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Jeremy Kane is a National Master and three-time Wisconsin state champion. He is the Director of Training Content for Chess.com. He has been teaching chess in person and online for over 15 years and has designed hundreds of lessons, available on chess.com/lessons. He is the author of Starting Out The Trompowsky on Chessable and The Next To Last Mistake, a book on defensive ideas in chess. He is the developer of the Caro-Kane Variation of the Caro-Kann Defense. email: [email protected] Twitter/X: @chessmensch

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When in 1985 Greg Serper was invited to the famous Kasparov-Botvinnik school, he was really inspired by Kasparov's story. Garry insisted that he was destined to become the 13th World Champion since he was born on April 13. Since Greg was born on September 14 he saw it as a very good omen. Alas, this great sign was enough only to tie for first in the World Junior Championship (1988) and win the European Junior Championship (1989), World Open (1999) and a bunch of national and international tournaments. These days Greg teaches chess full time, writes a weekly column for Chess.com, and is proud to have dozens of National and State Champions among his students.

Tarjei J. Svensen is a Norwegian chess journalist who worked for some of the country's biggest media outlets and appeared on several national TV broadcasts. Between 2015 and 2019, he ran his chess website mattogpatt.no, covering chess news in Norwegian and partly in English. In 2020, he was hired by Chess24 to cover chess news, eventually moving to Chess.com as a full-time chess journalist in 2023. He is also known for his extensive coverage of chess news on his X/Twitter account.

Nathaniel Green is a staff writer for Chess.com who writes articles, player biographies, Titled Tuesday reports, video scripts, and more. He has been playing chess for about 30 years and resides near Washington, DC, USA.

-Former Canadian Girls Chess Champion (2001, 1999 (tied for 1st)) -World Youth Chess Festival competitor (Girls U14 (1998); Girls U16 (2000)) -Among top 10 highest-rated Canadian Women (1999-2001) -Busy mom by day, chess dreamer by night Written chess.com articles: Here The story of my life: Here Instagram

I am a New York-based writer, documentary producer, and chess expert (USCF rating ~2060). My insane obsessive hobby for a long time has been to play through old chess games, more or less in chronological order. I am interested in the evolution of chess and looking to follow various ideas as they develop over time, but most of all, I am interested in the players and in treating them sort of the way an art survey book would treat artists. The theory is that each top player – to consistently defeat other grandmasters – has to bring something new to the game, has to have a philosophy of chess that sets them apart.  I am thrilled to share that there is now a book version of the blog available at Amazon.com.  For non-chess-writing (if there really is such a thi...

Peter Doggers joined a chess club a month before turning 15 and still plays for it. He used to be an active tournament player and holds two IM norms. Peter has a Master of Arts degree in Dutch Language & Literature. He briefly worked at New in Chess, then as a Dutch teacher and then in a project for improving safety and security in Amsterdam schools. Between 2007 and 2013 Peter was running ChessVibes, a major source for chess news and videos acquired by Chess.com in October 2013. As our Director News & Events, Peter writes many of our news reports. In the summer of 2022, The Guardian’s Leonard Barden described him as “widely regarded as the world’s best chess journalist.”Peter's first book The Chess Revolution is out now!Company Contact and News Accredita...

Pedro Pinhata is the Writing Lead for Chess.com. He writes articles, feature announcements, event pages, and more. He has been playing chess since 2019 and lives in Brazil.

Hi! I'm Lula. I started playing chess in December 2020 and now I'm a Chess.com streamer! I stream chess Mon - Fri on Twitch. If you want to play a game VS me, check out my Twitch stream where I often play against viewers. If we got matched up together in a game, please don't check out my stream until after the game ends, so that we both have equal chances to win. Check out my official Chess.com Lessons series on HOW TO ANALYZE YOUR CHESS GAMES Links: Twitch Twitter Instagram

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Vanessa West is a National Master, a chess teacher, and a writer for Chess.com. In 2017, they won the Chess Journalist of the Year award. You can follow them on X: Vanessa__West

NM Anthony Levin caught the chess bug at the "late" age of 18 and never turned back. He earned his national master title in 2021, actually the night before his first day of work at Chess.com. Anthony, who also earned his Master's in teaching English in 2018, taught English and chess in New York schools for five years and strives to make chess content accessible and enjoyable for people of all ages. At Chess.com, he writes news articles and manages social media for chess24. Email:  [email protected] Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/anthony.seikei/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/alevinchess Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anthonylevinchess/

I'm the Head of Community for Chess.com. I earned the National Master title in 2012, and in 2014, I returned to my home state of South Carolina to start Strategery: Chess and Games. In late 2015, I began working for Chess.com and haven't looked back since. You can find my personal content on Twitch , Twitter , and YouTube where I further indulge my love of chess.

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FIDE Master, Correspondence Chess IM. Grew up in St. Petersburg (Russia), currently residing in France.  I wrote a book about Vasily Smyslov, which won the FIDE Book of the Year and US Chess Journalists awards in 2021! Also check out my Two Knights Defense course on Chessable (it's great and it's free!) and my Twitter profile.

Colin McGourty led news at Chess24 from its launch until it merged with Chess.com a decade later. An amateur player, he got into chess writing when he set up the website Chess in Translation after previously studying Slavic languages and literature in St. Andrews, Odesa, Oxford, and Krakow.

Hi y'all, I'm a chess com and Twitch partner. I played chess as a kid and just started again! Challenge me to a game!

I am French & German manager at Chess.com. I also give chess lessons in English, French and German. You can contact me at [email protected] for any suggestions, questions or requests.