This week's puzzles all come from the ongoing 2025 U.S. Championship and Women's Championship. Every day, a rotating cast of annotators are covering...
October 2025
Update, Oct. 24, 2025: Naroditsky was a Chess Life columnist from June 2014 through March 2020. All of his columns can be downloaded here in a single...
Sunday saw eight decisive games in St. Louis, with players fighting for the win in contrasting fashions. While some players threw caution to the wind...
US Chess Prepares to Launch New Membership Database and MUIR System Over the past few years, US Chess has made steady progress toward modernizing its...
The leaders all drew in the Open Section of Saturday’s Round 6 at the U.S. Championships, but one of the split points came after the reigning champion...
After the rest day, players came recharged — and Round 5 of the 2025 U.S. and U.S. Women’s Chess Championships brought no shortage of drama and...
In Round 4 of the U.S. Championship and U.S. Women’s Championship, we were treated to several piece sacrifices, an uncharacteristically open Rossolimo...
This week's puzzles continue our series on the 2025 FIDE World Cadet Championships, which concluded last Tuesday in Almaty, Kazakhstan ( flash report...
Round 3 saw great attacking games in both the U.S. Championship and the U.S. Women’s Championship. U.S. Women’s Championship The women gave us several...
This week's puzzles continue our series on the 2025 FIDE World Cadet Championships, which concluded last month in Almaty, Kazakhstan ( flash report |...
The 2025 U.S. and U.S. Women’s Championships in St. Louis are unfolding with drama, tension, and upsets in every round. Both fields are fiercely...
Every year, we witness a dozen each of the top American male and female players take part in the prestigious U.S. Chess Championships, this year...