Videos

Today's Top Juniors: Alireza Firouzja
15 min

Today's Top Juniors: Alireza Firouzja

GM GMMelik
| Dec 8, 2020

There's no greater young star than Alireza Firouzja. Many people think that he will someday be a world champion. GM Melik Khachiyan demonstrates what makes Firouzja a special player and different from prodigies of the...

Today's Top Juniors: Nihal Sarin
12 min

Today's Top Juniors: Nihal Sarin

GM GMMelik
| Dec 8, 2020

Nihal Sarin won the 2020 Junior Speed Chess Championship and in the top section, he played a tight match with Super GM, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. Sarin be a top contender in more championships to come. Check out his dem...

My Best Game: NM James Canty
14 min

My Best Game: NM James Canty

FM GMCanty
| Dec 6, 2020

NM James Canty is one of the best chess teachers out there! Check out his best game, an amazing attacking gem against IM Roberto Martin Del-Campo. It's not often you can win a rook and then sacrifice back a rook and a...

My Best Game: NM Sam Copeland
22 min

My Best Game: NM Sam Copeland

NM SamCopeland
| Dec 1, 2020

NM Sam Copeland is the Content Director for Chess.com and plays a mean game of chess himself. In his best ever game he played a beautiful double bishop sacrifice against IM Daniel Fernandez. See if you can work your w...

Breaking Down A Locked Kingside
9 min

Breaking Down A Locked Kingside

GM gmjlh
| Nov 24, 2020

Jon Ludvig Hammer doesn't let closed positions slow down his attacking ideas. In this game against Sebastian Mihajlov, a locked kingside structure wasn't an obstacle as Hammer targeted the opponent's weaknesses and wo...

Komodo Releases A New Dragon!
10 min

Komodo Releases A New Dragon!

NM SamCopeland
| Nov 18, 2020

The Komodo team has released a powerful new chess engine, "Dragon" by Komodo! This engine adds NNUE technology to the already strong Komodo engine, radically increasing its strength by around 200 Elo, and making the a...

Top Five Swindles In SCC History!
17 min

Top Five Swindles In SCC History!

FM GMCanty
| Nov 9, 2020

Join NM James Canty as he breaks down the top 5 swindles in Speed Chess Championship history! These amazing speed chess games come from matches of top grandmasters including Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Anish Giri, Alex...

AlphaZero's Top Five Moves
13 min

AlphaZero's Top Five Moves

GM Ginger_GM
| Nov 3, 2020

When it came onto the scene in December 2017 Alpha Zero promptly destroyed Stockfish, previously the strongest engine in the world, in a match. Check out the five most amazing moves that AlphaZero ever played!

Queen's Gambit: A Review
25 min

Queen's Gambit: A Review

IM DanielRensch
| Oct 29, 2020

Have you seen the new Netflix series, Queen's Gambit? It's an amazing new show about the fictional chess player Beth Harmon! Check out our review with Danny Rensch, Jennifer Shahade and Aran Graham.