Let's distinguish tactics or forcing moves, and positional play or non-forcing moves. Chess and all of the chess-like games have these. Because there is another board, there are teams, and time moves into the foreground, bughouse has a third...
Chessable’s identity always stood on active learning… spaced reviews, videosync, trackable progress. With the new Repertoire feature, our platform evolves. Now you can personalize your training and pave your own path to Elo gains. ...
La "clavada" es uno de los recursos tácticos más importantes del ajedrecista, quizás el más importante. Este tema se manifiesta en innumerables combinaciones. Una vez que se topa con él en sus primeros pasos, el ...
In Division 1, SRM-A dominated the regular season of 2026 India College Chess Championship (ICCL) Spring with a perfect score of 7/7. The top-six teams qualified for the Playoffs stage. Standings After Week 7 | Division 1 This...
The thing about some true chess lovers is that they keep playing despite indifferent results and work even harder when success eludes them. The forces that will drive the local chesser (who is still schooling) away from competing are tremendous.&n...
This is another monthly guest post written by my co-founder Varun Kumar. Varun is the technical mind behind Chessalyz.ai. He builds the features and squashes the bugs while I focus on the chess side. Today he’s walking you through our newest...
After the pawn’s entry diary, we continue our series exploring the true stars of the chessboard and highlighting their unique roles. The piece narrative format follows the same structure of personified stories, each telling us about their jo...
There's a lot happening on ChessKid and we don't want you to miss a thing! Here's a roundup of the latest features, activities, and resources worth checking out. Spring Break Challenge Keep the chess going over spring break! The ChessKid Sprin...
This post is about self-encouragement. It is easy to feel down after losing a game, and there are degrees of it, depending how attached you are to the result. The suffering you experience after a loss is inversely proportional to the joy you ex...
Hey everyone, There were 790k reports created in February, a downtick from the more than 1 million reports in January. The decrease was driven by refinements to our report generation workflow. 130k accounts were closed for fair play violations. ...
Greetings, Dr. Jones. I hope this letter finds you well. Unfortunately, this correspondence is not a mere social call, quite frankly the fate of World chess may rest on your shoulders. Earlier this year, the 2026 Ches...
Dear Chess Friends! I'm excited to share highlights from my recent workshop "King Activity: From Liability to Weapon", where we explored one of the most fundamental yet misunderstood concepts in chess: the transformation of the king's role as th...
How many brilliant moves have been played in a single game in the Computer Chess Championship? According to Game Review, the answer is 18(!!) brilliant moves. This sacrificial duel was played by Stoofvlees and Halogen in a Richter-Rauzer, Sicili...
It sounds ridiculous at first since all chess games are free. Actually, it's not unusual at all. People all the time pay for a better experience. Listening to music is free too. Yet people pay for Spotify. Since I claim that it is possible, why ...
Hi! How’s it going? I’m just back from an amazing vacation in Mexico. I had been there before, but only in Cancún, and that’s like not really knowing Mexico. This time I got to know it better and I absolutely loved th...
Hello everyone! Today's post will have a more professional tone, but will still have that typical Vanessa touch. Long-time readers of my blog will remember that, in March 2024, I posted an article revealing my preferences for that year's Candida...
Afternoon everyone! Managed to get everything together for the final part of this before we go away. What do you get here? Well, it's a 'bits and pieces' of Steinitz's other experiments against the French. Steinitz - like Paulsen, Simagi...
At Silicon Chess we’ve been developing a very special page:“100 Reasons to Learn Chess” ♟️ The idea is to gradually build a large collection showing everything this game can contribute: to the mind, to character, to daily life,...
Dear Chess Friends! Many players believe that opening preparation means memorizing more moves. They study lines, watch videos, check databases — and still feel uncomfortable during real games. I would like to share a personal experience ...
Let’s be honest about how most of us actually train chess: We open an app, solve some puzzles, play a few blitz games, maybe watch a YouTube video, check the engine after a tough loss, and call it a day. It feels productive but it’s mo...
In everyday competitive chess language, “sacrifice” is used for almost everything: from giving up a pawn in the opening to throwing in a piece to hunt the king. But in serious work — post-mortem analysis, preparation, calculation...
Benner’s The Principled & Practical 1.e4 (for club players) won Chessable’s 2025 Community Course of the Year! His repertoire solves one of the biggest headaches for club players — how to play principled chess and press fo...
In chess, self-control is often treated as a key ingredient for improvement. Strong players are assumed to be more disciplined and focused as well as willing to push through difficult study sessions. Thus, it seems reasonable to think that this...
Dear Chess Friends! I'm excited to share highlights from my recent workshop "Passed Pawns: Heroes or Targets", where we explored the fascinating double life of passed pawns. They can be the key to victory—unstoppable forces that decide gam...
Good afternoon everyone. Finally back with Part Two. A couple of apologies. Firstly for the delay - real life stuff. Secondly for the lack of general chat - time presses, and I won't be able to post this next week as I am off to Paris with the mos...
