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What's New

· World Correspondence Chess Champion Gert Jan Timmerman has accepted the Chessgames Challenge, and the game is underway! If you haven't signed up yet, visit the registration page now and meet your team mates; this should prove to be the toughest challenge of all!

· Chessgames thanks everybody who stopped by during our live broadcast of the Biel Chess Festival to make it a success! We hope to do this again in the near future.

· FIDE recently released the July rating list. Database records have been updated accordingly.

· The Chessgames "World Team" has defeated grandmaster Yury Shulman at the Chessgames Challenge. Well done!

· The Summer Leg to the ChessBookie Game has begun! It's free for everybody, and the winners get prizes like chess books and premium memberships. Good luck!

· We will be covering the games from Dortmund live. Stop by our Live Broadcast Page each morning at 9:00am (US/Eastern) to watch history unfold.

· Please give a warm welcome to the latest international chess superstar to grace our pages, Grandmaster Maxim Dlugy.

· Chessgames is proud to introduce a revolutionary new chess training tool, Guess-the-Move. It's almost like playing a grandmaster! Non-premium members can try our free sample game.

· Congratulations to chessgames member iron maiden for winning the first annual ChessBookie contest. He has been awarded two free years of Chessgames.com membership, plus any book of his choice from the excellent publishing house, Hardinge Simpole. See the ChessBookie Introduction for more info.

· Please give a warm welcome to the latest grandmaster member of Chessgames.com, British chess superstar Nigel Short.

· The chessgames members have defeated Correspondence Grandmaster Arno Nickel. See the Chessgames Challenge and enjoy the dancing rook!

· Give the gift of Chess! Chessgames Activation Codes make it easy and fun.

· Play team correspondence chess! The new Team Game lets you pit your skills against other chessgames.com members.

· We have a new system for displaying famous historical matches. See Zukertort vs Steinitz 1886 for a sample. Over time, we plan on having all world championships, and more!

· The Opening Explorer now allows you to flip the board, to study openings from Black's perspective.

· All members must now supply a valid email address in order to kibitz. Please see our Account Activation Page if you haven't done so already.

· Game lists now have an area at the bottom called Refine Search. This lets you narrow the results into wins, losses, and draws.

· Our new Game Collections Page allows you to search for game collections by keyword.

· 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.

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

· 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.