PRO Week is Back!
From September 30th to October 6th, it’s Chessable PRO week. That means we’re giving away a free week of PRO membership to every single one of you - even if you’ve previously had a free week! It’s completely free...
Turn Your Phone Into An On-Demand, Offline-Ready Chess Gym In 4 Steps With The Chessable App
Fun fact: people are glued on their smartphones almost 4 hours every single day. How you want to spend those hours is entirely up to you. But if you’d love to take 30 to 45 minutes to sharpen your game and become the best play...
Lessons from a Composition GM: How Chess Compositions Build Tactical Vision and Creative Thinking
This is a post by Karel van Delft, Science Project Manager at Chessable. GM Yochanan Afek explains a study in café Batavia in Amsterdam to GM Tal Baron, IM Merijn van Delft and IM Manuel Bosboom. (Photo credit, 2017, Lennart Oote...
Olympiad Spotlight: Hungary
This year’s Olympiad is hosted by the beautiful city of Budapest. And since Hungary is the host country, it’s only fitting that we take some time to discuss Hungarian chess. Hungary has an impressive record in the Olympiad - w...
Going Above and Beyond: Sam Shankland
Welcome to the latest installment of “Going Above & Beyond,” where we celebrate the authors who go the extra mile to update their courses. So that their students have the best information available, especially in their openings....
Olympiad Spotlight: United States
With the 2024 Chess Olympiad in Budapest drawing closer, we are continuing our Olympiad Spotlight features. This time we are celebrating another prominent chess nation - the United States. Home to some of the best players in the world and...
Olympiad Spotlight: Germany
In the weeks leading up to the Chess Olympiad (10-23 September in Budapest), we at Chessable are on a mission to spotlight some of the most prominent participating countries and their Chessable representatives. And of course, Germany can’...
Olympiad Spotlight: Spain
The 45th Chess Olympiad will take place in Budapest, Hungary from September 10-23, and to commemorate the event, we are highlighting some of the teams taking part, alongside a sale on the authors of these teams' courses. In this Olympiad ...
Olympiad Spotlight: Netherlands
The Olympics is over and the world will now focus its full attention on the main event - the Chess Olympiad! If one team could truly be described as the Chessable team, it would be the Netherlands. The Dutch connection at Chessable is ver...
Olympiad Spotlight: India
It is the Chess Olympiad season! Taking place from the 10th to the 23rd of September in Budapest, thousands of players will be representing their countries in the battle to win one of the most prestigious tournaments in the chess world and see ...
Going Above & Beyond: Nils Grandelius
There's a big part about Chessable courses that we sometimes forget - they're living things. They’re like books, in that they contain a lot of similar information to chess books. Theory gets updated, mistakes get amended and authors react...
Chess at Colleges and Universities
Chess at Colleges and Universities Students and faculty members have many chess opportunities at colleges and universities. Besides playing in over-the-board chess championships, undergraduate and graduate students may participate in the Collegia...
Olympiad Spotlight: Nordic Countries
Welcome back to the 45th Chess Olympiad showcase — where we give you a sneak peek into the countries participating in the event, their chess history, and other bits the chess enthusiast in you would love to know! This time, we take ...
Olympiad Spotlight: UK
In just over 1 month, nearly one thousand of the world’s strongest chess players will descend upon Budapest, Hungary to battle it out in the 45th Chess Olympiad. 193 countries are each sending a team of 5 of their best players to fig...
Banh Gia Huy: From Chessable User to National Chess Champion
Your chess improvement is our mission. That’s why we’re happiest when a member of our community makes it to the big leagues. Banh Gia Huy is a Chessable power user, author, FIDE master… and just recently, he added “nat...
Get ahead with the Chessable app
This blog is a post by Pavel Lint, a Developer at Chessable. I love the Chessable app! That is why I spend my time developing it, otherwise I would definitely be the next world chess champion and also a supermodel scientist rockstar. I wi...
Interview of GM Stefan Kindermann by Karel van Delft
The following is a post by Karel van Delft. It is an interview on "Social chess is a fascinating paradox" with GM Stefan Kindermann. Kindermann is an Austrian chess Grandmaster who has represented Germany and Austria in various olympiads. In this ...
Online Cheating and Human Rights
This guest blog post is by Salomėja Zaksaitė, Professor of Sports Law at the Institute of Management and Political Science at the Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania. Salomėja Zaksaitė has the WGM title. This blog post will undertake an ana...
Announcing the Winners of the 2024 Chessable Research Awards
All applications have been reviewed, and the winners have been chosen for the 2024 Chessable Research Awards! From the 2024 applications, Chessable selected three winners in the graduate student category and two winners in the undergraduate studen...
Candidate Moves: When You See a Good Move, Look for a Better One
The following is a post by Karel van Delft, GM Sipke Ernst, and Dries Wedda. It introduces their research paper on the systematic training of finding good candidate moves in chess. Laying out the historical context, the authors discuss thinking sy...
64 Concepts You Should Really Know: A Course by a Chess Team, for the Club Player
The following is a guest post by IM Richard Palliser. A prolific opening theoretician and Chessable author, IM Palliser recently came out with his new course 64 Chess Concepts You Should Really Know, in collaboration with Jonathan Arnott and the W...
Cheating in Online Chess (Part II): The Analysis of Engine Use
Héctor Laiz Ibáñez and Raúl Sánchez García are currently conducting a qualitative study on cheating in online chess, whose preliminary findings they describe in a two-part blog entry. This blog post is the...
Going Above and Beyond: Christoph Kuberczyk
There’s a big part about Chessable courses that we sometimes forget – they’re living things. Mistakes are fixed, theory gets updated, and authors react to the latest student questions. So in our new series, Going Above and Beyo...
Cheating in Online Chess (Part 1): Suspicions of Engine Assistance
Raúl Sánchez García and Héctor Laiz Ibáñez are currently conducting a qualitative study on cheating in online chess, whose preliminary findings they describe in a two-part blog entry. This blog post is the...
Going Above and Beyond: Àlvar Alonso Rosell
There's a big part about Chessable courses that we sometimes forget - they're living things. Mistakes are fixed, theory gets updated, and authors react to the latest student questions. So in our new series Going Above and Beyond, we're hi...
