June 2024

winners
FM Alisa Melekhina’s photo report depicts her week at the Hotel Breezes resort in Nassau, Bahamas where she was one of several Americans competing in...
Hans
GM Hans Niemann won a Super Grandmaster Match, with a prize fund of $50,000, against GM Vidit Gujrathi on June 22, 2024. The Universal Chess Tour (UCT...
FM Tani Adewumi at the 2024 Cadet Ch
FM Tanitoluwa "Tani" Adewumi won the 2024 U.S. Cadet Championship, held June 20 through 23 in Lisle, IL. The seven-round Round Robin featured eight of...
Wednesday Workout
Two sets of GM and IM norm invitational Round Robins were held by 1000GM around the National Open in Las Vegas earlier this month. FM Varun Krishnan...
chessify
Downtown Manhattan is one of the world’s most traversed spots. With several financial centers on Wall Street as well as dozens of world-famous...
Tactics Tuesday
Two sets of GM and IM norm invitational Round Robins were held by 1000GM around the National Open in Las Vegas earlier this month. FM Varun Krishnan...
Tan
No tiebreaks needed! Just like in the 2024 FIDE Women's Candidates two months ago, GM Tan Zhongyi basically had the victory in the bag before the last...
Kosteniuk Lee
At the time of publication, the penultimate round of the 2024 Cairns Cup is underway in St. Louis. Today, we have annotations on key games and moments...
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The FIDE World Senior Team Championship is taking place July 1 through 12 in Krakow, Poland, and, this year, three teams will be making the trip. Read...
Durarbayli
Every June, thousands of players flock to Las Vegas, but it’s not to gamble (indeed, many of them have to wait upwards of a decade before they can hit...
Wednesday Workout
Two sets of GM and IM norm invitational Round Robins were held by 1000GM around the National Open in Las Vegas earlier this month. FM Varun Krishnan...
Tactics Tuesday
Two sets of GM and IM norm invitational Round Robins were held by 1000GM around the National Open in Las Vegas earlier this month. FM Varun Krishnan...