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GM Nikita Vitiugov is a former Russian champion who reached a peak ranking of #15 in the world. He has represented both his native Russia and England at the Che…
John Hartmann is the award-winning editor of Chess Life magazine, a longtime book reviewer, and an expert on ChessBase, engines, and chess technology. He joined…
GM Melik Khachiyan is a California-based, award-winning chess trainer and the 2023 U.S. Senior Champion. Melik is also the captain of the U.S. Women's Olympiad …
FM Andrey Terekhov is an award-winning author, dad, and software engineer. For the last decade or so, Andrey has been consumed with writing a detailed biography…
The 2026 FIDE World Championship is just weeks away, so we rounded up a favorite guest to help preview it. GM Jan Gustafsson is a renowned opening theoretician,…
Do you ever start online games hoping your opponent will play the line you’ve been studying? Unfortunately, they usually don’t, and you don’t get many opportuni…
Landing an attack is one of the sweetest joys of chess. Who doesn’t love the aesthetic beauty of sacrificing pieces and satisfaction of watching a plan come tog…
This guest post was written by FIDE Master Christoph von Puttkamer (né Kuberczyk). He is a Publishing Manager at Chessable, author and passionate runner. Back i…
It’s tempting to think of companies as faceless, evil entities – “more machine than man”, as one Jedi knight famously put it. And while we are proudly evil, we …
For years in the Chessable forum, people kept asking for Opening Explorer to: ✅ Filter lines based on the courses they own ✅ Search for a position in the Chessa…
