The Check Is in the Mail January 2019 The United States correspondence team has qualified for the finals by tying or winning all its nine matches in...
January 2019
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If you are a high school junior or senior looking for scholarship money, read on. The application deadline for the 2019 National Scholar-Chessplayer...
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Kostya Kavutskiy, Photo IM Eric Rosen March 2018 The #8 article in Best of CLO is Caruana Misses a Chance, Draws Game 8 vs. Carlsen by IM Kostya...
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Nathan as the commendatore in Don Giovanni. The #9 article in Best of CLO 2018 is FM Resika on the US Senior: Singing and Chess are Icing on Cake...
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I have worked with U.S. Open Champion Timur Gareyev for the last five years and I have organized a lot of cool activities for him including his...
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FLOWER MOUND, TX Play chess and meet former U.S. women’s chess champion Alexey Root as she signs her latest book, Prepare With Chess Strategy, on...
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Our #10 article in Best of CLO 2018 is Arthur Guo and Winston Ni Win Big in Atlanta by Vanessa Sun and Michael Rohde. FM Arthur Guo, a 6th grader...
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2018 was a huge year for US Chess, as Fabiano Caruana competed for the World Championship just a few weeks after a thrilling Olympiad in Batumi. In...
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Your opponent’s flag is about to fall in a US Chess sudden death time control. The TD comes over to the contest to observe. They see that your...
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2019 kicked off with one of the strongest open tournaments taking place on U.S. soil in 2019: the Bay Area International, a nine round super-swiss...
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Tata Steel Chess (January 11-27) is currently underway in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands, with both World Champion Magnus Carlsen, and U.S. Champion...
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A limited amount of space is now available in our tournament program books for the three US Chess spring national championships: 2019 National High...