The chess world holds its breath as it awaits the start of the most important over-the-board tournament of the year. The 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament and 2026 FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament kick off on March 29 at 8:30 a.m. ET / 14:30 CET /...
FM Ilija Stanojevic—Eleyah on YouTube and Eleyah.fm on Instagram—is finding ways to both educate and entertain viewers, whether with in-depth, long form analysis of opening variations and other serious chess topics, or dramatic, short ...
As the first quarter of 2026 enters its final weeks, some of the biggest tournaments in both online and over-the-board chess are happening, with the Chess.com Open starting March 14 and the Candidates Tournament, to determine the next world champi...
A national master from Southern California, NM Craig Clawitter also has a winning career record against a certain grandmaster—technically. (You'll have to read on to see who and under what circumstances!) For more than 20 years, Craig h...
Asmoada (first name Alex) has been streaming chess for only 11 months, yet in that time she has not just already built an audience of thousands of followers, but her chess has greatly improved as well—by 500-800 Elo rating points in various ...
GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Alireza Firouzja, and Denis Lazavik made the semifinals of the Speed Chess Championship, and the time has come. Whether you're reading this before or after the big February 6-8 weekend festivities, you can see ...
For some, chess is just a game. For others, it's a hobby or a sport. But for children growing up in the slums of Mombasa, Kenya, chess can be something even more powerful—hope. Promoting Queens is an initiative committed to changing the li...
You know her as Unclejessi on Twitch and Chessi-G on Chess.com. Either way, our Chess.com Creator of the Month for January 2026 knows how to put on a chess stream. It takes a particular love of the game to go from a part-time variety streamer to a...
GM Mauricio Flores started playing chess when he was 10 years old, and didn't have a titled coach until he was 15, improving primarily through chess books and self-analysis of his games. He nonetheless became a grandmaster and a three-time Chilean...
Welcome to 2026! We had another great year at Chess.com in 2025, all because of you. As we enter the new year, let's take a look back at the last month of action—GM Magnus Carlsen's continued dominance, our annual Chess.com Awards community ...
We live in unprecedented times when AI and the Digital Revolution are reshaping how we live. Recently, Elon Musk even suggested that, in 15 to 20 years, work will be optional and money irrelevant. It is difficult to argue with on...
In this article, you can find the official rules for all 2026 Chess.com events with prize money that are already over. Use the table of contents below to jump to a specific event. All prize money events are also subject to the Chess.com Competitiv...
Sabri Can Onay Yantar, better known to viewers simply as Sabo, is Turkiye's biggest chess content creator. Long before he caught the eye of Chess24 (which eventually brought him to Chess.com) Sabo was turning short-form content into an art form on...
The third season of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League is set to start on December 14. Chess titans like World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju, GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Alireza Firouzja, and Hou Yifan are just some of the stars playing in the event, whic...
NM Laura Smith has always loved chess. By the time she was 13, she was the highest-rated player in her age group and was a silver medalist in the Girls Under 14 category at the Pan-American Championship. She has since turned her chess skills and e...
As 2024 was singing its swan song, we invited the community to participate in the 2025 Chess.com Improvement Challenge. Over 40,000 members rose to the challenge to elevate their game in the new year. As an action-packed year comes to a close, let...
As another year approaches its close, the activity at Chess.com is only ramping up. We are bringing back the Chess.com Global Championship and introduced a new tournament, all while continuing to put out product updates, computer opponents, and co...
WCM Hannah Sayce has an impressive chess improvement story, and a unique one as well. Hannah worked all the way from a 700 Elo rating in 2021 to a 2200 rating in 2023, all while streaming her journey on Twitch. Earlier this year, Hannah earned the...
GM Ivan Sokolov's accomplishments as a player include reaching the 2700 "super grandmaster" club and a peak world ranking in the top 15. With all that, his coaching accomplishments may be even more impressive. His students have included GMs Alirez...
We live in an age of world records. Stories about a boy who wins the world title at 18, a girl who becomes World Champion at 16, or a pre-teen who becomes a grandmaster are not surprising anyone anymore. That's why when I read the news about yet a...
Electronic chess boards have been available for home use for as long as Radio Shack has been in existence. In fact, they've kept up with modern technology even better than the stores that used to sell them. The industry leader in terms of sales ...
GM Daniel Naroditsky had several roles at Chess.com during his tragically short life—he would have turned 30 years old as we publish this article on November 9, 2025—but his first role was as an article author. One of Naroditsky's many...
With less than two months left in the year, the Speed Chess Championship well underway, several recent collaborations and partnerships inside the Chess.com community, upcoming Chessable sales, and more, let's get right into this month's Chess.com ...
GM Melikset "Melik" Khachiyan is a coaching legend. The Armenian-born American grandmaster was not only the coach of one of the best players in history, GM Levon Aronian, in the 1990s, he has coached the highly successful U.S. women's team at the ...
IM David Pruess is one of the internet's most experienced content creators, having been in the game in one way or another for the better part of two decades. Along with IM Kostya Kavutskiy and GM Jesse Kraai, he is also a cofounder of ChessDojo, a...
