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How can I get better at chess? What's the best way to organize my limited study time? What's the right training plan for my level? Does that sound like you? Well, not anymore! Study guides tell you everything you need to know about how t...
Every master was once a beginner. That is why Grandmaster Sam Shankland has prepared this detailed guide to help you make your first steps in the chess world. Check out the steps and resources and start your path to mastery. Target Skill...
Target Skill Range: Beginner (Rated 1000-1399) Learn to develop long-term, strategic plans and outplay your opponents! Tasks: Improve your piece play. Learn the basics of pawn play. Learn to make a plan. Keep your king safe. Lea...
Learning chess can seem like an easy activity. However, you can find yourself lost among all the teaching materials. So as this situation does not happen, we have prepared you a structured list of steps to improve your level. Target Skill Range...
Like it or not, we ALL have a chess rating. You may not care at all about your rating, or you may be whining every time it goes down in the slightest. You might be someone who plays a game a year, or someone who plays 1,000 a day. Still, there is ...
Target Skill Range: Intermediate (Rated 1400-1799) Acquire the knowledge you need to approach the opening with confidence and achieve success! Tasks: Extend your base knowledge of "tournament openings." Aim for consistency. Learn the con...
Target Skill Range: Beginner (Rated 1000-1399) Tactics, tactics and more tactics! Learn what it takes to win using tactics! Tasks: Learn to recognize common tactical patterns. Identify tactics in your games. Do 20-30 minutes of tactics t...
The Play-in phase of the Chess.com Global Championship is over! From now on, only players who qualified and have not been eliminated can play in the CGC. Qualifier Events (Over) Play-In Events (Over) Event Information Past Results Qual...
In the early 1800s, competitive chess was a time commitment, with games lasting 8-10 hours. Players would often try to stall and exhaust each other. One infamous match between Howard Staunton and Pierre St. Amant in 1843 reportedly ...
Need a little help navigating the thousands of videos on Chess.com? Use this guide to find all the videos you need on topics such as: Starting Out The Opening Tactics Strategy Master G...
Target Skill Range: Intermediate (Rated 1400-1799) Learn to develop long-term, strategic plans and outplay your opponents! Tasks: Learn the basics of positional chess: pawn structures. Learn the basics of positional chess: weak squares....
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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. What we do? ...
How Do I Become A Coach On Chess.com? First, coaches must have a verified account/identity with Chess.com. There are two ways to verify your identity: Become a premium member. (Upgrading your membership and putting your real name and credit c...
Target Skill Range: Beginner (Rated 1000-1399) Arrive at your final chess destination with the knowledge you need to win! Tasks: Learn the essential principles of the endgame. Master the basic checkmates of the endgame. Learn the fundame...
Cheating in chess happens when someone decides that they do not want to play using their own brain, and they turn to using help from a friend or a chess engine to find better moves. This is obviously unfair to the other player, and ruins the exper...
Every day, thousands of chess lovers from all over the world use Chess.com to connect - playing, learning and sharing our favourite game. The chessboard has incredible power to erase differences of language, culture, and age; that's a huge part of...
The first PogChamps tournament was the sensation of the summer on Twitch. Incredible streamers such as xQc, MoistCr1tikal, and forsen competed for $50,000 in prizes and the title of PogChampion. The first PogChamps broke all chess viewership recor...
Are you looking to participate in a community league? Community Leagues provide great opportunities to represent your nation, state, city and communities in many different types of chess, including daily chess, vote chess, live chess formats, an...
Target Skill Range: Beginner (Rated 1000-1399) Put your skills into practice, and use everything you've learned to win chess games! Tasks: Build your concentration and focus. Watch videos lectures on practical thinking. Learn the ...
Target Skill Range: Intermediate (Rated 1400-1799) Arrive at your final chess destination with the knowledge you need to win! Tasks: Increase your knowledge of fundamental endgames. Improve your endgame technique. Complete these endgame ...
Target Skill Range: Intermediate (Rated 1400-1799) Tactics, tactics and more tactics! Learn what it takes to win using tactics! Tasks: Memorize every fundamental tactical pattern of chess. Do tactics, tactics, and more tactics. Develop "...
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...
