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...
In February 2022, I hit a new peak blitz rating of 2474. I had been grinding online blitz hard for several years, gradually improving from the 2100s, and finally I was ready to sniff the rare air of 2500. But just a little later, I had fallen out ...
The 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament is an event a true chess aficionado can only dream about. Exciting chess, a tour de force by GM Javokhir Sindarov, and unprecedented online coverage. And yet, as I watch some games, I feel a quiet sense of sadne...
Things are opening up on Chess.com, where the Chess.com Open Playoffs are coming up, and a brand new way to study openings on Chessable also available. And with the Candidates Tournament ongoing in addition to the Chess.com Open, there's no shorta...
It’s that time again. Every two years, the FIDE Candidates Tournament arrives, ready to nominate another challenger to go into the lion’s den and face off against the reigning World Champion of chess, and every two years, we have to an...
Twenty-year-old GM Javokhir Sindarov is the youngest of eight participants in the upcoming 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament, the event that will determine the next challenger to World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju. He qualified in November by winning t...
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...
The chess world holds its breath as it awaits the start of the most important over-the-board tournament of the year. The 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament and 2026 FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament kick off on March 29 at 8:30 a.m. ET / 14:30 CEST ...
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 ...
If you're anything like me, then you're freaking out right now over the much-awaited 2026 Candidates Tournament. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. The question is not who will win… but who should you root for? As I’m sure you kn...
As the first quarter of 2026 enters its final weeks, some of the biggest tournaments in both online and over-the-board chess are happening, with the Chess.com Open starting March 14 and the Candidates Tournament, to determine the next world champi...
Quantity has a quality all its own —Thomas A. Callaghan Jr In 2019, GM Hikaru Nakamura was over the hill. He was 32 years old and had gradually dropped nearly 70 points from his rating peak four years earlier, falling from number two...
In the world of chess, a prodigy is more than just a talented kid. A chess prodigy defies their age and, while still in grade school, often topples seasoned, adult grandmasters. The four GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Alireza Firouzja, and...
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 ...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Alireza Firouzja, and Denis Lazavik made the semifinals of the Speed Chess Championship, and the time has come. Whether you're reading this before or after the big February 6-8 weekend festivities, you can see ...
Four players will compete in the Speed Chess Championship Finals on February 7 and 8, 2026, in London, England. GM Magnus Carlsen will aim to defend his title against five-time SCC Champion Hikaru Nakamura, last year's finalist GM Alireza Firouzja...
GM Vinay Bhat bounces in and out of the chess universe, but he may have finally found his perfect home. Unlike many American grandmasters, who either permanently leave the game after adulthood or grind it out for a lifetime without any steady empl...
They say that chess is the game of kings, an honorable pastime for people who want to lose themselves in thought. Bullet chess, however, played at a pace of one minute per side for the whole game, is anything but honorable. Bullet isn't a game of ...
Welcome to 2026! We had another great year at Chess.com in 2025, all because of you. As we enter the new year, let's take a look back at the last month of action—GM Magnus Carlsen's continued dominance, our annual Chess.com Awards community ...
2025 will go down as a year that showcased chess at its very best, marked by performances at the highest level and record-breaking activity online. As we have moved to 2026, it's time to look at the moments, games, and numbers that defined the pas...
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...
We live in unprecedented times when AI and the Digital Revolution are reshaping how we live. Recently, Elon Musk even suggested that, in 15 to 20 years, work will be optional and money irrelevant. It is difficult to argue with on...
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...
FIDE recently announced that GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu has accrued enough points to win the 2025 FIDE circuit and earn a spot in the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament, the final step of the world championship qualification cycle. With Praggnanand...
The third season of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League is set to start on December 14. Chess titans like World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju, GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Alireza Firouzja, and Hou Yifan are just some of the stars playing in the event, whic...
