Losing in chess is a small death. — Albert Camus Picture this: You're playing an important game. Hours of intense battle (assuming it's an OTB game), you've built an advantage, everything's going according to plan… and then&md...
The 2025 Reykjavik Open marked the return of one of the world’s longest running and ever-growing open tournaments. This year is special, sadly, due to the passing of Iceland’s first grandmaster, Fridrik Olafsson, just days before the t...
Many years ago, a young aspiring chess player was planning to play a big tournament abroad, but there was one problem: money! Just like many young players, he couldn't really afford the travel expenses, so he decided to ask for help at the depar...
After a successful playing career, including a peak FIDE rating of 2641, April 2025 Chess.com Creator of the Month GM Tamas Banusz spent several years as a second to world championship candidate GM Richard Rapport. After that, Tamas finally began ...
GM Ju Wenjun has been the women's world champion since 2018, and this month she is once again defending her title. The holder of the open world championship has changed hands twice in that time, first after GM Magnus Carlsen gave it up in 2023. No...
CM Can Kabadayi is one of Chessable's most popular instructors, and is now the Chess.com Coach of the Month! The 2024 Chessable Author of the Year and a cognitive scientist by trade, Can uses several tricks of that trade in order to teach importan...
"How do I get better at chess?" It's probably the number-one question people ask to more experienced players, along with "Want to play a game?" There are many things you can do: review your games with a better player, consult Game Review after you...
WGM Sabina Foisor has been coaching and teaching chess for more than a decade, in addition to continuing her playing career and writing a book. Now, she is the Chess.com Coach of the Month for March 2025! The Romanian-American woman grandmaster ...
Coach of the Month last February, DaVaun Williams, a.k.a. H1Chess, is now the Creator of the Month for March 2025! DaVaun has over 220,000 TikTok followers, nearly 100,000 on YouTube, and 4,000 on Twitch. In all three places, you can find him prof...
Yes, that's right, pants were a key storyline in chess this past month (this year, really). But not just any pair of pants: GM Magnus Carlsen's pair of pants. Read on to see what the heck we're talking about, plus other key events in chess this ...
GM Artur Jussupow is one of the greatest chess players ever, and now the best player to be named the Chess.com Coach of the Month. At one time he was the number three player in the world, behind only GMs Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. He has p...
Agne Semonaviciute is a Lithuanian Twitch streamer, YouTube creator, chess player (whose 1934 FIDE rating is nothing to sneeze at!), and more. In just a year and a half of creating content, she has already built an audience in the thousands. Agne ...
As 2025 gets into full swing and Chess.com welcomes it's 200,000,000th member, we have a boatload of updates for you this February. Events, content, community—it's all here! Here's what this update covers: Events Product & E...
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Our first Coach of the Month in 2025 is GM Danyyil Dvirnyy! Danyyil moved to Italy with his family in 2003, turned professional in chess before graduating high school, and obtained his grandmaster title in 2013 at the age of 22. That same year, he...
Matt Perchard, a.k.a. houseline, is a relative newcomer to the field of chess content creation, but he has already accomplished something few creators have: organize a successful online chess streaming tournament. The Creator Cup is but the first ...
As great as 2024 was at Chess.com, 2025 figures to be even better. Now is the time to look forward to the next 12 months, but not before we also check out what happened in the previous month. Here's what this update covers: Events Pro...
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...
Arena Kings is a weekly event where streamers play in blitz arenas for their share of a $1,500 prize fund. Arenas run every Wednesday starting at 12:00 p.m. ET/18:00 CET. In this article, you will find the results for all the arenas that happened ...
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...
