This guest blog post is by Salomėja Zaksaitė, Professor of Sports Law at the Institute of Management and Political Science at the Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania. Salomėja Zaksaitė has the WGM title. This blog post will undertake an ana...
All applications have been reviewed, and the winners have been chosen for the 2024 Chessable Research Awards! From the 2024 applications, Chessable selected three winners in the graduate student category and two winners in the undergraduate studen...
The following is a post by Karel van Delft, GM Sipke Ernst, and Dries Wedda. It introduces their research paper on the systematic training of finding good candidate moves in chess. Laying out the historical context, the authors discuss thinking sy...
The following is a guest post by IM Richard Palliser. A prolific opening theoretician and Chessable author, IM Palliser recently came out with his new course 64 Chess Concepts You Should Really Know, in collaboration with Jonathan Arnott and the W...
Héctor Laiz Ibáñez and Raúl Sánchez García are currently conducting a qualitative study on cheating in online chess, whose preliminary findings they describe in a two-part blog entry. This blog post is the...
There’s a big part about Chessable courses that we sometimes forget – they’re living things. Mistakes are fixed, theory gets updated, and authors react to the latest student questions. So in our new series, Going Above and Beyo...
Raúl Sánchez García and Héctor Laiz Ibáñez are currently conducting a qualitative study on cheating in online chess, whose preliminary findings they describe in a two-part blog entry. This blog post is the...
There's a big part about Chessable courses that we sometimes forget - they're living things. Mistakes are fixed, theory gets updated, and authors react to the latest student questions. So in our new series Going Above and Beyond, we're hi...
There’s a big part about Chessable coursers we sometimes forget – they’re living things. They’re like books, in that they contain a lot of similar information to chess books. However, books don’t have video. books d...
When Dr. Barry Hymer retired as Chessable's Chief Science Officer in April of 2022, chess research was already in progress. One of Dr. Hymer's projects was with Dr. Nemanja Vaci of the University of Sheffield. Vaci's Chess Prodigy Project continue...
After a long break, Coach’s Corner is back! But what we lost in time we’ll make up for in spades with the insights from this edition’s coach. Candidate Master Vjekoslav Nemec is a 4-time Chessable author, former Chessable...
The Chessable Research Awards for the Fall 2023 cycle had two winners, undergraduate student Aditya Gupta and graduate student Denise Trippold. In this guest blog post, Woman FIDE Master Denise Trippold writes about her research, which was...
The Chessable Research Awards for the Fall 2023 cycle had two winners, undergraduate student Aditya Gupta and graduate student Denise Trippold. In this guest blog post, Aditya Gupta discusses the research he did with Dr. Nick Polson, Dr. V...
It's the end of the year! That means it's time to reflect on 2023 and set goals for the new year. That's why today we are releasing two features to help you with both: your 2023 Chessable Year in Review and some new badges to hunt in 2024! Year ...
The Chessable Research Awards for the Summer 2023 cycle had four winners, undergraduate student Michael Martins and graduate students Jordan von Hippel, Jérôme Genzling, and Jane Zhang. In this guest blog post, Jane Zhang reviews re...
Coach’s Corner is your inside look into what top coaches and authors think is best way to improve your chess. In this edition, we're interviewing none other than Grandmaster Johan Hellsten. Hellsten quite literally wrote the book on strate...
The Chessable Research Awards for the Summer 2023 cycle had four winners, undergraduate student Michael Martins and graduate students Jordan von Hippel, Jérôme Genzling, and Jane Zhang. In this guest post, Jérôme Genzli...
The Chessable Research Awards for the Summer 2023 cycle had four winners, undergraduate student Michael Martins and graduate students Jordan von Hippel, Jérôme Genzling, and Jane Zhang. In this guest blog post, Jordan von Hippel des...
During the Chess Punks Tournament, we interviewed the 8 coaches who helped prepare the finalists of the tournament in a series called Coach’s Corner. The tournament is now over, but Coach’s Corner is here to stay with top coaches&rsq...
One of the initiatives of the Chessable science team is “Featured Projects.” Separate from the Chessable Research Awards, which are for undergraduate and graduate students and their faculty research sponsors, featured projects may be l...
With the Chess Punks Tournament Final just 3 days away, we wrap up our Coach's Corner series. We're interviewing each of the 8 coaches preparing the players for the final showdown, soliciting their top chess improvement tips. Our last (but...
Every fighting game has one. That lone wolf that goes their own way with an offbeat style. Everyone thinks they're crazy…until they wield their Excalibur all the way to a championship title. In Smash, that’s aMSa with ...
The days are counting down until the Chess Punks Tournament Final this Sunday! And since the tournament is all about chess improvement, we continue our Coach's Corner series, soliciting the best chess improvement tips from the 8 coaches pr...
Coach's Corner continues! And we're not stopping until we've interviewed all 8 coaches preparing the finalists in the Chess Punks Tournament Finals this Sunday. Today's featured coach is Grandmaster Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko - 2016 Ukrainian Chess ...
The Chess Punks Tournament Final draws ever nearer! The tournament, streaming on Chess.com this Sunday, October 22, is a PogChamps style tournament where ambitious adult improvers - known as the Chess Punks - will battle it out. Co...
