The U.S. Women's Championship players compete in blitz, bughouse, and blindfold chess at the World Chess Hall of Fame. Photo courtesy of Eric Rosen...
April 2016
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A pivotal moment of the championship—Hikaru Nakamura resigns against Fabiano Caruana. Photo courtesy of Lennart Ootes. At the halfway point of the U.S...
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History was made today at the U.S. Junior High School Championship. K-9 Maggie Feng finished the tournament with a score of 6.5/7 and became the first...
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Day 2 of Junior High Nationals is in the books, and we have 1200 hard working young chessplayers here in Indianapolis. I cannot even begin to stress...
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Matthew, Julia & Marcus Miyasaka It's simply impossible for all of the top seeds to make it through day 1 of Nationals unscathed, and this year was no...
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Nikhil and Akhil Kalghatgi Today at the K-9 Championship at Indianapolis it was completely domination. Two brothers from the Whitney Young School in...
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This year’s US Championship has the strongest field ever with an average US Chess rating of 2739. The Favorites Hikaru Nakamura vs. Fabiano Caruana...
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With the increasingly strong US Women's Championship beginning tomorrow, let's take a look at this year's competition. The Favorites Irina Krush Irina...
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Daniel Bronfeyn, Jacob Furfine, Vincent Do, Todd Freitag At the US Amateur Team Championship playoffs on April 9, Got Mate? (North) defeated the...
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Follow the US Chess Championships, underway in Saint Louis.
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This weekend Webster University packed even more history into the memorabilia-covered walls of New York City’s legendary Marshall Chess Club. Since...
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The final day of the National High School Championships was filled with drama. IM Kesav Viswanadha and FM Vignesh Panchanatham started the day as the...