Tim Just, Chief Editor of the 5th, 6th, and brand new 7th edition of the rule book. You worked hard for weeks. You understand your opening systems...
March 2020
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Make sure you add #PodcastTuesday to your calendar, especially during this time when many of us are practicing social distancing. Every Tuesday US...
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March 30, 2020 Update: Due to the current COVID-19 situation in the United States, the co-chairs of the Scholastic Council have decided to extend the...
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UPDATE: As of 2 PM CST, full functionality has been restored. Portions of our website are experiencing an outage, apparently due to storms in...
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With the COVID-19 pandemic decimating the over-the-board schedule, there are still chess activities are going. Clubs and coaches have shifted from...
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Jay Stallings, founder of the California Youth Chess League, planned four special events to promote women and girls' chess in the 2020-2021 school...
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With the postponement of the remainder of the 2020 Candidates until a time to be determined, GM Jacob Aagaard recorded one last video with CLO Digital...
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At approximately 2:42am GMT, FIDE announced that they are freezing the 2020 Candidates Tournament and postponing the remaining seven rounds for the...
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On Saturday, March 21, Botez Live and US Chess Women hosted the Isolated Queens Swiss, a blitz tournament on chess.com open to female players of all...
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This week's Workout comes to us from our friends at the 365 Chess Academy, an online chess learning platform founded by GM Jacob Aagaard, who is...
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For the seventh installment of his “Candidates Game of the Day” series, GM Jacob Aagaard has analyzed Maxime Vachier-Lagrave's huge victory over co...
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On March 25, 2020, the US Chess Executive Board passed the following motion 7-0: The Executive Board (EB) moves that all games submitted by Tournament...