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How Fast Is A Speed Chess Champion?

How Fast Is A Speed Chess Champion?

NM CoachJKane
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Since the Speed Chess Championship (SCC) debuted in 2016, it's been completely dominated by two players. GM Magnus Carlsen won the first two editions in 2016 and 2017. After that, GM Hikaru Nakamura won five years in a row before Carlsen took back...

How Chess Spread Around The World

How Chess Spread Around The World

NathanielGreen
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July 20 is International Chess Day, and few games are played more broadly worldwide than chess. At the last Chess Olympiad in 2022, 186 nations sent more than 1,700 players to compete. Estimates of the number of players globally usually range from...

Bad Trades Amateurs Make In Chess

Bad Trades Amateurs Make In Chess

NM CoachJKane
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What separates a chess beginner from an experienced player? It's not just the brilliant moves that the star players find, it's also the bad moves that beginners play, which veteran players instinctively know to avoid. Here are five trades that ama...

The Next Youth Movement In Chess Is Here

The Next Youth Movement In Chess Is Here

CHESScom
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As 17-year-old GM Gukesh Dommaraju prepares for the FIDE World Championship in November, this month 10-year-old IM Faustino Oro and nine-year-old CM Ethan Pang set records while and nine-year-old WCM Bodhana Sivanandan made England's Olympiad team...

Faustino Oro Teaches Chess!

Faustino Oro Teaches Chess!

GM Gserper
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The news of the Argentinian prodigy Faustino Oro becoming the youngest IM ever at the tender age of 10 made headlines worldwide. Faustino plays an attractive, aggressive kind of chess, and those of you who want to get better can learn a lot from h...

Jospem's Brilliant Blunders

Jospem's Brilliant Blunders

GM Gserper
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The recently-concluded Clash Of Claims was definitely one of the most anticipated chess events of the year. For most people, this unusual match was interesting mostly due to the well-publicized controversy, but personally for me it was an opportun...

How Fast Are The Best Bullet Players?

How Fast Are The Best Bullet Players?

NM ToddBryant
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The Bullet Chess Championship 2024 kicked off this week with a stacked lineup of FIDE top 10 players and bullet specialists! I gathered some data to highlight just how fast the fastest players on earth can play! Bullet chess is a wild terrain wh...

There's No Such Thing As A Boring Chess Opening

There's No Such Thing As A Boring Chess Opening

NM CoachJKane
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"I captured on d5. I was terribly ashamed, and from the time I swore: to play for a draw, at any rate with White, is to some degree a crime against chess." - GM Mikhail Tal on the Exchange Variation of the French Defense. Mikhail Tal on a less...

Banter Blitz, Bullet Battles, And Brilliant Bots

Banter Blitz, Bullet Battles, And Brilliant Bots

CHESScom
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We've escaped the May-trix but June keeps us in the middle of a bullet-time showdown between some of the world's best players, as the 2024 Bullet Chess Championship continues. Also: a mysterious new bot, free lessons by titled players, and the r...

What Can A Grandmaster Do With 60 Seconds?

What Can A Grandmaster Do With 60 Seconds?

NM NM_Vanessa
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While commentating in 2021, GM Vladimir Kramnik shared his candid opinion of bullet chess: Why do you use a chessboard? There is no point, just put the clock and push the clock, and the first one who wins on time wins. There's no point to h...

How To Be A Winner In Chess

How To Be A Winner In Chess

GM Gserper
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Nine years ago I wrote an article about the 2015 U.S. Junior Girls Championship. In that article I analyzed only one game and you might expect that it was played by the winner of the tournament, but instead I chose the player who finished eighth o...

The 10 Best Reasons To Lose At Chess

The 10 Best Reasons To Lose At Chess

WCM lularobs
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Do you lose at chess? If you said "no," then let's be honest, you're lying to me and to yourself and need to take a long, hard look in the mirror. If you said "yes," then you're in the right place. My name is Lula, and I'm a professional at lo...

11 Classic Chess Sayings

11 Classic Chess Sayings

NathanielGreen
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Especially in this era of social media, it seems like everyone's got something to say at almost all times. This has always been true of chess, about which a lot of stuff—some of it more useful than others—has been said. But of all...

Why Didn't Firouzja Follow Kasparov's Footsteps?

Why Didn't Firouzja Follow Kasparov's Footsteps?

GM Gserper
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Back in 1996, GM Garry Kasparov won 4-2 in a match versus the Deep Blue supercomputer. It turned out to be the last convincing human victory over an artificial chess player. The very next year, Deep Blue took revenge 3.5-2.5, and pretty soon match...

Chess Played Quick - BlitzChamps Hyper Bullet Arena

Chess Played Quick - BlitzChamps Hyper Bullet Arena

CHESScom
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Chess Played Quick (CPQ), Chess.com's series of events where top chess streamers complete bounties for prizes, is back for another edition! Chess Played Quick—BlitzChamps Hyper Bullet Arena will take place on May 20 at 1:30 p.m. ET / 19:30...

Chess.com Launches Indian Streamer Program

Chess.com Launches Indian Streamer Program

ChesscomChris
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Chess.com is thrilled to launch the Indian Streamer Program. To help grow the chess streaming ecosystem in India, we offer a number of benefits to chess streamers of all skill levels who want to get involved on YouTube, Twitch and other streaming ...