October 2016

US Chess wishes all of our members and friends a happy National Chess Day on October 8, 2016! Many of our top players are currently participating in...
GM Cristian Chirila will be writing an article on Millionaire Chess upon the event's conclusion. The third edition of Millionaire Chess (October 6-10)...
Grayling Hill won the 20th United States Correspondence Chess Championship with an undefeated 8 ½-3 ½ score, a point ahead of second place Larry...
US Chess has a remarkable record for employee retention. The median number of years wage and salary workers stay with their employer is only 4.6 years...
On September 23, I picked up GM Timur Gareyev at O' Hare airport. My goal: to bring him to Iowa to break the world record for consecutive blindfold...
The Frank P. Samford Jr. Chess Fellowship is pleased to announce its thirty-first consecutive annual award. The Fellowship was created by the late...
Girls Under 14 pre-game peptalk: Photo Anastasia Popova In the final round of the World Youth in Khanty-Mansiysk, Annie Wang lost a crucial battle in...
Annie Wang, Photo Anna Volkova In the tenth round of the World Youth in Khanty-Mansiysk, Girls Under 14 US representative Annie Wang defeated then...