Hey, chess lovers! October was a good month for chess learners; we added a cool new game analysis tool to help you improve after every single game you play! And that's not all! Let's review what happened on the site last month! Web...
The 2021 FIDE World Championship title match between GMs Magnus Carlsen and Ian "Nepo" Nepomniachtchi promises to excite fans of the game in advance. Like all major sporting clashes, there are a number of easy angles for spectators and pundits to ...
Enjoy your weekend and rest up, for next Monday it will once again be time for Chess.com's premier blitz event: the Main Event of the Speed Chess Championship presented by Coinbase. The tournament begins with the November 8 matchup between GMs Ani...
Chess Played Quick is a monthly event where streamers do live speed runs using Chess.com's features. Chess Played Quick: Doubles (Bughouse) Edition starts on November 14 at 10 a.m. PST/19:00 CET. This month, top streamers will team up to compete...
Throughout our entire lives, we keep looking for the best. The best colleges, best workplaces, best vacation spots, etc. The list is endless. Of course, in our chess universe we also follow this same trend and search for the best games and best pl...
The 2021-2022 Bughouse World Championship is a tournament where players will gather to play a series of bughouse matches. The event runs from November 8 through January 2022 and will have a $5,000 prize fund. Here's all the information you need ...
Just as with everything else—hopefully—we learn more and more about chess as the years go by. Opening theory gets consistently deeper, tablebases have solved endgames with up to seven pieces on the board, and computers teach us more th...
After the fourth game of his 2016 world championship match versus GM Sergey Karjakin, GM Magnus Carlsen famously said, "I don't believe in fortresses!" What he probably meant is that even though fortresses do exist in chess, the majority of the po...
Chess.com's October Coach of the Month is the ChessCoach himself, Frank Johnson! Frank is not only the man behind the popular Twitch chess channel ChessCoachNet, but is also among the select group of chess players who have signed with an esports o...
The Netflix sensation Squid Game has been sweeping the world. It's currently the #1 Netflix show in the United States and the Chess.com staff has more than a few fans. You may be asking yourself, "What does Squid Game have to do with chess?" The...
Hey, chess lovers! October is upon us and with that, a chance to pause and review what kept our Product Development, Support, and Fair Play teams hopping last month. Here's a quick look back at September 2021... Web Improving the usability of...
Written by IM Cyrus Lakdawala Chess compositions (also referred to as studies or problems) are not positions from real games, but instead are composed or created chess positions or puzzles. There is a large network of players who compose these s...
Do you want your event featured on Chess.com, the world's most popular chess website? If you are an event organizer, whether online or over the board, it is now simpler than ever to promote your event using Chess.com. With an Events Page o...
Written By Ray Linville What chess player inspires you? For some of us, it’s not GM Magnus Carlsen or GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, who will compete in the 2021 FIDE World Championship of Chess beginning next month. It’s not even ...
How will you react if GM Ian Nepomniachtchi defeats GM Magnus Carlsen and becomes the next world champion of chess? Will you have seen it coming, or would it be one of the biggest upsets in world chess championship history? How to watch the 2021...
We all love to watch a good video! We don't always have the time to read a great article, but we are always ready to carve out some minutes of our day for a great video. Over the years, Chess.com has put out fantastic chess-related videos. From El...
As we all know, Hamlet's famous question "to be or not to be?" essentially meant "to live or not to live?" In chess, when you're deciding whether to castle or not to castle your king, in many cases you are choosing between the life and death of yo...
The FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss is a chess tournament that is part of the world championship cycle. The 2021 Grand Swiss ran from October 27-November 8 and determined two candidates for the 2022 world championship. It was won by GM Alireza Firouz...
Over the past year and a half, chess competitions have been held almost exclusively online and the game has grown tremendously in popularity. With over-the-board (OTB) events returning, many players are wondering how they should prepare for playin...
The 2021 U.S. Chess Championship is a 12-player, 11-round tournament that takes place October 5-19, 2021 in St. Louis to determine the next chess champion of the United States. The 2021 U.S. Women's Championship is being held concurrently with t...
Chess Played Quick is a monthly event where streamers do live speed runs using Chess.com's features. This month's edition, Chess Played Quick: Variants Edition, will feature top streamers playing multiple chess variants. The event happens on Oct...
Chess.com's September Coach of the Month is WGM Keti Tsatsalashvili! Tsatsalashvili is no stranger to those who enjoy a good chess stream. She's not only running her own Twitch channel, but she's also a regular commentator of events such as Arena ...
The updated standings and leaderboard information for Arena Kings Season 8 are below. You can read the season 8 announcement and rules for complete details. Live Bracket and Pairings: This is updated 2-3 minutes after the end of the arenas. If...
Only 22 players in the history of chess have held the official title of world champion, 18 of which held the "classical" title. With rare exceptions, the classical champion has been decided in a match between the sitting champion and a challenger....
