For legal reasons, this is a joke. Chess.com's latest addition to chess bots, Mittens, has been storming the chess world. It is no secret that Mittens with her whopping one singular Elo is absolutely annihilating every mortal on the planet...
Tired of tactics? Why not try out our positional puzzles! Depending on the level of each exercise (they are presented in ascending order of difficulty) you will probably need between 5 and 20 minutes to find the solution. If your solution doesn't ...
They say “Pawns are the soul of chess” because they play a significant role from chess opening to the end game. Even losing a single pawn can give your opponent a big material advantage and blunder the entire game. This article is all ...
Dear all, I can't begin to express how happy I am to be writing this post and re-joining the Chess.com content community! I remember way back in the early days, I started recording video lessons for Chess.com in 2009. I enjoyed great relations...
Karlsbad 1929 takes its place with its three predecessor Karlsbad tournaments (1907; 1911; 1923). The 1929 event featured 22 top players in a tournament from July 30 to August 28, 1929. Two English language resources for Karlsbad 1929 include:...
Hi friends! Welcome back to my blog. As I've been preparing for Pan Ams, I played some rapid to try and get some warmup. Yes, playing 10|0 to train for a 90|30 tournament is a genius idea, right? Anywhoo, when I was playing, I experienced several ...
Most chess players do not know the link between in-game strategy and tactic, and many chess beginners get tangled easily. According to experienced chess players, when a player plans to make strategies during a chess game, it leads to tactical mane...
Have you heard the joke about PGN files? “John, what do you play against 1.d4?” “Well, I’m glad you asked...I can play the Queen’s Gambit, the Nimzo Indian, the Grunfeld, the King’s Indian, and of course, th...
Chess.com has finally given in to the temptation of viral cat videos, cute eyes, and meow meow meow and launched five new cat bots. Scaredy Cat, Angry Cat, Mr. Grumpers, Catspurrov, and Mittens are bots apparently based on internet cat memes. ...
2022 was one of the most remarkable years for chess. Several things have happened, we have witnessed the future stars, we have seen so many frustrating losses, and we have seen the joy in players' eyes, the joy of achieving something that means a ...
When Capablanca comes to mind, you tend to think either of the boy prodigy or of the international playboy, set for life and unassailably world champion. It’s easy to forget the somewhat itinerant New York stage - matriculating at Columbia, ...
My latest video discussing being in the Daily Chess Championships This year, like 34999 other players, I have decided to compete in the 2023 Daily Chess Championships - The largest online Correspondence Chess competition (probably) in th...
That's New You've made it! Congratulations on making it to 2023! Every New Year feels like a time of new opportunity and adventure. So I decided to try a completely random and new chess variant that I never played before. And as I logged onto th...
A quick New Year's present - brief by my standards, my regular readers will be relieved to hear ( especially those with a mother of a hangover, staring at the left over turkey and wondering what to do with it - curry in progress here!!) In anoth...
In previous articles, I’ve talked about why you should fight until the end, try to create chances in lost positions, and never resign when it’s your opponent’s turn to make a move. But no matter how often you’ve been told...
The pace of progress in artificial intelligence is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast—it is growing at a pace close to exponential. - Elon Musk Artificial intelligence ...
Hey everyone, welcome back - it's been a while since I've posted. Having gone from posting once or twice a month to a completely blank half-year hiatus of blogging has been quite the journey. Life has been a slight obstacle as it tends to be somet...
Approaching the new year, we want to look back at all the brightest moments, achievements, and accomplishments of ChessKid.com, further improving how kids learn and play chess. 2022 ChessKid Highlights ChessKid Engagement: More Fun For You ...
Just wanted to take a moment to wish everybody a Happy New Year!
Several notable chess stars passed away in 2022. They include the winner of the most tournaments in chess history, an endgame scholar, a pioneer in chess psychology, a noted chess psychologist, a Braille chess advocate, and distinguished coaches w...
Hi everyone, and welcome back to my blog! I am excited to be back, and I missed you all! I appreciate the questions and concerns about my blog, where I've been, etc. Unfortunately, I don't have a concrete answer. Other than that I was busy (no ki...
A common problem that players face is how to memorize chess openings. Yes, some chess apps and websites promise to help – and some of them can be really useful. But in general, the problem is that while you might remember everything for a ...
It may seem like a boring thing to do. Imagine, reading a Dictionary...! But of course, one can learn a lot by reading a repository of definitions, learning about words and their meanings--especially chess words! Who would not want to increase t...
My wife is one of those people who goes to the supermarket to buy a pack of pasta and comes home with a new coat! Well, I can't say anything - I am the same with chess books. A couple of days ago I went to this wonderful book by my friend Dr. Ti...
