Hi everyone! Just wanted to let you know that since a few weeks I do have my own Youtube Channel: RobertRisChess. So far I have mainly been covering the World Championship match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren, but please make sur...
Bill Wall notes: 'Epigrams are terse, witty sayings that sometimes have a meaning or moral. Chess has an abundance of epigrams from famous people and famous chess players.' Wall then went on to provide a number of 'Chess Epigrams.' Here are some...
I created 7 exercises from the game which I played against the 12 years old Woman Candidate Master Saadat Bashirli from Azerbaijan in the Titled Tuesday Tournament. The final move of the game: How can white win? How can white fight fo...
I share 6 exercises from the game I played in the Titled Tuesday Tournament against the Canadian Candidate Master Roman Jiganchine. I got checkmated this way: Important moment in the opening. How should white continue? How can black f...
We're pleased to announce that Chess.com will be back at TwitchCon this year! We'll have official booths at TwitchCon Paris and TwitchCon Las Vegas, full of fun activities and good vibes. Meet some of your favorite content creators, play games, ...
The thirteenth game of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2023 between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren. The game began with the Ruy Lopez opening and saw both players making standard moves until move 10, when Nepomniachtchi played a new move, Be3...
Hi everyone! 😊 I've been a little absent from the blog because I had two very busy days. On April 25th, the 3rd round of the Kazakhstan Chess Cup 2023 took place, after which I was invited to the closing ceremony of the Shatty Zhuldyz Chess Fest...
Today we have 9 exercises which are from yesterday's game which I played in the Title Tuesday Tourney against the Iranian talent FIDE-Master Sina Movamed World under 10 online rapid champion. If he would capture on b7 I could have this little...
Recap of Game 12 of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2023 between Ding Liren and Ian Nepomniachtchi. The players started with 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e3 c5 4. Nbd2 cxd4 5. exd4 Qc7, leading to a Carlsbad structure. The game proceeded relatively qu...
In Winner's POV, we take a look at tournaments from the 19th century and see the games that allowed the top player to prevail. Some tournaments will be known and famous, others will be more obscure - in a time period where competition is scarce, I...
An angry swear word fell off his lips as my opponent blundered during one of our casual games. “Gotcha,” I chuckled, naively. Frustration, anger, swearing, and self-defeat – I’ve seen it all when people blunder. What I didn...
I created 10 exercises from the game which I played against Grandmaster Jeffrey Xiong in the Titled Tuesday Tournament. How could white win? Checkmate in 3 moves: How can white win in 3 moves? Another checkmate in 3: Checkmate in...
Hi everyone! 😊 The second day of the Kazakhstan Chess Cup 2023 has passed. Yesterday, I played with White pieces against the chess player from Kazakhstan, IM Zhalmakhanov Ramazan (ELO 2425). My opponent did not give me any chance. It seemed to m...
When we imagine the excitement of chess, what do we imagine? If you think of the positional aspect, then... you're an interesting chess player. But most people see brilliant attacks, breaking into the opponent's position! Unfortunately, however mu...
Today's 12 exercises from the game which I played yesterday in the Hungarian Super League against the young Hungarian FIDE-Master Levente Marosi. How can white finish the game? How should white finish the attack? An important mov...
We are thrilled to introduce a new series at Chess.com: Club Affiliate of the Month! Each month, we will be highlighting a chess club from our club affiliate community and sharing an interview with the club admins to discuss the history of th...
Hi everyone! Yesterday, the Kazakhstan Chess Cup 2023 started! It all began with the opening ceremony, which was attended by representatives of the Chess Federation of Kazakhstan, as well as representatives of FIDE. The Opening Ceremony ...
The Road Not Taken BY ROBERT FROST Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Th...
I created 10 exercises from the game I played yesterday in the Hungarian Superleague against the young Hungarian Talent Endre Csiki, who just made an International Master norm the day before the game. I analyzed a few variation where white has a...
In this FIDE World Chess Championship game between Ding Liren (playing white) and Ian Nepomniachtchi (playing black), Ding opted for an English opening with 1.c4. Early on, the game followed a reversed Sicilian with some tactical maneuvers, eventu...
Games come into my head at strange times and for no obvious reason. This week I recalled one from the 1977 Candidates Match between Korchnoi and Spassky. (Perhaps it came to mind because of the fuss made of someone playing the French Defence in a ...
Hello, my fellow meme lovers, and welcome to another edition of Blitz & Memes. If you're a fan of tactics taken from amateur online blitz tournaments, then you have come to the right place, because that is what I do. As always the puzzles ha...
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In a last gasp of pre-war Utopianism - also, essentially, his dying wish - the chess Maecenas Isaac Rice sent out invitations to all the leading European masters to attend his planned tournament in New York in 1916. Needless to say, most of the in...
