Thanks For The Memory
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The 7 Best Upcoming Chess.com Events
Chess fans have a lot to look forward to at Chess.com. If you like big-time chess events, you're going to love this spring. Yesterday, a charity fundraising simul hosted by world-number-nine GM Anish Giri online on Chess.com's ...
5 Things You Think When Playing A Grandmaster
[UPDATE: You can play GM Anish Giri and support the Nepal earthquake recovery effort. Details here.] My first game of online chess was against a grandmaster. Decades ago, I had signed up for a now-defunct website, and logged in to play for my ...
Is Magnus Carlsen The LeBron James Of Chess?
Who is the LeBron James of chess? The National Basketball Association playoffs are in full swing, and the best players in the world are battling it out, hoping to win an NBA championship. LeBron James fell just short of a championship last sea...
Vive la Egalite!
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5 Things You Need For Real-World Chess
We already know that you can take Chess.com and its mobile app to play chess anywhere, but sometimes there’s nothing like playing on a real board with real pieces. If you’re lucky, you can try your hand at giant bullet chess, but eve...
5 Dumb Things Chess Players Say
Last week, we had some fun discussing dumb things your non-chess friends say about the game. In chess as in life, turnabout is fair play. It's time to laugh at the silly things chess players themselves say -- and there's certainly no shortage of...
Rent-A-Crown
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5 Dumb Things Your Non-Chess Friends Say
GM Serper recently performed an in-depth criticism of the popular chess movie “Searching For Bobby Fischer,” pointing out bad habits you could pick up if the film were your only source of chess education. Serper also mentions that th...
10 Bad Habits In "Searching For Bobby Fischer"
It is time for the big national scholastic tournaments here in the U.S., and that means that we are going to witness thousands of kids making similar mistakes on and off the chess board. A clear sign of a person getting older is when he starts c...
Play Chess Online With Your Pets
April Fools! Are you tired of the same old game of fetch? Running low on filthy, chewed-up tennis balls? Wouldn’t it be nice to play something a bit more intellectually challenging with your pets? Thanks to groundbreaking new technolog...
What’s The Best Place To Play Chess?
There are a lot of options for the best place to play chess. Perhaps it’s in a large tournament, or even the world championship match, with millions of dollars on the line, and your opponent just blundered. Maybe it’s ju...
Keep It Up!
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The 7 Weirdest Chess Openings
Everyone knows the popular, "normal" openings played at the top level of chess. The Ruy-Lopez, the Sicilian, the French: thousands of pages have been written about these world-championship-level openings. But what if you're not playing a...
Fill Out Your Bracket To Win Prizes
The sports network ESPN estimates that 70 million college basketball brackets will be filled out this week in the United States alone. You can get in on the fun by joining the official Chess.com college basketball bracket contest. Play along wit...
You Can Play Hikaru Nakamura This Saturday
UPDATE: This article, written for the first "Nakamura's Knockout" event in March. NEXT Nakamura's Knockouts is this Saturday, April 18th at 2pm Pacific, 5pm Eastern. Have you ever wanted to take on the best chess player in the United States and...
Video Series On Beauty and Entertainment
Sometimes one just needs a chess break — no endgames, opening theory, positional grinds, or problem-solving. Put up your feet, grab a cold one (lemonade anyone?), and prepare to be enthralled by this series on the beauty of chess. Your ...
Chess At Baba Olga's Cafe
How is chess meant to be played? If you are a serious tournament player -- especially in the U.S.-- when you think of a tournament you might picture sterile, brightly lit ballrooms in hotels. You might picture cramped spaces and crowding. Is th...
The Top 6 Titled Tuesday Tactics
Six Titled Tuesday tournaments are in the books, and the seventh is scheduled for today as the event moves to the first Tuesday of the month. After thousands of master games, tightly packed leaderboards, and thrilling finishes, these event...
The Illegal Move That Wrecked A Chess Career
The summer of 1992 was the most memorable time of my chess career. Our team just took silver medal at the 30th Chess Olympiad in Manila and I felt like I was on the top of the world. That Olympiad deserves a separate article, since I am absolutely...
The Chess Auditor
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6 Reasons You Can't Miss Titled Tuesday Today
The sixth Titled Tuesday tournament in Chess.com history is set to kick off today at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST, 7 p.m. GMT), and it will feature one of the strongest fields ever. With a prize pool that has ballooned to $2,500 (up from the normal $...
The 17 Funniest Chess Pictures
The Internet is full of memes and funny pictures for virtually all subjects, including chess. We've already looked at the weirdest chess sets, the best chess GIFs, and the 11 worst chessboard photos. We even found 14 chess couples who fell in ...
Pattern Recognition Worksheet
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