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What's New

· The rematch of the original Chessgames Team Game is now open for registration. Sign-up today and get ready to play starting December 1st.

· Little Chess Partner now has an "Analysis Mode" which lets you play the game from any specified position.

· Congratulations to World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand for defending his title against Vladimir Kramnik in the 2008 World Chess Championship.

· We now have completed our History of the World Chess Championship, a historical overview of the most coveted title in chess.

· Chessgames is proud to be sponsored both by The House of Staunton, manufacturer of the world's finest chess sets and boards, and by New in Chess, publishers of "the best chess magazine in the world." Both of these fine companies deserve our patronage.

· The October 2008 FIDE rating list has been published and incorporated into our database. Topalov is now the highest rated player at 2791, and Morozevich is a close second at 2787.

· Chessgames member "SwitchingQuylthulg" has come in first place in the ChessBookie Summer Leg. He wins a free one-year membership to Chessgames.com and qualifies for the championships which start in January. For more information on the ChessBookie game see our ChessBookie Welcome Page; now is a perfect time to get started, as the Fall Leg has just begun.

· The chessgames members have defeated former World Correspondence Champion Gert Jan Timmerman. See the Chessgames Challenge and enjoy the dancing rook!

· Chessgames now has over 100,000 registered members! We thank every single one of you for helping us become the best chess site on the internet. If you're not a member yet, invest a minute to register a free account. It's easy, confidential, and will give you access to some of our coolest features.

· What does the future hold? Find out with our new Chess Forecast feature. This is the blue pie-chart you see to the right; it predicts the outcome of an upcoming or current chess game based on data collected from our ChessBookie Game.

· We now have new powerful hardware to better serve our members. Thanks to all of the premium members who made this upgrade possible.

· We now have over 10,000 Game Collections compiled by our members.

· The 2007 Chessgames Holiday Present Hunt (sponsored by The House of Staunton, New in Chess, Impala Press) is now over. You can see all of the clues and their soutions at the Clues Page. The grand prize--the Reykjavik II Series Chess Set by the House of Staunton--was won by member Hesam7. Congratulations to Hesam and all the other winners!

· 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!

· 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.

· 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.

· 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.

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