The K-12 Chess Championships in Orlando kick off on Thursday, December 12th at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort. The annual event features 13 National...
December 2019
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Welcome to the December 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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Ding Liren capped off a tremendous 2019 with a win Sunday at the Grand Chess Tour Finals, one of many important titles decided at the 2019 London...
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Thanks to the hard work of the US Chess Clubs Committee and Executive Board liason Ryan Velez, we are pleased to announce the updated Guide to a...
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US Chess sent a delegation to the 2019 London Chess Conference, held November 30-December 1, to offer our contributions to the programmatic theme of...
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In the 14th annual meeting of their 16-board match, the University of Texas at Dallas chess team defeated a team from the University of Belgrade on...
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On the weekend of October 26-27th, 2019, all eyes in the Bay Area chess community were on the Mechanics’ Institute Chess Club as we hosted the...
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The December 2019 edition of “Cover Stories with Chess Life” is now live! This monthly podcast, hosted by Senior Director of Strategic Communication...
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Like many chess players, IM David Brodsky learned how to checkmate with just a knight and a bishop early in his chess career. But it wasn’t until the...
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Chess is many things to many people, but one thing we can all agree on is that Chess is a Game for Life! Regardless of gender, race, ethnicity...
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With so much great material here at Chess Life Online, it's easy to miss something that you might otherwise have wanted to read. So we here at US...
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Kendrick Aung of Seabrook, Texas, scored 5 ½-½ to win a 2019 Swift Quad, An example of his play follows. Kendrick Aung [pgn] [Event "19Sq04"] [Site "...