The blitz final was won this Thursday night by outsider IM Michael Concio ahead of the two Ukrainian rating favourites, GM Bernadskiy and IM Danylenko. In spite of a commendable score of 13.5/15, the sole grandmaster in the field was left...
Hey Impressive Chessers! In this blog we are going to time travel back to the prehistoric ages of the early 2000s. So as some of you know I’ve been teaching/coaching chess for almost a quarter century! I started teaching chess in 2001, a f...
Welp, here we are again. I went ahead and posted my first blog: Working at Chess.com Rekindled My Love for the Game 🎉 I highlighted something that may resonate with a few of you: I’m totally chill when someone plays 1.e4. I pull out the Fr...
Dear Chess Friends! Many of you on Chessable and here as well asked me (as a Kan Sicilian expert) how to parry the so-called Ukranian Variation when White captures on d4 with a queen instead of the knight. The main position is shown below, howev...
#romanticstyle #channelnews Recently, I’ve been undertaking some introspection regarding my chess channel and blog. Three-and-a-half years ago, I published my very first video on my YouTube channel with an accompanying bl...
Mid-tournament syndrome is that moment in the week when games get evenly matched, and hence the action doesn’t decant quite as quickly. For the correspondent, it’s usually that time when one realises he actually needs that oth...
My new Chessable course on the Semi-Slav is coming out soon. Along with my course for White on the Reti, and my course for Black against 1. e4 with the Nimzowitsch Sicilian, it will complete a full repertoire for both colors. This time I deci...
Hi everyone! 👋 I'm excited to kick off this blog series and share a bit about myself and my chess journey. I joined the Chess.com team about 7 months ago as a People Business Partner, supporting over 200 amazing humans behind events, content, ...
Today’s round was preceded by a colourful display of some thirty Thai children in traditional costumes in the playing hall. Not as late entries to the BCC Open mind you, but to take part in a junior Makruk (Thai chess) tournament or...
The countdown has officially begun! From July 19 to 27, 2025, Escaldes-Engordany (Andorra) will once again host one of the most charming and competitive tournaments. Writing this blog wasn’t easy—how do you share all the juicy detail...
I am proud to announce my fantasy chess project! We want to connect chess fans and players through fantasy chess. Fans draft their favorite players, compete with others, win prizes, and become invested in every move their team makes. Through these...
This guest post was contributed by Kamryn Hellman, a writer, chess player and video creator. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Creative Writing and Literature through Harvard Extension School. Kamryn’s journey in ...
Round 3 of the Bangkok Chess Club Open witnessed several closely contested battles as the Elo gap between opponents continued to shrink. Of particular interest to local observers was the encounter on board 5 between Indian GM Lalit and the y...
The spring season of the 2025 India College Chess Championship concluded with SRM Institute of Science and Technology winning the event for the second consecutive time! The team took home a cash prize of ₹3,00,000 (approximately $3,498). After top...
Hey everyone! Welcome to what may be another series in my blog! I am writing this first episode as a test, and if it works well, I may continue it over the next few months. But before explaining, let me start this text with some good news! My ...
Dear Chess Friends! Chess is a wonderful paradox: a game of complete data that is much too complicated to be fully calculated by even the most powerful computers, let alone the human brain. Because of this complexity, chess players of all levels...
Gennady Sosonko has — as one would expect from him — a beautiful chapter on Grigory Levenfish in his Russian Silhouettes. Levenfish was the product of the first great wave of Russian chess — a wave that smashed against World War ...
What’s the first thing you connect with the name Garry Kasparov? Probably the words World Champion come to mind, images of his epic battles against Anatoly Karpov, his brilliant immortal game against Topalov or his legendary match against...
Afternoon everyone. Back with some more wonderful games from the match. Only notes to one - the last one - to save time all round. ( there are lots of game notes in Griffin's wonderful blog linked to in Part One) I finished last time with Salo F...
In the grand cosmos of chess, where constellations of legends shimmer with immortal brilliance, one name burns like a supernova—Garry Kimovich Kasparov. Born on April 13, 1963, in Baku, Azerbaijan, he was not merely a prodigy; he was...
Dear Chess Friends! I'm FM Viktor Neustroev. Over the years, I've helped several students improve their chess level, and today I'd want to share a strategic approach to assist you improve your rating on Chess.com. This is what I recommend doing ...
Hey Impressive Chessers! You may have seen my last post: www.chess.com/blog/NMChesstoImpress/want-to-play-impressive-chess-do-these-5-things and thought this NM has no idea what he’s talking about… and you’d be right! That...
Hi there! So, I wanted to share something a bit special today. I recently watched a video my friend made, and it brought back a lot of memories from when I was younger and still experimenting with my openings. He explained the O'Kelly Sicilian...
I was halfway through a movie a few months ago when I paused it.Not because my parrot started talking again.Not because someone called me. I paused because something felt… off.Like I was in the front row of Hell Airlines, being pulled int...
