What is a chess engine’s raison d'être? I ask the question, only partially tongue in cheek, because of the early reaction to Part I of this review...
November 2019
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On Tuesday, November 19th at 4 ET, Women's Program Director Jennifer Shahade will team up with WFM Alexandra Botez against IM Anna Rudolf and...
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Alexander Grischuk added another medal to his collection on Sunday, winning the 2019 Hamburg FIDE Grand Prix with a 3.5-2.5 victory in tiebreaks over...
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Tim Just, Chief Editor of the 5th, 6th, and brand new 7th edition of the rule book. This month's column is a test! Strap yourself in and test your own...
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The 2019 NJH Championship In June 2019, the Scholastic Council formed a subcommittee of the Scholastic Committee to examine the current structure of...
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Fritz is the granddaddy of commercial chess engines, the first to defeat a world champion in an “official” blitz game (Kasparov, 1992) and in a head...
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In early August 2019, a group of the strongest juniors in the country were invited to the 51st US Chess School at the Mechanics Chess Club in San...
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Welcome to the November 2019 edition of “One Move at a Time,” the US Chess podcast in which Dan Lucas, the Senior Director of Strategic Communication...
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The SPICE Cup is a popular tournament for norm seekers, due to the large number of foreign IMs and GM who typically play. This year's edition was held...
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Levon Aronian is the winner of the 2019 Grand Chess Tour Superbet Rapid and Blitz (Bucharest, Romania; November 6-10), taking the title after a...