We are excited to share with you the new Chess.com Lessons feature. We took a step back and looked at what would be the most effective way to help new and improving players get better at chess. We had videos, but they lacked an interactive ...
What if you took the satisfaction of solving puzzles and mixed it with the intensity of blitz chess? You'd have Puzzle Rush—Chess.com's new feature that has everyone with early access going crazy. The rules are simple: Solv...
NOTE: If Chess.com on your iPhone or iPad is still not working, please update to the latest version and make sure it is 3.6.14. Thank you and we're sorry! Well, there's nothing like waking up to a dozen of your friends texting you sa...
We hope everyone had fun with this article! It was our intention to go "over the top" in such a way that no one would really believe it... but for all those who did, please put down the pitch forks and get back to solving Knight Forks - Danny -...
Chess.com started in 2007 as two friends working out of our garage. In the last five years though sooooo much has happened: we’ve built dozens of features, added 20 full-time team members, and grown to almost 5 million members! But one thing...
Customer Support Team Member [FILLED!] Chess.com is looking to add a customer support representative to help provide top-notch customer service to our 2 million+ chess fans. Join our team and enjoy your job every day! WHO YOU ARE You love ...
Chess.com has finally released it’s iPhone app! Featuring player vs. player games, play vs. computer, and chess training tools, this free app will allow more than 1 million Chess.com members access to free online play, and will allow all use...
On Dec 21, 2009, Chesspark.com became part of Chess.com. Chesspark members have access to Chess.com using their same login info, but must first login here: http://www.chess.com/chesspark.html to transfer their account to Chess.com. Chess.com did...
Play Chess on Your Google Homepage!Launch of Chess.com gadget on iGoogle Leveraging OpenSocial As of August 12th, users of the iGoogle homepage can now play chess with their friends with a new chess gadget. Chess.com is one of the first companie...
Several of the Chess.com staff will be at the National Open Chess Tournament in Las Vegas this weekend (June 4-7)! There will be 3 of us there: me (Erik), Jay, and IM David Pruess. If you see one of us come say "HI!". We'd love to meet you. And if...
Two years ago this week Chess.com opened its doors to the public and it's been a wild ride ever since! Today we're celebrating our 2nd birthday and wanted to share a few thoughts. (If you haven't read the whole series on how Chess.com came about, ...
Chess.com really is about 3 things: PLAY, LEARN, and SHARE. Today we added something special to LEARN -> Video Lessons! These new daily chess videos are created by some of the best players in the world - GMs, IMs, and FMs who will give you insi...
Friends of Chess.com - Chess.com needs your help! Our Facebook application has been recently under a "negative review" attack. :( We were in the middle of doing some big upgrades to the Facebook app and there were a few bugs. So a few impatient ...
I feel compelled to write today about the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. I'm going to break form though and start with the ugly and end with the good! The Bad Sometimes things are outside of our control. There are weeks where everything on Chess...
It's been a while since I last wrote about "Building Chess.com", and I thought today would be a good day to post :)As most of you know, we (Jay and I) first started working on Chess.com in 2005. We had the vision and we thought we had the know-how...
We need more people to become Chess.com Greeters! We know that sometimes it is frustrating to have people come to the site, make 1 move, and then never come back, but for those people who stick around the Greeters are an important part of their fi...
Congratulations to GM Viswanathan Anand on defending his world chess champion title! And thank you to GM Vladimir Kramnik who fought hard and did everything possible to win. Come sign our group ecards for each player! We have started 2 group con...
Chess is a perfectly mathematical game where steel-cold calculation wins and emotions are irrelevant, right? Wrong! International Master and famed chess author Jeremy Silman says: "Much has been made of psychology in chess, but rarely have I seen ...
We have an annoying bug on Chess.com that I can't reproduce. If you can message me a way to recreate this bug reliably, I will give you a free platinum membership (worth $80) and 1 year of Chess Mentor (worth $100)! Here is the bug: When you c...
Chess.com has made its first entry into group/team competitions today! Today (31 July 2008) we released a few new things. The big one is that today we released the first stage of group/team play. Chess.com Groups can now challenge each other t...
Ah vacations... they are wonderful, right? Going to the beach or the mountains or travelling to an exotic land... Oh wait. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about "Vacation Time" on Chess.com. Here are the problems: - ABU...
I got an email from IM Jeremy Silman (who writes some amazing Chess Mentor courses!!) today about a TV show he helped consult on => "MONK AND THE GENIUS is on USA Tomorrow evening (Friday July 25th)! If you love chess on TV, this episode is f...
Let's face it: 99% of us don't play chess as well as we would like to, and the other 1% needs to learn some humility. One of the worst feelings in chess is missing those clearly winning moves that would have ended the game, but instead you slide i...
We know what's on your mind: "What can I do to improve my chess??" We hear it all the time. Our answer? Try Chess Mentor. Seriously. Just try it for 1 month. It's half the cost of a chess book and we are confident you will get so...
What is the best opening? What opening should I play? How did I lose so fast? These are the kinds of questions chess players - especially those new to the game - ask themselves over and over. e4, d4, or g4? It can get so confusing! We have a new ...