Nathaniel Green is a staff writer for Chess.com who writes articles, player biographies, Titled Tuesday reports, video scripts, and more. He has been playing chess for about 30 years and resides near Washington, DC, USA.
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...
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...
To many, GM Ben Finegold needs no introduction. With over 130,000 Twitch followers and 160,000 on YouTube, the gregarious grandmaster regularly plays viewers, analyzes games, offers advice, cracks jokes, and much more on camera. In September and O...
Our September Coach of the Month, Lauren Goodkind, has more than a decade of experience as a chess coach for beginning and intermediate students all over the world, from her hometown of Menlo Park, California to Canada and Germany. Whether teachin...
WFM Charlotte "Charly" Sanati, known online as Azizana, only began streaming relatively recently, but she has already started to build "a really nice and engaging community" of nearly 10,000 followers on Twitch with a dedicated two-a-day streaming...
GM Magnus Carlsen, following in the footsteps of GMs Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu and Hikaru Nakamura, played a blindfold chess game against ChatGPT in a video published Tuesday. In less than 48 hours, it had already racked up more than 100,000 views...
GM Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko is a grandmaster, mathematics PhD, Chessable author... and August 2025 Chess.com Coach of the Month! Mykhaylo has counted GMs Bassem Amin, Ahmed Adly, and Alexander Ipatov among his students, not to mention the countless pl...
FM Nate Solon draws on his vast experience in chess, data science, poker, and more to offer a unique perspective to his students. Both a private coach and a popular, highly-rated author on Chessable, Nate is our Chess.com Coach of the Month for Ju...
Not many people can say they are a professional football player with a master's degree in electrical engineering and a strong chess player and streamer on top of it. But July 2025 Chess.com Creator of the Month Matt Henningsen is all of those thin...
GM Valeriy Aveskulov earned that prestigious title of grandmaster at the age of 20, but largely walked away from competitive play when he was just 23, in order to focus on imparting everything he learned as a player in coaching professionally inst...
Chess truly is an international game. It was invented in India and then spread to the Middle East and Europe. A dozen countries, as large as the United States or India and as small as the Netherlands or Armenia, can brag about producing a world ch...
Julien Song is one of France's biggest content creators, and not just in the chess category, recently ranking third among YouTubers in all languages. Julien, an international master, was introduced to many English speakers recently in PogChamps 6,...
Greg Mustreader has made a name for himself in the chess world for his amazing interviews with several top players, among them GMs Fabiano Caruana, Daniel Naroditsky, Ian Nepomniachtchi, and IM Sagar Shah. Greg has had a successful career in law, ...
After a successful playing career, including a peak FIDE rating of 2641, April 2025 Chess.com Creator of the Month GM Tamas Banusz spent several years as a second to world championship candidate GM Richard Rapport. After that, Tamas finally began ...
CM Can Kabadayi is one of Chessable's most popular instructors, and is now the Chess.com Coach of the Month! The 2024 Chessable Author of the Year and a cognitive scientist by trade, Can uses several tricks of that trade in order to teach importan...
WGM Sabina Foisor has been coaching and teaching chess for more than a decade, in addition to continuing her playing career and writing a book. Now, she is the Chess.com Coach of the Month for March 2025! The Romanian-American woman grandmaster ...
Coach of the Month last February, DaVaun Williams, a.k.a. H1Chess, is now the Creator of the Month for March 2025! DaVaun has over 220,000 TikTok followers, nearly 100,000 on YouTube, and 4,000 on Twitch. In all three places, you can find him prof...
GM Artur Jussupow is one of the greatest chess players ever, and now the best player to be named the Chess.com Coach of the Month. At one time he was the number three player in the world, behind only GMs Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. He has p...
Agne Semonaviciute is a Lithuanian Twitch streamer, YouTube creator, chess player (whose 1934 FIDE rating is nothing to sneeze at!), and more. In just a year and a half of creating content, she has already built an audience in the thousands. Agne ...
The first official World Chess Championship occurred in 1886, with the first Women's World Championship following in 1927. The World Rapid Championship and World Blitz Championship are much more recent developments. FIDE held a one-off World Rapid...
Chess only continues to grow, and this year, the game will reach perhaps its largest audience ever when it appears at the 2025 Esports World Cup in Riyadh from July 31 to August 3, with a prize fund of $1.5 million. Lest you thought esports only m...
Our first Coach of the Month in 2025 is GM Danyyil Dvirnyy! Danyyil moved to Italy with his family in 2003, turned professional in chess before graduating high school, and obtained his grandmaster title in 2013 at the age of 22. That same year, he...
Matt Perchard, a.k.a. houseline, is a relative newcomer to the field of chess content creation, but he has already accomplished something few creators have: organize a successful online chess streaming tournament. The Creator Cup is but the first ...
The 2024 prize money figures are in, and it was another big year for the world's best chess players. Just in tournament winnings alone, two players won over a million dollars, six made $400,000—more than the President of the United States!&m...
