2023 Chess.com Awards: Date, Time, Voting, Nominations, Livestream and MORE

Chess.com Awards are hosted annually to celebrate and honor the achievements within the chess world. Furthermore, each year’s awards involve active participation from the chess grandmasters, and the 2022 Chess Tour had the most amazing battle between Magnus Carlsen and Nakamura, which had thousands of fans biting their nails.

The awards also have a large variety of categories. The large variety of categories makes it fair for everyone involved. These awards gather more than 10,000 voters and are attended by chess grandmasters from across the world. 

Furthermore, in 2022, this event witnessed some amazing performances by chess master GM Hikaru Nakamura and also young talents like Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Gukesh D.

The awards help give recognition to exceptional gameplay and record-breaking performances by Grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi. Moreover, these awards create a platform for the community to come together and celebrate the truly captivating game of chess.

They also provide a platform for the chess community to showcase their love for the game.

Categories and nominations for the Chess.com awards

The chess.com website has published a list of all the nominations and the categories of the awards. Moreover, people can also vote for their choice of players until January 1, 2024.

Furthermore, the voters can also propose categories or nominations that they want to include. All the categories and nominees announced through chess.com are:

1. Player of the Year

• GMHikaru
• GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov
• GM Magnus Carlsen
• GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu
• GM Hou Yifan
• GM Vidit Gujrathi
• GM Ding Liren
• GM Fabiano Caruana
• GM Wesley So
• GM Ju Wenjun

2. Game of the Year

• Pranesh vs. Yi
• Suleymenov vs. Carlsen
• So vs. Carlsen
• Navara vs. Anton
• Theodorou vs. Radjabov
• Giri vs. Gukesh
• Williams vs. Rakhmangulova
• Abdusattorov vs. Beerdsen
• Szabo vs. Stepanencu
• Vachier-Lagrave vs. Carlsen

3. Woman Player of the Year

• IM Carissa Yip
• IM Eline Roebers
• IM Vaishali Rameshbabu
• GM Hou Yifan
• GM Ju Wenjun
• IM Polina Shuvalova
• IM Nurgyul Salimova
• IM Sarasadat Khademalsharieh

4. Rising Star of the Year

• GM Vincent Keymer
• IM Alice Lee
• GM Abhimanyu Mishra
• GM Denis Lazavik
• GM Gukesh Dommaraju
• IM Shreyas Royal
• IM Eline Roebers

5. Move of the Year

• 25…Qa1!! in Lazavik vs. Wojtaszek
• 17.Nxd4!! in Williams vs. Rakhmangulova
• 21.Re7!! in Warmerdam vs. Pechac
• 46…Rg6! in Nepomniachtchi vs. Ding
• 30.Qf6+!! in Norlamo vs. Sippola
• 40.Rxc5+!! in Carlsen vs. Nakamura
• 41.exf8=N+!! in Rodrigue-Lemieux vs. Vidyarthi
• 20.Bg5!! in Carlsen vs. Duda
• 20. Nac5!! in Adhiban vs. Iturrizaga
• 31.Qh5!! in Camacho vs. Fataliyeva

6. Commentator of the Year

• IM Levy Rozman
• WGM Keti Tsatsalashvili
• GM Robert Hess
• IM Danny Rensch
• GM David Howell
• IM Tania Sachdev
• GM David Howell
• IM Tania Sachdev
• GM Daniel Naroditsky
• WGM Jennifer Shahade
• GM Peter Leko
• GM Yasser Seirawan
• GM Peter Svidler

7. Chesskid of the Year

• FM Faustino Oro
• FM Tani Adewumi
• CM Aaron Mendes
• IM Ryo Chen
• IM Yagiz Erdogmus
• IM Andy Woodward
• WCM Bodhana Sivanandan

8. Creator of the Year

• IM Sagar Shah
• Ludwig
• GM Daniel Naroditsky
• Chessbrahs
• Rey Enigma
• GMHikaru
• Zachary Saine
• WGM Nemo Zhou
• IM Eric Rosen
• WFM Anna Cramling
• WFM Alexandra and Andrea Botez
• IM Levy Rozman
• NM Kevin Bordi
• WGM Dina Belenkaya
• Agadmator
• Tyler1
• GMs Fabiano Caruana and Cristian Chirila

9. Photo of the Year

• Carlsen at the Champions Chess Tour Fanzone after winning set one of the semifinal matches against Caruana (by Thomas Tischio)
• Praggnanandhaa’s mother, Nagalakshmi, beaming with pride over her son after he defeated Caruana to move on to the World Cup final
• Ding burst into tears after Nepomniachtchi resigned the last game of the World Chess Championship tiebreaks, making Ding the World Champion (by Maria Emelianova)
• Carlsen congratulates Giri for winning the Tata Steel tournament (by Lennart Ootes)
• Esipenko’s realization during a post-mortem with Abdusattorov (by Lennart Ootes)

10. Book of the Year

• Play Like A Champion by Jennifer Shahade
• Re-Engineering the Chess Classics by Matthew Sadler and Steve Giddins
• Perpetual Chess Improvement by Ben Johnson
• Theoretical Rook Endgames by Sam Shankland
• How To Win At Chess by Levy Rozman
• Grind Like A Grandmaster by Magnus Carlsen and David Howell
• Conceptual Rook Endgames by Jacob Aagaard
• Endgame Labyrinths by Jacob Aagard
• How I Became A Chess Grandmaster by Vinay Bhat

11. Chessable Course of the Year

• The GothamChess 1.e4 Repertoire by Levy Rozman
• The Caro-Kann: Simplified by Alex Banzea
• Techniques of Positional Play by Peter Heine Nielsen
• Lifetime Repertoires: Jones’ 1.e4 e5 by Gawain Jones
• Caruana’s Ruy Lopez: Dark Archangel by Fabiano Caruana
• Starting Out with 1.d4 by Ben Finegold
• ChessDojo’s 1. e4 Repertoire for White by Jesse Kraai
• Lifetime Repertoires: Alonso’s Catalan by Alvar Alonso Rosell
• Mastering Chess Defense by Johan Hellsten
• 1.e4: Simplified by Alex Colovic
• 100 Repertoires: Reti (1.Nf3) by Nate Solon
• The Grunfeld Supercharged! by Alex Belsley and Yuriy Krykun
• Lifetime Repertoires: Neo-Catalan (Parts I, II, and III) by Sam Shankland

The annual chess.com awards provide all players and enthusiasts with a platform to showcase their love for the game of chess. Furthermore, it allows the community to engage in and celebrate the games and the competition. The variety of nominations and categories also makes the awards fair for everyone involved.

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