September 2025

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This week begins our series on the just-concluded 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss and Women's Grand Swiss tournaments. Check back later today for a full report...
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This week begins our series on the just-concluded 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss and Women's Grand Swiss tournaments. Check back later today for a full report...
Webster posing with the President's Cup
Gender and the President's Cup: A Statistical Analysis Introduction by Dr. Alexey Root, WIM: Since 2001, the President’s Cup has been the national...
Weinberger
FM Tibor Weinberger, of Santa Monica, California, passed away Aug. 28. He was born in 1932 in Budapest to Marton and Erzébet (née Teitelbaum)...
Mishra
The 2025 FIDE World Grand Swiss is just past its halfway point in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The event consists of a 116-player Open section and a 56...
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This week's puzzles continue our series from last month's Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz, where GM Levon Aronian won the five-day, 27-game marathon for the...
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Hosted by the National Scholastic Chess Foundation and the Kasparov Chess Foundation, the conference explores the role of chess in education.
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This week's puzzles continue our series from last month's Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz, where GM Levon Aronian won the five-day, 27-game marathon for the...
2ndolympiad-DIS
US Chess Interest Survey Open for 2nd FIDE Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities. The international event, organized by FIDE, and hosted by the...
Pryor and Bartlett with the rest of the EB in St. Louis
It is said that no one can serve two masters. And so US Chess Executive Director Ranae Bartlett is trading Caïssa for the people of Madison, Alabama...
Nakamura in R5
Editor’s note: Since becoming Digital Editor for Chess Life Online, I have dreamt of publishing more regular wrap-ups of the sorts of events that are...
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This week's puzzles come from last month's Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz, where GM Levon Aronian won the five-day, 27-game marathon for the third time in...