Welcome! I played a match last week. My opponent didn't shake my hand at the start of the match, had very little to say after the game, and what is more he neither drinks nor sleeps and eats only AA batteries. His name is: Chess Challenger (...
The annual charity chess tournament dedicated to the memory of Danil Kucherenko (1983-2014) - PhD in Medicine and a vivid chess player. This year, due to COVID-19, the tournament will be hosted online with all the proceeds from the tournament goin...
С 2014 по 2019 года в Харькове проводились рапид-турниры, посвящённые памяти Данила Кучеренко (1983-2014), но в этому году всемирная пандемия внесла свои коррективы. Поскольку Данил был одновременно кандидатом в мастера спорта (с ...
In the early 1980s, there was a curious tournament held in USSR - a "clash of generations" of sorts. It featured four national teams: the main team, the reserve team, the "veteran" team (players over 40 not involved with the main or reserve team) ...
My Dear Chess Friends!We are about to finish our 2nd Online Tournament! 7 rounds were played and what we get!? The 5th place belongs to Elliot who played quite well on the second stage of the tournament and, for example, outplayed such a strong ...
This week Forward Chess hit an important milestone in its 7 years of existence - 500 published books and counting!! The journey has been a wonderful one with all its ups and downs. We thank our wonderful publishers, fantastic users who generously ...
Several days ago GM Ding Liren developed an octopus knight to score a crushing win over GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in the online Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge, a tournament in the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour. Although the tournament continues until Ju...
Hey everyone! This is gonna be a "sequel" (if you will) of this post I wrote uhhhh... a year and a day ago today! However, this will be a little bit more on a positive note, basically a life update for me in case you are curious! ...
Afternoon Everyone. The subject of the games between Lasker and Pillsbury has come up a couple of times recently, not least in a post by my friend @kamalakanta here:- https://www.chess.com/blog/kamalakanta/what-a-difference-8-years-makes-sweet...
Hello everyone. This week we are analyzing a fantastic study. This one was composed by Heaucker and posted in 1930. I know this position many years ago. I really hope you like and enjoy it as much as I did. Every time you see a ...
Six Grandmasters were born on This Day in Chess History: Krunoslav Hulak of Croatia, born 1951, GM 1976, Died 10/23/2015. Jens Kristiansen of Denmark, born 1952, GM 2012. Vladimir Nevostrujev of Russia, born 1966, GM 2003 Aleksandr Karpatch...
Hello! Stacia here and I'm going to continue my story about how I changed all my openings per my chess trainers. PART ONE was basically a story at how I came to this crazy, dubious decision and PART TWO was basically what happened ...
Hello guys, I am continuing the series of opening challenges you with 11 test positions to check your knowledge in some early middlegame positions. If you missed Part I, you can still check it.I hope that you can enjoy it. All examples a...
On 17th May 2020 Team Ukraine confidently defeated Team Russia in the decisive match of the @chesscom's Live Chess World League: 808-396 in the 1+1 Bullet (602 boards), 942-506 in the 5+2 Blitz (724 boards) and 650,5-493,5 in the 10+2 Rapid (572 b...
There are six Grandmasters who were born on This Day in Chess History, and they are listed as follows from oldest to youngest: Igor Shvyrjov of Estonia, born 1955, GM 2005. Krum Georiev of Bulgaria, born 1958, GM 1988. Julian Radulski of Bul...
Dear chess lovers, many of you will know about these two games, and many of you will not. Some of us here at chess.com insist on the wisdom and importance of exploring and studying the games of the great Masters (who were actually of Grandmaster...
There are TEN Grandmasters who were born on this day in Chess History, and as usual, I will list those not being featured. But the one that Obviously stands out above them all is former World Champion Anatoly Karpov. The others are: Aleksandar...
The Grunfeld is probably the only 'fianchetto' opening for black left standing these days in terms of theoretical soundness (although I think the Dragon is severely underrated). There are countless lines where white comes within a fraction of a te...
If mastering chess was only about learning theoretical principles and following certain guidelines, no one would play this game at this point. As much as I like trying to take a scientific approach to many chess concepts, I perfectly understand th...
Darcy Gustavo Machado Vieira Lima (born 22 May 1962) is a Brazilian chess Grandmaster. He is one of six grandmasters who were born on this day in Chess History. The others are: Aleksandr Shneider of Ukraine, born in 1962, he became a GM in 199...
Last time round the chaos and fun that is the comments section includes the fact that my friend @Fischer_man likes the games of Mikenas, and he is no bad judge!! Mikenas played exciting chess! In many ways, I would class him as a 'ch...
One of the great chess rivalries of the 1990s was Vladimir Kramnik vs. Alexei Shirov. Today Kramnik's achievements are legendary, most notably defeating Garry Kasparov and becoming World Chess Champion in 2000. However, many may not realize how do...
Few weeks back, I released the third episode of The Chessophile show featuring IM Soumya Swaminathan and IM Nisha MohotaI posed them some questions during the show. Now, I pose the same questions to all of you!I am curious to know how many of the ...
10 top chess players will gather on Chess.com for two days to honor the memory of Viacheslav Chebanenko, the Patriarch of Moldovan chess. The actors of the show The 2020 edition of the Chebanenko Memorial, organized by Moldovan Chess Federatio...
Hello everyone! I have been meaning to post again for quite a while, but life passes by so quickly and suddenly I realize how long it has been. For the next while I will be sharing a video series that I did for Instagram right here on chess.com-...