How to Unlock All Chess.com Achievements: 2026 Edition

Achievements are awards you can get by doing certain things that I will cover in this blog.

You can see your achievements by hovering over the Home section, and clicking Awards. Then, simply click the section labelled 'Achievements'.

1) Time Control Series: Earned by playing games (1 to 10,000) in Bullet, Blitz, Rapid, Lessons Puzzles, and Daily categories.

2) Rating Milestones: Earned by reaching specific ratings in different time controls, lessons, friendships, puzzles and variants.

3) Checkmates: Getting checkmates with different pieces (pawn, bishop, knight, rook, queen, king).

4) Castle Victory: Deliver checkmate by castling (this does not count as a king checkmate as well).

5) Quick Knockout: Deliver checkmate in under 10 moves (scholar's mate is recommended for lower-rated opponents).

6) Full House: Win with all your pieces still alive. Some YouTubers claim that there is a secret achievement called 'Peaceful Victory' for winning with your and your opponent's pieces still on the board but it is proven fake.

7) Chess Marathon: Play a game that lasts for longer than 100 moves. 

8) Nick of Time: Win with less than a second left on the clock - just find a checkmate and wait for your time to go under 1 second.

9) Puzzle Machine: Solve 100 puzzles in a day - a premium membership is required.

10) Hot Streak: Solve 10 puzzles correctly in a row.

11) Full Day: Accumulate 24 hours of puzzle-solving.

12) Good Habit: Do puzzles 7 days in row - I believe it is currently glitched.

13) World Traveller: Play versus opponents from 10 different nations.

14) Pen Pal: Have friends from at least 10 different countries.

15) Self Portrait: Change your avatar from the default pawn.

16) Chess.com Supporter: Upgrade to premium.

17) Drills: Do 1 drill (Train Your Brain), 10 (Brains of Steel) and all (Silicon Brain)/

18) Introspection: Use the 'My Games' database past your 5th move. 

19) Tournaments: Join tournaments - 1 for Contender, 10 for Competitor and 100 for Challenger. If you start a tournament, you get Organiser for 1 tournament and Director for 10.

20) Team Games: Play a 'team game' by joining an active club - 1 for Team Player and 10 for Team Pillar.

21) Searching for Bobby Fischer: Click on Bobby Fischer in the Master Games collection which you can do via https://www.chess.com/analysis/explorer.

22) Invite a Friend to Chess.com: You get 'Bring a Friend' if you invite one person and 'People Person' if you invite 10. You also get VIP referrer if they upgrade to premium.

23) Clubs: You receive 'Club Member' for doing a club and 'Pack Leader' if a club created by you has 10 people (excluding yourself) in it.

24) Ballot Box: You have to play in a 'Vote Chess' match which I'm not sure what is.

25) Articles: You get 'Front Page' for reading an article, Reading Glasses for reading 10, and Library Card for 100.

26) Social:

• You get Say Hello for sending a single message.
• First Word for 1 post or comment
• Conversation Starter for posting a forum.
• Soapbox for producing a blog.
• Printing Press for producing 10 blogs.
• Good Read if 100 people read any of your blogs.
• Tweet! for sharing a game on Twitter (now X).
• Like! for sharing a game on Facebook.
• Friend Me! for connected your Facebook account to chess.com.

and receive points for how many of those things you continue to do. With these points, you can get Participant, Megaphone and Chatterbox.

27) Devoted, Fanatic & Anniversary: You receive Devoted for logging on 7 days in row, Fanatic for 30 days and Happy Anniversary based on how many years you've had an account on the site.

28) Survey Says: You voted in a survey; https://www.chess.com/surveys.

29) Videos: 

• TV Guide for watching 1 episode of ChessTV.
• Couch Potato for watching 8 hours of it.
• TV Junkie for watching 24 hours of it.
• Press Play for watching 1 video lesson.
• Popcorn Lover for watching 10 Chess.com videos.
• Film Buff for watching 100.
• Movie Star for watching 1000 ChessTV videos.

30) Trophies: 

• Giver for gifting 1 trophies to someone.
• Awarder for giving them 10.
• Generous Spirit for giving 100.
• Gift Wrap for gifting a premium membership.
• Prize Winner for winning 10 game trophies.
• Trophy Hunter for getting 10 fun trophies.
• Award Magnet for receiving 100 Game 'n' Fun trophies.

31) Go Mobile: Play on an IOS or Android.

32) Finger Paint: Customise your board and pieces theme.

33) Eye Doctor: Test your Chess Vision.

34) Leagues: For climbing through the Wood, Stone, Bronze, Silver, Crystal, Elite, Champion and Legend leagues.

35) Juggler: Play 20 daily games at once.

Recently, some achievements have been removed or aren't working - such as Man vs Machine and Dangerous Introspection, and some variant ones tend to be slightly bugged so remember to contact 'Support' if you don't receive an achievement after earning it.