Speed Chess Championship Continues As 2026 Approaches

With less than two months left in the year, the Speed Chess Championship well underway, several recent collaborations and partnerships inside the Chess.com community, upcoming Chessable sales, and more, let's get right into this month's Chess.com Community Update. Here's everything this update covers: 

• Events
• Product & Engineering
• Community
• Content
• Chessable
• ChessKid
• Fair Play
• Support

Events

• With the Titled Tuesday autumn season almost complete, GM Magnus Carlsen still holds the CCT standings lead. Although Magnus already qualifies for the 2026 Esports World Cup, the top six in these standings at the end of the season will all make it, so every Titled Tuesday is huge.
• CoachChamps, a tournament where eight top coaches trained four players each, was a resounding success the week of October 7-10. You can read the reports for each rating group at these links: U800 | U1200 | U1600 | U2000
• Nakamura won the Comet Open on October 19. 
• The round 16 in the Speed Chess Championship is complete, with several of your favorite stars reaching the upcoming quarterfinal matches, including Carlsen, Nakamura, and Firouzja. And it's not too early to lock in your ticket for the final matches in London!
• The Fall 2025 season of the Collegiate Chess League is in full swing.
• The Crazyhouse Championship finals are happening Friday!
• The FIDE World Cup is underway, which will determine three candidates for the world championship.

Product & Engineering

• Puzzles got a big makeover! You can read all about the updates to puzzles in our feature announcement.
• Just announced: Celebrity Coaches! Choose your AI coach and improve your chess today.
• Our November bots are Runescape themed, in a collaboration with Jagex.
• And for our real power users, you can now manage your game collections directly in Analysis.

If you are in tech and would like to join our team, we're hiring!

Community

• GothamChess vs. the World reached a gigantic milestone with now over 200,000 of you participating in the biggest chess game in history. It's not too late to join!
• Chess the Musical is back, with special bots you can play to celebrate.
• Football/soccer star and PogChamps 6 champion Eberechi Eze has launched a brand new chess initiative in London in a partnership with Chess.com.
• The Faye Webster Invitational happened on October 26 in Atlanta, featuring a Chess.com tournament, LiveBall tennis tournament, and Yo-Yo showcase.
• To make the most of the ongoing Chess Improvement Challenge, join the club today and check out the club forum, too! Every month, we will recognize the top improvers and share improvement stories.

Content

• Chess masters understand chess, of course, but how do they do with slang?

• What happened when IMs Levy Rozman and Sagar Shah faced off at Checkmate USA vs. India? Chaos both on and off the board.

• This month in articles included WCM Lula Roberts' latest, helping you build out your chess vocabulary, and NM Jeremy Kane discussing major upsets that happened at past World Cups as the current one is underway. 

Chessable & Courses

• Black Friday has come to Chessable and Courses early this year! Discounts of as much as 60%—the best of the year—are available right now, starting with tactics and calculation courses, with new categories each week. Visit the Chess.com Courses Shop to get your Black Friday deal now!
• And if you haven't been to the Courses Shop in a while, it's a great time to check it out. We've completely revamped the training experience and introduced over 20 new free courses for you to try.

ChessKid

FunMaster Mike has created an all-new Chessable course, Down but Not Out: Fighting Back in Losing Positions! Look out for his article about it coming out today (November 7) here!

Fair Play

Fair Play Stats for October

• 1,019,319 reports created
• 105,232 Fair Play closures (including 18 titled players: 5 IM, 4 CM, 5 FM, 4 NM)
• 2,500+ mute actions
• 2,200+ accounts muted
• 234,600+ abuse closures
• 36,905,738 rating points refunded

Support

Support Stats for September

• Median Time to First Human Response: 30 hours
• Users Helped: 933,540
• Users Helped By Humans: 84,738
• Average Quality by Member Rating: 92.7%
• Total Ratings: 4,133

Thank you for being part of the world's largest chess community. Let us know your thoughts and ideas in the comments below!

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