Jennifer Shahade welcomes theoretical physicist, author and chess enthusiast Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein to Ladies Knight. Prescod-Weinstein’s new...
May 2021
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The head coach of the US Women's Olympic Team was nominated by World No. 5 Levon Aronian for an impressive training career that spans 30 years.
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The US Chess Women girls club is continuing to provide an exciting and educational program of events. This week the club will host Canadian chess...
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Former US Chess President John McCrary continues his historical series by examining when and how White received the first move.
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In our ongoing initiatives to make both online and OTB rated play more available and to provide more certainty about the integrity of competitive play...
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Welcome to the May 2021 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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FM Alisa Melekhina details her participation in several corporate team championships that moved online during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Dear US Chess Community, I have decided to remove myself as a candidate in the 2021 US Chess Elections. I will finish out the term to which I was...
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World Champion Magnus Carlsen defeated American Hikaru Nakamura in another chapter of the long-running rivalry between the two super-GMs.
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The 2021 North American Youth Chess Championships organizers are excited to announce they are moving forward with the tournament which will be held...
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COVID-19 has turned the face of the OTB chess universe upside down. NTD Tim Just checks in on some of the situations that will need adjustments.
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Former US Chess President John McCrary digs up the origins of chess' rules as we know them, beginning his historical series discussing the draw.