John Hartmann

This week's Wednesday Workout pulls from the recently concluded 2023 European Team Championships. Full standings are available here, and Serbia… Read More »

The 2023 Qatar Masters concluded with Uzbekistan's GMs Nodirbek Yakubboev and Nodirbek Abdusattorov splitting top honors with 7/9, ahead of a field… Read More »

This week's Wednesday Workout features a smattering of highlights from IM Jeremy Silman's playing career. An obituary is forthcoming on Chess Life… Read More »

FM Alice Lee has had a very good year. The 13-year-old just won her first U.S. Girls' Junior Championship (with a round to spare) to follow up her… Read More »

This week's Wednesday Workout honors the life and games of FM Orest Popovych.
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Editor's Note: This story first ran in the May 2023 issue of Chess Life Magazine. We have republished the piece, with a number of additional puzzles… Read More »

For last week's Workout, all of the positions came from the 15th Annual Open at Foxwoods, but intentionally omitted one of the most interesting games… Read More »

This week's Workout comes entirely from recent games played at the 15th Annual Open at Foxwoods!
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We published the first in an occasional series of reprints of important Soviet-era essays and articles in the April issue of Chess Life. It is a… Read More »

In 2019 I won the u1800 prize at the U.S. Open, pushing my rating to a near-personal high — my actual high was achieved at the 2018 Open — and was… Read More »