Find out when the top chess events and tournaments are taking place! Missing a strong event? Please let us know in the comments. Click here for results of completed chess tournaments and events in 2018. JUNE 2018 Date Event Locatio...
Find out who won the major chess tournaments in 2018. Click here for the upcoming Chess Tournament Calendar. Completed 2018 Chess Tournaments: MAY 2018 May 24: Bundesliga Playoff (Baden-Baden, Germany) Despite bringing top guns Fab...
Here you'll find updated standings and leaderboard information for the Arena Kings Streamers Championship Season 1. Season 1 press release and announcement. For weekly results, click here. Rankings as of June 21 Rank Player Points...
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Every Wednesday at 12 p.m. Pacific Time (8 p.m. GMT), everyone is invited to join the Arena Kings Chess Tournament: where everyone can play but only streamers can win cash prizes! Please read the full rules and eligibility criteria here Schedu...
Chess.com has partnered with Twitch to bring chess fans around the world more options to watch their favorite players. To grow the chess streaming ecosystem, Chess.com and Twitch are offering a number of benefits to chess players of all skill...
While the traditional two-player chess that we know and love today has become the most popular way to play, there have been hundreds of variations of chess created by imaginative fans of the game. One of the earliest and most notable variants of...
The Chess.com Speed Chess Championship has two world junior champions doing battle today, current world number-two Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, takes on the 16-year-old reigning world junior champion, Jeffery Xiong. Follow the action live at Chess.co...
Below you will find the official rules of the PRO Chess League's Annual Qualifier tournament: Fair Play and Observation: Teams must choose a trusted and impartial arbiter to be present for the qualifier. This arbiter must be approved by Leag...
Chess.com has invested heavily in providing powerful, innovative and all-around robust teaching tools for chess coaches and trainers of all levels and experience. This article is meant to serve as a guide to our tutorials and most commonly used to...
My mother used to tell me that being embarrassed is just realizing that other people like you more in that moment than you like yourself. Yep. She was nuts Her crazy ideas aside we can all admit it's nice to be loved and appreciated ...
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Chess.com has always offered a great platform to recruit new students and provide online (live) lessons, but are you - as a titled player or professional chess coach - fully aware of all the tools and opportunities available to you?...
Below are the official rules and format of Chess.com's Speed Chess Championship. By accepting the invitation to play, players acknowledge they have read and understand the following information: LAST UPDATED: April 25, 2018 Rules And M...
If getting people to pay you for advice was as simple as asking, everyone would be doing it! The same goes for chess coaches looking to develop their professional career. While Chess.com does provide the tools you need for teaching, we ...
UPDATE: For more up to date information, please visit https://www.prochessleague.com/ The PRO Chess League pits cities and regions around the globe against one another in fast-paced online play. With 48 teams from five continents an...
Grandmasters Magesh Panchanathan and Arun Prashad are two of the best chess coaches teaching today. In this incredible series of articles, they take deep dives on all sorts of topics, from classic openings, to unique patterns, chess history, and m...
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You got questions and we got answers. An opportunity for viewers to ask anything and everything proved to be so successful we had to put all the videos in one guide. Watch as National Master Dan Heisman plows through the hot topics of todays chess...
In this series, Chess.com’s best hosts join forces to cover the 2014 and 2015 ChessKid National Invitational Championships. These talented youngsters provide plenty of educational value for our expert panel. Watch and learn as the future sta...
In this series, watch as IM Thomas Rendle faces off against some of Chess.com's strongest blitz players. He'll provide in-depth commentary into each position and his strategies moving forward. A great piece of learning material here. Don't miss ou...
Spicy Gambits just wasn't enough. GM Simon Williams had to take it up a notch with a full tv show. From positions to full games, watch what happens when some of the best players bite off more than they can chew. While most of us have to bow o...
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The Speed Chess Championship, featuring Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, Sergey Karjakin, Fabiano Caruana, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and ten more of the world's best players competing in a unique knock-out match format, will be broadca...
Cheating in chess is a serious issue. The issue is magnified online, where there is no arbiter to physically observe play. Chess.com takes fair play and cheat-detection very seriously, and we have since our founding. We understand how frus...