Hey Bloggers! If you are to more speedily annotate your games for your blogs, we have a new feature drop for you. We now have hotkeys available in Chess.com/analysis! To see the list of available hotkeys, simply press "SHIFT +D" to pull up the h...
Hey everyone! We've made a small quality of life improvement to the blogs section. You should now see a "My Drafts" section in the sidebar. Previously drafts were mixed into your blog history, but that could make it difficult to find drafts that y...
Hey everyone! I just wanted to let you know about two positions that we have that might be a perfect fit for someone in the blogging community! They are listed at chess.com/jobs, and I'll link them here as well. If you are a perfect fit or you kno...
Here are all winners of "Blog of the Month" on Chess.com! May 2025: A Century of Chess: Aron Nimzowitsch (1920-29) by @kahns April 2025: Science of Chess: What makes a move seem "Brilliant?" by @NDpatzer March 2025: Moments When Chess C...
Hello everyone! As I believe you've noticed, we've updated our Chess Today page. It's showcasing a LOT more content, and it's getting more blogs on the front page as there's now one featured blog (cycling from blogs published in the last 48 hours)...
Just this week, the 16-year-old Alireza Firouzja defeated World Champion Magnus Carlsen in a blitz match. There could not then be a more perfect time for GM Troff's recent blog, "Why Does GM At 16 Feel Old"? GM Troff is one of the finest talents...
One rarely gets a truthful take on top-flight chess, but this month GM Sam Shankland shared his experience of struggling through personal injury and outside circumstances to achieve excellent results and be at the top of US Chess. Don't miss his b...
Tata Steel is one of the greatest institutions there is in chess. The annual super-tournament consumes the Dutch town of Wijk Aan Zee, filling it with superstars, prodigies, and Dutch amateurs! Everyone's favorite Dutch streamer Bikfoot is a...
Newly minted NM Elijah Logozar (@LogoCzar) blogs about his experience grinding toward that National Master title in our December Blog of the Month. Chess improvement is always difficult, and Elijah goes into depth on the thought process and ca...
Hi everyone, I wanted to reach out about the updates to our content pages and how they impact blogs and discuss any questions you might have. As I think you know by now, we released a customizable home page on Chess.com AND it is the default pag...
Do you like kings? Do you like active kings? If so, then @introuble2 has the blog for you! His treatise on the active king compiles numerous stunning examples from the very earliest days of chess through to the modern era of the king being use...
Hi everyone! I've had some questions about how to add a chess board to thumbnails. I created a quick tutorials in canva that I hope will be useful to some of you:
Our October blog of the month is something special, and it's winner has long been deserving. Alexey Spectre (@Spektrowski) regularly translates incredible chess articles, interviews, and stories from Russian in his blog. His latest translation...
I genuinely think that September was the BEST blogging month the site has ever had. Dozens of authors created multiple amazing pieces of content on topics ranging from AlphaZero, to Winning the Won Game, Vera Menchik and many more topics. Forc...
Hello everyone, I wanted to take a moment to reach out about thumbnail requirements. I've had to remove a fair number of blogs from the front-page rotation due to some issues with thumbnail requirements: https://www.chess.com/news/view/chess-coms-...
Blog of the Month for August is something a little different. JarlCarlander's recent series on bughouse presents a high-level perspective on the game, promoting it to beginners and advanced players with thorough articles on the topic. Despite ...
Our July Blog of the Month comes from FM Ingvar Johannesson as he discussed one of the most stylish games of 2019, IM Kassa Korley's Queen's Gambit Declined demolition of GM Movsesian. As @Zibbit reveals, there's more to this story as both Korle...
June's Blog of the Month is a special two-part (with more to come!) series by GM Simon Williams on "The History of Computer Chess." Williams starts with the story of the Mechanical Turk before progressing to reveal intermediate steps leading up ...
Hello bloggers! I don't know if you will be as excited about this as @PeterDoggers is, but we now have a multi-game viewer option! Just choose "multiple games" when adding a game and you can paste in multiple PGNs. This could be great when you wan...
We are proud to announce that May's Blog of the Month is @Zeitnot17's blog on the Guarini problem! Zeitnot17 was one of our most prolific bloggers this month, diving into numerous topics with deep research that he synthesized beautifully! Be sure ...
Perhaps the most exciting feature of chess.com/blogs is the numerous different perspectives put forward by all the different blog authors. This month, we are highlighting an instructive series by GM Johan Hellsten on candidate moves. Properly ...
There were as always many excellent blogs to choose from in March, but we simply couldn't select any other piece than Aditya Mittal's personal blog about his journey to the IM title. Becoming an International Master is always a noteworthy achievem...
One blogger this month stood out in terms of shear volume of content and depth of research. Our hearty congratulations go to @simaginfan for winning blog of the month for his piece: "Boris Markovich Verlinsky. First Grand Master of The U.S.S.R." ...
January 2019 was the BEST month we think we have ever had in terms of AMAZING blog content. Did everyone make a New Year's Resolution to write incredible blogs? Between a host of great blogs, we have selected FM Hans Schut's blog on how to play ...
We are excited to announce that @UAArtur has won blog of the month for December 2018! Artur is always an enthusiastic contributor with his blogs, but this particular blog was made quite special because of Artur's unique experience of representing ...
