The Chess.com Global Championship, the biggest Chess.com event of the year, is about to reach its thrilling conclusion on November 2-7. Eight players still have their chance at becoming a global champion. Already $500,000 has been won by o...
If you are someone who has only started playing chess in the last year or two, you may already know about The Queen's Gambit or GM Hikaru Nakamura's stream. But if you want to understand chess culture at a deeper level, there are many more referen...
JulesGambit is a rising star in the chess streaming community who is currently based in California. With a background as a junior chess champion, she returned to chess as an adult and started sharing her passion for the game on Twitch earlier this...
Even if you’re not playing in the 2022 Fischer Random World Championship finals, you can still have a chance to win prizes! The beauty of Fischer Random is in the name: the starting position is essentially random (with a few rules and para...
Update (11/01/22): Due to a server configuration error, the Chess Played Quick event that was originally scheduled for October 31 had to be canceled mid event. The event has been rescheduled and will now take place on Monday, November 7, at 9:00...
Francis Bacon's famous statement: "Knowledge is power" was written in big block letters on a wall of my school, so I read it more than a thousand times in my childhood and it became firmly engraved in my mind. Watching the 2022 U.S. Chess Champion...
Other than a world championship match, there is arguably nothing that excites the chess world more than a promising young player. From 1956, when 13-year-old future GM Bobby Fischer's "Game of the Century" was reprinted around the world and began ...
The wait is finally over! After a three-year hiatus, we're finally approaching the Fischer Random World Championship's (FRWC) final tournament. GMs Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Hikaru Nakamura, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and other ch...
GM Rashad Babaev is a grandmaster from Azerbaijan who works as a full-time chess coach offering online and in-person instruction. In addition to winning multiple international tournaments, he has devoted most of his career as a grandmaster to deve...
October is here! Check out the latest news and updates from Chess.com as we continue to make your online chess experience as zombie-filled enjoyable and enriching as possible. Here's what this monthly update covers: Product & Engineering...
Note: As is always the case, but should be stated clearly in this particular context, the views expressed by GM Serper in his articles are his views alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Chess.com. Chess is in the worldwide news aga...
Today, the stage is set mainly for the young. Celebratory news pieces, including our own on Chess.com, often highlight the accomplishments of the next up-and-coming player. These days, there's lots of talk about GMs Alireza Firouzja, Nodirbek Abdu...
If you frequent chess forums, you are probably familiar with the never-ending debates about the strength of chess players from various eras. There will always, for example, be a person making the traditional claim that any decent master today woul...
WGM Petra Papp is a skilled coach and experienced chess player who offers online instruction for students of all levels. With a FIDE rating of 2336, she's able to offer high-level insights and tactical advice to elevate her students' games to the ...
Announcing the 2022 Bughouse World Championship! This year’s tournament will consist of Arena Qualifiers, followed by a Group Stage, and ending with a Single Elimination Bracket to determine the world champions. The event runs from October 1...
Few would question that, in an ideal world, the best chess player would be the world champion and vice versa. We can agree that GM Magnus Carlsen, who has been world number-one by rating since 2010 and world champion since 2013, is both. But at so...
WFM Maria Emelianova, also known as PhotoChess, has been a fixture in the modern chess scene for years now. In addition to being a chess player, commentator, and photojournalist, her Twitch channel is also one of the most popular chess streams on ...
The biggest tournament in Chess.com's history is about to enter its most exciting phase yet. The Chess.com Global Championship Knockouts start on September 14 at 4 a.m. PT/13:00 CET and will feature 64 of the strongest players on the planet. ...
Chess Played Quick is Chess.com's series of events where top chess streamers complete bounties for prizes. Chess Played Quick - Puzzles (Bingo Edition) starts on September 22 at 9 a.m. PT/18:00 CEST. Streamers will play a series of puzzle ...
In August, Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen of Denmark became the new world champion of study composition. In November, he will be officially awarded in Fujairah, UAE. Interviewed by Chess.com, Nielsen tells about the world of chess studies. "I'm a lit...
The Chess.com Global Championship Knockouts is almost upon us, with 64 of the strongest players in the world getting ready to compete for the title of Global Champion. Before planning how you'll spend the $100,000 prize of the CGC Knockouts bracke...
The Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz event is in the history books already, providing a lot of food for thought. First and foremost, let's talk about the phenomenal performance of GM Alireza Firouzja. It immediately brings memories of the famous Herzog...
Another month has passed by quickly. Check out the latest news and updates from Chess.com as we continue to make your online chess experience the best it can be! Here's what this update covers: Product & Engineering Events Community C...
Today, half a century ago, was a historic day for chess, and the whole world was watching. GM Bobby Fischer had done it! He fought, almost single-handedly, against the Soviet chess machine, and emerged as the first American world champion of chess...
