Written By Ray Linville What chess player inspires you? For some of us, it’s not GM Magnus Carlsen or GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, who will compete in the 2021 FIDE World Championship of Chess beginning next month. It’s not even ...
We all love to watch a good video! We don't always have the time to read a great article, but we are always ready to carve out some minutes of our day for a great video. Over the years, Chess.com has put out fantastic chess-related videos. From El...
The FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss is a chess tournament that is part of the world championship cycle. The 2021 Grand Swiss ran from October 27-November 8 and determined two candidates for the 2022 world championship. It was won by GM Alireza Firouz...
Over the past year and a half, chess competitions have been held almost exclusively online and the game has grown tremendously in popularity. With over-the-board (OTB) events returning, many players are wondering how they should prepare for playin...
The 2021 U.S. Chess Championship is a 12-player, 11-round tournament that takes place October 5-19, 2021 in St. Louis to determine the next chess champion of the United States. The 2021 U.S. Women's Championship is being held concurrently with t...
Chess Played Quick is a monthly event where streamers do live speed runs using Chess.com's features. This month's edition, Chess Played Quick: Variants Edition, will feature top streamers playing multiple chess variants. The event happens on Oct...
The 2021 FIDE World Women's Team Championship will be held from September 27-October 2, 2021 and broadcast on Chess.com. Broadcast Schedule Teams Format Location Prize Fund Regulations Broadcast You can follow the 2021 Women's Team...
Some questions are too complex and beyond our understanding as human beings for us to answer. Why are we here? Where have we come from? Where are we going? Another great question that no one can truly answer is: "Who will win the 2021 World ...
The Arena Kings Season 8 started on September 22 at 10 a.m. PT/19:00 CEST and happens every Wednesday until December 15. In this event, streamers battle in a series of 3|0 blitz arenas to take the Arena King crown and a share of the more than $40,...
The Collegiate Chess League's third season is set to begin on September 18, 2021, and runs until the finals on November 21. The first two seasons saw schools from all over the US join and compete, and now we are going global! With 160 teams regi...
Written by Brad Ashlock Making art is like making a chess move. An artist starts with the available resources and looks at the composition/position from the general to the specific. My resources for digital collage begins not with searching for...
Everybody is playing chess online now, and you're wondering how you can start playing too? Good news: it's super easy to start playing chess and having fun (and maybe getting smarter along the way)! Here's what you need to know to join the milli...
Norway Chess is a classical chess tournament held every year since 2013 in Stavanger, Norway. Up until 2019 it was accompanied by a blitz tournament, which was put on hold during the coronavirus pandemic. Norway Chess 2021 ran from September 7-1...
When you see chess in movies, it's always associated with great minds—and there's a good reason for this: chess is the ultimate intellectual game. Being a great chess player requires superb strategic abilities, planning, calculation, pattern...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the main event of the 2021 Speed Chess Championship. This multi-event series featured top players competing in fast-paced games for a piece of the $232,000 prize fund. The event started on March 31 with the Bullet Chess Cham...
Chess has always been popular, but has it ever been this popular? The Walter Tevis novel The Queen's Gambit came out in 1983. Obviously, there was a market for it. But nothing like the 2020 miniseries which, even though it did not come out until...
The 2021 Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix is part of the 2021 Speed Chess Championship and one of the qualification events for the 2021 Speed Chess Championship's Main Event. Four different one-day tournaments comprise the Grand Prix, startin...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the Main Event of the 2021 Speed Chess Championship on December 19—winning his fourth consecutive title. Nakamura defeated GM Wesley So in the final by a dominating score of 23-8. The event ran from November 8-Dec...
The 2021 Speed Chess Championship Super Swiss is part of the 2021 Speed Chess Championship and one of the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event qualification events. The event features titled players competing in a 15-round blitz Swiss event,...
Pro Chess League: Arena Royale is a tournament featuring teams from the PRO Chess League competing for a $100,000 prize fund. The Arena Royale will run from September 16 through September 24 as a prelude to the return of the PRO Chess League ...
If you are a chess player on the internet you have almost certainly seen IM Kostya Kavutskiy. Whether he's streaming at ChessDojo, uploading to his YouTube channel, or commentating on Titled Tuesday, Kavutskiy is always offering entertainment and ...
There's a famous story in basketball featuring Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird. Before the first-ever Three-Point Shootout in 1986, he went into the locker room, asked who was finishing in second place and walked out. He won the contest. There'...
The Sinquefield Cup is an annual chess tournament held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Named for Rex and Jeanne Sinquefield, the founders of the Saint Louis Chess Club where it is held, the tournament first ran in 2013. Since 2015, it has been part o...
The 2021 Grand Chess Tour is a series of over-the-board chess events comprised of two classical and three rapid & blitz tournaments featuring top chess players. The entire tour has a total prize fund of $1,275,000, with $325,000 per classical ...
