Brian Jerauld
![Challengers Chess Tour - Kramnik vs. Polgar](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/challengers-kramnikvspolgar.png.webp?itok=O-MzaVVF)
Carissa Yip, Awonder Liang and Christopher Yoo will play in a series of high-stakes international Junior events organized by the World Champion's… Read More »
![World University Online Chess Championships](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/wuocc.jpg.webp?itok=EHTqEob8)
The two Missouri schools each earned a gold and silver medal in the collegiate Blitz and Rapid Championships. UT-RGV won bronze in both events.Read… Read More »
![Wesley So Magnus Carlsen Invitational](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/wesleysomagnuscarlseninvitational.png.webp?itok=3wSWl-aa)
The US Chess Champion stumbled in the semifinals against eventual winner Giri, then dropped the third-place match to the World Champion.Read More »
![FIDE UT-RGV](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/fide-utrgv.jpg.webp?itok=N0VDxo9A)
GM Mikhail Antipov earned bronze in the Open and IM Olga Badelka brought home silver in the Women's Championship. WIM Alicja Sliwicka from UT-RGV… Read More »
![Fischer Wins Interzonal, from Chess Life and Review, January 1971](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/fischerwinsinterzonalcropped.png.webp?itok=DgpfeFRN)
Fifty years ago, history's greatest American chess player had begun his march to the World Chess Championship - and he almost missed the first step.… Read More »
![So vs. Nakamura](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/wp-thumbnails/So-vs.-Nakamura.jpg.webp?itok=jubwWg0r)
The Champions Chess Tour's second "Major" event offers an increased $220,000 prize fund and an invitation to the tour finale in September.Read More »
![Nakamura Rd6 2019 USCh (Ootes)](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/wp-thumbnails/Nakamura-Rd6-2019-USCh-Ootes.jpg.webp?itok=qgnBoKI2)
The fourth tournament in the Champions Chess Tour is a Major event offering $200,000 and an invitation to the September tour finals.Read More »
![Alex Lenderman](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/wp-thumbnails/Lenderman-Rd6-2019-IOM-saunders.jpg.webp?itok=QYukXi8p)
The New York Grandmaster knocked off three other GMs and finished a full point ahead of the pack.Read More »
![GM Wesley So Wins the Opera Euro Rapid](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/wesleysooperaeurorapidwin.png.webp?itok=fp7SiO0s)
The US Champion beat GM Magnus Carlsen in a Valentine's Day final, the second time in a row in the Champions Chess Tour.Read More »
![Carlsen vs. So, Photo Grand Chess Tour](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/wp-thumbnails/carlsenso.jpg.webp?itok=R1GjaNxx)
US Chess Champion Wesley So defeated GM Teimour Radjabov in the Champions Tour semifinals Friday, and will face the World Champion on Saturday.Read… Read More »