IM Kostya Kavutskiy will be presenting an annotated Game of the Day each day over the course of the 120th US Open. Here he turns his attention to the...
August 2019
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Sunday saw two rounds of action in the ‘Quartet’ – the Denker, Barber, Haring, and Senior Championships – and the second round of the traditional...
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IM Kostya Kavutskiy will be presenting an annotated Game of the Day each day over the course of the 120th US Open. For his first installment, he...
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The 120th US Open kicked off yesterday with a simul, some bughouse, and the first of nine days of intense chess competition. Here’s a rundown of the...
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave held off a surging Viswanathan Anand to win the 2019 Paris Grand Chess Tour. Vachier-Lagrave scored 13 points in the Rapid...
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UPDATE 8/3: For those playing in the National Senior Tournament of Champions - please note that the opening ceremony starts at 2pm in Salon 5-6. This...
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Robert Rizzo ICCM Robert Rizzo of Merrick, NY has won the 2018 Absolute Championship. He had finished third in both the 1999 and 2017 event, and...