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Stony Brook University is conducting a brain MRI study of expert versus novice chess players and you can help. The benefits of… Read More »

Liran Zhou. Photo courtesy of the Zhou family
The World Cadet Championships are currently underway in Pocos de Caldas, Brazil (August 21-27).… Read More »

Thanks to the over one hundred members who entered our Chess: A Game for Life promotion. We at US Chess were thrilled with the… Read More »

13th World Champion and acclaimed author and speaker Garry Kasparov is currently playing the STL Rapid and Blitz (August 14-19), his first foray back… Read More »

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The Sinquefield Cup ended with a thrilling victory by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. This paved the way to a clear victory… Read More »

Three of five contenders going into the final round of the Sinquefield Cup: Vishy Anand, Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian (Photos by Eric Rosen)… Read More »

US Chess is honored to announce that both US Chess News and Chess Life Magazine have won several prestigious awards from the Chess Journalists of… Read More »

GMs Alexander Shabalov and Aleksander Lenderman faced off in round eight, Photo Jim Doyle
GM Aleksander Lenderman of New York took clear first at… Read More »

GM Ruifeng Li (b 2001), here photographed vs. GM Ilia Nyzhnyk, Photo Jim Doyle
Going into the final round of the US Open in Norfolk, VA, five… Read More »

Results are in at the Denker Tournament of High School Champions (click link for pdf of final results), Barber tournament of K-8 Champions and… Read More »