Suthershun Asokan, better known to his millions of fans as Goofygen, recently reached 1,000,000 YouTube followers to go with his nearly 2,000,000 on Instagram... in less than a year! The Tamil Nadu native, whose content is often in Tamil, now has ...
For the vast majority of chess players, the over-the-board experience begins and ends with the Swiss tournament. While grandmasters battle in exclusive round-robins and high-stakes knockouts, amateur fields are packed into chaotic open halls&mdash...
GM Dejan Bojkov should be familiar to longtime Chess.com readers as a Game of the Day annotator, but the 2009 Bulgarian Chess Champion has done much more to educate chess players. The longtime coach has previously counted GM Antoaneta Stefanova, t...
I am sure all of you, my dear readers, have heard one of the numerous versions of Aesop's tale about two frogs who accidentally fell into a jar of cream. One gives up, the other keeps kicking until the cream turns to butter. Motivational speakers ...
Last week in the Chinese Chess League, GM Aleksandar Indjic faced 1900-rated 12-year-old Guoyu Zhou. Grandmasters rarely have any trouble with amateur opponents, and Indjic played a sharp, double-edged opening that would blow most opponents off th...
When it comes to chess, August is anything but the "dog days of summer." Two major Chess.com competitions are just the beginning of a busy month of activity. Here's everything this update covers: Events Product & Engineering Community...
On September 9, 2002, during the tense and high‑stakes Russia vs. The Rest of the World team match, GM Judit Polgar achieved a major victory in chess history by defeating GM Garry Kasparov. This pivotal moment, where the strongest female player in...
GM Aman Hambleton, IM Danny Rensch, and Andrea Botez put their tactics skills to the test in a recent Chess.com YouTube video, recorded at the inautgural 2026 Naroditsky Memorial Rapid & Blitz. All the following tactics came from the bullet or...
There is one move in chess that, despite being perfectly legal, causes more confusion than perhaps any other, as less experienced players often believe it is illegal. I have personally heard players accuse their opponents of cheating after seeing ...
With an impressive knowledge of opening theory, IM David Vigorito has written no fewer than nine books about openings. David has also been the coach for many a successful player, including at the scholastic level and higher, with his broader, larg...
Lena Kotrikadze has travelled all over the world making chess content for Twitch, Instagram, and TikTok in the last two years. Lena's consistent streaming, videos filmed all over the world, and unique brand of humor are attracting new community me...
Fantasy Chess Grand Prix The Fantasy Chess Grand Prix runs from May through December 2026. Enter any qualifying Prediction Contest and you're automatically in! Every correct answer earns Grand Prix points, and the top predictors of the season...
In the 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament, GM Hikaru Nakamura was chasing the tournament leader, GM Javokhir Sindarov. After twelve moves, Sindarov played a move that Nakamura hadn't prepared, and Nakamura fell into a 67-minute-and-44-second think. I...
Chess used to be a purely methodical game, but times have changed. As this past month showed, the fastest chess games now attract just as much attention as the slowest. See who won our recent bullet events, which other events are upcoming, this mo...
Over the July 4 weekend, nearly 100 players will gather in Charlotte, North Carolina to honor GM Daniel Naroditsky and play some chess at the Naroditsky Memorial. With a field that includes 36 grandmasters, six 2700+ players, 13 more rated 2600+, ...
In an article in El Pais (a Spanish newspaper), Leontxo Garcia reports that GM Javokhir Sindarov, the 20-year-old champion of the 2026 Candidates Tournament, said, "I very rarely read books. My coach insists on it, but I prefer him to show me ever...
IM Alfonso Jerez, who earned his international master title in 2003, has also been a chess coach for more than three decades, and has helped players of all skills find that next level. Whereas Alfonso was largely self-taught, he has guided several...
Over the years, Chessable has grown into a huge library of chess content, with several publications per week covering openings, strategy, tactics, endgames, and everything in between. While some courses become instant favorites within the communit...
Chess.com Broadcast Schedule Every upcoming chess stream on Twitch and YouTube — with times in ET, CET and IST, links to each event page, and one-tap add to your Google Calendar. List Calendar ...
There is an interesting story told by GM Mikhail Tal in his book The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal: An amusing episode accompanied the start of this tournament. The day before, on the birthday of one of my friends, by no means a chess player, som...
Chess is sometimes described as a game that is easy to learn but difficult to master. This article won't help you become a grandmaster, but it will offer you some basic strategies that every chess player should know, as well as resources you need ...
Do you like to solve chess puzzles? It's a great way to work on your tactical skills. Do you do them fast, like in Puzzle Rush, or more deliberately to practice for classical games? Most strong players train with puzzles to help them learn and sta...
Sophie Davis is making a name for herself in the content world, with more than 18,000 followers each on both Twitch and TikTok. With several streams a week of "cheeky chess" and a growing catalog of equally cheeky short form content, Sophie's chan...
If you've ever been to a brick-and-mortar chess club, you may think they all offer the same experience: a place to find other chess enthusiasts and play some games in person. The Columbia Chess Club, run by James Brandmair and Brandon Jordan, off...
There are at least two ways chess players can measure their performance: by rating and by prize money won. And now, it is easier than it was a month ago to track rating, or for players to win some prizes. Read on to see how you can better track yo...
