The most exciting world championships of all-time countdown ends with a nearly consensus pick: Bobby Fischer vs. Boris Spassky in 1972 in Iceland. The match tallied an amazing 72 points (with eight judges, a maximum score would have been 80), wh...
Coming in at number two on Chess.com's list of Most Exciting World Championships in History is the fourth installment of the epic clash between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov. By "fourth," that means both the fourth chronological time th...
Coming in as the number three most exciting world championship of all time is the first Karpov vs. Kasparov match, this one beginning in the fall of 1984 and stretching out over more than five months and into 1985. The match was famously aborted...
Coming in as the fourth-most exciting world chess championship of all time was the battle of Michaels: Mikhail Botvinnik against Mikhail Tal in 1960. Perhaps surprisingly, this is the second time Botvinnik made the top-10 list. And not surprisin...
The chess world only had to wait seven months after their aborted 1984 match for Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov to resume their titanic clash. Was it a rematch if the first match never ended? That's for historians to decide, but the ascend...
The yogurt. The dissident. The psychoanalyst Vladimir Zukhar staring from the front row. The 1978 world championship match between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi had it all, and thus came in number six on Chess.com's list of most exciting worl...
Magnus Carlsen had to venture to enemy territory to reach his childhood dream of becoming world champion. On seventh place on our list of the 10 most exciting world championships of all time comes the ascendency of the highest-rated player of all ...
With an amazing 10 decisive games out of 24, and several late lead changes, it is no surprise that Mikhail Botvinnik vs. David Bronstein made the top 10 list of most exciting world championships of all time. The public was hungry to see Botvinni...
The Chess.com countdown of the "Most Exciting World Championships In History" continues today with ninth place, and you don't have to remember too far back for this one. Sergey Karjakin vs. Magnus Carlsen from 2016 in New York made it into top 1...
With the upcoming 2018 world chess championship between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana just days away starting Nov. 9, Chess.com wanted to know: What is the most exciting title match in history? Below is a countdown of the top 10 a...
Counting down the list of the most exciting world championships, Chess.com staff landed on a three-way tie for 10th place with 12 points. Capablanca-Lasker (1921) Alekhine-Capablanca (1927) Kasparov-Karpov (1990) Capablanca - Lasker (19...
The year was 1985 and I was playing a tournament where I had an opportunity to get my first master norm. At that time, tournaments with master norms were very scarce in the Soviet Union. In fact, we had only one such tournament per year in my ho...
Judit Polgar (@JuditPolgar), unarguably the greatest female player of all time and one of the greatest attacking players of all time, will play 20 fortunate opponents on Chess.com as part of the Global Chess Festival Online. This simultaneous disp...
Grab your popcorn for this article! We are going to take a look at chess in the movies. Chess fans everywhere have their favorite chess movies. Here are our top seven picks. Make sure to share your favorite chess films in the comments! Searchi...
Chess openings have been analyzed for centuries and yet even today it is still not easy to identify the best and worst first moves. According to Fischer, 1.e4 is "best by test." From the other side, when the famous theoretician GM Ernst Gruenfel...
One of the leading characters of the Soviet romantic comedy "Where is the Nophelet?" would ask attractive women a very cryptic question. Yet the pick-up line "Do you know where the Nophelet is?" worked like a charm, since everyone wanted to k...
Chess is played everyday around the world and brings people of different cultures and backgrounds together. Let's take a look at the top 10 benefits of learning and playing chess! Brings people together. Teaches you how to win and lose. Help...
If you've ever felt a little bit silly after allowing your opponent to take your queen or after missing a mate in one, I have good news for you. It could be much worse. Stop feeling guilty whenever these things happen to you. The chess world is ...
The day my daughter was due was approaching. There was not much to do but wait. Another day passed. I couldn’t concentrate on work. Another day, and then another. I couldn’t write; my words were blocked. I couldn’t sleep. Another...
Bobby Fischer is easily the most famous chess player of all time. When Bobby spoke about chess naturally people listened! Here are ten of his famous quotes. 1. "1.e4 - Best by test." You can find a few games where Fischer started the game...
A well-known saying states that all is fair in love and war. Our beloved game is actually both love and war. While it is pretty obvious that chess is a war on 64 squares, what about love? Well, check the Twitter hashtag #WhyILoveChess and...
Reminder: Deadline for entries is 11:59 p.m. Pacific time July 23. The biggest event in online chess is back for 2018, and the field of 16 grandmasters is set for the 2018 Speed Chess Championship. While the best players in the world battle it...
The coming world championship match is going to be Magnus Carlsen's biggest challenge since he won his crown. As I mentioned in my recent article, it is the first time he will defend his title against a younger challenger, the 25-year-old Americ...
Every day at Chess.com we get a lot of suggestions, feedback and bug reports—and we really appreciate it! One of the most common bug reports looks something like this: In my game, I moved my pawn to h4 and somehow his pawn from g4 ...
Chess is more than just a game, at least for chess aficionados. As proof of this statement we like to mention that since the dawn of the computer age, our beloved game has been the main test of computers' ability to "think." Also, don't ...