Top ranked Webster Team ready for battle Slogging through flight-grounding weather the day after Christmas has become as much a college chess...
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World Champion Magnus Carlsen, Photo David Llada Over the course of 2015, Magnus Carlsen has shown an incredible amount of tenacity: Over and over, he...
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WHEN: Sat., Jan 9 - Sun., Jan. 10, 2016 at the New York Marriott Hotel At The Brooklyn Bridge New York, NY, Dec. 28, 2015 — The Kasparov Chess...
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Webster University's All-female squad vs. Oberlin College. Photo Maureen Grimaud The Pan-American Championship is currently underway in Cleveland...
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FM Vignesh Panchanatham, FM Craig Hilby, FM Joshua Sheng, FM Cameron Wheeler, GM Jan Gustaffsson, IM Luke Harmon-Vellotti, IM Daniel Gurevich, GM...
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December's Game of the Month features International Correspondence Chess Master Thomas Williams. Also browse through Dunne's traditional collection of...
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On December 17, 2015 the US Chess Executive Board approved the 2016 edition of the National Scholastic Chess Tournament Regulations. The document...
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Who says chess is an individual sport? If you’ve ever played in any of the U.S. Amateur Team tournaments, you know how fulfilling it is to win a game...
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BCC Herb Healy 2009. Harold Dondis Harold Dondis, a founder of the US Chess Trust, Boston Globe columnist and recipient of the US Chess Distinguished...
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Attention all military chess players: The 27th NATO Chess Championship will be held in Shrivenham, England from 22-26 Aug 2016. USA will send a team...
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Photo Richard Shorman Stephen Brandwein died on December 12, 2015, after a brief illness in San Francisco, the city he made his home the last thirty...
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Magnus Carlsen before winning the London Chess Classic and Grand Chess Tour, Photo Ray Morris-Hill It’s hard to imagine a player as strong as Magnus...