I'm the Head of Community for Chess.com. I earned the National Master title in 2012, and in 2014, I returned to my home state of South Carolina to start Strategery: Chess and Games. In late 2015, I began working for Chess.com and haven't looked back since.
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It was a splendid day to be a Titled Tuesday favorite as top seed GM Hikaru Nakamura claimed sole first place in the late event and second seed GM Dmitry Andreikin garnered his own confident first place in the early event. As...
The final rounds in the Tehran FIDE Women's Grand Prix featured a war of attrition as upsets flipped the leaderboard in every round. Emerging from the rubble was GM Ju Wenjun, whose consistent play brought victory. Ju fi...
GM Nana Dzagnidze and WGM Natalija Pogonina have taken the lead in the hotly contested FIDE Women's Grand Prix held in Tehran, Iran. Each has scored an undefeated four wins and three draws and sits at 5.5/7 with a narrow half-point lead ove...
In only three years of existence, Altibox Norway Chess has become one of the premier super-tournaments in chess. The hearty support of the world champion, Magnus Carlsen, has aided the tournament in bringing in a strong cast of competitors each ye...
GM Ruslan Ponomariov and GM Francisco Vallejo Pons will do battle in Chess.com's Death Match 37. You can watch the match live at 9 a.m. PST on March 14 on Chess.com/tv and http://www.twitch.tv/chess. Due to positive feedback from the "open mike ...
Death Match 35 and 36 was a competitive double feature between Team Chess.com and Team Fabiano Caruana as GM Fabiano Caruana took on Chess.com's GM Robert Hess and Caruana's manager IM Lawrence Trent tackled IM Danny (only my mother...
GM Georg Meier once again topped a Titled Tuesday tournament with a convincing 8.0/9 score in the early event. This was Meier's sixth victory — easily the record. The second place title holders are GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Baadur ...
One of the most exciting aspects of an open tournament is the upsets. Everyone loves an underdog story, and opens are filled with them! While most of the favorites continued smoothly in round two at the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, a few ...
With three rounds to go, the race for first in the 2016 Tata Steel Masters appears to be a two Car (get it?) race. Yesterday, World Champion Magnus Carlsen won and extended his lead to a full point. Today, it was GM Fabiano Caruana's turn t...
The ever popular chess-streaming trio, the ChessBrahs, will host a 24-hour stream on Chess.com, January 29-30. Streaming will commence at 6 a.m. PST January 29 and finish 24 hours later on January 30. All the action will be live at&nbs...
After a peaceful outing in the Tata Steel Master's group, today's real action proved to be in the Challenger's group as five of the seven games were decisive with plenty of daring and sacrificial play evinced from both the winning and losing playe...
It was the battles of the Alamo, Thermopylae, and Hoth all rolled into one, and the result was the same — valiant resistance but ultimate and seemingly inescapable defeat. Chess.com's Man vs. Machine contest pitted U.S. number-on...
Chess engines may not really need warmups, but the strongest chess engine of all time, Komodo (currently rated 3368) found time in its busy schedule for just that. Komodo successfully defeated GM Victor Mikhalevski 5-1 in an odds ma...
The "Kings" — led by GM Boris Gelfand —emerged victorious over the "Princes" in the inter-generational match festively titled The Nutcracker. The match, held December 19-26 in Moscow, Russia, was organized by the Russian Chess Federati...
Yesterday, spectators logging in to watch the games from the Qatar Masters were shocked to find World Champion Magnus Carlsen already in possession of a full point — today belated spectators were surprised by how quickly Carlsen achieve...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his second Death Match in convincing fashion — besting GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave by a score of 17.5-10.5. Nakamura's victory was achieved in large part thanks to his incredible pre-eminence at the faster ti...
GM Vasily Ivanchuk won the ACP Masters rapid tournament in Ashdod, Israel with a convincing final tally of five wins and five draws. The tournament, which took place from December 7 - 10, featured a unique format combining round robin and kno...
It was a great day for the favorites on Titled Tuesday as GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave topped the early event, and GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Maxim Dlugy shared victory in the late event. There were 54 GM entries and 217 total entries between both the e...
Wei Yi and Tan Zhongyi emerged victorious at the first Kings and Queens Tournament held in Taizhou, Zhejiang, China from November 24th through the 30th. The event consisted of two eight-player knockout tournaments with eight men and ei...
GM Alexander Morozevich emerged victorious on tiebreaks (more games played with Black) ahead of a competitive field at the 20th annual Barcelona Masters. GM Axel Bachmann finished second on tiebreaks and won his individual encounter with Morozevic...
Staff Note: The next Titled Tuesday is December 1st! Chess.com's second Titled Tuesday double header was a competitive affair. In both the early and late tournament, no single player was able to to pull clear of the field, and multiple new fac...
GM Hou Yifan scored an impressive 9/11 to finish two points ahead of the field in the Monaco Women's Grand Prix. Entering the event, Hou was already the clear women's world number one (2671). In Monaco, she gained an impressive 11.7 rating point...
