FLAG! That is the word that moved your opponent’s brain right out of the time scramble zone. He had 90 minutes to make 40 moves (40/90,d5) in the game...
September 2018
US Chess would like to notify players of the upcoming North American Junior (U20) Chess Championship in Baja California, Mexico, November 16 - 21...
Young female players explain the powerful impact of chess in their lives and the challenges they’ve faced in the game. CROSSVILLE, TN: The US Chess...
The Champions Showdown (September 11-14), now underway is Saint Louis, is headlined by 13th World Champion Garry Kasparov, who came out of retirement...
GM Timur Gareyev, less than a month from becoming US Open champ, took first by a full point with a 5½ - ½ score.
It was a clear day in LA and the weather was comfortable. My wife, Susan had left to teach school that morning as she had since the start of the...
At US Chess, the ratio of boys to girls in tournaments is 6 to 1. This means that more often than not, I can be the only girl (or one of the only...
GM Fidel Corrales and IM Jay Bonin tied for first in the Cleveland Open August 10th to 12th at the Crowne Plaza Cleveland Airport Hotel.
Eighteen-year-old Lev Paciorkowski, whose formative chess years were spent playing at the Rochester Chess Center and in the Rochester Interscholastic...
The 84 th Annual Southwest Open took place on August 30 – September 3 in Irving, Texas. The event attracted 349 players who competed in six sections...
"Modern correspondence chess isn't all about CPU power (although that obviously helps), but more about how you prepare each move and how you work with...
Christopher Yoo, at just age 11, won the Cal State Chess Championships, held in Northern California at the Berkeley Chess School over Labor Day...