US Chess

Garry Kasparov will appear at the 2018 Greater New York Scholastic Team and Individual Chess Championships.

At the Global Moves opening. Back row: GM Ray Robson, IM John Donaldson and GM Sam Shankland Front row: GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana and… Read More »

Jennifer Yu at the World Girls Under 20
Jennifer Yu (Virginia, USA) will play on board one at the final round of the World Junior Girls… Read More »

Happy Thanksgiving from US Chess! We reiterate our thanks from an email sent yesterday to our membership for being the best part of who we are as an… Read More »

Ding Liren vs. Wesley So at the World Cup
Chinese Grandmaster Ding Liren has already qualified for the 2018 Candidates set for Berlin in March.… Read More »

SAINT LOUIS (October 26, 2017) — In 2016, for the first time in 40 years, the American national team edged out 180 countries from around the… Read More »

The GAMMA Reykjavik Open in Iceland is always popular among American players. In 2017, Kostya Kavutskiy wrote about the same event in his… Read More »

This November, witness your favorite players battle it out against their hand-chosen opponents.

In memory of one of the greatest legends of American chess, William Lombardy (1937-2017), the Marshall Chess Club plans a FIDE Rated Memorial Blitz… Read More »

Grandmaster William Lombardy died in Martinez, California the morning of October 13, 2017, of a heart attack. He won the World Junior Championship in… Read More »