Our brand-new Variation Preview is already getting an update! Now, anytime you buy a course, all your tokens refill automatically. So you don’t have to wait until next month. If you’re hearing about Variation Preview for the first time, it lets you try variations from any paid course, completely free. So you can sample the lines or see the teaching style […]

2025 is racing past us and we’re already at the end of January. This month we launched Variation Preview, a new way for you to grab free variations from any Chessable course, so you can make up your own mind on whether the course is for you. Learn more about Variation Preview. Of course, we […]

Tik tik tik tik tik!  That’s the sound of your relaxation ruined by a woodpecker. It stands no more than 2 feet tall and weighs less than a pound. But it holds the secret to skyrocketing your chess rating! Inspired by the bird’s focused and repetitive drilling, Swedish Grandmaster Hans Tikkanen crafted a training method. One which […]

“For me, as a photographer, the most beautiful thing is to report on a chess tournament and the emotions that players show throughout.” – Lennart Ootes In every tournament, there is more than just the games. There is a world of emotion, stories and moments which are captured by brilliant photographers like Lennart Ootes. The […]

“Could you explore this position a little please – for example, if White plays 12 Rhg1 do we play Rc8… still feels rather unclear?” asked a learner inside the course Master the French Defense. Within 24 hours, NM Bryan Tillis had answered with a model game to guide the student. Tillis is known as one […]

Applications Now Open for Chessable Research Awards 2025 Cycle Chessable, the leading online chess learning platform and part of Chess.com, is now accepting applications for the 2025 cycle of the Chessable Research Awards. Undergraduate and graduate students, along with their faculty research sponsors, are invited to apply. The Chessable Research Awards aim to promote chess […]

The 2024 Chessable Research Awards had five student winners, including Julia Engel, the author of this guest blog post. With the gender gap in leadership remaining an important area of study in economics, Engel uses chess, specifically Chess.com’s Titled Tuesday, to study if men or women are equally likely to reenter in subsequent weeks after […]

An update regarding the recent changes on Chessable from the Chessable team.

You can now try any variation of any paid Chessable course for free with our newest feature, Variation Preview.  Every 30 days, you’ll receive 10 free variation tokens which you can use to try out any course you’d like.  Here’s how:  Variation Preview is live now, so give it a try!

Ahora puedes probar gratis cualquier variante de cualquier curso de pago de Chessable con nuestra nueva función «Vista previa de variantes». Cada 30 días, recibirás 10 tokens gratuitos para variantes que podrás utilizar para probar cualquier curso que desees. He aquí cómo: La función Vista previa de variantes ya está disponible, ¡pruébala!