Hikaru Nakamura lost a fiery rematch and Fabiano Caruana lost just three total games, but US Chess Champ So is the only American left in the latest...
May 2021
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US Chess is pleased to announce that the 121st U.S. Open will take place in Cherry Hill, New Jersey as scheduled: July 31-August 8, 2021. For full...
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Grandmaster Judit Polgar, the top female chessplayer in history, will appear our US Chess Women girls club on June 3. The legendary champion is also...
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US Chess offices will be closed May 31, 2021 in observance of Memorial Day. They will reopen for normal business operations on June 1.
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The Global Women’s Online Chess Challenge “The Queens’ Festival”, will be a series of continental and global women’s online chess tournaments and...
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Throughout the history of chess, the only direction a pawn could move is forward. The only variable left was what happened when a pawn reached the...
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Get your solving hats on! Here are six positions for you to chew on, including four from the famous Mr. Dodgy 2.0 Invitational and two from the FIDE...
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Season 3 of the Chess Underground – themed “Streamers” – starts off with none other than Gothamchess himself, IM Levy Rozman. Follow all of Levy’s...
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World No. 2 Fabiano Caruana joins American GMs Wesley So and Hikaru Nakamura in studded lineup featuring the top-10 chess players on the planet.
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US Chess, in partnership with the Internet Chess Club (ICC), has concluded its fair play review of the first qualifier weekend of the National Online...
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During the Special Delegates Meeting in August 2020, US Chess Delegates adopted a simplified membership structure to reflect changing member...
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Part Three of former US Chess President John McCrary's historical series tracks the progression of the modern-day castling maneuver.