WFM Anna Cramling was always destined to be part of the chess world. As the daughter of two grandmasters, GM Pia Cramling and GM Juan Manuel Bellón López, Anna was exposed to the world of professional chess at a young age. A competit...
In honor of the 44th Chess Olympiad, we at Chess.com asked the question: If you could put every country's best five players ever on the same team, how good would those teams be? Now there are many arguments, and not just in chess, about how good...
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...
Morphy. Capablanca. Fischer. Most chess fans know these legendary names. Other young players, like GM Abhimanyu Mishra or ChessKid FM Tani Adewumi, are known to chess fans right now and we await to see just how good they will become. And...
Chess is a game of intrigue... a game of hopes and dreams. It is a marvel that allows us to externalize and analyze our inner thoughts. Its beauty shines brightly through its mystical persona. The goddess of Caissa has charmed millions. Long-he...
It's that time of year again. While the purveyors of chocolates and flowers have sales goals to meet, the rest of us can just sit back and discuss the romantic couples of chess. What, that's not what Valentine's Day is about for you? Well, chess i...
Just as with everything else—hopefully—we learn more and more about chess as the years go by. Opening theory gets consistently deeper, tablebases have solved endgames with up to seven pieces on the board, and computers teach us more th...
When you see chess in movies, it's always associated with great minds—and there's a good reason for this: chess is the ultimate intellectual game. Being a great chess player requires superb strategic abilities, planning, calculation, pattern...
PogChamps 4 is coming up, starting this Sunday, August 29. If there's anything PogChamps has taught us, it's that you don't need to be a grandmaster to play entertaining chess. You can be an entertainer who plays chess, and there are a countless n...
We at Chess.com are not immune to the "listicle," although that word doesn't really apply to our list articles. We do this type of article better than anyone in the chess world with in-depth content on each listed player, game, etc. rather than on...
The main event of the 2021 Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship, where the world's best young players are competing for a $35,000 prize fund, is underway. Additionally, the record for youngest grandmaster in history was just set by IM Abhiman...
The 2021 FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship is nearing a dramatic conclusion, with the semifinal and finals coming later this week (July 1-3). Back in February, we shared a list of the five Best Female Chess Players Of All Time, and t...
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...
The International Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE, was established in 1924. At the time, Jose Raul Capablanca was the World Chess Champion, and he continued his reign until 1927. During that time frame, FIDE start...
Written By Olya Kaye There are extraordinary people out there like GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Bobby Fischer, Judit Polgar, and her sisters who took an ordinary game of chess to the next level. They have inspired the worl...
The queen may be the strongest piece in chess, but it sometimes feels like few women besides the fictional Beth Harmon seem to play the game. In the United States, for example, only about one-seventh of the members of the national chess federation...
There's no doubt about it: "The Queen's Gambit" is a huge hit. With incredible performances by the actors, beautiful sets, and a well-constructed plot, it's no wonder the miniseries is so successful. With 68 million households watching the show in...
Over the past few weeks “The Queen’s Gambit” has taken the world by storm. The story of a young girl, Beth Harmon, who escapes the difficult childhood thanks to her immense chess talent and beats the best men in their game has ca...
Ennio Morricone, who passed away on Monday at the age of 91, was world-famous for his film scores. His career spanned over six decades as a composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpet player. On top of all that, he was an avid chess fan as well...
Preface: An official U.S. Women's Chess Championship has existed for over 80 years. The USCF lists 1937 as the first year. There have been many strong and important women players over the early years ...
Actually, sixty-four is too easy for a chess article, so here are sixty-seven chess quotes you may not have seen before. Or maybe you have... Some stand on their own, some have a bit of commentary, and all are hopefully interesting. Enjoy! Jose ...
Chess.com's newest Coach of the Month is CM Gabor Horvath! Gabor is a much-acclaimed coach on Chess.com with numerous enthusiastic testimonials on his profile. He is also a top blogger who regularly shares some of the most instructive blog content...
Chess.com's newest coach of the month is IM Levy Rozman. Rozman is familiar to streaming fans, as his Twitch.tv/gothamchess channel is one of the largest and most successful on Twitch. Rozman brings a unique wit, humor and troll-shaming to the p...
Judit Polgar, the strongest female chess player of all time, speaks to David Cox about growing up as part of her father Laszlo's groundbreaking educational experiment, the famous touch-move controversy when she played Garry Kasparov in 1994 and wh...
