October 2021

GM Fabian Caruana at the 2021 FIDE Grand Swiss
The World No. 2 leads five Americans and over 100 GMs playing in the World Championship-cycle event held in Riga, Latvia this week.
Carissa Yip on her 1st US Womens Championship
Our new US Women's Champion, 18-year-old Carissa Yip, will visit the US Chess Girls club on Thursday, November 4th at 6 PM ET. She'll talk about some...
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The October Chess Underground checks in with Epiphany Peters, who streams under the name "marichess." Epiphany offers her insights on the journey to...
2021 US Chess Champions GM Wesley So and IM Carissa Yip
Grandmaster Wesley So defended for his third title as U.S. Champion, while IM Carissa Yip earned her first crowning as the American female champion.
WGM Nadya Ortiz with kids from Colombia
Jennifer speaks on Ladies Knight to Nadya Ortiz, a chess champion who now works as a senior software engineer at Apple. Born in Ibague, Colombia...
GMs Wesley So, Fabiano Caruana and Sam Sevian
GMs Wesley So, Fabiano Caruana and Sam Sevian will play a round-robin playoff for the 2021 US Chess Championship Tuesday in the Saint Louis Chess Club...
2021 U.S. National Collegiate Women's Team Cup
The 2021 U.S. National Collegiate Women’s Team Cup will be held on October 31 online at lichess.org , and entry is free to all current college...
GM Fabiano Caruana
IM Carissa Yip will be America's next women's champion, while the World's No. 2 GM is back from the dead in the 2021 national chess championship.
IM Carissa Yip
Everything is to play for with just two rounds remaining at the 2021 U.S. Championship and Women’s Championship. GM Fabiano Caruana defeated GM...
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The championship tournament to determine the 2021 king and queen of American chess enters its three-game finale beginning Saturday.
IM Carissa Yip
America's three-time Girls champion has stepped in front of a hotly contested national title fight in the Saint Louis Chess Club.
GM Fabiano Caruana
America's top-seed GM Fabiano Caruana lost back-to-back games for the first time in his history in the US Chess Championship.