Hey there, chess champs, serial blunderers and music mavens! Yours truly is thrilled to announce the debut of my first music album, aptly titled RESPECTFULLY. 📢📢📢Ladies, Gentlemen and Cats! 📢📢📢I am super proud to share that my first music albu...
Welcome to the wacky world of chess, where pieces move in bizarre and mysterious ways! Today, we're going to talk about a move called en passant, which literally means 'in passing' in French. This move is all about capturing pawns as they ...
For legal reasons, this is a joke. Chess.com's latest addition to chess bots, Mittens, has been storming the chess world. It is no secret that Mittens with her whopping one singular Elo is absolutely annihilating every mortal on the planet...
Holidays are just around the corner! If you are still looking for last minute presents, stocking stuffers or just normal presents for the chess fan in your life, I got you covered!These gifts are perfect for any budget, any chess player at any che...
One of the most popular pop icons of all time, Madonna, is known to be a big chess fan. Her chess coach was the Scottish chess champion Alan Norris. There are even sources citing that she was rated above 2000. She has featured chess in some ...
My boy Dvoretsky was really upset when I leaked the theory regarding the mysterious world of 10 Horse Checkmate and broke the world record. Since then, I have been receiving many requests during my live streams, under my YouTube videos, my Twitter...
Let's set some things straight. I am severely allergic to gambits. I start itching when I see one. Recently, I tried to be open minded about it and tried to accept most gambits as a part of richness of the game. Except the Englund Gambit, I don't ...
Chess is a game of calculation, tactics, endless possibilities growing exponentially each and every move. Some calculations show that there are as many as 72,084 possible positions after the second move. More than 9 million different positions aft...
If you are a follower of my platforms, you would know about my ventures on exploring the extreme in chess. Specifically, underpromotion has always been one of my primary fascinations. I have tried to achieve the goal of delivering checkmate with m...
"One more" might be one of the most repeated phrases in online chess. ("blunder" smiles and waves from the other side of the room). It's 3:00 AM and you refuse that this should be your last game, or, okay you will stop playing when you finally hit...
Chess is a beautiful game and this simple chess puzzle demonstrates the beauty of our beloved game.Before I see people screaming in the comments section (premoving). YES, this is one of the simplest chess puzzles you can find out there, but its si...
Solving chess puzzles is one of my favorite activities. I like the learning mode in puzzles as you can customize the rating rage and the themes you would like to explore. Also since there isn't any rating involved, I can make the puzzles a tad mor...
Horrible news struck the world's chess capital St. Louis when a local chess streamer blundered checkmate in one move in a completely winning position, after playing Fortnite for 4 hours. She didn't take the free rook! According to reports Nayc...
Every player at any skill level can find something to love about computer bots on Chess.com, whether it is in the form of harassing Naycir-BOT by under promoting all pawns and checkmating her with 8 knights or just practicing how to refute a crazy...
"No way I am going to play that move!" This is exactly what I said when I saw this puzzle. This is one of those great puzzles where you find the correct move the position collapses. Can you find the winning move for White? When I reali...
It all started with a Minecraft game. My fellow chess streamer friend Anna-Maja and yours truly were playing Murder Mystery, where I was one of the remaining two innocents in the game. Having no gold to purchase a weapon to defend myself, I had to...
It all started around the most wonderful time of the year. Growing up in Turkey, I didn't have Santa to grant my wishes. So this year, I made a long list of wishes: More ELO, no blunders in chess, being able to spot tactics in actual chess games, ...
I accidentally played the most epic bullet game of all times. How? Let me tell the story from its very beginning... This is a story about a girl named Lucky It was just a normal Wednesday afternoon when I was silently sipping a cup of hot...
In this post, I will share 5 easy steps to beat a grandmaster in chess. Although this is not the only way to attain this noble goal, it is a fast and effective way to do it. STEP 1: Find a GMDuh! Of course you will need a chess grandmaster to be...
Here's my long overdue thank you for showing endless love and support from the moment I found the courage to play the royal game until today. 💜 I have done so much in this time frame: reached 1400 in rapid, played two pretty unsuccessful OTB tourn...
As some of you might remember from one of my previous blog posts, I played in a chess match organized by Chess.com along with some of the loveliest ladies in the chess world! I got paired with Andrea Botez as Team NA and IM Anna Rudolf and WF...
You think you experienced every single emotion in chess: fear of flagging when you have a fraction of a second on the clock, nervousness of constant fear of mouse slips, fury of losing a completely winning game because of a one-move blunder, happi...
What would you do if you learned GM Hikaru Nakamura played a chess a game (or two) against you? At first, I thought my followers on Twitch were trolling me, but it didn't take too long for me to realize that GMHikaru was actually playing against m...
Rumor has it, Naycir is a pretty decent GeoGuessr player. She can locate Bhutan in 2 seconds, spot questionable busses in Denmark yet still struggles while deciding whether a place is in South Africa or Eswatini (the answer is always Eswatini). In...
I played in a chess match organized by Chess.com along with some of the loveliest ladies in the chess world! I got paired with Andrea Botez as Team NA and IM Anna Rudolf and WFM Anna Cramling were our opponents as Team EU. Andrea and I were...
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