When Magnus Carlsen joins David Howell and Tania Sachdev to commentate on the Candidates Tournament today he’ll do so with full live video coverage of the players in Yekaterinburg. Those rights are part of a 6-year agreement with the World Chess Federation FIDE for footage of the most important events. The deal sees our sister site Chessable become sponsors of the Candidates Tournament and the full World Championship cycle, while also contributing to a new chess talent development program, the FIDE Chessable Youth Development Fund.
24-year-old Russian Grandmaster Daniil Dubov has been on fire since chess moved online. He beat Sergey Karjakin, Ding Liren and Hikaru Nakamura in knockout matches to win the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge, and has beaten Magnus ...
Ennio Morricone (1928-2020), the Italian composer of music for dozens of top films and TV series, died today in Rome at the age of 91. As well as being one of the most influential film soundtrack writers of the last 60 years he wa...
He's no Grandmaster, he's not even a Candidate Master and David Kramaley hasn't even written a chess book (yet). But here is a man who, at the age of 32, has still managed to have a profound influence on the game.
He's the man with a thousand catchphrases, who always insists on a quick shout out to "my boy" Julian Hodgson. He can spot a "ripped" Grandmaster just from the look in his eye and, as everyone knows, this second to Magnus Carlsen is...
India's Pentala Harikrishna (2719 FIDE) was the first active super-grandmaster to author a course on Chessable. Now the 33-year-old, who now lives in Prague, is flying the flag for the chess learning platform in its first elite even...
IM John Bartholomew (FIDE 2477) is the friendly face of chess on YouTube, a Scandi evangelist, and the man who has introduced countless people to the game.
For a long time, Erwin l'Ami was one of Chessable's "secret" Grandmasters - the GMs that train on the platform but haven't publicly spoken about it. But that has changed. Erwin, a real Chessable devotee, is now a fully-fledged autho...
FM Kamil Plichta (2361 FIDE) is a big star on Chessable. The Polish opening specialist is one of the platform's most popular - and most successful - breakout authors.
Alexander is an excellent explainer and since last year President of the Association of Chess Professionals. The story of how Alex made GM is a triumph of will.
IM Anna Rudolf (2325 FIDE) is one of the great communicators in chess. Having taken a backseat from tournament play three years ago, she has now amassed a mountain of experience as a commentator and analyst.
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