The line between an "amateur" chess player and a professional one can be thin. Soviet chess masters used to have other careers, for example, but they wouldn't have gotten very far at all without their chess skills. We'll even talk about one of the...
The main event of the 2021 Chess.com Junior Speed Chess Championship, where the world's best young players are competing for a $35,000 prize fund, is underway. Additionally, the record for youngest grandmaster in history was just set by IM Abhiman...
Today, 12th world chess champion Anatoly Karpov turns 70 years old! The Russian legend earned the title in 1975 as the 11th world chess champion, Bobby Fischer, did not agree to the terms for a new match. In the next decade, Karpov showed the worl...
The updated standings and leaderboard information for Arena Kings Season 7 are below. You can read the season 7 announcement and rules for complete details. Live Bracket and Pairings: This is updated 2-3 minutes after the end of the arenas. If...
The International Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE, was established in 1924. At the time, Jose Raul Capablanca was the World Chess Champion, and he continued his reign until 1927. During that time frame, FIDE start...
The queen may be the strongest piece in chess, but it sometimes feels like few women besides the fictional Beth Harmon seem to play the game. In the United States, for example, only about one-seventh of the members of the national chess federation...
You will find updated results for Arena Kings season 6 here: Arena Kings Season 6 press release and announcement. Some small notes and reminders: we did not enforce the requirement for being a Twitch Affiliate in Week 1. Starting with Week ...
Thanks to the critically acclaimed and insanely popular Netflix series, The Queen's Gambit, based upon Walter Tevis' 1983 book of the same title, Beth Harmon has become a household name. In interviews Tevis talked about his own troubled childhoo...
Over the past few weeks “The Queen’s Gambit” has taken the world by storm. The story of a young girl, Beth Harmon, who escapes the difficult childhood thanks to her immense chess talent and beats the best men in their game has ca...
Past results are one of the best predictors when it comes to online chess events. The 2020 Speed Chess Championship features players from past speed chess championships, junior speed chess championships, and other qualifiers who have played s...
The news that the player formerly known as Igors Rausis returned to the chess arena under a new name has shocked the chess world. Chess.com spoke to the former grandmaster, who now uses the name Isa Kasimi, in an attempt to understand more of the ...
Dear friends, today I'd like to talk about the Karpov vs. Korchnoi World Chess Championship match (Baguio, 1978) and to analyze one moment from the most controversial game of the match. As is well known, Viktor Korchnoi wrote the book "Anti-chess"...
Are you a champion of the black and white squares? No, not the chessboard—the crossword puzzle! In today's article, you can prove yourself a champion of both by completing the following crossword puzzle and demonstrating your knowledge of ...
Who are the strongest chess players of all time? There are nearly as many opinions on the relative strength of great chess players as there are chess players. Opinions have been based on dominance, career longevity, brilliance of play, and numer...
GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly recently started a very promising interview series on his new YouTube channel. The first guest was none other than five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand. The Covid-19 pandemic has put the world on a stand-still...
St. Mary Magdalene Church in 1904 On May 17, 1898 Gertrude Field married Donald Anderson at St. Mary Magdalene Church, Wandsworth Common, England. Gertrude, known to her friends as Daisy (yes, Daisy ...
Preface: An official U.S. Women's Chess Championship has existed for over 80 years. The USCF lists 1937 as the first year. There have been many strong and important women players over the early years ...
The story of Sultan Khan, a remarkable chess talent from India who was brought to Europe by his master, won the British Championship three times, and defeated Jose Capablanca in a tournament game, is also a political tale. After seven years of res...
GM Romain Edouard is one of the great talents of the French chess community, as evidenced by his impressive record of achievements at the youth level. He took part in his first competition at the age of 10 and, in a meteoric rise, became European ...
Our beloved game of chess has had many legends, world champions, challengers, world-class players, and grandmasters. The games of these masters delight, inspire, and teach us the ways of the royal game. It is common to discuss the greatest playe...
There's a tendency for all of us to define chess through its best and most successful adherents. I've always been of the mind that, while there is no doubt that world champions, potential world champions and all other players near that str...
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi won the 2020/21 FIDE Candidates tournament and will challenge world champion GM Magnus Carlsen for the world championship beginning in November 2021. Nepomniachtchi won the tournament by playing well in both halves while seve...
Ding Liren, the current world number-three and strongest Chinese chess player in history, speaks to David Cox about the rise of Chinese men’s chess, his remarkable 100-game unbeaten streak and the difficulty of maintaining a relationship whi...
The chess world is full of intriguing players and intriguing stories going all the way back to the enigmatic Paul Morphy—but even among this hallowed, august company, Ossip Bernstein manages to stand out. Bernstein's career is noteworthy f...
