The PRO Chess League finals start on Friday, so it's high time to take a closer look at the four teams that will be fighting for the title. Today: the China Pandas. The PRO Chess League finals will take place on September 25-27 on Chess.com...
The PRO Chess League finals are six days away, so it's high time to take a closer look at the four teams that will be fighting for the title. Today: the Armenia Eagles. The PRO Chess League finals will take place on September 25-27 on Chess.com/...
The PRO Chess League finals are a week away and so it's high time to take a closer look at the four teams that will be fighting for the title. Today: the Canada Chessbrahs. The PRO Chess League finals, the culmination of the fourth season of the...
With 15 days to go until the finals of the PRO Chess League, let's look back at some of the best moments of the 2020 season so far. Great chess, heart-breaking drama, and fun moments: the PCL had it all. Endgame Technique Gets The Croatia Bull...
The 2020 Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championships sponsored by ChessKid was a 16-player knockout tournament among the top junior players in the world. In this second edition, there was a total prize fund of $25,000 on the line. Bracket ...
Grandmasters are the legendary icons that stand atop the chess world—they are our chess heroes. These giants are not only our favorite players but are also... human. Humans make mistakes (both on and off the board), and, as a species, are al...
Tournament Arc is a chess tournament exclusively for Anime Youtubers. Eight "Anitubers" will compete for a share of the $5,000 prize pool with games being played on Chess.com. Format Participants Schedule fund Bracket Prize fund Live...
The FIDE Online Olympiad is a major online chess event for national teams that runs July 25-August 30, 2020 on the Chess.com server. 163 teams and over 1,500 participants from all over the world are playing. Games: Live Chess / Ch...
When the COVID-19 pandemic started, many people considered it mostly a nuisance that would be gone sooner rather than later. These days, popular opinion has shifted to another extreme. Life will never be quite the same even when the pandemic is fi...
Ennio Morricone, who passed away on Monday at the age of 91, was world-famous for his film scores. His career spanned over six decades as a composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpet player. On top of all that, he was an avid chess fan as well...
There are thousands of chess set designs in the world and a large community of chess set collectors. There is an enormous amount of information available on the various chess sets types and designs on Chess.com's Chess Books & Equipment forum,...
"Every Russian schoolboy knows" is a well-known cliche to say that a certain position or a concept is an integral part of a classical chess education. A good friend of mine, GM Alex Yermolinsky, even used this cliche as the title of his weekly sho...
I kept staring at my task list, as I was desperate to come up with a good reason to skip one of them. Some tasks are just so uncomfortable that we just do not want to even go near them. I had to make a simple phone call to tell a parent that their...
The Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix (SCC GP) was a weekly blitz tournament for titled players, played on Tuesdays at 10 a.m. Pacific time / 19:00 Central Europe. It was a direct path to qualify for the 2020 Speed Chess Championship. The...
With today's interview with IM Watu Kobese, Chess.com concludes our interview series on racism which shares the experiences of chess players around the world and asks what we as a community can do to address racism and inequality. Kobese is a 46...
The traditional Leon Chess Festival will be played online this year on Chess.com, July 10-18. Up to four different events will take place: a Masters tournament with four very strong grandmasters, an open blitz tournament where ...
In one of my recent articles, I called Magnus Carlsen a "born entertainer" and asked, "Who could forget the barbs he exchanges with GM Anish Giri on Twitter?" Our world champion never fails us. The very day after my article was published, we could...
The FIDE Chess.com Women's Speed Chess Championship was an online competition for female players held between June 18 and July 20, 2020. The format consisted of four separate stages. GM Anna Ushenina defeated GM Alexandra Kosteniuk in the Super Fi...
GM Elmars Zemgalis was born in 1923 in Riga, Latvia. In 1951, Zemgalis emigrated to the United States where he became a mathematics professor, and in 1952, he was sponsored as part of a program to bring European sportsmen to the state of Washingto...
The death of George Floyd, followed by global protests, has moved the topic of racism to the front of public debate. Chess.com spoke to several chess players about their experiences with racism and will be releasing these conversations in the comi...
Here are infographics for Chess.com Pogchamps taking place June 5-19 on Chess.com/TV and Twitch.tv/Chess Schedule: Participants: Prizes: Format:
Chess.com continues its series on racism (see also GM Pontus Carlsson's profile) which shares the experiences of chess players around the world and asks what we as a community can do to address racism and inequality. Today: NM Daniel Jones. 32-y...
With over 5 million games played on Chess.com each day, your daily dozen or so games may not be drawing much attention—even from you, if you don’t analyze them afterward. Opponents may come and go in a blur of usernames. Moreove...
Chess.com is kicking off the summer with the inaugural 2020 Chess.com PogChamps, featuring top Twitch streamers. Based on the FIFA World Cup, the 16 invited players will compete for their share of a $50,000 prize fund through a group stage an...
