Last Tuesday's PRO Chess League 2018 debut showcased some of the most exciting online chess that fans have ever witnessed. The live chess coverage ran for over 12 hours, with live commentators and thousands of fans watching. 32 teams o...
Today's Speed Chess Championship match between Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana will feature something truly special that I've been working on for a very long time: most recently with the help of IM Danny Rensch and Gerard Le-Marechal who is he...
It's 2017 and Magnus Carlsen is still the world champion after defeating Karjakin in Rapid tiebreaks. In this post we will project the World Top 10 List in January 2022. Projection Methodology Find the World Rank and Age of a...
Update 12/2/2016: Results are posted! Google Sheets Results (Easier to Read) Chess.com Lichess.org USCF FIDE Bullet Blitz Rapid Bullet Blitz Classical Regular Regular 860 1100 1160 900 1125 ...
I have been tracking my Candidates predictions from December. In round 4 I correctly predicted 3 of the 4 games. SummaryCorrect Predictions: 10/16, 62.5%# of Actual Draws to Date: 12# of Draws Predicted to Date: 12 Round 4 Predictions:...
I'm going to try to keep a log of how well my predictions do from December. Round 3 I predicted 3 out of 4 games correctly, and the overall standings are becoming closer to my standings prediction. I'll keep this blog post short w...
I'm going to try to keep a log of how well my predictions do from December. Round 2 I predicted half of the games once again, but the overall standings are becoming closer to my standings prediction. I was way off in Hikaru through 2 rounds, pre...
I'm going to try to keep a log of how well my predictions do from December. In round 1 I predicted there would be some bloodshed with 3 decisive results out of 4. I scored 50% in round 1, correctly predicting Anand winning and the draw betwe...
The next Candidates tournament will take place in March 2016 to determine who will challenge Magnus Carlsen in the World Championship. The field is set unless any of the participants decline their invitation to play. Qualificati...
I recommend you first take the test on your own to discover your own chess personality. A few chess celebrities have already taken the test. Hikaru Nakamura Danny Rensch John Bartholomew Take the test for yourself! The test...
2016 Version UPDATED WITH OVER 370 ENTRIES! Many players are curious about how the different chess.com ratings stack up against each other. This survey is designed to figure out the answer! At the bottom of the surve...
The MN Blizzard have their first match in the US Chess League! Date: Tuesday, August 25th, 2015 Time: 8:00 PM Location: Chess Castle. 1121 Jackson Street NE, Suite #134, Minneapolis, MN 55413 vs All Time Series Record: (This is their f...
The Minnesota Blizzard had their kick-off meeting tonight and are ready for the 2015 season. The Blizzard have two Grandmasters, three International Masters, a FIDE Master, and multiple National Masters. The United States Chess League will have ...
Magnus Carlsen is in last place with only one draw in four games. Can he come back to make the podium or even win the event?! To find out I created some framework to pull out a expected score (ES) for each match. ES Criteria History between th...
The 2015 Rochester Winter (2nd day of Spring) Open was held on March 21st this year, approximately 6 weeks after our usual date. Many of the players came from outside of Rochester and appreciated the warmer weather. The tournament is split into ...
A friend and I were recently discussing chess spectator etiquette and how they differ from the arena of Magic The Gathering tournaments. In Magic tournaments it is considered rude to spectate for a brief period and then leave the table. Leaving ...
I know there's no luck in chess and my play was responsible for this loss. I'd still like to petition a name change to Comp4-ImpossiblyLucky because I was crushing it! Please take a look at the game and suggest some alternative lines or missed w...
Dropped a piece on more 4, missed a simple mate in 1, lost the game, but had fun. Enjoy and don't laugh! Website - Coaching information Twitter - Chess-related tweets
Bishop and rook-pawn endgames can be difficult to win when your bishop is on the opposite color of the pawn's promotion square. The position below is a theoretical draw. If you haven't seen it before try finding a way for White to win ...
This is a game from the local chess club, and possibly the most exciting of the round! The time control was G/60 + 30inc and the pairings are made in advance. The game was a back-n-forth struggle with an exchange sacrifice towards the end. I th...
Odds of winning the Candidates Tournament 2014. Who do you think will win? Who would you bet on with these odds? Aronian (3.25) Kramnik (4) Topalov (6) Anand (7.5) Karjakin (9) Mamedyarov (10) Andreikin (15) Svidler (15)
This is a game played by a quickly improving Maor Locker on chess.com. Maor reached a position with many paths to win, but when we analyzed the position below we realized White is actually in zugzwang! After going through a few variations with a...
Here is the 2nd analyzed game of the free game analysis series played by Warrior2000. Gourav plays a nice game on the Black side of a symmetrical english. The game gets very dicey and White sacrifices an exchange in an attempt to checkmate the B...
In the first installment of the free game analysis series we look at Marcelo's game on the Black side of a caro-kann. He neutralizes White's slight advantage out of the opening and castles queenside (!!) in an attempt to pawn storm his opponent's...
Hi chess.com members, I have some exciting news about some a free game analysis promotion I will be starting this month. In an effort to gain momentum on my coaching website and twitter account I will be offering the first of hopefully many free...
