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...
May 2019
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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...
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IM Kostya Kavutskiy (photo Paul Truong) IM Kostya Kavutskiy annotates three games played by some of the winners of the 2019 National Elementary...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...