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Coach's Corner: Johan Hellsten

Coach's Corner: Johan Hellsten

Chessable
| 7 days ago

Coach’s Corner is your inside look into what top coaches and authors think is best way to improve your chess. In this edition, we're interviewing none other than Grandmaster Johan Hellsten. Hellsten quite literally wrote the book on strate...

Pain Relief and the Power of Chess

Pain Relief and the Power of Chess

Chessable
| 12 days ago

The Chessable Research Awards for the Summer 2023 cycle had four winners, undergraduate student Michael Martins and graduate students Jordan von Hippel, Jérôme Genzling, and Jane Zhang. In this guest post, Jérôme Genzli...

Coach's Corner: Can Kabadayi

Coach's Corner: Can Kabadayi

Chessable
| 29 days ago

During the Chess Punks Tournament, we interviewed the 8 coaches who helped prepare the finalists of the tournament in a series called Coach’s Corner. The tournament is now over, but Coach’s Corner is here to stay with top coaches&rsq...

Blindfold Chess Tactics Project

Blindfold Chess Tactics Project

Chessable
| Oct 25, 2023

One of the initiatives of the Chessable science team is “Featured Projects.” Separate from the Chessable Research Awards, which are for undergraduate and graduate students and their faculty research sponsors, featured projects may be l...

Coach's Corner: Kamil Plichta

Coach's Corner: Kamil Plichta

Chessable
| Oct 19, 2023

With the Chess Punks Tournament Final just 3 days away, we wrap up our Coach's Corner series.  We're interviewing each of the 8 coaches preparing the players for the final showdown, soliciting their top chess improvement tips. Our last (but...

Who is the aMSa of chess?

Who is the aMSa of chess?

Chessable
| Oct 19, 2023

Every fighting game has one.  That lone wolf that goes their own way with an offbeat style. Everyone thinks they're crazy…until they wield their Excalibur all the way to a championship title.  In Smash, that’s aMSa with ...

Coach's Corner: Midas Ratsma

Coach's Corner: Midas Ratsma

Chessable
| Oct 18, 2023

The days are counting down until the Chess Punks Tournament Final this Sunday!  And since the tournament is all about chess improvement, we continue our Coach's Corner series, soliciting the best chess improvement tips from the 8 coaches pr...

Coach's Corner: Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko

Coach's Corner: Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko

Chessable
| Oct 17, 2023

Coach's Corner continues! And we're not stopping until we've interviewed all 8 coaches preparing the finalists in the Chess Punks Tournament Finals this Sunday. Today's featured coach is Grandmaster Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko - 2016 Ukrainian Chess ...

Coach's Corner: Daniel King

Coach's Corner: Daniel King

Chessable
| Oct 16, 2023

The Chess Punks Tournament Final draws ever nearer!  The tournament, streaming on Chess.com this Sunday, October 22, is a PogChamps style tournament where ambitious adult improvers - known as the Chess Punks - will battle it out.  Co...

Coach's Corner: Andras Toth

Coach's Corner: Andras Toth

Chessable
| Oct 15, 2023

With just a week left until the Chess Punks Tournament Finals, we’re moving full-steam ahead with our chess improvement series Coach’s Corner.  Today’s featured coach is International Master Andras Toth. A veteran chess co...

Coach's Corner: Arturs Neiksans

Coach's Corner: Arturs Neiksans

Chessable
| Oct 14, 2023

Our Coach’s Corner chess improvement series continues ahead of the Chess Punks Finals on October 22, and today’s featured coach is none other than GM Arturs Neiksans.  GM Neiksans’ resume is impressive: 4-time Latvian Ches...

Coach's Corner: Christof Sielecki

Coach's Corner: Christof Sielecki

Chessable
| Oct 13, 2023

Leading up to the Chess Punks Tournament Finals on October 22, we're continuing our Coach's Corner chess improvement series today with International Master Christof Sielecki.  Christof, one of the coaches preparing the 32 finalists in the C...

Coach's Corner: Yuriy Krykun

Coach's Corner: Yuriy Krykun

Chessable
| Oct 12, 2023

In a world of child prodigies and professional superstars, has the average chess improver been forgotten? Not at all! Ahead of the Chess Punks Tournament Finals, we wanted to bring the spotlight back on what the tournament and the Chess Punks co...

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