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On a Tuesday evening at the Mechanics Institute Chess Club in San Francisco, NM Jimmy Heiserman pulled off a once-in-a-lifetime tactic against GM Christopher Yoo.

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The exciting film Grandmasters is set to appear on the big screen on October 11th.

The Chess Olympiad is traditionally one of the biggest chess events of the year.

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IM Mika Karttunen is a Finnish international master, currently third among active Finnish players with a peak FIDE rating there of first place.

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Have you ever had the frustrating experience of chasing an opponent's king and checking it across the board, only for it to escape in the end?

Sweden's under-20 champion in 1991 and national champion in 2006, GM Johan Hellsten soon became a top coach and instructor as well.

Every two years, representatives from almost every country in the world come together and compete for national pride in the Chess Olympiad.

The 46th Chess Olympiad starts on September 16 and features most of the world's top players representing their countries.

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Do you ever feel sorry for the chess pieces that you sacrifice?

Many aspiring chess players would love to take lessons from GM Magnus Carlsen.

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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!

For the vast majority of chess players, the over-the-board experience begins and ends with the Swiss tournament.

3 0 Thursday is a series of three weekly Chess.com tournaments for titled players.

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.

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.

Last week in the Chinese Chess League, GM Aleksandar Indjic faced 1900-rated 12-year-old Guoyu Zhou.

When it comes to chess, August is anything but the "dog days of summer."

On September 9, 2002, during the tense and high‑stakes Russia vs.

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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.

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.

With an impressive knowledge of opening theory, IM David Vigorito has written no fewer than nine books about openings.

Fantasy Chess Grand Prix The Fantasy Chess Grand Prix runs from May through December 2026.