Whenever I see our readers' comments, I cannot help but think: we have the best chess community on Earth! It is such a striking contrast to the majority of Internet forums, where a typical conversation would be like this: Original Poster: "Are a...
The FIDE Candidates Tournament will finally resume exactly a week from now, on April 19, 2021. What have the eight participants been up to in the past 13 months? And how have they performed? The story is known: on March 25, 2020, the FIDE Candid...
Hey, chess lovers! Last month was a big month for new products and lots of updates and improvements. So let's review! Here's what happened around the site in March 2021... Web After applying the final touches, based on beta feedbac...
The 2020-21 FIDE Candidates Tournament will take its place in the annals of chess history as an unprecedented event. Never before has a tournament stopped due to force majeure been resumed a full year later. Yes, the first World Championship match...
Chess.com is happy to announce that we have just rolled out another new feature: the Library. You can now create a collection of games and store them conveniently all in one place. Go To Your Library! Whether you want to study a particular open...
GM Mikhail Botvinnik was the sixth World Chess Champion and is generally accepted as one of the best players of all time. Known as "the Patriarch," he worked with and trained many promising masters, grandmasters, national champions, and world...
GM Paul Keres is undeniably one of the greatest players of all time, a renowned chess writer, and one of a handful of grandmasters inevitably discussed whenever we speak of that hallowed company that came ever so close to winning the coveted title...
The dispute about the strongest player in chess history will never be settled. Indeed, how can anyone say what the result would be of a match between Paul Morphy and GM Bobby Fischer if you could bring both of them to our time and give three years...
In chess, an opening transposition occurs when a sequence of moves leads to a position that is more commonly reached by a different move order—same resulting position, different paths to reach the position. Transpositions can be a powerful...
GM Alireza Firouzja won the main event of the 2021 Bullet Chess Championship after defeating GMs Vladislav Artemiev, Hikaru Nakamura, and Andrew Tang. Firouzja's exceptional performance has put the 17-year-old supergrandmaster back in the spotligh...
March 15, 1921 in Havana, Cuba—it was like looking into a mirror for Emanuel Lasker. His opponent opened with 1.d4 and he replied with 1...d5. Exactly 27 years prior, it was the 25-year-old Lasker who had White, facing 58-year-old Wilhelm St...
For most of true chess aficionados, Mikhail Tal is not just a legendary world champion but a true symbol of attacking in chess. He got his name "The Magician" for his inimitable ability to start a king hunt in almost any position. How did ...
Written by Olya Kaye Back in the post-war, torn down Soviet Russia in the early 1960s, my grandfather made a move that significantly impacted the lives of the next three generations of women in his family. The move was simple: he taught my mothe...
Hey, chess lovers! We have some fun stuff to report this month, including one brand-new and long-awaited feature, finally hitting beta. Let's jump right in and see what happened in February 2021... Web Updated board markings and highlight/arr...
The last two days of PogChamps 3 presented by GRIP6 were nothing short of amazing. High-level games, impressive tactics, and more than $150,000 raised for charity marked the end of this record-breaking event. Neeko vs. Tubbo Neeko vs. Michell...
Days 11 and 12 of PogChamps 3 presented by GRIP6 showed us once more how fast players can improve if they put in the work. Every player who took their time to study chess before or even throughout the event showed tremendous growth. Ludwig vs....
Tactics continue to decide the fate of the participants of PogChamps 3 presented by GRIP6. Those who failed to spot tactical shots were sent home by their opponents. Rainn Wilson vs. MoistCr1tikal Ludwig vs. Logic Neeko vs. Rubius Pokimane ...
The phrase "unsung hero" may sound melodramatic to some, or even cliche, but I can't think of a better way to describe Gyula Breyer. His peers and colleagues, the hypermodern pioneers Aron Nimzowitsch and Richard Reti, both lived long enough to ce...
The first day of matches in the champions bracket of PogChamps 3 presented by GRIP6 was an exciting one, with two of the strongest players in the tournament advancing to the semifinals. xQc vs. Sardoche Benjyfishy vs. Daniel Negreanu xQc...
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...
Tactics made all the difference on the eighth day of PogChamps 3 presented by GRIP6. Commentator WFM Alexandra Botez pointed out that Tubbo had been grinding in puzzles, and it showed. MoistCr1tikal's coach GM Daniel Naroditsky said that Char...
At first glance, chess and ice hockey have nothing in common—unless we are talking about this bouncing chess hockey game. Unfortunately, this entertaining game has nothing to do with either chess or hockey. And yet we can learn some use...
The seventh day of PogChamps 3 presented by GRIP6 brought us four different matches. Pokimane, xQc, and Logic impressed with their improvement, surprising the audience once more. Pokimane vs. Rubius Daniel Negreanu vs. xQc Rainn Wilson vs. L...
On the sixth day of PogChamps 3 presented by GRIP6, we saw the performance of a few of the best players in the tournament. Once more, the most tactically skilled players came out on top. Notably, the battle between Benjyfishy and Sardoche is pro...
The fifth day of PogChamps 3 presented by GRIP6 brought us another set of thrilling matches. The underdogs were determined to not make their opponents' lives easy, but eventually the higher-rated players prevailed. Michelle Khare vs. Logic Mr...