The Chessbrah Invitational will be held from May 15-16, with the first match beginning today, May 15th at 1:30PM EST (19:30 CEST)! Top players featured include Anish Giri, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Alireza Firouzja, Fabiano Caruana, Alexander Grischuk, ...
Brazil Update: Aman is sitting at 5/7 after scoring a win last night. Today, he's been paired with a 2000 rated player who is having a good event!
Tournament Standings
You can watch the games LIVE here on chess.com! Rounds start at 7 pm eas...
3 parts released so far. Full versions on Twitch, edited versions on YouTube. A mix of education and entertainment for those trying to break through some of the rating barriers on chess.com...
CHAPTER 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Just wanted to let everyone know that this weekend you can get 20% off everything in our store! Just make sure to enter 'ANISH' as the promo code when you check out. You can find the links below!
WORLDWIDE STORE
EU STORE
We are running a big RAFFLE this month! Enter for your chance at ⬇️
1) Chess.com Platinum Membership
2) Blue Yeti Nano Microphone
3) HyperX Alloy FPS Keyboard
4) Signed Chessbrah merchandise
Enter here 🖱️: https://gleam.io/KU7Pq/...
We've had a fantastic start to the 2019 Pro Chess season after a really rough season last year. In case you've missed out on the action, we've produced some shorter recap videos to get you back up to speed!
Round 1 vs Pittsburgh: https://yout...
Hey guys!
Just wanted to announce that we recently released new designs in our online clothing store. A lot of them are chess-related but still fashionable so you can wear them anywhere you want. Worldwide shipping too!
https://chessbrahsto...
UPDATE!
We have new internship spots available starting this summer! Ideal for students with an interest in chess: https://jobs.chessbrah.tv/
If you have any questions, please email me at intern@chessbrah.tv. Must be 18+ To apply and we ...
The Montreal Chessbrahs would like to offer our sincerest apology to the Webster Windmills and the entire PRO Chess League for making baseless cheating accusations against a specific player for the Windmills during our live commentary.
It has be...
As most of you know, grinding towards the GM title has been a personal and professional goal of mine for a very long time now. I became an International Master back in January 2013, and, since then, have always had my eyes set on becoming a Gran...
Busy week? Out of the loop? No problem!
Here is a summary of the most recent chessbrah uploads from the past week!
Yasser & Eric team up to beat up chess.com viewers....
Aman Hambleton takes on Yasser Seirawan in a b...
Hey Guys,
It's been a busy season here at Chessbrah. Aman is traveling Europe trying to get the GM title while here in Canada we've been stockpiling chess content. Lots of streaming and new directions for the channel. With two interns and a b...
I was relaxing and multitasking on my computer when I noticed something out of the corner of my eye: a facebook message from none other than Magnus! He was logged on to the chess.com interface and was looking to play (in other words: hunt). I had ...
With the last-minute registration of GM Magnus Carlsen, the 2017 Isle of Man International cemented itself as the strongest open tournament in the world to my knowledge. The Chessbrahs and chess.com have been working together for a long ...
In Canada, it is always a lottery as to whether we will even host the Canadian Open – a tournament which used to be a marquee event on the national chess calendar. This year the tournament was hosted in Sault Ste. Marie, a very small town in Ontar...
I'm currently restless and sitting on a plane from Atlanta to Montreal. I realize it's been a long time since the last chesbrah blog post. Let me catch you guys up with a few thoughts!
As most of you know, Aman scored his second Grandmaster norm ...
Fantastic news from Iceland:
IM Aman Hambleton and FM Michael Kleinman both shattered expectations and scored upset after upset in the Reykjavik Open. Hambleton scored his second GM norm while Kleinman got his second IM norm. You need 3 norms to ...
As I am writing this Aman is spending his last hours in Canada before he begins a pretty serious stretch of chess tournaments. Aman hasn't played a serious event in a while but he had a warmup event in New Jersey last weekend while the weekly Pro ...
For the first time, the chessbrahs participated in the US Amateur Team East competition in Parsippany,New Jersey which ran from February 18-20. The idea had originated last year but this time around everything fell into place this year for our par...
GM Eric Hansen
January 31,2017
I've just arrived back in Canada from my participation at the Tata Steel Challengers tournament. The tournament was thirteen rounds spread out over sixteen days. When you add the three days I arrived early(to ...
29.12.2016
Montreal,Quebec,Canada
November 30: I’m having lunch with Aman Hambleton at a nearby restaurant and it’s the usual time of day where tons of emails come in. I decide to visually scan the ongoing wave of silent notications on ...
Hey all,
Happy to announce the official roster for the Montreal Chessbrahs in the upcoming pro chess league. The league starts on January 11th with a $50,000 prize fund and you can find more information about it here https://www.chess.com/news/u...
Hey all,
For those who enjoy watching the chessbrah stream or YouTube and want to support it we finally rolled out some clothing. Reviews so far have been quite good on material/fit. The link to our merchandise is right here. Available are t-...
For those who don't know, chess.com recently introduced the ability to play bughouse chess on the live chess platform. Even though most people know me as a blitz and bullet addicted I also am quite fond of bughouse. I played it a LOT as a kid (mor...