WCM Hannah Sayce has an impressive chess improvement story, and a unique one as well. Hannah worked all the way from a 700 Elo rating in 2021 to a 2200 rating in 2023, all while streaming her journey on Twitch. Earlier this year, Hannah earned the...
GM Ivan Sokolov's accomplishments as a player include reaching the 2700 "super grandmaster" club and a peak world ranking in the top 15. With all that, his coaching accomplishments may be even more impressive. His students have included GMs Alirez...
We live in an age of world records. Stories about a boy who wins the world title at 18, a girl who becomes World Champion at 16, or a pre-teen who becomes a grandmaster are not surprising anyone anymore. That's why when I read the news about yet a...
Electronic chess boards have been available for home use for as long as Radio Shack has been in existence. In fact, they've kept up with modern technology even better than the stores that used to sell them. The industry leader in terms of sales ...
GM Daniel Naroditsky had several roles at Chess.com during his tragically short life—he would have turned 30 years old as we publish this article on November 9, 2025—but his first role was as an article author. One of Naroditsky's many...
With less than two months left in the year, the Speed Chess Championship well underway, several recent collaborations and partnerships inside the Chess.com community, upcoming Chessable sales, and more, let's get right into this month's Chess.com ...
GM Melikset "Melik" Khachiyan is a coaching legend. The Armenian-born American grandmaster was not only the coach of one of the best players in history, GM Levon Aronian, in the 1990s, he has coached the highly successful U.S. women's team at the ...
IM David Pruess is one of the internet's most experienced content creators, having been in the game in one way or another for the better part of two decades. Along with IM Kostya Kavutskiy and GM Jesse Kraai, he is also a cofounder of ChessDojo, a...
A major source of excitement in the Speed Chess Championship stems from the inherently chaotic and unpredictable nature of blitz and bullet chess. But that doesn't mean we can't take a look at how these matches might go. These predictions are base...
The Chess.com train rolls on as we enter the last quarter of 2025 and barrel toward 2026. In the past month, the Autumn Split of Titled Tuesday began, we saw four players complete the next steps to the World Championship, released the schedule of ...
It's time to find out who the best chess coach in the world is! CoachChamps round-robins are starting on October 7 at 1:30 p.m. ET / 17:00 CEST with the Under-800 group, followed by the other three groups over the next three days. The time is fina...
To many, GM Ben Finegold needs no introduction. With over 130,000 Twitch followers and 160,000 on YouTube, the gregarious grandmaster regularly plays viewers, analyzes games, offers advice, cracks jokes, and much more on camera. In September and O...
Our September Coach of the Month, Lauren Goodkind, has more than a decade of experience as a chess coach for beginning and intermediate students all over the world, from her hometown of Menlo Park, California to Canada and Germany. Whether teachin...
If you missed the State Of Chess.com broadcast on September 2, it's not too late to get up to speed on everything that's new around the site this month, including information about the 2026 Esports World Cup (EWC) after the smashing 2025 debut of ...
The first CoachChamps is about to start, and we're excited to see who comes out on top as the best chess coach in the world! The event kicks off on September 10, with each of the eight participating coaches drafting students. From October 7 to Oct...
WFM Charlotte "Charly" Sanati, known online as Azizana, only began streaming relatively recently, but she has already started to build "a really nice and engaging community" of nearly 10,000 followers on Twitch with a dedicated two-a-day streaming...
While I have been playing competitive chess for almost 50 years, the question in the title of this article never occurred to me. It looked so natural: if you find yourself in a completely hopeless situation where you see no way out, then you resig...
As we enter August, it's been another big month for Chess.com, and for chess itself as the game reaches new audiences. The esports world unofficially welcomed chess to its ranks with the inaugural Esports World Cup tournament. Chess has also sprea...
GM Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko is a grandmaster, mathematics PhD, Chessable author... and August 2025 Chess.com Coach of the Month! Mykhaylo has counted GMs Bassem Amin, Ahmed Adly, and Alexander Ipatov among his students, not to mention the countless pl...
FM Nate Solon draws on his vast experience in chess, data science, poker, and more to offer a unique perspective to his students. Both a private coach and a popular, highly-rated author on Chessable, Nate is our Chess.com Coach of the Month for Ju...
Not many people can say they are a professional football player with a master's degree in electrical engineering and a strong chess player and streamer on top of it. But July 2025 Chess.com Creator of the Month Matt Henningsen is all of those thin...
As the second half of 2025 begins, there is a lot going on at Chess.com, as always. But what is new is chess at the Esports World Cup, where $1,500,000 will be up for grabs starting on July 29. This past month also saw exciting events, a new half-...
GM Valeriy Aveskulov earned that prestigious title of grandmaster at the age of 20, but largely walked away from competitive play when he was just 23, in order to focus on imparting everything he learned as a player in coaching professionally inst...
Julien Song is one of France's biggest content creators, and not just in the chess category, recently ranking third among YouTubers in all languages. Julien, an international master, was introduced to many English speakers recently in PogChamps 6,...
