It turns out that ratings might be worth something after all. While there’s good evidence that amateur ratings might be volatile after a long...
August 2021
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The Grand Chess Tour's overall leader scored the only win of Round 2 to join the leaders in front of the 2021 Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis.
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Ladies Knight welcomes Holocaust Survivor, author and 1956 French Women’s Chess champion, Isabelle Choko. Jennifer Shahade interviews Choko about her...
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Caruana delivered a crushing attack out of a quiet London, while Dominguez went deep in a Petroff to kick off the prestigious $325,000 event with a...
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Glenn Petersen in an undated photo reviewing Chess Life. US Chess has received notification that our former long-time employee Glenn Petersen has died...
![Girls Prep snip with Jennifer Shahade and Londyn Malcom and Itzel Lopez](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/girlspreparticlesnap.png.webp?itok=LZB5H2qN)
Members of our girls club have been active not only in studying and practicing the game, but also in writing about chess. One member, high school...
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US Chess announces the planned outage of a data server for maintenance purposes. This server will be taken offline on Tuesday, August 24, and will...
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The Sinquefield Cup, the last event of the 2021 Grand Chess Tour, will decide this year's overall tour champion and award nearly half a million...
![GM Hikaru Nakamura](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/nakamurasaintlouisrbtrophy.jpg.webp?itok=BRGZ6C44)
The American speed specialist lived up to his reputation with an undefeated performance, stealing the top prize as a Grand Chess Tour wildcard.
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The US Chess Audited Financials for 2020-2021 have been posted to this page: https://new.uschess.org/financials
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In August 2020, the US Chess Delegates created a Nominating Committee to assist with identifying candidates to run for the US Chess Executive Board...
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“It is my wish and desire that the United States Chess Federation use this gift to establish a fund in my name and that the income generated therefrom...