With the new explorer tool, you can see data from over 30 BILLION games played on Chess.com! 🤯

Get all your pieces in the game! ♟️

Today's daily puzzle!! White to move, mate in 1! 🔥

Titled Tuesday's prize pool is INCREASING! 📈 The new $10,000 weekly prize pool will reward a wider range of players with new categories celebrating debuts, comebacks, brilliancies, and more!!

Get ready for India Rising! 🇮🇳♟️ The Esports World Cup has partnered with JioBlast for an India-focused EWC qualifier starting May 16th open to everyone! One player will earn their ticket - who will you be rooting for?

Checkmatey on the board?? 🏴‍☠️  Beat all five bots of our May before they sail into the sunset! http://go.chess.com/pirate_bots

Happy Mother's Day 💚👑

12 years. 6 months. 26 days. Argentine star Faustino Oro will become the second-youngest chess GRANDMASTER ever after securing his GM norm! 🇦🇷📈

Only 3% of first moves on chess.com are 1.Nf3 😔

Highest Ever Chess.com Blitz Ratings ⚡️ 3454 - Hikaru Nakamura 3401 - Magnus Carlsen 3366 - Alireza Firouzja 3365 - Sina Movahed 3365 - Nihal Sarin 3350 - Denis Lazavik 3336 - Jan-Krzysztof Duda 3335 - Ediz Gurel 🆕📈

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Daily Puzzle time! - 05/08/2026 - Difficulty: HIGH White to move!

Introducing the LARGEST game database in history with over 31 BILLION chess games to learn from! 🤯 You can now study every move ever played by Chess.com members, including how many are blundering Scholar's Mate and whether the BongCloud is actually useful! 🧭 https://f.mtr.cool/dfrshsljzi

what's this stand for? wrong answers only

Tony Award Nominated actor chess bots?! It’s more likely than you think! Face off against Svetlana & The Arbiter from CHESS The Musical, right on Chess.com! 🎭

Addition by subtraction! White to move 🫵

The iconic Emma Watson ✨

technology is beautiful sometimes

easiest W ever on the next move

BREAKING: The Bishop has arrived at the #MetGala 👏

what's your FAVORITE opening? ♟️

what were the chess developers doing for 1,000 years??

Julien Song vs. The World starts TOMORROW 🔥 Join now! 🌍 https://f.mtr.cool/zeojabqvbe

I've finished top 2 in all my chess games ever 😎

Happy 85th birthday to the FIRST woman EVER to become a chess grandmaster, and five-time women's world champion from 1962 to 1978, Nona Gaprindashvili 🙌🏆

what board theme do you use? 🎨

50? 200? 1000?!?! How much elo are YOU getting this weekend?

agree?

POP QUIZ - is this position achievable? 🧐

It's time for the big reveal - now YOU can get coached by the greatest woman chess player of all time, GM Judit Polgar! Select Judit as your coach and get tailored feedback in game review, puzzles, lessons, and more!

Anna found the winning moves, can you? 🧐 https://f.mtr.cool/hhcwtygbbs

Happy birthday to the incredible content-creating ad cow-playing, Anna Cramling! 🥳🎉

chat what's my move here

spotting brilliants w/ his zenni’s 🤓 & you can too! We're giving away 10 Zenni x Chess.com gift bags that include blue light blocking glasses! 👀 Link in comments!

The BIGGEST rivalries in chess

check it out - which move is best?! ➡️

Magnus Carlsen just won the $250,000 Chess.com Open on an iPad because he didn't have a computer and couldn't use his wife's MacBook.

Magnus Carlsen is the 2026 Chess.com Open CHAMPION 🏆 Despite an incredible Grand Finals performance from Duda, it was Magnus who came out on top out of 1,598 total competitors! 🌍

MAGNUS CAN'T BELIEVE HIS BLUNDER AND DUDA WINS THE FIRST MATCH OF THE GRAND FINALS!!! 😱😱

Happy Birthday to Jan-Krzysztof Duda! The 2021 World Cup winner is playing Magnus Carlsen in the Chess.com Open GRAND FINALS right now!! 🎉

this is why horses are better 👍

how would you explain chess who's never heard of it

what's this?????????????

HEARTBREAKING: Experts are saying that the London is a good opening. More soon...

We started with 1598 players in the Chess.com Open, only 6 remain.  - Magnus Carlsen  - Jan-Krzysztof Duda - Denis Lazavik - Sina Movahed - Nihal Sarin - Abdusattorov Up to 2 more players can earn a spot in the Esports World Cup now that Magnus has secured top 3 and was already qualified 🔥

why is he actually playing a $250,000 event on a tablet 😭😭