Your favorite annual chess quiz tradition is back for the 2019 holidays. Enjoy this year's quiz, and see if you can win one of our prizes for a top score. Play the puzzler here. Update, Jan. 13, 2020 with answers and results. Answers: 2....
Registration is open for the 2020 Chess.com Daily Chess Championship, which is set to begin at 12 a.m. Pacific on January 1. Each year, the Chess.com Daily Chess Championship has set a new record for the largest tournament we've ever held. ...
The recent article by Vladimir Kramnik was quite fascinating. We've all had some weird "what if..." questions, like "what if people could fly?" or "what if there were no gravity?" Thanks to Kramnik and AlphaZero, we now see what happens to che...
Last week, we learned about two friends, Dave and Detective Ron Miller, who were trying to stop a crime by a madman. While we don't know if they managed to solve the maniac's puzzles (I hope they did!), let me show you how they could easily do i...
"Darn it!" Dave couldn't hide his frustration as the ringing doorbell distracted him from Sam Loyd's chess puzzle. "Whoever is there, please leave." Dave was whispering while still trying to solve the tricky checkmate in two. But the doorbe...
The generational meme wars are heating up as "OK, boomer" (often with the necessary comma omitted) is now a catch-all reply to trump any disagreement between the young and old. This unstoppable meme has made its way across the Internet, all over...
Sports commentators love to mention chess during their broadcasts of football, basketball and baseball games, but often these shallow metaphors don't show a true understanding of chess. IM Daniel Rensch recently observed, while watching a sports...
The Global Chess Festival invites chess players around the world to celebrate chess. Now in its fifth year, the Global Chess Festival is an initiative by Judit Polgar that aims to unite the chess community and celebrate chess as a sport, science, ...
Television fans enjoyed the Emmys on Sunday night, and the shows Game of Thrones and Fleabag dominated the awards for primetime TV. Today, another audiovisual medium takes the stage. The world of chess streaming has been growing q...
Football is sometimes called "chess on the gridiron." And by sometimes, I mean I just called it that. But the game is actually often compared to war, which is the most common metaphor for chess. And if football is war, the quarterback is the fie...
Ask any chess player to name a grandmaster who deserved to be the world champion but never became one, and you will get a list of the usual suspects. Bronstein, Korchnoi and Keres will be on the top of the list, and then it becomes ver...
This month we are pleased to meet Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, known as MVL, the French number 1 and member of world top 5. Chess.com France will follow closely his quest for the world title that will require being qualified for the next Candidate...
Filmmakers love to use chess in their movies to emphasize the protagonist's intellectual abilities. Naturally you can see chess in many spy movies, since even a regular scoresheet looks like secret code for non-chess-players. Reportedly, postal ...
James Holzhauer is rewriting the Jeopardy record books on a nightly basis. The professional sports gambler from Las Vegas is playing the trivia game show at the highest level in history, racking up huge winning scores and showcasing bold n...
It is not a secret that many inexperienced chess players love to give checks regardless if they're good or bad moves. What's worse, they always announce the check to their opponents. I guess it makes them feel empowered and cool. In reality, it ...
All titled players are invited to battle with some of the world's best on Tuesday, August 6 at 1 p.m. PDT for a spot in the 2019 Speed Chess Championship. In addition to the prize money normally on offer for Chess.com's Titled Tuesday, t...
Think you have played some long chess games? Check out the games in this article and see if your marathon games match up! Warning! All but one of these games is over 200 moves! Here are the top-four longest-rated chess games ever played: Iva...
In a continuation from the last article, Is Classical Chess Dead From Draws, we will be comparing different time controls in the Grand Chess Tour (GCT). Mike Klein just wrote a recent piece highlighting the new 2019 format and the players on...
Bobby Fischer is easily the most famous chess player of all time. When Bobby spoke about chess naturally people listened! Here are ten of his famous quotes. 1. "1.e4 - Best by test." You can find a few games where Fischer started the game...
In this video series, GM Aman Hambleton is trying to educate us on all the fundamentals of bullet chess. He will cover everything from opening traps to the fastest way of delivering checkmate. Rookies to bullet chess will find this course just ...
With another year of chess history nearly in the books, what will fans remember most from 2018? The world championship draw-fest in London? Ding Liren's unbeaten streak? The FIDE regime change? Music as a weapon in esports? Time will tell, ...
Your favorite annual chess quiz tradition is back for the 2018 holidays. Enjoy this year's quiz, and see if you can win one of our prizes for a top score. UPDATE: Jan. 9, 2019 with winners and answers: The winners: 1. @Grevozin -- Three ye...
The most exciting world championships of all-time countdown ends with a nearly consensus pick: Bobby Fischer vs. Boris Spassky in 1972 in Iceland. The match tallied an amazing 72 points (with eight judges, a maximum score would have been 80), wh...
Coming in at number two on Chess.com's list of Most Exciting World Championships in History is the fourth installment of the epic clash between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov. By "fourth," that means both the fourth chronological time th...
