This year, we have launched a new initiative at Chess.com that I'm really excited about—the 2025 Chess Improvement Challenge! Over 25,000 people have signed up and set goals for their improvement in 2025. I'm excited to see what the communit...
IM Andras Toth is an international master, decades-long chess coach, popular Chessable author, streamer, and more. Andras was the 2021 Chessable Author of the Year and has even co-authored a course with fellow Hungarian GM Judit Polgar. Now based ...
IM Sagar Shah, cofounder and CEO of ChessBase India, is a major force for chess not just in India, but throughout the entire chess world. Chess would not be where it is today without the work that Sagar and ChessBase India have done to cover and p...
WGM Dina Belenkaya recently reached the major milestone of 250,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel! It was a natural occasion to finally honor her as the Chess.com Creator of the Month. Dina's content is always a hit, whether she is playing and...
The end of the year is always a busy time, and Chess.com along with the rest of the chess world are not exempt. Right now there is an ongoing world championship, and everyone from content to Chessable is getting in on the fun. Soon, there will be ...
The 2024 FIDE World Chess Championship will showcase the current champion GM Ding Liren and 18-year-old rising star GM Gukesh Dommaraju. The match will take place at the Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore, the first world championship hosted in So...
GM Srinath Narayanan is one of Chess.com's most impressive and accomplished Coaches of the Month yet. Most recently, Srinath made headlines as the captain of India's team at the 2024 Chess Olympiad that scored an amazing 21/22 to win gold! Srinath...
The end of the year is always a busy time in chess, and that is true once again as we enter the final two months of 2024. There is a world championship starting, while past world champions are—virtually—on the comeback trail in what wa...
IM Alex Astaneh Lopez earned his international master title in 2011, but he is more than just a great chess player. Alex coached the Irish junior team in the 2010 World Youth Championships and has helped countless individuals improve their chess a...
I never imagined I would be one of those uncompromising parents who push their fearful child off the boat, in the middle of a lake, to teach her to swim, fast, and the hard way. Yet, here I stood battling with my eight-year-old daughter, Lea*, in ...
The FIDE Social Commission (dedicated to using chess as a tool for social development) organized, in cooperation with the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, the 4th FIDE Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners as part of FIDE&rsq...
I started my chess blog, really, because I couldn’t figure out what else to do during the dead time of a day. Some people, I suppose, apply makeup, or scroll on social media, or listen to podcasts, but, when I was waiting for a train or some...
My book The Chess Revolution tells the story of how chess impacted our Western culture, and how it was impacted itself by the computer and the Internet. It is for chess fans but definitely also for non-chess playing readers. I am super excited tha...
There's a lot going on at Chess.com right now, and world champions are at the forefront: GM Magnus Carlsen keeps winning Chess.com events; GM Garry Kasparov brings a video course to Chessable; a game of chess between GM Viswanathan Anand and the w...
In less than two years, Phoebe Witte has already earned more than 15,000 followers on Instagram and another 17,000 on Twitch. In addition to everything she does on her own channel, Phoebe has also brought her commentary skills to WGM Dina Belenkay...
Chris White is an elementary school teacher of more than 20 years, which has helped make him an excellent coach for scholastic, beginner, and intermediate students. He also runs the Novice Chess Channel on YouTube, with lessons aimed at novice pla...
Chess Played Quick (CPQ) is Chess.com's series of events where top chess streamers complete bounties for prizes. Chess Played Quick - Discord Bot Battles happens on September 19 at 12 p.m. ET/18:00 CET/21:30 p.m. IST. Top streamers have two hour...
GM Arturs Neiksans has done it all during his amazing career: player, coach, author, commentator, content creator, and more. The four-time Latvian chess champion (1999, 2011, 2015, and 2019) is currently working closely with IM Levy "GothamChess" ...
Another busy month at Chess.com is in the books as we turn the page to September and the equinox. The ninth Speed Chess Championship approaches a dramatic conclusion, but that's not all that's happening this month in the world of Chess.com! Here...
This year, Portugal's biggest tournament was overtaken by 12 streamers representing 11 different countries, making the Maia Chess Open the most internationally covered amateur tournament... maybe ever? The Maia Chess Festival in Maia, Porto, enc...
Would you like to cover live tournaments on your channel? Or even produce a professional broadcast of your event? Our Events page is the perfect tool for you, and you can use it for free! This guide provides you with all the necessary informatio...
NM Robert Ramirez is not just one of Chessable's top authors, he's also a great coach. Although he did not play competitively until he was 12, Robert became a chess master, earning the title in 2013. Now, he imparts his knowledge as a coach and an...
One of the first things we learn in chess is the enormous power of the queen. Then, after we discover the tricky Scholar's Mate, the importance of the queen reaches a truly mythic proportion in our minds. Not surprisingly, for many inexperienced p...
WFM Lile Koridze was the national youth chess champion of Georgia in several age categories and has since become one of the brightest young new stars of the chess media world. Not many people can rightfully claim to have beaten GM Hikaru Nakamura ...
It's been another busy month here at Chess.com, from product upgrades, to the Champions Chess Tour, to the latest State of Chess.com address and all sorts of content, community events, bots, and more! Here's to an august August! Here's what this...
