Sweden's under-20 champion in 1991 and national champion in 2006, GM Johan Hellsten soon became a top coach and instructor as well. He is one of Chessable's highest-rated authors thanks to his "Mastering" series of courses, the most recent of whic...
How are things at Chess.com? We're glad you asked. Thanks to the latest State of Chess.com with IM Danny Rensch, you can get the in-depth scoop. Read about that and more, including GM Magnus Carlsen's continued dominance at the Esports World Cup, ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
NM Bryan Tillis is one of Chessable's longest tenured and most prolific authors, with courses on several openings and other topics, and his latest course about 1.e4 openings is out now. Bryan has been the lead coach at Palm Beach Chess since 2014,...
Now that the Candidates Tournament is behind us, it's time to turn our attention to the next biggest chess event of the year: the Esports World Cup (EWC). You might've thought I was going to say the World Championship, in which the historic Cand...
IM Anna Rudolf is one of the very best commentators, ambassadors, and creators in chess. After a highly successful playing career that saw her join the Hungarian Olympiad team and win three Hungarian Women's Championships, she became one of the ea...
Chess fans recently enjoyed some of the biggest classical tournaments and biggest online blitz tournaments that exist. From the Candidates Tournament to the Chess.com Open to PogChamps 6 7, there was no shortage of chess action in the past month. ...
IM Yaacov Norowitz's love of chess is very apparent, and this passion for the game is one of the main things he passes on to his students. Yaacov is also a Chessable author, where his third course, The Yaac Attack - Fajarowicz Gambit for Black, is...
The 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament is an event a true chess aficionado can only dream about. Exciting chess, a tour de force by GM Javokhir Sindarov, and unprecedented online coverage. And yet, as I watch some games, I feel a quiet sense of sadne...
WIM Anna Kantane, known on Twitch and YouTube as KantannaChess always balances her enthusiastic streaming with an active playing career and motherhood. Anna has been streaming and creating content for 2.5 years, and continues to grow her audience ...
Things are opening up on Chess.com, where the Chess.com Open Playoffs are coming up, and a brand new way to study openings on Chessable also available. And with the Candidates Tournament ongoing in addition to the Chess.com Open, there's no shorta...
As the world's leading chess platform, we're happy and excited to see that many people are choosing Chess.com to run their events. We want to be the best platform for you to organize and play great events. As more events take place on Chess.com,...
GM Yaroslav "Yaro" Zherebukh has an impressive resume as a player, when he won the 2015 U.S. Masters and later qualified for the 2017 U.S. Championship, where he won his game against defending champion GM Fabiano Caruana. Yaro has an equally impre...
The chess world holds its breath as it awaits the start of the most important over-the-board tournament of the year. The 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournament and 2026 FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament kick off on March 29 at 8:30 a.m. ET / 14:30 CEST ...
