The updated standings and leaderboard information for Arena Kings Season 7 are below. You can read the season 7 announcement and rules for complete details. Live Bracket and Pairings: This is updated 2-3 minutes after the end of the arenas. If...
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 ...
Nearly 100 players from across the world squared off in the Puzzle Battle World Championship Qualifier, and just four players have advanced to the main event. With their performances on Dec. 20, Dimitirios Ladopoulos (@jimis98), IM ...
The updated standings and leaderboard information for Arena Kings season five are below. You can read the season five announcement here for complete details. Season Recap: Beginning on September 16, Arena Kings was back for ...
Here you'll find updated standings and leaderboard information for Arena Kings season four. You can read the season four announcement here for complete details. FINAL Standings Rank Player Points Twitch Channel Name / Ti...
The Arena Kings Season 3 Finals is live today at 12 p.m. PDT only on www.Twitch.tv/Chess and www.Chess.com/TV. Ten of the world's top GMs including Hikaru Nakamura, Alireza Firouzja, Daniel Naroditsky and the season p...
Here you'll find updated standings and leaderboard information for the Arena Kings Streamers Championship Season 2. Season 2 press release and announcement. FINAL Standings as of December 13 Rank Player Points Twitch Channel Name /...
Here you'll find updated standings and leaderboard information for the Arena Kings Streamers Championship Season 1. Season 1 press release and announcement. Here is the FINAL KNOCKOUT Bracket played on August 8. For weekly results, click ...
The tournament of the year is over and we have a deserved winner. The quality of Fabiano Caruana's games was higher than anyone else's in the Candidates' Tournament and he kept his cool throughout the whole competition. Now we all are waiting fo...
Every Wednesday at 12 p.m. Pacific Time (8 p.m. GMT), everyone is invited to join the Arena Kings Chess Tournament: where everyone can play but only streamers can win cash prizes! Please read the full rules and eligibility criteria here Schedu...
From June 2-4, 42 of the most talented chess kids in the U.S. competed in the ChessKid Online National Invitational Championship (CONIC), held for the sixth consecutive year on Chess.com. The purpose of this event is to allow the young talents the...
In 2012, the ChessKid Online National Invitational Championship (CONIC) was created to provide young, talented chess players an opportunity to play a round-robin championship at a long time control. The event gradually evolved from only two sectio...
The majority of chess players like opening traps. I believe the main appeal of setting a trap is not the chance to win the game instantly. What really makes an opening trap attractive for chess players of all levels is the thrill of a hunt...
The Ohio Chess Academy & The Dayton Chess Club Bring You A Single Open Section Chess Tournament Open to Everyone! First Annual Ohio Masters Chess Tournament July 25-27, 2014 OPEN FORMAT THE SAME FORMAT USED AT THE US OPEN CHESS ...
There´s a lot to be said about this week´s target for a Player Profile interview.... What you probably don´t know is that he lives in a village with less than 200 people, he is a husband and a dedicated father of three ...
Most chess players face this problem pretty frequently: what should I do against a much stronger opponent? And here when we say "a much stronger opponent" , we talk about somebody who is at least 300-400 rating points higher. Let's start from maj...
Sydney, the Capital city of New South Wales, was again hosting its 5th International Open from April 27th to May 1st. This year was quite risky for the event. The previous organizer FM Brian Jones announced at the closing ceremony in 2010 that h...
Theme music begins. Fade in on The Stranger, who is walking along a city street at night. He stops at a window and peers inside, where many chess games are going on. He watches as the theme music continues. When the music ends, The Stranger op...
For those of you folllowing David Pruess's blog here on chess.com, you'll know that 4 of us from the Bay Area went to play in Cappelle la Grande, France. Before the tournament, we spent a few days in Paris, where one of Jesse's friends (Jason Ston...
The following chess game is a game that I would like to share with the chess.com community because it demonstrates a die-hard attitude and a willingness to continue on in battle against seemingly impossible odds. The intention of this posting i...
Chess: A Tragic Comedy Illustrationby: Jason del Argoa.k.a. Progressive GrooveDecember 20, 2008
[Taken from Chapter 6] "The Viennese master, Ernst Gruenfeld, has the reputation of knowing more about [chess] openings than any other player. From this encyclopedic knowlege he has distilled the uninspiring conviction that every [chess] game sho...
In the film industry, there are many names of movie stars and other folks that have played chess. These celebrities include: Claude Akins (Sheriff Lobo) Alan Alda (M*A*S*H), Woody Allen, Lauren Bacall (once married to Humphrey Bogart), the B...
