November 2025

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This week's puzzles come from the 2025 FIDE Women's World Team Championship. See our full report here, and find even more puzzles from this event on...
Anand Cup
Uzbekistan’s GM Javokhir Sindarov is the 2025 FIDE World Cup champion. Sindarov defeated Chinese GM Wei Yi 2½–1½, winning the second game of the first...
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This week's puzzles come from the 2025 FIDE Women's World Team Championship. See our full report here. Download our printable worksheet, or solve...
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The 9th Annual New York State Girls Championship was held November 15-16, hosted by Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School on the Upper West Side in...
Podium
The FIDE team (Russia) won the 2025 FIDE World Women’s Team Championship, winning both matches over an underdog Azerbaijan team — which finished...
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US Chess offices will be closed beginning at noon CST on Wednesday, November 26 for Thanksgiving. Offices will reopen at 8 a.m. CST on Monday...
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With its third-place finish in Group A, Team USA qualified for the quarterfinals of the FIDE World Women’s Team Championship, held from Nov. 17...
Shankland
The upsets kept coming in the quarterfinals of the 2025 FIDE World Cup. With Chinese GM Wei Yi’s elimination of second-seeded Indian GM Arjun Erigaisi...
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This week's exercises come from the just-concluded 2025 U.S. Senior Women's Championship, where WFM Natalya Tsodikova defended her title with an...
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This week's exercises come from the just-concluded 2025 U.S. Senior Women's Championship, where WFM Natalya Tsodikova defended her title with an...
Tsodikova
The 2025 U.S. Senior Women’s Championship made history. In both previous years of this event, there was a clear champion from the classical games. But...
Shankland with Dubov, disappointed, in background
GM Sam Shankland is the only American to reach the 2025 FIDE World Cup "elite eight" after defeating Russian GM Daniil Dubov 3–1 in the first rapid...