May 2019

It required a trip to the tie-break round, but both Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So are through to the second round of the 2019 Moscow Grand Prix. Both...
Founded in 1859, the Denver Chess Club is one of the oldest chess clubs in the United States. This year a few enthusiastic club members got together...
IM Kostya Kavutskiy (photo Paul Truong) IM Kostya Kavutskiy annotates three games played by some of the winners of the 2019 National Elementary...
The 2019 National Elementary Championship, held May 10-12 at the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, has been the largest rated event in American chess for...
To honor the publication of CLO columnist Alex Dunne’s newest book, Fred Reinfeld: The Man Who Taught America Chess, with 282 Games, this week’s...
In this new periodic feature here at CLO, we’ll check in with top American players as they compete in important international events. This week we...
Welcome to the May 2019 edition of “One Move at a Time,” the US Chess podcast in which we talk to people who are advancing the US Chess mission...
Results are in at the 2019 National Elementary (K-6) Championship! CLO will have a full wrap-up later this week. For now, here are the winners in the...
The seventh and final round of the 2019 National Elementary (K-6) Championship has started! And boy, weren’t the players anxious to get their games...
After a few rainouts, it’s Downtown Super Sunday today in New Orleans, a day when the downtown tribes of Mardi Gras Indians take to the streets...
The fifth round of the 2019 National Elementary (K-6) Championship is well underway, and so is the US Chess livestream, direct from the Gaylord...
We've reached the halfway point at the 2019 National Elementary (K-6) Championship, and Round Four is underway. While the ratings favorites have, by...