The World No. 2 leads five Americans and over 100 GMs playing in the World Championship-cycle event held in Riga, Latvia this week.
October 2021
![Carissa Yip on her 1st US Womens Championship](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/yipgraphic.jpeg.webp?itok=LXXQgp8o)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/wesleysocarissayiptrophies.jpg.webp?itok=Sto7kjrI)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/img_9433.jpg.webp?itok=94DP5VVu)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/socaruanasevianplayoff.jpg.webp?itok=1h4lPN2l)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/2021_natl_coll_women_team.png.webp?itok=dM6mXEOW)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/caruanabluradams.jpg.webp?itok=iQl2HRHN)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/yip-2021-us-ch-rd9-ootes.jpg.webp?itok=jgZYmamB)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/carissayipootes.jpg.webp?itok=mSUM98Q0)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/caruanadeepthink.jpg.webp?itok=Eito474q)
America's top-seed GM Fabiano Caruana lost back-to-back games for the first time in his history in the US Chess Championship.