There's no greater young star than Alireza Firouzja. Many people think that he will someday be a world champion. GM Melik Khachiyan demonstrates what makes Firouzja a special player and different from prodigies of the...
Alireza Firouzja's brings fighting chess to the board with both colors. Check out how he turned the black side of a quiet Caro Kann Exchange Variation into a vicious attack.
Hikaru Nakamura has beaten Jeffery Xiong multiple times, but in the 2020 US Championship Xiong got his revenge in spectacular style.
Nihal Sarin won the 2020 Junior Speed Chess Championship and in the top section, he played a tight match with Super GM, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. Sarin be a top contender in more championships to come. Check out his dem...
NM James Canty is one of the best chess teachers out there! Check out his best game, an amazing attacking gem against IM Roberto Martin Del-Campo. It's not often you can win a rook and then sacrifice back a rook and a...
GM Surya Ganguly is a six time champion of India and a key member of Team Anand in several World Championship matches. Check out GM Ganguly's best game ever. A fantastic win against GM Sandro Mareco
GM Roeland Pruijssers is a great chess teacher and frequent Titled Tuesday host. Check out his best ever game, a smooth win over the Dutch chess legend Jan Timman.
NM Sam Copeland is the Content Director for Chess.com and plays a mean game of chess himself. In his best ever game he played a beautiful double bishop sacrifice against IM Daniel Fernandez. See if you can work your w...
Jon Ludvig has competed with many of the world's best. In this game with Vishy Anand, he nearly secured a draw, but Anand brilliantly forced a zugzwang and won an instructive ending.
Against GM Nicolai Getz, Jon Ludvig couldn't convert his space advantage by normal means and had to resort to sacrifices. Fortunately, some well-placed pawns can be stronger than a piece!
Jon Ludvig Hammer doesn't let closed positions slow down his attacking ideas. In this game against Sebastian Mihajlov, a locked kingside structure wasn't an obstacle as Hammer targeted the opponent's weaknesses and wo...
Against Ruslan Kashtanov Jon Ludvig gained a space advantage but had to take his time and bring every piece to its best square before breaking open the position and winning material.
Join NM Sam Copeland as he checks out this insanely beautiful game from the chess engines Komodo and Winter!
Join NM Sam Copeland as he breaks down one of, if not THE MOST beautiful chess miniature of the past century in this thrilling bullet match-up between chess engines Komodo and Scorpio!
The Komodo team has released a powerful new chess engine, "Dragon" by Komodo! This engine adds NNUE technology to the already strong Komodo engine, radically increasing its strength by around 200 Elo, and making the a...
Join NM Sam Copeland as he checks out this awesome Computer Chess engine match up as Komodo crushes Rofchade with the von Hennig-Schara Gambit.
Check out the top five Speed Chess Championship tactics, from the two-time defending champion, Hikaru Nakamura!
NM James Canty is back with a review of the five most outrageous blunders in the history of the Speed Chess Championship!
Join NM James Canty as he breaks down the top 5 swindles in Speed Chess Championship history! These amazing speed chess games come from matches of top grandmasters including Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Anish Giri, Alex...
There's never been an attacker like World Champion Tal! Check out the five most amazing moves he ever played!
World Champion Anand is one of the greatest players in the history of chess! Simon Williams, the ginger GM, presents the most amazing moves from Anand's long career.
When it came onto the scene in December 2017 Alpha Zero promptly destroyed Stockfish, previously the strongest engine in the world, in a match. Check out the five most amazing moves that AlphaZero ever played!
Have you seen the new Netflix series, Queen's Gambit? It's an amazing new show about the fictional chess player Beth Harmon! Check out our review with Danny Rensch, Jennifer Shahade and Aran Graham.
If Black meets 1.e4 with a move other than e5 or c5, the main idea will be to place a pawn on d5. 1...d5 is possible, but risky because Black's pawn will be captured. More common is 1...e6 or 1..c6 to prepare d5 on th...
The most common responses to 1.e4 are those that guard the d4 square. Black usually plays 1...e5 or 1...c5 to prevent White from reaching a solid two pawn center.
