December 2015

Top ranked Webster Team ready for battle Slogging through flight-grounding weather the day after Christmas has become as much a college chess...
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...
Webster University's All-female squad vs. Oberlin College. Photo Maureen Grimaud The Pan-American Championship is currently underway in Cleveland...
FM Vignesh Panchanatham, FM Craig Hilby, FM Joshua Sheng, FM Cameron Wheeler, GM Jan Gustaffsson, IM Luke Harmon-Vellotti, IM Daniel Gurevich, GM...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...