Established veterans face a new generation of up-and-coming talent in the Candidates Tournament, with three contenders under the age of 21. Meanwhile, teenagers continue to set new records and break the boundaries of what we thought was possible. ...
NM Ben Johnson is the mastermind behind Perpetual Chess, one of the world's most-loved chess podcasts. He has spoken to grandmasters, world champions, adult improvers, content creators, and other luminaries of the chess world every week since star...
I had the chance to sit down and interview Detroit legend, National Master John Brooks! FM James Canty, also a Detroit native and chess family to Brooks, was there to aid tech support and even give a few of his own thoughts about Brooks. They were...
In the chill of February 2022, Ralf Keller was procrastinating work in his hometown Paderborn, Germany, and decided to play on Chess.com. Simultaneously, across the miles in Como, Italy, Valeria Oomen, while contemplating her life, also logged on ...
Chess drama this, chess drama that… If you’ve been on Twitter/X in the last couple of months, you’ve probably been inundated with discussions over whatever the latest scandal is that day. It can get tiring… maybe you&rsqu...
In 2018, Perpetual Podcast host Ben Johnson interviewed CM Andrzej Krzywda, a Polish chess player in his late 30s who, after decades stuck at a FIDE rating in the 2100s, had a remarkable breakthrough. Over the course of a year, Krzywda gained 150 ...
Chess transcends boundaries that might otherwise divide us. As we celebrate Disability Awareness Month, it's worth highlighting how chess is not just a worldwide pastime but a powerful tool for inclusion. At its core, chess is a game of the mind. ...
In his book Positional Decision Making in Chess, GM Boris Gelfand describes how excited he got as a boy when his father brought home a new chess book, a collection of the games of Akiba Rubinstein. He read the book cover-to-cover and immediately s...
This month's featured chess content creator needs almost no introduction. He's the most-followed chess account on YouTube and is the recipient of multiple awards including Best Chess Streamer at the 2022 Streamer Awards and Best Content Creator fo...
Kevin Bordi, also known as BlitzStream, is France's most-watched chess streamer. As one of the earliest adopters of playing chess on Twitch, he has over a decade of experience creating chess content and has witnessed monumental shifts in the popul...
The subject of the female minority in chess has long intrigued the chess world. There are many theories and hypotheses as to why there are so few women in chess. However, one of the most obvious, and often overlooked, reasons is that the current s...
Edited April 3, 2023: Happy April Fool’s Day, everyone. Stay safe! Hello, chess world. This is the first of a 25-article series proving why GM Anish Giri is the best person in the history of all humanity. I am writing this article series n...
IM Dagne Ciuksyte is a Lithuanian-born chess player and coach who now represents England on an international level. She has competed in some of the biggest chess tournaments in the world, including the Women's Chess Olympiad and Women's World Cham...
In this article, you can find the 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 and the Fai...
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...
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 ...
GM Vishnu Prasanna is India's 33rd grandmaster. He has worked as a second to GM Baskaran Adhiban and has also coached many chess players since 2016 including GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly. India's second-highest-rated player, GM Gukesh D, is also ...
GM Bobby Fischer shocked the world with his failure to appear for game two of the 1972 World Chess Championship. This forfeit loss put Fischer down 2-0 in the match against the reigning world champion, GM Boris Spassky. Could Fischer make a com...
Can you guess how many games of chess people played against each other on Chess.com in June? The answer might surprise you: 257,503,084. That's 99 new games started between players every single second—and that's without counting an additio...
Today 50 years ago, on July 1, 1972, the opening ceremony of the world chess championship match between reigning world champion Boris Spassky and his challenger GM Bobby Fischer took place in Reykjavik, Iceland. Fischer, however, wasn't there, ...
June's Club of the Month is the Dan Heisman Learning Center (DHLC). The club's founder, NM Dan Heisman, is an award-winning chess author and full-time chess instructor who has been sharing his knowledge for decades in person, on YouTube, and acros...
Summer is here! Find your chess horoscope for July, and check out a top player who shares your star sign! July 2022 brings a supermoon in Capricorn, so it's a powerful time for manifestation (and I'm manifesting for all your opponents to hang thei...
In this article, you can find the 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 and the Fai...
A board theme says a lot about a person... like, it says which color board you like. But more than that, it gives important insight into your personality and play style. We looked at some of the most popular and some of the most divisive board the...
Today we are going to discuss a common tactical idea that usually starts an immediate attack against your opponent's castled king. Here are the elements of this pattern: Your opponent castles to make their king safe They play h7-h6 (or h2-h3 ...
