The months of July and August both received their names from Roman emperors (Julius and Augustus) and we never really got around to changing them. There have been plenty of changes across Chess.com and the chess world over the last month, howeve...
Imagine being a minor league baseball pitcher—waiting and hoping for a call one day that pulls you up into Major League Baseball. Then you hear a knock on the door and know that the manager of your AAA team has come to tell you that the day ...
Can you catch a chess cheat? I am leading a team of researchers at the University of Queensland to run a study to find out how well humans can detect chess cheating. We’ve launched a survey where you can try your luck at guessing which ...
There are certain classic games that really show the "ABCs" of chess. They demonstrate some basic chess concepts that any educated player must know. The following famous game by Alexander Alekhine is one of them. You can find it almost in any book...
“That’s it. This is going to be my last game ever, I’m quitting chess.” These words kept echoing through my brain during one of my games at the World Open, a big tournament held in Philadelphia every year. I’d just ...
WGM Adriana Nikolova became a WFM in 2007, WIM in 2008, and WGM in 2011. That same year, she became the women's champion of Bulgaria in standard, rapid, and blitz time controls. She is also a chess streamer. In addition to her accolades as an ad...
The game of chess didn't have a world championship until 1886. It took an additional 41 years for there to be a women's world championship, first held in 1927. Despite the shorter time period, there have been almost as many women's champio...
International Chess Day is July 20, and with it comes a great opportunity to celebrate the game we all love. Whether you're a seasoned chess veteran or just starting out, there are many ways for you to celebrate! Table of Contents Pla...
A report about a recent Titled Tuesday caught my attention with an unusual statement: "Sometimes the aura of these players is quite strong, even to fellow grandmasters. The former world champion GM Vladimir Kramnik got a resignation from his oppon...
If you've enjoyed our previous data visualizations of the most accurate chess players over time and the countries with the most grandmasters over time, then you'll want to check out our latest: The top women over time! With the 2023 FIDE Women's...
Chess Played Quick (CPQ) is Chess.com's series of events where top chess streamers complete bounties for prizes. Chess Play Quick: #ChessDay happens on International Chess Day, July 20. Top streamers play in one of the 12 two-hour arenas to scor...
There are amazing events happening this July—and some of them are already underway! Check out the latest news, catch up on last month's most exciting content, and learn how much a petabyte is below. Here's what this monthly update covers...
When I was 12 years old, we got a school assignment to write an essay about a personal hero. I had just finished reading the immortal classic The Twelve Chairs, and the book had a profound effect on me. It was difficult not to fall in love with th...
Attention all chess enthusiasts and connoisseurs of craftsmanship. In celebration of Chess.com's new release, How to Make a $500 Chessboard, we invite you to participate in a contest to win the exquisite, one-of-a-kind chessboard featured in the f...
WGM Keti Tsatsalashvili is a professional chess player, streamer, and commentator born in Georgia. She is heavily involved in nearly all aspects of the chess world, and most recently moderated the 2023 FIDE World Championship. We had the chance ...
June's Coach of the Month is GM Gregory Kaidanov. One of the most decorated Soviet-born American chess players, he has won many international tournaments including the World Open (1992), U.S. Open (1992), and Aeroflot Open (2002). More recently, h...
Chess Played Quick is a monthly event where streamers do live speed runs. Chess Played Quick: Chessable Checkmates is this month's edition of the event. Starting on June 29 at 12 p.m. ET/18:00 CEST, top streamers will go through a Chessable tact...
Watching Norway Chess 2023, I was glad to see that GM Hikaru Nakamura won another super tournament. Just like an American Chess Superman—who had a day job as a reporter and saved the world in his spare time—Hikaru beat the world's top ...
What unites us as chess players? No matter where we live or what we do for a living, we have a game that each of us enjoys. In fact, every chess player is a little bit like Batman: It's not who we are underneath, but what we do that defines us. An...
Openings are always a point of discussion (and often a point of contention) for chess players of all ratings. Are you tactical or positional? Do you prefer open positions or closed positions? Knights or bishops? Long castle or short castle?&n...
The age of Mittens is over. The time of Mighty Martin has come∗. June brings new bots, some great new features on the Chess.com app (for iOS and Android users alike), and a host of incredible chess content and events that will keep you busy...
In his book Positional Decision Making in Chess, GM Boris Gelfand describes how excited he got as a boy when his father brought home a new chess book, a collection of the games of Akiba Rubinstein. He read the book cover-to-cover and immediately s...
There are many ways to work on your chess improvement. You can study opening variations or typical endgames, solve tactical puzzles, and learn chess strategy. Also, it is extremely useful to analyze the games of the greatest chess players as well ...
By now you've seen our ranking of every opening move and our ranking of every possible response by Black to 1.e4 from White. Naturally, here comes every possible response by Black to 1.d4 from White. As in the e4 article, moves are given with th...
