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IT"S OFFICIAL - my Scandi course was released on 5th May of 2025 (see below!)✨ My Patreon page✨ Support me by upgrading to Chess.com Premium! (small % goes to me)✨ Get My Chessable courses (see also below): I am a chess grandmaster, chess coach, author, commentator and streamer! My previous students are now grandmasters Nikita Meshkovs, Toms Kantans, Laura Rogule, as well as WIM Katrina Amerika, WFM Elizabete Limanovska, FM Arturs Bernotas, and others. My official chess club! TikTok channel! I've also written four popular databases for Modern Chess:   Also, check out my very first lesson course for Chess.com - Latvian School of Chess! See you at the chess board!Yours,Arturs Neiksans

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Nathaniel Green is a staff writer for Chess.com who writes articles, player biographies, Titled Tuesday reports, video scripts, and more. He has been playing chess for about 30 years and resides near Washington, DC, USA.

Creador de contenido de Ajedrez  Twitch: http://twitch.tv/ajedrez  Maestro FIDE y entrenador de ajedrez. Editor y director de Capakhine, la revista de ajedrez para los niños y sus padres. Siempre pensando en crear contenidos que puedan ser útiles para el progreso ajedrecístico. Creativo, bloguero, youtuber y un poco friki Tiktok: http://tiktok.com/@capakhine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/entrenadordeajedrez Twitter: https://twitter.com/capakhine Web personal: http://entrenadordeajedrez.com Blog: http://entrenadorajedrez.blogspot.com.es Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/luisfsiles Revista de ajedrez para niños y monitores: http://capakhine.es

When in 1985 Greg Serper was invited to the famous Kasparov-Botvinnik school, he was really inspired by Kasparov's story. Garry insisted that he was destined to become the 13th World Champion since he was born on April 13. Since Greg was born on September 14 he saw it as a very good omen. Alas, this great sign was enough only to tie for first in the World Junior Championship (1988) and win the European Junior Championship (1989), World Open (1999) and a bunch of national and international tournaments. These days Greg teaches chess full time, writes a weekly column for Chess.com, and is proud to have dozens of National and State Champions among his students.

National Master Dane Mattson. Chess.com Daily Puzzle curator, Lessons author. Fellow traveler on the road to chess improvement and fullfilment. Join us for the 2025 Improvement Challenge!   https://www.chess.com/news/view/announcing-chess-improvement-challenge-2025 Coach Dane's 0-600 Beginner Study Plan:  https://www.chess.com/article/view/coach-danes-beginner-improvement-guide Check out my YouTube channel for additional instructive chess content!  https://www.youtube.com/@danemattson

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Pedro Pinhata is the Writing Lead for Chess.com. He writes articles, feature announcements, event pages, and more. He has been playing chess since 2019 and lives in Brazil.

Feb 19-20, 2021:   playing for AMEX in FIDE Corporate Team Challenge.  We are in West Zone "B".   Tune in for streaming commentary at   youtube.com/fidechannel  April 2011 News:  my instructional chess app "Chess U", more than a year in the making, has arrive on iTunes for iPhone and iPad.  Go get it for free.  The web page including a product video is:  http://www.seventhrank.com/  We have courses on Rook Endings, Play Like Anand, Play Like Tal, and a free course on Attacking.  We also have coming a course on the 10 Most Famous Games of all time (Classics 101) as well as a course later this summer by GM Perelshteyn on the Accelerated Dragon.  Also planned are beginner courses for basic checkmates and so forth.   Here is the direct link for the Chess U on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.co...

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I'm the Head of Community for Chess.com. I earned the National Master title in 2012, and in 2014, I returned to my home state of South Carolina to start Strategery: Chess and Games. In late 2015, I began working for Chess.com and haven't looked back since. You can find my personal content on Twitch , Twitter , and YouTube where I further indulge my love of chess.

I am a chess Candidate Master, FIDE Instructor, and a chess coach, particularly focused on adult improvement. I have a PhD in the field of cognitive science. Proud Chessable Author of the Year 2024: https://www.chessable.com/blog/annoucing-the-winners-of-the-2024-chessable-awards/ I am also a Chessable author with 10 published courses so far: https://www.chessable.com/author/Can_Kabadayi/ My most recent course 'Preventing Blunders in Chess': https://www.chessable.com/preventing-blunders-in-chess/course/258968/ My calculation course won the Best Tactics Course of the Year Award in 2023: https://www.chessable.com/blog/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2023-chessable-awards/ I won the Chessable Community Author of the Year Award in 2022: https://www.chessable.com/blog/announcing-the-winners-of...

We finally have a strong and well organized opening course for White and one for Black. With these and the FREE beginner to master level playlist from this YouTube channel, it’s all about consistency over an extended period of time 😎💪 ⬇️ Course on Black Opening (Counterblow)   https://www.chessable.com/ramirez Course on White Opening (First Strike)      https://www.chessable.com/firststrike Free Playlist (beginner to master level)     https://rb.gy/hw61wt All the Endgame Knowledge I have           https://rb.gy/zels9y All the Strategy Knowledge I have             https://rb.gy/g1iqro

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Hi! I'm Lula. I started playing chess in December 2020 and now I'm a Chess.com streamer! I stream chess Mon - Fri on Twitch. If you want to play a game VS me, check out my Twitch stream where I often play against viewers. If we got matched up together in a game, please don't check out my stream until after the game ends, so that we both have equal chances to win. Check out my official Chess.com Lessons series on HOW TO ANALYZE YOUR CHESS GAMES Links: Twitch Twitter Instagram

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-Former Canadian Girls Chess Champion (2001, 1999 (tied for 1st)) -World Youth Chess Festival competitor (Girls U14 (1998); Girls U16 (2000)) -Among top 10 highest-rated Canadian Women (1999-2001) -Busy mom by day, chess dreamer by night Written chess.com articles: Here The story of my life: Here Instagram

I am a New York-based writer, documentary producer, and chess expert (USCF rating ~2060). My insane obsessive hobby for a long time has been to play through old chess games, more or less in chronological order. I am interested in the evolution of chess and looking to follow various ideas as they develop over time, but most of all, I am interested in the players and in treating them sort of the way an art survey book would treat artists. The theory is that each top player – to consistently defeat other grandmasters – has to bring something new to the game, has to have a philosophy of chess that sets them apart.  I am thrilled to share that there is now a book version of the blog available at Amazon.com.  For non-chess-writing (if there really is such a thi...

Peter Doggers joined a chess club a month before turning 15 and still plays for it. He used to be an active tournament player and holds two IM norms. Peter has a Master of Arts degree in Dutch Language & Literature. He briefly worked at New in Chess, then as a Dutch teacher and then in a project for improving safety and security in Amsterdam schools. Between 2007 and 2013 Peter was running ChessVibes, a major source for chess news and videos acquired by Chess.com in October 2013. As our Director News & Events, Peter writes many of our news reports. In the summer of 2022, The Guardian’s Leonard Barden described him as “widely regarded as the world’s best chess journalist.”Peter's first book The Chess Revolution is out now!Company Contact and News Accredita...

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Vanessa West is a National Master, a chess teacher, and a writer for Chess.com. In 2017, they won the Chess Journalist of the Year award. You can follow them on X: Vanessa__West