With the release of the new CHESSMASTER less than a week away, we wanted to get some insights into the new program and the thought that went into it. We were lucky enough to interview two managers of the development team about the upcoming release...
We will now begin accepting nominations for the award for best game on chess.com finished in weeks 9/30/07 & 10/07/07. Please send an email, containing a link to the game, or with PGN attached to: [email protected] Nominations should be ma...
No, no, this has nothing to do with LIVE chess. Sorry. That is coming along nicely and I should have some news within a few days. What we are finally doing is getting a little money in the door to help pay for some of the development costs of Ches...
We have completed analysis of the 23 games submitted for game of the bi-week #3 (weeks 09/16/06 & 09/23/06.) Please consider the three games below for your voting pleasure. Please vote in the form of a comment below, stating game 1, ...
We are now accepting nominations for the award for the best games finished on Chess.com during the weeks 09/16/06 & 09/23/06. Please email your favourite game to [email protected]! We hope to see plenty of good games, so don't be shy!&...
Click here to see it. What do you think?
We are working more on the MAPS part of the site which will be further integrated later. Please let me know what you think of this feature! http://www.chess.com/map/players Thank you!
I am pleased to announce that the winner of the award for best game of the weeks commencing 09/02/07 and 09/09/07 was Etienne vs ridwan.Congratulations to them both!(click on MOVE LIST to see game commentary)
The American Chess Association has instituted a new policy in conjunction with its rapidly expanding membership (ACA membership is only $1 for life, American Chess Monthly subscription is separate). Those wishing to sign up as the State affiliate ...
Four nominations were received for the bi-weekly game award (weeks commencing 09/02/07 & 09/09/07.) The decision was taken to allow all four nominated games to be submitted to the public vote. Please submit your vote as a comment below this ne...
In high school I was a parking attendant, then a lifeguard, and then a locksmith. Then briefly after college I had a job as a "marketing guy" (no idea what that means), a job teaching chess to kids, and then an internship last summer as ...
We're going to do an Alpha test of live chess very soon. If you are interested, please message here and let us know!
The first game of the week award was for the period Sunday, 26th August, to Saturday 1st September, 2007. Three games were nominated: billwall vs. chessbot3000 looked vs. Don1 weixi vs. Etienne This made me redundant in my job of re...
In the world of computers, everything comes down to ones and zeroes. Here are a few of our interesting ones and zeros that are worth mentioning: 10,000,000 - the number of chess.com web pages that people will see this month 1,000,000 - the amoun...
I learned a very important lesson about how to build websites when I purchased my first home a few years ago! My wife and I bought a home from a private builder while it was stil in the middle of construction. The foundations were done, the wood f...
Well, we've just launched GROUPS on this site, and we thought we would start up a group for hardcore fans of Chess.com who want insider info into the site. Enjoy!
Sometimes people ask what it is like starting a website like Chess.com. I finally figured out how to explain it: it's like riding a bike. First you have to decide which bike to get on. That was easy for me - chess website, of course :) Then yo...
Well, we had a few really interesting things happen in the last few days, so I thought I would post on them!Today when we woke up one of our servers was acting funky. It was up and running, but it wasn't allowing us to login. We weren't su...
In the last part I talked about the whole background and beginnings of Chess.com. I was surprised to see that so many people thought this site had been around for a long time :) Well, as you know now, it hasn't. I thought I'd share a few m...
The American Chess Association announced today that beginning yesterday, it began sending out 429,000 ACA free Lifetime memberships to youth organizations across the country to give away to youth interested in chess. Youth Organizations inclu...
Over the last few months we have had a lot of great feedback from our members on what they would like to see on the site. Thank you! Today we are releasing a TON of new features for the site. Below is a list and description of the updates: O...
After being live for less than 60 days, Chess.com hit 10,000 members today! Chess.com has attracted chess players from around the world who want to play chess for free and participate in an open community! Thank you to all of our members who...
The Nevada State Chess Association announced today they will offer the first 100 entries that mention chess.com with their entries to the 2007 ACA US Open a complimentary picture of Mikhail Tal who signed these back in 1991 before he died while he...
News Release-For Immediate Release-contact Stan Vaughan [email protected] Colonel Issac Trabue prize to be offered now to winner of 2007 American Chess Association US Open Chess Championship @ Oasis Resort Casino-Mesquite Nevada September...
