September 2015

The US team scored a perfect 4/5 in round two, game 1 at the World Cup in Baku. The five Americans who advanced mathematically couldn't score more...
GM Ian Rogers reports on Americans in round 1 of the World Cup in Baku, pinpointing some key games like Nakamura's round 1 demolition & Shankland's...
Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So and Sam Shankland all advanced to round two of the World Cup while Alexander Onischuk and Sam Sevian head...
Nine-year-old Max Lu (CT) became the youngest US Chess Master at a quad in Scarsdale last week, beating the record previously held by Awonder Liang...
In the first game of round 1 matches, our Americans scored 5.5/9. Highlights included a stalemate hold by GM Sevian over GM Radjabov and a win by...
Michael Khodarkovsky US Chess Delegate to FIDE reports on the FIDE Chess Congress in Abu Dhabi , and the reaction to a proposal to endorse Kirsan...
American GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So are among the top seeds in the World Cup in Baku. See who our nine American GMs face in...
IM Aleksandr Ostrovskiy earned his second New York State Championship title this weekend, and annotates his favorite game for US Chess readers.
Magesh Panchanathan won the New Jersey Open title over Labor Day weekend. The event featured ten GMs and four IMs.
Walter Brown reports from the 86th FIDE Congress held in Abu Dhabi, UAE and on the Arbiters Commission as well as the Qualification Commission.
Rex at Ultimate Moves, Photo Austin Fuller Are you recovering from Sinq Cup withdrawal? If so, we have just the remedy. Grandmaster Pal Benko, who...
Check out a wrap-up of several summer Grand Prix tourneys hosted by Continental Chess, including the Atlantic Open, where GMs Sergey Erenburg, GM...