Written by Olya Kaye Playing chess simultaneously against 15 people was no easy feat. I admit, I was nervous. It was the fall of 2009 and I had not played much chess since 2001. My skills were rusty, but I was 25 and daring. You only live once...
I met GM Karen Asrian during the 1995 Armenian Championship. Back then, Karen was 15, but his advanced endgame skills and positional understanding were already deeply impressive. Evidently, a new talented player was coming up. Indeed, in the next ...
The recent Tata Steel tournament was a huge success. The organizers did an outstanding job creating a mixed field of players who are known for sharp, "take no prisoners" kind of chess. Yet, in my opinion, the main reason for the success of this to...
Hey, chess lovers! By now, most of us have stopped saying "Happy New Year," but it's not too late to take a look back at the first month of '21 - and shine a light on some cool things that have been happening around the site. Let's take a closer l...
"I have loved chess ever since I began playing in junior high school. Playing my fellow classmates, and even teachers, I made friends and had so many great conversations with people that I otherwise might have never spent any time with. Since then...
"I used to be “OK” at chess and would always beat the novice. But on the flip side the upper level intermediate would always crush me. I eventually got discouraged and stopped playing. I then found Chess.com. I went back to the basics ...
"Chess is the best form of procrastination known to humankind." - Very Bad Wizards Everybody is playing chess online now, and you're wondering how you can start playing too? Good news: it's super easy to start playing chess and having fun (and m...
To me, chess is more than just a game. It is a universal language, that transcends borders and generations. I’ve played chess on Chess.com with people from Serbia, Hungary, India, France, Italy, and so many other remote places. Although I do...
The best way to learn strategies for life is by playing games. - Rich Dad Everybody is playing chess online now, and you're wondering how you can start playing too? Good news: it's super easy to start playing chess and having fun (and maybe gett...
There was an era, a time now frozen in memory, when it seemed like every single time I opened a chess magazine, there was GM Leonid Stein winning a tournament, or he was the subject of a column in a chess newspaper. From the late 1960s to the...
In the introduction to his famous book "Grandmaster Preparation," GM Lev Polugaevsky tells a story that happened on December 17, 1969, when he and ex-world champion GM Mikhail Botvinnik were walking on the streets of Belgrade. Mikhail Botvinnik ...
You will find updated results for Arena Kings season 6 here: Arena Kings Season 6 press release and announcement. Some small notes and reminders: we did not enforce the requirement for being a Twitch Affiliate in Week 1. Starting with Week ...
It's difficult to get a large group of chess players to agree on anything, and time controls are probably not the exception. Could the chess community come together, though, to select the best online time control from a short list of choices?...
In this article, you can find the archive of official rules for all Chess.com events with prize money. Use the table of contents below to jump to a specific event. All prize money events are also subject to the Chess.com Competitive Events Policy ...
The three most important methods of improving your chess skills are games, analysis, and puzzles. Chess.com adds about 1000 new puzzles every day and has recently passed the 200k puzzle threshold. The puzzles are satisfying because they tend to ha...
Stalemate is the biggest miracle in chess—there, I said it. You might disagree and give me dozens of different examples of chess magic and you might be correct too. We all have different definitions of beauty and magic. Yes, when you see o...
Hey, chess lovers! At last, 2020 is behind us and we can look hopefully forward to a new and better year in '21. But before we do that, let's take one last look back and focus on some of the good things that happened around the site in December 20...
Tata Steel Chess 2021 kicks off beginning January 16 and Chess.com members from around the world can get into all the action by playing in Chess.com's Tata Steel Fantasy Chess contest! With top players like World Champion Magnus Carlsen and world ...
The sixth season of the Arena Kings chess tournament series runs between January 11 and April 2, 2021 and features a total prize fund of $20,000. As in earlier seasons, Monday and Friday are the regular Ar...
IM Roberto Molina beat IM Levy Rozman in the finals of the 2021 I'M Not A GM Speed Chess Championship. Molina and Rozman were tied after the three-minute portion, but Molina pulled ahead by two points in the three-minute segment of ...
Chess.com was founded in 2006 and has grown to become the world’s largest chess company with more than 250+ team members across 20+ countries. We are a group of chess-loving creators, programmers, producers, artists, and support agents dedic...
Chess.com is excited to announce the winners of the 2020 Chess.com Awards. These awards are an opportunity for the Chess.com community to recognize and celebrate some of the great games, players, creators, moves, and more from 2020. The awards a...
You might know Thomas Brodie-Sangster from "Game of Thrones." However, since you're reading this here on Chess.com, you probably know him from the game of kings—and well, the game of queens! Brodie-Sangster is the brilliant Brit who brought ...
Beth Harmon, the main character of "The Queen's Gambit," not only inspired millions of viewers to pick up the game of chess. Many fans like her not just for her winning moves on the chessboard, but also for her wardrobe. The huge effect that "Th...
