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...
I have a student who used to complain a lot about his opponents not resigning when they were down significant material. "When are you going to resign?", he would type in the chat whenever his opponent would lose a piece but kept playing. One day...
It's time to remember the most remarkable chess games of 2025. Some memorable classical events gave us magnificent games, such as the traditional Tata Steel Chess tournament, the FIDE Grand Swiss, and the FIDE World Cup, to name three of the ...
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...
Your favorite annual chess quiz tradition is back for the 2025 holidays. Play the puzzler by clicking here. Enjoy this year's quiz, and see if you can win one of our prizes for a top score! Update, January 8, with answers and winners: ...
Chess.com wasn't always Chess.com, as you know it today. In the days before millions of members, before Puzzle Rush or Chessable/Courses, before you could even play a game with someone halfway across the world, there was a small chess software com...
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...
Imagine yourself in a situation: ahead of you is a chess game that you must win at all costs. Failure is not an option. This could be the last step toward a FIDE title you've been chasing your entire life, the final push to finally break the 2000 ...
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...
NM Laura Smith has always loved chess. By the time she was 13, she was the highest-rated player in her age group and was a silver medalist in the Girls Under 14 category at the Pan-American Championship. She has since turned her chess skills and e...
As 2024 was singing its swan song, we invited the community to participate in the 2025 Chess.com Improvement Challenge. Over 40,000 members rose to the challenge to elevate their game in the new year. As an action-packed year comes to a close, let...
As another year approaches its close, the activity at Chess.com is only ramping up. We are bringing back the Chess.com Global Championship and introduced a new tournament, all while continuing to put out product updates, computer opponents, and co...
Chess literature is full of amazing games by grandmasters. Yet, there are tens of millions of games played around the world every day, the vast majority of them by untitled players. On average, a grandmaster game will be higher quality, but the co...
I realize that for many readers, the very question in this article's title may sound absurd. GM Bobby Fischer has long been regarded as the epitome of a chess prodigy. With Fischer's own famous remark, "When I was eleven, I just got good," even as...
In a new Chess.com video, GM Judit Polgar shared what she considers her best game ever, against GM Viswanathan Anand in 1999 in Dos Hermanas, Spain. The first Indian to become a grandmaster would go on to earn his first of five world champion titl...
WCM Hannah Sayce has an impressive chess improvement story, and a unique one as well. Hannah worked all the way from a 700 Elo rating in 2021 to a 2200 rating in 2023, all while streaming her journey on Twitch. Earlier this year, Hannah earned the...
Few things rival the rush of finding a beautiful tactic on the board. Online or at the chess club, every player remembers the satisfaction of doing a great combination, the kind that makes you want to replay it again and again. But tactics aren&rs...
GM Ivan Sokolov's accomplishments as a player include reaching the 2700 "super grandmaster" club and a peak world ranking in the top 15. With all that, his coaching accomplishments may be even more impressive. His students have included GMs Alirez...
We live in an age of world records. Stories about a boy who wins the world title at 18, a girl who becomes World Champion at 16, or a pre-teen who becomes a grandmaster are not surprising anyone anymore. That's why when I read the news about yet a...
Electronic chess boards have been available for home use for as long as Radio Shack has been in existence. In fact, they've kept up with modern technology even better than the stores that used to sell them. The industry leader in terms of sales ...
GM Daniel Naroditsky had several roles at Chess.com during his tragically short life—he would have turned 30 years old as we publish this article on November 9, 2025—but his first role was as an article author. One of Naroditsky's many...
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 ...
Have you ever blundered into a stalemate when you were winning a game? It happens to everyone. IM Eric Rosen has famously saved lost positions against several strong opponents with the same sneaky stalemate trap. Often stalemates stem from...
