It's time we celebrate the people who helped get the Chessable craze going! When Chessable launched in 2016, it was as quiet and spooky as a cemetery. It had nothing, save for a couple of free tutorial courses. And its UI might just scare...
Welcome back to Going Above & Beyond — where we celebrate 5-stars authors who walk the extra mile or two for their students. This time, we showcase an OG of Chessable. One who’s carved a name for outstanding support and near-ins...
Grandmasters are… good at chess. This is a modest description, of course. The title of Grandmaster is the highest one you can achieve in chess. If you’ve ever faced a Grandmaster on the chess board, you’ll know how extraordina...
This is a guest blog post by Nithin Ramasamy, a junior at Whitney Young Magnet High School in Chicago. To learn more about his project, and to participate in research on chess and neurodegenerative disease, please visit https://icond.azurewebsites...
“It’s a machine. At the end of the day, it’s stupid.” Garry Kasparov, 1997 Do you ever worry that you could be replaced by a machine? With ChatGPT and other tools on the rise, concerns like these seem more rele...
Welcome back to our Going Above & Beyond series, where we celebrate authors who go the extra mile to keep their Chessable courses new and fresh. Chessable courses are living things. Theory gets updated, mistakes get amended and ...
Magnus Carlsen isn’t just the 16th World Chess Champion. He won the crown for all 3 formats — classical, rapid, and blitz — no less than 17 times! Carlsen’s peak FIDE rating of 2882 is the highest in history. He al...
From September 30th to October 6th, it’s Chessable PRO week. That means we’re giving away a free week of PRO membership to every single one of you - even if you’ve previously had a free week! It’s completely free...
Fun fact: people are glued on their smartphones almost 4 hours every single day. How you want to spend those hours is entirely up to you. But if you’d love to take 30 to 45 minutes to sharpen your game and become the best play...
This is a post by Karel van Delft, Science Project Manager at Chessable. GM Yochanan Afek explains a study in café Batavia in Amsterdam to GM Tal Baron, IM Merijn van Delft and IM Manuel Bosboom. (Photo credit, 2017, Lennart Oote...
This year’s Olympiad is hosted by the beautiful city of Budapest. And since Hungary is the host country, it’s only fitting that we take some time to discuss Hungarian chess. Hungary has an impressive record in the Olympiad - w...
Welcome to the latest installment of “Going Above & Beyond,” where we celebrate the authors who go the extra mile to update their courses. So that their students have the best information available, especially in their openings....
With the 2024 Chess Olympiad in Budapest drawing closer, we are continuing our Olympiad Spotlight features. This time we are celebrating another prominent chess nation - the United States. Home to some of the best players in the world and...
In the weeks leading up to the Chess Olympiad (10-23 September in Budapest), we at Chessable are on a mission to spotlight some of the most prominent participating countries and their Chessable representatives. And of course, Germany can’...
The 45th Chess Olympiad will take place in Budapest, Hungary from September 10-23, and to commemorate the event, we are highlighting some of the teams taking part, alongside a sale on the authors of these teams' courses. In this Olympiad ...
The Olympics is over and the world will now focus its full attention on the main event - the Chess Olympiad! If one team could truly be described as the Chessable team, it would be the Netherlands. The Dutch connection at Chessable is ver...
It is the Chess Olympiad season! Taking place from the 10th to the 23rd of September in Budapest, thousands of players will be representing their countries in the battle to win one of the most prestigious tournaments in the chess world and see ...
There's a big part about Chessable courses that we sometimes forget - they're living things. They’re like books, in that they contain a lot of similar information to chess books. Theory gets updated, mistakes get amended and authors react...
Chess at Colleges and Universities Students and faculty members have many chess opportunities at colleges and universities. Besides playing in over-the-board chess championships, undergraduate and graduate students may participate in the Collegia...
Welcome back to the 45th Chess Olympiad showcase — where we give you a sneak peek into the countries participating in the event, their chess history, and other bits the chess enthusiast in you would love to know! This time, we take ...
In just over 1 month, nearly one thousand of the world’s strongest chess players will descend upon Budapest, Hungary to battle it out in the 45th Chess Olympiad. 193 countries are each sending a team of 5 of their best players to fig...
Your chess improvement is our mission. That’s why we’re happiest when a member of our community makes it to the big leagues. Banh Gia Huy is a Chessable power user, author, FIDE master… and just recently, he added “nat...
This blog is a post by Pavel Lint, a Developer at Chessable. I love the Chessable app! That is why I spend my time developing it, otherwise I would definitely be the next world chess champion and also a supermodel scientist rockstar. I wi...
The following is a post by Karel van Delft. It is an interview on "Social chess is a fascinating paradox" with GM Stefan Kindermann. Kindermann is an Austrian chess Grandmaster who has represented Germany and Austria in various olympiads. In this ...
This guest blog post is by Salomėja Zaksaitė, Professor of Sports Law at the Institute of Management and Political Science at the Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania. Salomėja Zaksaitė has the WGM title. This blog post will undertake an ana...
