Vishy Anand, Ding Liren, Hikaru Nakamura, Anish Giri, Fabiano Caruana, Rex Sinquefield, and Wesley So at the Sinquefield Cup Opening Ceremony. Photo...
August 2016
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The 5th Annual Washington International starts starts on Saturday August 13th in Rockville, MD. A record number of players have already registered...
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GM Aleksandr Lenderman vs. GM Alexander Shabalov, Photo Anne Buskirk The 117th Annual US Open saw 389 participants compete across the nine, six, and...
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Photo: Yevgeny Surov Sam Shankland, the 4th highest player in the U.S., won one of the strongest tournaments of his career last week, the Master...
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Photo Anne Buskirk Update 8/7/16: Congratulations to GMs Gil Popiliski and Alexander Shabalov, who tied for first in the US Open with 8/9 each. Full...
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IM Ruifeng Li vs. GM Joel Benjamin. Photo: Anne Buskirk Ruifeng Li was able to keep his tenuous lead over the field at the 117th Annual US Open after...
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The 2016 US Chess Annual report is now available at this pdf link. The report includes letters from US Chess President Gary Walters, Executive...
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The Sinquefield Cup, the strongest chess tournament in the U.S., begins tomorrow at the St. Louis Chess Club. Let's take a look at this year's top...
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IM Watson v. IM Li, Photo Anne Buskirk IM Ruifeng Li holds sole first place in the US Open Traditional schedule, with a perfect 5 points from 5 games...
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Top three in the National Girls Tournament of Champions: Jennifer Yu, Veronica Zilajeva (OK), Rajendra, Anupama (WI), Photo Anne Buskirk East Coast...
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A win in the sixth and final round over closest rival Andrew Zheng propelled New Jersey’s Brandon Jacobson to clear first place in this weekends...
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Champion Brandon Jacobson (NJ) vs. Emily Nguyen (Texas) in the Barber Tournament of K-8 Champs Congrats to our three new champions in Indianapolis...