The heralding of a new year is an incredible time for reflection, both on the past and the future. We thought we'd ring in 2025 by sharing our resolutions for Chess.com this year. It's always hard to predict what will happen, and we're sure ther...
Hey chess community. We wanted to share an update on two recent server bugs that impacted both the Bullet Chess Championship and the Clash of Claims. In the Clash of Claims, there were two separate issues: the first was an issue where GM Kramnik...
Hey everyone, a quick but important update from me. First, thanks to everyone who chimed in over the last couple weeks here. Mental Health is a big and important topic, and we knew when we announced the partnership with BetterHelp that there wou...
Dear Chess Community, Today we made the difficult decision to discontinue the Pro Chess League. The league truly began in 2005 when commissioner Greg Shahade launched the U.S. Chess League, the first competitive online chess league with teams fr...
If you are looking for more integration with Chess.com please consider joining Our Developer Community where you can find documentation for our Public API available or all to use. Additionally, if you are looking to set up a connected boar...
Chess.com is committed to providing the best platform for both casual and professional players. We invest heavily in protecting the game with both state-of-the-art algorithms and proctoring. Chess.com takes cheating in chess very seriously, and we...
Chess.com and Hans Niemann have resolved their differences and are moving forward. As many readers will be aware, Chess.com and Niemann, as well as Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura, have been engaged in a lawsuit over the past year after Niema...
We're pleased to announce that Chess.com will be back at TwitchCon this year! We'll have official booths at TwitchCon Paris and TwitchCon Las Vegas, full of fun activities and good vibes. Meet some of your favorite content creators, play games, ...
Dear Chess.com community, On January 23rd, we shared an update regarding how much and how quickly chess has grown and how challenging that has been for our company, especially our "Live Server" on which games are played. Growth has only increase...
Dear chess community, On December 31, we had seven million active members on Chess.com in a single day for the first time. On January 20, we had ten million active members. Traffic on Chess.com has nearly doubled since the beginning of December,...
What makes a good puzzle? How are Chess.com's 500k+ puzzles generated? And what's the relationship between your Elo rating and your puzzle rating? To celebrate Puzzle Week 2023, some of Chess.com's top engineering minds helped answer some of you...
Ensuring fair play and protecting the integrity of the game is a priority for Chess.com. We believe that our members should have a voice in how we handle cheating in chess, and in an effort to understand the community's sentiments better, we share...
Chess.com believes that all members of the chess community should have a voice in how we handle cheating in the game we all love. Please share your thoughts with us! We will then publish these results publicly. No personal information will be coll...
We imagine that most of you, like us, have had more friends than ever who are outside the chess community come and ask you about chess, cheating, Hans, Magnus, and everything else that is going on. Every news outlet on the planet seems to have wri...
We appreciate your patience over the last several weeks as we have been working on a comprehensive report on Hans Niemann and the events following Magnus’ resignation in the 2022 Sinquefield Cup. We know many of you have been eager to hear f...
The Jersey women’s chess team is making history this year by attending their very first Olympiad, and Chess.com is happy to announce that we’ll be officially sponsoring the team’s efforts. Trainer and team captain GM Alonso Zap...
With heavy hearts, we share that one of our wonderful community members and chess streamers, HarlemKnite, has passed away suddenly and unexpectedly after being hit by a drunk driver while walking his dog. We want to honor the memory and celebrat...
LOCATION UPDATE: We'll be at the set of benches near the south-west of the park. Here are the exact coordinates: https://goo.gl/maps/g2kmxG2x1zSNcb1R7. Excited for TwitchCon Amsterdam? So are we! Lots of our favorite Twitch personalities from ...
Always wanted to test your skills against a titled player? Now's your chance! To celebrate Chess.com's official Discord server reaching over 25,000 users, IM Elliot Papadiamandis is taking on up to 30 challengers at the same time in an exciting si...
So you want to do a watch party for a Chess.com stream? Great, we love to see it! However, there are some rules we have to abide by to make sure everything goes smoothly. This post will take you through those rules, and give you all the info you n...
In the first days of the invasion of Ukraine led by the Russian government, we issued this statement condemning Russia's invasion and war of aggression and expressing our support for Ukraine. We receive many questions daily about the conflict and ...
Following the recent invasion of Ukraine, Chess.com expresses its strong support for Ukraine and its people. Our thoughts are with the people in Ukraine, among them many chess players and fans and some of our own team members, who are currently ...
About two weeks ago, Chess.com changed the flag of its members from Belarus. Members choosing the country Belarus in their profile were given the white-red-white flag instead of the red-and-green flag with a white-and-red ornament pattern. The r...
