Have you ever played a perfect chess game? See if you can find the moves from amazing games that earned 100% Game Review scores.
There's nothing more terrifying in chess than being on the receiving end of a dangerous sacrifice. See if you can defeat these daring, but flawed sacrifices.
The Chess.com Curriculum Director, Jeremy Kane, put together his list of the ten most beautiful chess moves ever played. See if you can spot them and let us know what other moves should have made the list.
Find the moves in great games by some of today's top chess streamers.
Chess has been a staple of movies for generations. Check out some of the greatest chess movie moments from James Bond to Harry Potter!
Levy Rozman, AKA Gothamchess, is the most popular online chess teacher in the world! He's currently retired from classical chess, but a monster at blitz. Find the moves from some of his best attacking games!
In 2013 Magnus Carlsen defeated Vishy Anand to become World Champion. Since then he has defended his title against Anand again, Sergey Karjakin, Fabiano Caruana, and Ian Nepomniachtchi.
GM Daniel (Danya) Naroditsky is not only a great chess broadcaster, but he's also one of the strongest blitz and bullet players in the world and capable of competing with anyone at classical chess! Check out five of his best games!
In 2007 FIDE held an eight-player World Championship tournament, which was won by Vishy Anand. He then joined the lineage of match champions by defeating Vladimir Kramnik in a 2008 match. He further defended his title in 2010 against Veselin Topalov and in 2012 against Boris Gelfand.
Richard Rapport is one of the most exciting players in chess today and a serious contender to qualify for the next world championship match. Chess out some of his best games!
Jan-Krzysztof Duda is a Polish Super GM and first-time candidate for the World Championship. See if you can find the moves from his greatest games!
Teimour Radjabov won the Chess World Cup tournament in 2019, sat out the 2020 Candidates, and will be competing in the 2022 Candidates to challenge Magnus Carlsen. Check out his best games!
Leonid Kubbel was a Russian composer of endgame studies. See if you can solve some of his trickiest and most beautiful problems.
Genrikh Kasparyan was one of the greatest endgame composers of all time. See if you can work your way through some of his most beautiful studies.
Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov fought five world championship matches between 1984 and 1990. Check out the highlights from the greatest rivalry in the history of chess!
Oleg Pervakov is maybe the greatest living chess study composer! He is the three-time world composition champion! Check out his best studies!
Ian Nepomniachtchi dominated consecutive candidates tournaments and nearly became world champion. Try to find some of his best moves.
In 1972 Bobby Fischer broke the Soviet control of the World Championship by winning the "Match of the Century" against Boris Spassky. However, in 1975 Fischer refused to defend his title and another great champion, Anatoly Karpov ascended to the throne!
In 1963 Tigran Petrosian unseated Botvinnik as World Champion for the final time. Petrosian was a defensive genius and held his title again in 1966 against Boris Spassky. In 1969 Spassky won another candidates cycle and defeated Petrosian to take the title.
Pal Benko was both a world-class grandmaster and an amazing composer of chess studies. See if you can solve some of the most interesting chess studies by a chess legend.
Henri Rinck was a French study composer in the first half of the 1900s. He specialized in endgame studies and contributed many creative ideas. See if you can solve some of his most creative compositions!
Pogchamps 1 and 2 have been huge tournaments with some of the top streamers in the world. See if you can find the tactics that decided many of their games!
Anish Giri is a candidate to challenge for the world title and is one of the top trash talkers on Twitter as well. Check out how he backs up his words with amazing wins against the world elite.
Alexey Troitsky was one of the founders of chess study composition. He wrote many amazing studies and also left his mark on several practical endgames. His studies frequently included themes of dominated bishops and moments when it's OK to allow promotion. Get ready for a challenge and some of the most beautiful studies ever composed!
Can you find the moves of Queen's Gambit star Beth Harmon as she progresses from beginner to world-class player?
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