The 2024 Speed Chess Championship is at full steam, with many impressive matches already in the cards. Every year the SCC features 16 top players from around the world competing in three ever-quickening time controls. While top GMs can play amazin...
Pictures taken at chess tournaments can tell fascinating stories. Just look at the faces of the players and spectators, and you'll see the whole gamut of human emotions. The Washington Chess Federation has recently posted a brilliant photo on its&...
Chess connected prison inmates around Catalonia (Spain) on July 25 to celebrate the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in a new initiative to promote our sport as an empowering tool. Chess in Prisons Initiatives in Catalonia The 1st Inter-Prisons Tourn...
When you watch CM Volen Dyulgerov, a.k.a. Witty Alien, on stream or have a conversation with him, you can't help but be drawn in by his infectious positivity. Creative not only in his video content but also on the chessboard itself, Dyulgerov is r...
Since the Speed Chess Championship (SCC) debuted in 2016, it's been completely dominated by two players. GM Magnus Carlsen won the first two editions in 2016 and 2017. After that, GM Hikaru Nakamura won five years in a row before Carlsen took back...
Tom Shupe is a US Chess Expert and the founder of MVP Chess, with the mission of providing high-value chess coaching at an affordable price. Tom started playing competitively in adulthood and overcame a physical disability to attain a national rat...
July 20 is International Chess Day, and few games are played more broadly worldwide than chess. At the last Chess Olympiad in 2022, 186 nations sent more than 1,700 players to compete. Estimates of the number of players globally usually range from...
International Chess Day is almost upon us! This is the perfect opportunity for us to celebrate the joy of chess together. It doesn't matter where you live or who you are; we're all united by our love for the game. At Chess.com, we're proud to wo...
What separates a chess beginner from an experienced player? It's not just the brilliant moves that the star players find, it's also the bad moves that beginners play, which veteran players instinctively know to avoid. Here are five trades that ama...
As 17-year-old GM Gukesh Dommaraju prepares for the FIDE World Championship in November, this month 10-year-old IM Faustino Oro and nine-year-old CM Ethan Pang set records while and nine-year-old WCM Bodhana Sivanandan made England's Olympiad team...
Some tests are just harder and more nerve-inducing than others. After IM Levy Rozman in January, then GM Magnus Carlsen and GM David Howell in April, this month, it was time to submit GM Hikaru Nakamura to the polygraph. And as if he didn't g...
The news of the Argentinian prodigy Faustino Oro becoming the youngest IM ever at the tender age of 10 made headlines worldwide. Faustino plays an attractive, aggressive kind of chess, and those of you who want to get better can learn a lot from h...
The recently-concluded Clash Of Claims was definitely one of the most anticipated chess events of the year. For most people, this unusual match was interesting mostly due to the well-publicized controversy, but personally for me it was an opportun...
WGM Maria Gevorgyan is a five-time Armenian women's chess champion and a well-respected chess coach. Her lessons go beyond simply providing chess advice and aim to help her students improve in all aspects of their lives (but the Elo boost is nice,...
The Bullet Chess Championship 2024 kicked off this week with a stacked lineup of FIDE top 10 players and bullet specialists! I gathered some data to highlight just how fast the fastest players on earth can play! Bullet chess is a wild terrain wh...
"I captured on d5. I was terribly ashamed, and from the time I swore: to play for a draw, at any rate with White, is to some degree a crime against chess." - GM Mikhail Tal on the Exchange Variation of the French Defense. Mikhail Tal on a less...
Hale Grande is an actor, streamer, and confessed lover of all things nerdy. He also shares a common addiction with many people reading this: chess. In roughly two years, Hale has gone from a beginner to an 1800-rated player. Over 16,000 people a...
We've escaped the May-trix but June keeps us in the middle of a bullet-time showdown between some of the world's best players, as the 2024 Bullet Chess Championship continues. Also: a mysterious new bot, free lessons by titled players, and the r...
While commentating in 2021, GM Vladimir Kramnik shared his candid opinion of bullet chess: Why do you use a chessboard? There is no point, just put the clock and push the clock, and the first one who wins on time wins. There's no point to h...
Nine years ago I wrote an article about the 2015 U.S. Junior Girls Championship. In that article I analyzed only one game and you might expect that it was played by the winner of the tournament, but instead I chose the player who finished eighth o...
Do you lose at chess? If you said "no," then let's be honest, you're lying to me and to yourself and need to take a long, hard look in the mirror. If you said "yes," then you're in the right place. My name is Lula, and I'm a professional at lo...
You might want to win more blitz games or maybe strengthen your tactical skills and see how far you can go in Puzzle Rush. Whatever your goal is, Chess.com has many features that can help you achieve them. However, with so many different feature...
Especially in this era of social media, it seems like everyone's got something to say at almost all times. This has always been true of chess, about which a lot of stuff—some of it more useful than others—has been said. But of all...
Back in 1996, GM Garry Kasparov won 4-2 in a match versus the Deep Blue supercomputer. It turned out to be the last convincing human victory over an artificial chess player. The very next year, Deep Blue took revenge 3.5-2.5, and pretty soon match...
