 2024 Chess Olympiad that scored an amazing 21/22 to win gold! Srinath...
IM Alex Astaneh Lopez earned his international master title in 2011, but he is more than just a great chess player. Alex coached the Irish junior team in the 2010 World Youth Championships and has helped countless individuals improve their chess a...
In 1997, the world watched in amazement as the world chess champion, GM Garry Kasparov, lost to IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, Deep Blue, in a high-profile chess match. Now, the most famous "man vs. machine" battle in history—Kasparov vs...
In less than two years, Phoebe Witte has already earned more than 15,000 followers on Instagram and another 17,000 on Twitch. In addition to everything she does on her own channel, Phoebe has also brought her commentary skills to WGM Dina Belenkay...
If you are a chess player and/or fan, you certainly have some thoughts about the game and your preferences within it. Who is the greatest chess player of all-time? Would you rather play with bishops or with knights? What time controls do you...
Chris White is an elementary school teacher of more than 20 years, which has helped make him an excellent coach for scholastic, beginner, and intermediate students. He also runs the Novice Chess Channel on YouTube, with lessons aimed at novice pla...
GM Arturs Neiksans has done it all during his amazing career: player, coach, author, commentator, content creator, and more. The four-time Latvian chess champion (1999, 2011, 2015, and 2019) is currently working closely with IM Levy "GothamChess" ...
As GM Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand and Chess.com are about to embark on a Vote Chess journey together, we recall the first major event where a top grandmaster took on the world in a game of chess. Exactly 25 years ago, back in 1999, GM Garry Kasparov...
NM Robert Ramirez is not just one of Chessable's top authors, he's also a great coach. Although he did not play competitively until he was 12, Robert became a chess master, earning the title in 2013. Now, he imparts his knowledge as a coach and an...
WFM Lile Koridze was the national youth chess champion of Georgia in several age categories and has since become one of the brightest young new stars of the chess media world. Not many people can rightfully claim to have beaten GM Hikaru Nakamura ...
When you watch CM Volen Dyulgerov, a.k.a. Witty Alien, on stream or have a conversation with him, you can't help but be drawn in by his infectious positivity. Creative not only in his video content but also on the chessboard itself, Dyulgerov is r...
July 20 is International Chess Day, and few games are played more broadly worldwide than chess. At the last Chess Olympiad in 2022, 186 nations sent more than 1,700 players to compete. Estimates of the number of players globally usually range from...
Some tests are just harder and more nerve-inducing than others. After IM Levy Rozman in January, then GM Magnus Carlsen and GM David Howell in April, this month, it was time to submit GM Hikaru Nakamura to the polygraph. And as if he didn't g...
