Chess.com is pleased to announce that our Chess Terms project is now live! You can find the first wave of more than 50 chess terms at Chess.com/terms. We plan on expanding this glossary of terms frequently, so keep an eye on the Chess.com/terms pa...
GM Magnus Carlsen is not only the best player in the world, but he is also a born entertainer. He organizes online chess tournaments and plays an amateur who publicly announced a plan of beating the world champion in just one month after learning ...
Former world champion and legend of the game GM Vishy Anand speaks to David Cox about competing with the elite at the age of 50, the impact of technology on the chess world, and the irritations of having an entirely new generation of players ...
If you are a true chess aficionado, then your personal chess library probably has one of many books written by GM John Nunn. You cannot go wrong buying any book written by this author since all of them are of the highest quality. Yet one of them s...
The FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup kicks off May 5, and you can share this event directly with your community and fans, driving more traffic to your website by broadcasting an official FIDE and Chess.com event for free! Webmasters from sites ...
Chess federations are the pillars of in-person chess throughout the world. They rate chess events, organize national championships, represent their nation in international competitions, and do a great deal to promote chess. Many federations have...
China won the inaugural FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup on Sunday. Their Superfinal with the USA ended in 2-2, with China having draw odds for winning the round-robin phase. The full news report on the Superfinal can be found here. ...
The words "quarantine" and "social distancing" are going to be a symbol of the year 2020. People in isolation suffer due to many economical and psychological factors. One of them is boredom. Fortunately, creative minds will always find a solutio...
The European Chess Union is hosting the first European Online Chess Championship May 16-31 on Chess.com. The tournament will be played over five rating groups. The European Individual Championship and the European Individual Women's Champio...
The Finals of the IM Not A GM Speed Chess Championship takes place May 23 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time (19:00 CEST) between IM John Bartholomew and IM Alina Kashlinskaya. The match will be broadcast live on Chess.com/TV with commentary by GMs Robe...
The novel coronavirus has paralyzed the world, and unfortunately, there is no clear sign of it slowing down. It will take years if not decades to learn the final toll it took on humankind. Needless to say, chess was severely impacted, just like ev...
Siegbert Tarrasch was born in Germany, March 5, 1862. Parents always dream that their children will be super-special, but Tarrasch really was! He excelled in school and, after that (in 1880), he moved to Halle, studied medicine and opened up his o...
The Chess.com community comes from all over the world and speaks hundreds of languages. From Guinea-Bissau in Africa (with only 405 members) to the USA (with almost 10 million!), Chess.com's membership truly spans the globe. To serve our communi...
Indian number-two Vidit Gujrathi speaks to David Cox about his predictions for the Candidates, the impact coronavirus is having on the chess world, and his recent heartbreak at February’s Prague Chess Festival. A relative late bloomer in c...
Kurniadigautama: “Hello IM Silman, I hope you are doing well wherever you are and no matter what you are doing. I just have one simple but rather perplexing question. Why are grandmasters always taking up more time than necessary to play a m...
Many American chess enthusiasts regard FM Alisa Melekhina as one of the strongest female players in the United States. Melekhina has participated in eight different U.S. Women's Championships and has represented the country abroad in two...
josephyossi: “Why don’t you play games?” JS: Almost everyone has some sort of job. My job is chess. For decades I played in many tournaments, winning the American Open, the National Open, the U.S. Open, and other events. And th...
In 1843 Andrei Alexandrovich Ascharin was born in the Estonian coastal town of Pärnu. His parents were of mixed origins: Alexander, of Russian extraction and Louise, of German extraction. This was common amo...
Jan-Krzysztof Duda, the youngest player in the world’s top 20, speaks to David Cox about his experiences of Polish reality television, being superstitious, and why he can’t stand it when other players don’t observe the dress code...
Chess.com's newest Coach of the Month is CM Gabor Horvath! Gabor is a much-acclaimed coach on Chess.com with numerous enthusiastic testimonials on his profile. He is also a top blogger who regularly shares some of the most instructive blog content...
As everyone knows, there are books about tactics and books about positional skills. However, in serious chess, you often don’t know if either are useful or powerful. Perhaps you don’t see anything, then your moves melt into nothing but...
Would you like to represent your homeland in the "Olympics of chess"? The Live Chess World League will soon begin season five on Chess.com with dozens of countries and thousands of players competing from around the globe. The Live Chess W...
Attending live? Read all the info here Champions Chess Tour LIVE Finals in Oslo ...
George Koltanowski was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1903. When he was 11 years old he experienced his first taste of horror. Here’s what Kolty wrote about it: In 1914, the Germans marched into Belgium. When they were on the point of reac...
