During a short intermission on Live Chess, I decided to join in the general conversation. When I was about to start another game someone had posted, "where did chess come from?" I tend to see a lot of these random statements. Others include- H...
Here is what you've all been waiting for - the answers and winners of the Chess.com Holiday Puzzler competition! The standard of entries was incredibly high, so a BIG thank you to all members who submitted answers. Where necessary, equal scores...
Is it possible to bring a Knight to every square on the board in 63 moves?? If you get it, post it in a comment.
Welcome to the 2008 Chess.com Holiday Puzzler! How many of the 20 questions below can you answer? Don't answer in the comments! Send your entries to holidaypuzzler@chess.com and you could win one of these fabulous prizes! 1st Prize: 1 year of...
I know a brainteaser where you must put 8 Queens on the board where none of them can attack eachother. It took me a while to solve, but I eventually got it. I'm not going to show it, I want to see if you can get it!!
Here is a list of Nobel Prize winners who also play or played chess. Zhores Alferov (1930- ). He won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in electronics.. He invented the heterotransister. He is...
Chess is considered the “drosophila” of cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence studies because it represents the domain in which expert performance has been intensively studied and measured. In 1894, Alfred Binet demonstrated that go...
Chess came to Cuba with Columbus. Chess is mentioned as being played in Cuba in 16th century books. In 1838, Johan Maelzel (1772-1838) went to Cuba and introduced that country to The Turk chess automaton. As he sailed from Cuba back to Amer...
550 AD - Northwestern India - Persian poem in 600 AD describes chess coming to Persia (Iran) from India First called: "Chaturanga" - a Sanskrit word translated as "4 limbed" or "4 parts" The four divisions of an army: five foot soldiers, three ...
As I already have mentioned before, i had some limited success at the nc open earlier this month. It was very interesting, as despite the low turnout, lots of interesting people attended (including one unnamed staff member of chess.com). Highlight...
This came from a game where I played white and my opponent forced a stalemate, even with my passed pawn. Edit: I know this is not statemate, and it is perpetual check. But because perpetual check is unresolvable, I put down stalemate.
The Center Counter Defense is one of the oldest recorded openings, first recorded as being played between Francesco di Castellvi and Narciso Vinyoles in Valencia in 1475, and being mentioned by Lucena in 1497. It is one of the oldest asymmetric de...
I'm not sure how i did it, but i've scored 3.5/5 (3 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss) at the NC Open. And i haven't played tournament chess in 4 months. With the exception of a third round game that i collapsed in (), i think i played well. So what do you gu...
This is an article that I read in a local newspaper here.Found it interesting,so thought of sharing it with everyone else. Here's some trivia about VishyAnand-The world chess champion. Vishwanathan Anand was born on 11 December 1969 in Chennai,Tam...
Who is the strongest chess player in the world? We can assume that it is Viswanathan Anand after he won the 2008 world chess championship, followed by Vladimir Kramnik, his challenger. But on the official world chess federation (FIDE) rating for...
Chess players have a reputation of being a bit antisocial, and it's not suprising when the average chess.com chat log looks something like this: Chess_Guy 1: hey Chess_Bloke 2: hey Chess_Bloke 2: hurry up about it Chess_Guy 1: gg Chess_Blok...
Here is a chess puzzle:
Well, I can't believe it. Yesterday, I celebrated my one-year anniversary on chess.com. I'm very surprised that my account is still here... My experience has helped me to realize just how far an idea can go. In a year, this once-small website (wi...
Proof games what is a proof game? You might ask. well...a proof game is like retrograde chess but you are set up with a diagram, a short game.You will be a number of moves in which this diagram is set up in and your job is to try and see how did...
TWO WHITE AND TWO BLACK HORSES HAVE BEEN PUT IN THE CORNERS OF A CHESS BOARD WITH 9 SQUARES(3X3).(THE TWO WHITE ARE IN THE FIRST LINE AND THE TWO BLACK ARE IN THE THIRD LINE). TRY TO EXCHANGE THE POSITIONS OF THE WHITE AND THE BLACK HORSES WITH T...
MATE IN 4...TRY IT OUT :) THIS IS A REAL GAME! THERE ARE 2 BLACK BISHOPS BECAUSE I PROMOTTED A PAWN TO THAT :)
The grandest tradition in chess history is not, as most would expect, making excuses or even emasculating your opponent (May Bobby Fischer rest in peace). It is vilifying the game. Raymond Chandler (No, I've never heard of him before either) ...
