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What's New

· Chessgames will be broadcasting some games from the Corus Chess tournament, starting Saturday the 14th at 7:30am (EST). Show up then and join in on the discussion!

· Chessgames chessforums allow users to conduct chess discussion on their personal user profile pages. You can see recent chessforum activity here.

· Each day, you can sample the powerful Repertoire Explorer for free! Just click on the Player of the Day, and follow the links by the magnifying glass to fully explore his or her openings. For more information on premium membership, please see our Premium Membership Page.

· Want to give the gift of Chess? Chessgames Activation Codes make it easy and fun.

· You can report misconduct in the discussion forums by clicking on the "Blow the Whistle" graphic found at the bottom of each kibitzing area. An administrator will review the case and take necessary actions as soon as possible.

· You can now embed inline chess diagrams into your messages. For instructions, see our FEN Help Page.

· We now have the Chessgames.com Questionnaire Results.

· The Opening Explorer 2.0 is now released! You now can start a library of personal notes for various opening positions, and also explore the repertoires of famous players. See the Opening Explorer FAQ for more information.

· Want to have a menu of the most important Chessgames features at the top of the page? You can activate Enhanced Navigation by visiting your Preferences Page. Check off "Enhanced menu at the top of the screen" and it will appear automatically.

· Chess author Eric Schiller has generously supplied us with many annotated games.

· Little ChessPartner is a Java chess game that you can play online.

· GM Keene has kindly supplied some preliminary notes for his recent book on the Kramnik-Leko match. See his notes here.

· Miss a Game of the Day? Catch up on what you missed with our new Games of the Day Archive.

· Many thanks to chess instructor and author Dan Heisman who provided many annotations to his own games.

· Many thanks to GM Dimitri Reinderman for providing fine photographs of the Netherland's strongest players. See samples on the pages of Sosonko, Timman, Ree, Van Wely, and Van Der Wiel.

· Our new EZ-Search feature allows you to search the database using ordinary language. Just type what you want! For example, type Kasparov-Karpov '85 or Morphy '58 and you'll get the results.

· The Opening Explorer will positively revolutionize online chess study! Analyze the openings move by move, with handy diagrams, starting from the very first move.

Kramnik Kibitzing

Chatting about the Evan's Gambit

Chess author David Brine Pritchard

IBM Supercomputer Deep Blue

Spassky vs Fischer, 1972

Zukertort vs Rosenthal, 1880

Alekhine plays the Alekhine

Young Lasker

Chigorin had a funny way to fight the French Defense

Sokolsky plays 1.b4

Odds-games (and other variants)

Extremely long games (150+ moves)

Game Collection: Games Involving Queen Sacrifices

Game Collection: Aggressive Women

"Hypermodern Chess: Aron Nimzovich" by Fred Reinfeld

"Dreihundert Schachpartien" by Tarrasch