Nathaniel Green is a staff writer for Chess.com who writes articles, player biographies, Titled Tuesday reports, video scripts, and more. He has been playing chess for about 30 years and resides near Washington, DC, USA.
IM Alex Astaneh Lopez earned his international master title in 2011, but he is more than just a great chess player. Alex coached the Irish junior team in the 2010 World Youth Championships and has helped countless individuals improve their chess a...
In 1997, the world watched in amazement as the world chess champion, GM Garry Kasparov, lost to IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, Deep Blue, in a high-profile chess match. Now, the most famous "man vs. machine" battle in history—Kasparov vs...
In less than two years, Phoebe Witte has already earned more than 15,000 followers on Instagram and another 17,000 on Twitch. In addition to everything she does on her own channel, Phoebe has also brought her commentary skills to WGM Dina Belenkay...
If you are a chess player and/or fan, you certainly have some thoughts about the game and your preferences within it. Who is the greatest chess player of all-time? Would you rather play with bishops or with knights? What time controls do you...
Chris White is an elementary school teacher of more than 20 years, which has helped make him an excellent coach for scholastic, beginner, and intermediate students. He also runs the Novice Chess Channel on YouTube, with lessons aimed at novice pla...
GM Arturs Neiksans has done it all during his amazing career: player, coach, author, commentator, content creator, and more. The four-time Latvian chess champion (1999, 2011, 2015, and 2019) is currently working closely with IM Levy "GothamChess" ...
As GM Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand and Chess.com are about to embark on a Vote Chess journey together, we recall the first major event where a top grandmaster took on the world in a game of chess. Exactly 25 years ago, back in 1999, GM Garry Kasparov...
NM Robert Ramirez is not just one of Chessable's top authors, he's also a great coach. Although he did not play competitively until he was 12, Robert became a chess master, earning the title in 2013. Now, he imparts his knowledge as a coach and an...
WFM Lile Koridze was the national youth chess champion of Georgia in several age categories and has since become one of the brightest young new stars of the chess media world. Not many people can rightfully claim to have beaten GM Hikaru Nakamura ...
When you watch CM Volen Dyulgerov, a.k.a. Witty Alien, on stream or have a conversation with him, you can't help but be drawn in by his infectious positivity. Creative not only in his video content but also on the chessboard itself, Dyulgerov is r...
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...
Some tests are just harder and more nerve-inducing than others. After IM Levy Rozman in January, then GM Magnus Carlsen and GM David Howell in April, this month, it was time to submit GM Hikaru Nakamura to the polygraph. And as if he didn't g...
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...
What makes a photo "iconic" and not simply interesting or even outstanding? If you find that a difficult question to answer, you are not alone. The two leading dictionaries in the world can't exactly agree either. Merriam-Webster: iconic, ...
As eight of the world's very best grandmasters—GMs Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Alireza Firouzja, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, Gukesh Dommaraju, Vidit Gujrathi, and Nijat Abasov—descend on Toronto, Canada for the...
Last time we talked chess with ChatGPT, it had all sorts of weird ideas and terrible advice about chess. So, of course we left it at that, right? Au contraire. We doubled down—literally. We added another AI, Google's Gemini, into the mix a...
Artificial intelligence is well on its way to controlling the world, or so the computers would have us believe. In reality, computers on their own are still pretty dumb things, even when they appear smart. We spent some time asking ChatGPT some ...
If you haven't heard of Guinness World Records, either you're a time traveler who departed sometime before the idea was developed in 1955, or you're even less aware of popular culture than I am. And I don't know which of those possibilities is mor...
For more than 50 years now, chess players have been statistically rated and ranked based on their record of wins, losses, and draws. These ratings give us a nice set of historical statistical data to use for various purposes. Sometimes, that purpo...
In 2023, GM Magnus Carlsen became the first chess player to eclipse $10,000,000 in lifetime winnings just from major tournaments alone—never mind from sponsorships or royalties or helping to run a business. After winning more than $700,000 i...
The Collegiate Chess League (CCL) began in 2020 and allowed top college chess teams to compete while over-the-board chess was inactive during the pandemic. It has quickly become a premier event in the space, joining the much longer-standing Pan Am...
Who is the best? It's a question we ask about almost every competitive endeavor, and chess is no exception. For many years, we here at Chess.com have bestowed the Chess.com Awards at the end of every year. But it's time to think with longer timesc...
PogChamps is a series of chess tournaments that Chess.com began in 2020. What is PogChamps, where did it come from, and what has it meant for chess? Answers to these questions and more. Origins PogChamps PogChamps 2 PogChamps 3 PogCh...
The game of chess didn't have a world championship until 1886. It took an additional 41 years for there to be a women's world championship, first held in 1927. Despite the shorter time period, there have been as many women's champions, 17,...
If you've enjoyed our previous data visualizations of the most accurate chess players over time and the countries with the most grandmasters over time, then you'll want to check out our latest: The top women over time! With the 2023 FIDE Women's...
