The chess world is ready for a new year and all that it will bring: prestigious tournaments, shocking blunders, rating rises and falls, unexpected winners, crushing defeats. However, what will be the major events that will capture your attention t...
CHECKMATE BEFORE THE FIRST SHOTHello, I am Nicola Nigro Monasterios, President of the Carabobo State Chess Association since 2017. I hold an MBA and am currently a Doctoral Candidate in Management Sciences at the Latin American and Caribbean Unive...
Hello, I am Nicola Nigro Monasterios, president of the Carabobo State Chess Association since 2017. I hold an MBA and am currently a doctoral candidate in Management Sciences at the Latin American and Caribbean University (ULAC). I possess the pri...
Last month I had a chance to play in a tournament that is certainly going to be one of the most memorable events of the year for me - the 2025 FIDE World Corporate Chess Championship. Together with my colleagues from Microsoft we managed to qualif...
In my view, evaluating positions accurately is one of the most valuable skills you can develop as you climb the rating ladder in chess. Some players may be surprised to learn that there are simple methods they can follow to improve their evaluatio...
Welcome everybody to another relaxing edition of Blitz 'n' Memes. If you're a fan of puzzles taken from amateur online blitz tournaments, then you have come to the right place, because that is what I do. As always, the tactics have been select...
I hope everyone had a good Christmas, and this weird purgatory before New Years isn't too disorienting. Let's do some housekeeping before we get going. Gunsberg won the vote against Mackenzie (see here), however Santa has confirmed that the biog...
When the long-anticipated revival of Chess: The Musical on Broadway was confirmed—and confirmed with an utterly stellar cast in Lea Michelle, Nicholas Christopher, and Aaron Tveit—I knew I would have to make a trip to New York to see t...
The Sunway Sitges International Chess Festival once again proved why it is considered one of the most special and complete chess events on the international calendar. Beyond the strength of the competition, what truly sets Sunway Sitges apart is i...
Have you seen the term “farming” in reports about chess players or chess tournaments and wondered what it means? Although the term is not new, it seems to be used more frequently. Here’s what you should know about farming in ches...
#englund #queensac #winning Click to subscribe to my YouTube channel! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 🎄🎁🥳 One of the interesting things with living in Australia is that with a time zone of GMT+11 in Sydney du...
If you know nothing about Coffee Zee Chess, I suggest that you check out my original blog post here: https://www.chess.com/blog/ThePawnSlayer/the-best-place-in-london-to-play-chess We meet every Friday from 6-9pm at Coffee Zee just off Holloway ...
GM Arturs Neiksans is a rare triple threat in the chess world: active as a player, frequent as a commentator on high profile events, highly sought as a coach. A multiple time Latvian champion and one of his country’s most accomplished pla...
Blunders rarely travel alone -Anatoly Karpov Welcome, everybody and Merry Christmas to you all. Christmas came early here in Japan, technically it always does, owing to the rotation of the earth, but this year it was caused by t...
This is 3rd part on my series on how to go from 1600 to 1800. I'm analyzing a game from a 1700 who shared one of his instructive losses, and I'm analyzing the top 5 mistakes I saw in the game. If you prefer to learn from a video lesson, you can se...
Actually one of the most significant events in chess history. Here was the state of play in Soviet chess at the time. Chess was a mania in the Soviet Union. Visitors to the 1925 Moscow tournament were astonished at the crowds that spilled out in...
“I have about one hour a day. How should I train and improve my chess?” This is one of the most common questions I get from adult improvers. And today I am going to tell you how to use that one hour to become a Grandmaster. Haha....
The year 2025 was an incredible one for the chess world. Fortunately, chess photographers were on hand to capture all the action. Do you remember these significant moments? Photo Index Carlsen Beams With 3rd-Place Prize Losing Is Lonely P...
We are excited to announce the India College Chess Championship: Spring 2026 (ICCC), the fourth edition of Chess.com's exclusive tournament for our Indian college students. The first three seasons attracted, on average, more than 200 teams and 1,1...
Welcome to week 12 of The Chess News Podcast where I discuss the Global Chess League, Faustino Oro’s second GM norm, FIDE updates, and more. The biggest event underway is the Global Chess League, taking place in Mumbai, India. It is the...
#kilobytesgambit #tinyengine #chesschats Click to subscribe to my YouTube channel! On today’s Chess Chats I’m going to showcase a pretty amazing TINY chess engine that’s written in Javascript and only...
It goes without saying that in order to improve you have to play ("make") better moves. But most players striving to improve don't think about the fact that there are two distinctly different ways to play better moves. One either has to: Find ...
Afternoon everyone. I was motivated to repost this article I wrote a number of years ago - with a couple of additional bits - by an article on anther site. There we see this bit of 'good story journalism'. Quote. ''What makes Steinitz great as a...
When you sit down for an important game, what does your brain remind you of? If you’re like most chess players, it helpfully replays that time you hung a piece in a winning position. Or when you lost on time with mate in two. Or that embarra...
Hey Impressive Chessers! In a strange change of tact, today’s blog is going to be all about me! Okay… I’m kidding... Kind of. What this blog is really about is one of my biggest weaknesses (especially in the past) and one th...
