It was a Spanish Death Match as the top rated Spaniard GM Francisco Vallejo Pons took on former world champion GM Ruslan Ponomariov. Trouble with the time change left Pono behind two games from the get go; however, he...
GM Irina Krush put her tactics skill on the line in front of a live audience solving puzzles from Chess.com Tactics Trainer! In this interactive show Chess.com members suggest tactical ideas and Krush explains her tho...
GM Melik Khachiyan and GM Alex Yermolinksy team up to bring you the best games from Rounds 1 - 3 of the 2016 Candidates Tournament! Tension is high and the games are exciting as eight of the best players in the world...
GM Melik Khachiyan and GM Alex Yermolinksy return with their second installment of their highlights coverage of the 2016 Candidates Tournament! This time the focus rounds 4 - 6; After 6 rounds we have already seen a l...
Round 3 of the Candidates' event saw Peter Svidler vs Hikaru Nakamura, Veselin Topalov vs Levon Aronian, Anish Giri vs Sergey Karjakin, and Vishy Anand Fabiano Caruana. IM Danny Rensch provides instructional analysis...
Round 2 of the Candidates' event saw Peter Svidler vs Veselin Topalov, Levon Aronian vs Vishy Anand, Sergey Karjakin vs Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana vs Anish Giri. IM Danny Rensch provides instructional analysi...
The chess world is in an uproar over the controversial stance by the Candidates’ Tournament organizers to restrict reporting of the games, including the chess moves themselves. The full ChessCenter team reports on th...
Round 1 of the Candidates' event saw Peter Svidler vs Sergey Karjakin, Hikaru Nakamura vs Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri vs Levon Aronian and Vishy Anand vs Veselin Topalov. IM Danny Rensch provides instructional analysi...
Have you ever heard of Richard Teichmann? Even if you haven’t, you’d be surprised how much you could learn from the old master, as GM Dejan Bojkov continues his video lesson series.
GM Alex Yermolinksy and GM Ivan Sokolov team us to bring you the best of the Women's World Chess Championship Rounds 1-6! Hou Yifan and Mariya Muzychuk face off in a 12 round battle to determine who is the strongest f...
What can you learn from the old chess masters? A whole lot, especially when we’re talking about Jose Capablanca, widely considered one of the best chess players ever. Check out Capablanca's fundamentals vs Janowski...
Simon Williams is back with another lesson on his secret weapon, the "spicy" Belgrade Gambit. Learn what to do if your opponent doesn't stick to the original plan.
Which opening is SO spicy that even Simon Williams just discovered it? The Belgrade Gambit. Join GM Williams as he teaches you this easy yet aggressive way to open the game, “the perfect opening for a lazy person.”
GM Erik Hansen is getting close to 3000 in bullet but is now taking on all challenges that are less than 5 minutes! It heating up and you can hear the fire truck coming in the background! Will Chess.com members take a...
Call Of The Wild is back as IM Daniel Rensch plays Chess.com members in Chess.com's new wild variants including Chess960, King of the Hill, 3 Check and of course Crazyhouse! Its a ton of fun and some great educational...
ChessCenter is back with a special episode announcing the tournament field and pairings for the inaugural GM Blitz Battles Championship -- with top seeds Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura, and five other top world gr...
You've watched GM Sam Shankland play most of this tournament, now see how he got in the money. GM Shankland reviews his own game for you to learn and enjoy.
What is the value of patience in chess? GM Sam Shankland reviews one of his own games to show how to wait for exactly the right moment to strike with a sacrifice.
It's rook endgames, rook endgames, rook endgames as Yermo takes on a slew of Chess.com users in this edition of Old School Simul. Tune in for a non-stop stream of insights into the positions facing Yermo.
Call Of The Wild is back as IM Daniel Rensch plays ordinary members in Chess.com's new wild variants -- until world #6 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave drops by to give him a lesson in king of hill and three checks.
There were plenty of good games at the Euro team championships, but you also won’t believe some of these huge failures. GM Dejan Bojkov reviews the worst of the worst in this fun video.
GM Simon Williams is back with another session of Spicy Chess! First off we start off with a lesson with double bishop sacrifices and the move on to more attacking chess with none other than World Champions Lasker! La...
GM Sam Shankland is back to show you his games from an interesting round-robin event where he managed to take clear first. How can you win a position where you have three pawns for a piece? GM Shankland shows you the...
What can you learn from the old masters? Join GM Dejan Bojkov for an exciting tilt between Lasker and Marshall -- you won't believe the brutal king hunt at the end.
IM Keaton Kiewra teaches you the most important aspects of the greatest chess imbalance: knight vs bishop. Learn how to understand the subtleties of this imbalance in an interesting endgame lesson, including the bes...
