The Champions' League continues! If you haven't looked at Part 1 yet, I strongly advise you to do so. Anyway, onwards with the games! Round 4 Game 1: Anand vs Kramnik 1-0 Kramnik eventually falls with a one-turn blunder. I honestly think Kra...
Well, not the Champion League (like the Chess.com league) but a double round-robin tournament between the Chess.com bots of four former world champions. This is a six round tournament that literally pits the best against the best. Note: If you'r...
Endgames: the relatively new feature that Chess.com has released that lets you test out your endgame knowledge, complete with a timer and a leaderboard that displays hourly, daily, and all time rankings. How does Martin, the lowest rated bot on ...
I decided to put Daniel Naroditsky (#14), Hikaru Nakamura (#2), Fabiano Caruana (#3), Levon Aronian (#1), and Wesley So (#4), five of the top American chess players, up against one of the top romantic chess players ever, Paul Morphy. Who’ll ...
Well...I was combing through my blogs and decided to edit up my "Time Controls & Variants" post...when I remembered VC! Unfortunately, I've ben a tad busy recently, so I'm happy to be back! Rankings Analysis I was really surprised when I...
A rather uneventful month passing by, the leaderboard has more or less stabilized. Unlike the chaos taking place in the past few months, we should be experiencing a period of relative calm. Leaderboard # State Club Po...
This is a historical installment. The next edition has already been released, which you can find here. After four months, we finally have a new addition into the top 25 of vote chess. Reshuffling in the top 10 has also left two clubs fighting to...
This is a historical installment. The next edition has already been released, which you can find here. It may be a little early in the month, but here are the top updates on the vote chess leaderboard. This has been a historic month in the makin...
Out of the top 50 chess clubs in the vote chess leaderboard, which are the best (regarding colors, overall liveliness, creativity, etc.)? Looking through the top 50, there are many simple designs but also many masterpieces, which we will detail be...
This is a historical installment. The next edition has already been released, which you can find here. This month was extremely action packed regarding vote chess. Many clubs shuffled around (in fact, ten clubs dropped places) as three clubs wen...
Jimmy played a game against fellow bot Fabian today, and he ended up playing just under 200 moves! Chess.com disapproves of this game. Jimmy, as expected, fails to checkmate in a KR vs K endgame against a player 350 rating points lower than ...
Horde chess may appear to be a wacky chess variant, but it takes sacrifices and strategy to a much higher level. Although playing with rows and rows of pawns is daunting, it provides a key insight into patience and defense. Rules of Horde Chess ...
You’ve definitely seen the classic chess variant Giveaway or Antichess. The moment of disbelief you may feel when you take the opponent’s king, or the surprise when you click your pawn just to realize you can’t move it for some r...
This is a historical installment. The next edition has already been released, which you can find here. Below you will find the main takeaways of vote chess for this month. This is the first installment, so there will lack significant data nea...
Most of you probably haven’t heard of the variant we know as Mini Forest. This game is played not on 64 squares, but on the dark 32 squares, and so all of the pieces can move like that. The objective of the game is to obtain the most points while...
Do you have a large club (51+ members)? Does it have aspirations of reaching the top? Here’s your chance! When you partner with The Eevee Lovers (posting announcement and putting in description(s) for both clubs), your club receive a free neon ba...
Many days I invite members to my club. Then, suddenly, this thought struck me: How long would it take to invite all of the members on chess.com? As of writing, chess.com has 95,055,055 members. (Nice.) How long would it take to invite everyone i...
Zombie invasion is a big What if? and yet unlikely, with very odd circumstances could occur, yet we will probably never see this happen. A so-called zombie apocalypse would probably reduce one’s brain power, so would humans win in a fight against...
The new variant that is taking the chess community with haste, duck chess is a chess variant in which all rules are the same except the duck, which can be moved after each player’s turn onto any empty square; the square that the duck is on is equa...
I’ve been working on this for quite some time, but it is still incomplete!How close is your club from tEL partnerwise? The answer may be quite different from what you think… I’m only including clubs whose partners clearly state (in the title of t...
It seems that Jimmy lost all but two brain cells after his four brilliancies during his game as White against Wayne, a bot 350 points under him, in a double marathon game with many blunders…both players played almost 60 blunders, 45 mistakes, and ...
If you’ve seen my latest Caruana vs Nakamura post you know that I have put two chess computers to fight. However, sometimes computers can be incredibly unintelligent…or incredibly brilliant. One of the first computers that a new chess.com member ...
Who would win in a 2021-championship-style match? Would Fabiano Caruana win or would Hikaru Nakamura? According to chessgames.com, Caruana has 8 wins to 7 against Hikaru, with 33 draws. I put their chess.com bots against each other in a maximum o...
This is a preview of The Who’s the Chess Player series. For more WtCP, join The Eevee Lovers and gain access to one every week, along with other series! If you find the correct player, you get an award! Figure out the chess player based on the f...
Introduction King of the Hill is a chess variant in which you can win by resignation, checkmate, or your King getting to one of four squares in the center of the chessboard: d4, d5, e4, and e5. There is a checkmate in the game that you should be ...
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