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  • Going Above and Beyond: Christoph Kuberczyk
    by Andrew Kauffman
    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 highlighting the authors who go above and beyond to keep their courses up to date, answer […]
  • Candidate moves: When you see a good move, look for a better one
    by Karel van Delft
    Top image: Online ChessQuiz by Laszlo Moldovan (Schaakacademie Apeldoorn)Bottom image: IM Mark Dvoretsky and GM Artur Yusupov, Apeldoorn 2010 (photo team captain Karel van Delft) Candidate moves:When you see a good move, look for a better one Chessable science team research paper Authors: Karel van Delft, Sipke Ernst, Dries Wedda When you see a good […]
  • Cheating in Online Chess (Part I): Suspicions of Engine Assistance
    by Alexey Root
    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 first of the two parts. Chessable provided support to their research. University students and faculty research sponsors starting or continuing chess-themed research […]
  • Two Ideas Against the King’s Indian Attack
    by GM Alex Colovic
    The King’s Indian Attack. Ever since I was a child, I had mixed feelings about it. The main reason – because there was never an attack. Of course, I knew Fischer’s famous games where he was destroying his opponents (against Myagmarsuren is the most famous destruction), but when I would analyse a bit on my […]
  • Studying ‘All Moves’ Now the Default
    by Andrew Kauffman
    Studying "All Moves" is now the Chessable default – learn more.
  • Going Above and Beyond: Àlvar Alonso Rosell
    by Andrew Kauffman
    GM Alvar Alonso Rosell talks about the update to his course Lifetime Repertoires: Alonso's Catalan on Chessable.
  • Going Above and Beyond: Michiel Abeln
    by Andrew Kauffman
    Learn about Chessable authors who go above and beyond the call of duty. FM Michiel Abeln is the focus of this edition.
  • An Interview with Mikkel Nørgaard from Copenhagen’s House of Chess
    by Karel van Delft
    House of Chess in Copenhagen Mikkel Nørgaard is the Chief Learning Officer for Dansk Skoleskak (Danish School Chess), which recently opened a brain gym in Denmark. I met Nørgaard at the 2023 London Chess Conference, where I presented about science team initiatives such as the Chessable Research Awards, https://www.chessable.com/research_awards. For a video of Chessable Science […]
  • Becoming Invincible (At Your Club)
    by GM Alex Colovic
    Who doesn’t want to become invincible? An impossible task, I will immediately admit, but a goal that is worth striving for. Everybody is striving for it and some, in limited periods of time, manage to achieve it. Capablanca went 8 years without losing a game, Carlsen, Ding Liren and Tiviakov had more than 100 games […]
  • The profile analysis of the youngest GM in chess, Abhimanyu Mishra 
    by Alexey Root
    When Dr. Barry Hymer retired as Chessable’s Chief Science Officer in April of 2022, chess research was already in progress. One of Dr. Hymer’s projects was with Dr. Nemanja Vaci of the University of Sheffield. Vaci’s Chess Prodigy Project continued with Chessable’s support under Chessable’s new Chief Science Officer Dr. Alexey Root. In this blog […]