New Mastery Course: Games That Changed Chess History

This month we released Games That Changed Chess History by IM Anna Rudolf. Rudolf is always a dedicated and vibrant presenter, and in this series, she breaks down ten important games which impacted the course of chess. It's a great introduction to some spectacular games and a valuable overview of chess.

Course Outline

This course features ten distinct lessons covering hundreds of years of chess history. While the course presents a satisfying narrative when completed sequentially, users can complete lessons in any order they choose.

• The First Modern Chess Game Ever Recorded
• The Romantic Era
• Philidor's Pawn Revolution
• The Shock of Positional Chess
• The Biggest Rivalry In Chess
• Botvinnik: Master of the Soviet Chess School
• Bobby Fischer Makes Chess History
• Karpov vs. Kasparov
• Judit Polgar
• Deep Blue vs Kasparov

A Favorite Puzzle

Every lesson features both a video and five challenge questions to help you test yourself on how well you retained some of of the core points and positions in the video. Test yourself with one of our favorite challenges from this course. Can you play better than Tarrasch did against a young Nimzowitsch?

Other Recent Courses Released

Every week, we are releasing multiple new lessons in chess.com/lessons, and we want to make sure interested users know of some of the great new content coming out. For those who haven't tried lessons yet, they are interactive learning content featuring both short videos and challenging questions on a wide variety of topics from openings to endgames, tactics and strategy, master games, and much more!

• Get Better At Bullet by GM Aman Hambleton
• The Classical Dutch by GM Simon Williams
• Deep Concepts Explained by GM Jon Ludvig Hammer
• Bishop Battles by GM Jon Ludvig Hammer