Louis Paulsen
Louis Paulsen was a conte...
Reuben Fine: Speed Demon
Today, especially on the Internet, fast games are probably more the rule than the exception. Most of the fast games played fall under the "Blitz" and "Bullet" or "Lightning" heading. Time clocks, particularly...
Chess.com Player Profiles: GM Melikset Khachiyan
Grandmaster Melikset Khachiyan is a genuinely great conversation partner and a tough chess player, something former world champion Boris Spassky got to experience over a bottle of whisky in Teherean in 1992. Born in Aserbadsjan, Khachiyan left for...
Blunderless
According to a fairly trustworthy source: "Isidor Arthur Gunsberg (November 2, 1854 – May 2, 1930) was a chess player, best known for narrowly losing the 1891 World Chess Championship match to Wilhelm Steinitz." "In the late 1880s and early 1890...
Chess.com Player Profiles: GM Magesh Chandran Panchanathan
He didn´t like school but has a masters degree in computer science, his nickname is "Captain Mag-Pan" (according to IM Danny Rensch) and he happens to be a fan of Gandhi... Meet Grandmaster Magesh Chandran Panchanathan from Madurai in India, host...
Chess.com Player Profiles: Roman Yakovlevich Dzindzichasvili
The media-shy grandmaster Roman Yakovlevich Dzindzichasvili, once the number four player in the world, has rarely if ever given an interview before. We learn about his meetings with some of the true giants and geniuses of chess - Fischer, Botvinni...
Chess.com Player Profiles: GM Robin Van Kampen
Sometimes this GM wishes he wasn´t a chess player at all.... But 19 year old Robin Van Kampen from the Netherlands always has the spirit to get back in the game, and he finds chess to be something that teaches him lessons in real life. He had t...
Chess.com Player Profiles: WGM CamillaB
Woman Grandmaster Camilla Baginskaite from Sioux Falls in the United States has won the World Girls Under 20 championship, the US Women's championship, made top 16 in World Women's Championship and played in seven Chess Olympiads. She is also a ...
The Michael de la Maza Story
It's not the entire story - it's just what I know from talking to Michael on the phone, a series of email exchanges over a year+ period, and following the saga on the internet. As you will discover near the end, I only met Michael in person once.....
Chess.com Player Profiles: National Master Dan Heisman
This week's featured subject is quite an eclectic person. NM Dan Heisman has written numerous chess books and he authors the award-winning Novice Nook column, and he has lived professionally from chess the last 16 and a half years. He is also a so...
Chess.com Player Profiles: GM-Elect Eric Hansen
Name: Eric Hansen &...
Chess.com Player Profiles: IM Fins0905
International Chess Master John Bartholomew is a 26 year-old chess professional from Eagan, Minnesota. He has more than 11 years of chess teaching experience with players of all ages and skill levels. John has run successful chess clubs and p...
Hot EuroCup in Eilat
The European Chess Club Cup is usually held in one of the European countries. This year was an exception – it took place in the Middle East, between Asia and Africa. The leading clubs travelled to Eilat, Israel, to determine the best of the ...
Chess.com Player Profiles: DanielRensch
There´s a lot to be said about this week´s target for a Player Profile interview.... What you probably don´t know is that he lives in a village with less than 200 people, he is a husband and a dedicated father of three ...
Chess Olympiad 2012: Spirit of Champions
In Part II I described a rather tough period for our team: we made three draws. This allowed China to take the lead by one match point. What could we hope for? Win all our matches, while China loses at least a point? This scenario was not very lik...
Chess.com Player Profiles: Jeremy Silman
Even though today´s featured interview subject hasn´t played a serious game of chess in over a decade, he is an obvious choice for a presentation here on Chess.com. He is an International Master of chess and he has won the U...
Olympiad-2012: In the Middle
Round 5 was the last one before the first rest day. We were paired with the co-leader, France (8 match points). I had a free day. When everyone left the hotel, the Internet finally started working fine. I managed to watch a movie online and then w...
Olympiad-2012: Way to the Top
The World Chess Olympiad is one of the most exciting and classical tournaments. Its importance is overshadowed only by the individual World Chess Championship. It is both a fantastic festival and a place where serious confrontations take place, wh...
Chess.com Player Profiles: JamesColeman
In this Player Profile we get to know an exciting "under-the-radar" - player from London a little better. He is a polite and knowledgable man, and last year he was on a team of chess players who won a tv-quiz show in England. CM James Coleman...
USCL 2012 Preview: East
USCL 2012 Preview - East If you are interested in the rubric based on which I'm evaluating these teams; or in my predictions for the Western Division, they can be found here. If you don't know what the US Chess League is, it is an exciting, profe...
USCL 2012 Preview: West
As I write this, we are just hours from the opening pawn pushes of the 8th US Chess League season. And what an exciting season it will be! One of the major innovations of the season is that the games will be shown on both ICC and Chess.com, and th...
USCL Opens with Night of Tight Fights
Tonight was the first night of the 2012 season of the US Chess League, and wow were these matches close! Two out of four matches were drawn: Philadelphia Inventors v. Baltimore Kingfishers Board 1- Erenburg (Phi) v. Enkhbat (Bal): with white an...
Chess.com Player Profiles: SultanOfKings
The subject of our Chess.com player profile this time is none other than Norway´s chessplayer No. 2 after the not-so unknown Magnus Carlsen: You guessed it, it´s Jon Ludvig Hammer, better known as SultanOfKings here on Chess.com. Hammer is a Ches...
Russian Superfinal & London Olympics
Part I of this story dealt with the first five rounds of the championship. I was the leader with 4/5, and among my pursuers were Olga Girya and Alisa Galliamova, whom I was to face in the rounds to come. During the rest day I decided to take a f...