Written by Brad Ashlock Making art is like making a chess move. An artist starts with the available resources and looks at the composition/position from the general to the specific. My resources for digital collage begins not with searching for...
Everybody is playing chess online now, and you're wondering how you can start playing too? Good news: it's super easy to start playing chess and having fun (and maybe getting smarter along the way)! Here's what you need to know to join the milli...
Norway Chess is a classical chess tournament held every year since 2013 in Stavanger, Norway. Up until 2019 it was accompanied by a blitz tournament, which was put on hold during the coronavirus pandemic. Norway Chess 2021 ran from September 7-1...
When you see chess in movies, it's always associated with great minds—and there's a good reason for this: chess is the ultimate intellectual game. Being a great chess player requires superb strategic abilities, planning, calculation, pattern...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the main event of the 2021 Speed Chess Championship. This multi-event series featured top players competing in fast-paced games for a piece of the $232,000 prize fund. The event started on March 31 with the Bullet Chess Cham...
Chess has always been popular, but has it ever been this popular? The Walter Tevis novel The Queen's Gambit came out in 1983. Obviously, there was a market for it. But nothing like the 2020 miniseries which, even though it did not come out until...
The 2021 Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix is part of the 2021 Speed Chess Championship and one of the qualification events for the 2021 Speed Chess Championship's Main Event. Four different one-day tournaments comprise the Grand Prix, startin...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won the Main Event of the 2021 Speed Chess Championship on December 19—winning his fourth consecutive title. Nakamura defeated GM Wesley So in the final by a dominating score of 23-8. The event ran from November 8-Dec...
The 2021 Speed Chess Championship Super Swiss is part of the 2021 Speed Chess Championship and one of the 2021 Speed Chess Championship Main Event qualification events. The event features titled players competing in a 15-round blitz Swiss event,...
Pro Chess League: Arena Royale is a tournament featuring teams from the PRO Chess League competing for a $100,000 prize fund. The Arena Royale will run from September 16 through September 24 as a prelude to the return of the PRO Chess League ...
If you are a chess player on the internet you have almost certainly seen IM Kostya Kavutskiy. Whether he's streaming at ChessDojo, uploading to his YouTube channel, or commentating on Titled Tuesday, Kavutskiy is always offering entertainment and ...
There's a famous story in basketball featuring Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird. Before the first-ever Three-Point Shootout in 1986, he went into the locker room, asked who was finishing in second place and walked out. He won the contest. There'...
The Sinquefield Cup is an annual chess tournament held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Named for Rex and Jeanne Sinquefield, the founders of the Saint Louis Chess Club where it is held, the tournament first ran in 2013. Since 2015, it has been part o...
The 2021 Grand Chess Tour is a series of over-the-board chess events comprised of two classical and three rapid & blitz tournaments featuring top chess players. The entire tour has a total prize fund of $1,275,000, with $325,000 per classical ...
We at Chess.com are not immune to the "listicle," although that word doesn't really apply to our list articles. We do this type of article better than anyone in the chess world with in-depth content on each listed player, game, etc. rather than on...
The 2021 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz is the final rapid and blitz tournament of the 2021 Grand Chess Tour. Games will start on August 11 at 1 p.m. PT/22:00 CEST, with 10 elite players competing for their share of the $150,000 prize fund in rapid...
Many people know GM Arturs Neiksans from his Twitch streams, where they constantly see him playing, solving puzzles, or helping people with his online "boot camps." Anyone who watches as Neiksans streams has no doubt about his ability to pass hi...
PogChamps 4 presented by Coinbase is set to begin on August 29, 2021 and run until the finals on September 12. Expected to be one of the most viewed chess tournaments in history, PogChamps 4 will have a $100,000 prize fund. The first thr...
Chess Played Quick is Chess.com's series of monthly events where top chess streamers do live speed runs using one of Chess.com's features. This month's event, Chess Played Quick: Bot Battles, will feature streamers terminating the bots from our ...
Written by Alexey Zakharov In the last hundred or so years, Russia became almost synonymous with chess. The country in its many incarnations—Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and now “just” Russia—produced more grandmasters a...
The 2021 FIDE Online Chess Olympiad is a worldwide online event where hundreds of participants from more than 100 different national teams will compete for the gold. The event will run from August 20 to September 15 on the Chess.com server. You ...
Chess.com's newest Coach of the Month is NM James Canty III! Canty is a familiar face on Chess.com and Twitch. Whether he's enriching Arena Kings with his witty and insightful commentary or flexing his sharp tactical skills on stream, the "Jedi ma...
GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda of Poland won the 2021 FIDE World Cup. He defeated GM Sergey Karjakin in the final by a score of 1½-½ after winning their second game. That moment when, after @SergeyKaryakin, it's @MagnusCarlsen himself who...
Chess Played Quick is Chess.com's series of monthly events where top chess streamers do live speed runs using one of Chess.com's features. This month's event, Chess Played Quick Bullet Edition, starts on June 28 at 10 a.m. PT/19:00 CEST. During ...
