Annotated Games
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More than 900 players joined the winter holiday fun in the 2022 North American Open held in the Horseshoe Hotel of Las Vegas, Nevada,… Read More »
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GM Magnus Carlsen won his first tournament in Wijk aan Zee in 2008, at the age of 17, tying for first with GM Levon Aronian. For such a young player… Read More »
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Turkish GM Mustafa Yilmaz leads the Tata Steel Challengers headed into the first rest day, with an impressive 4/5 score that includes a fifth round… Read More »
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Chess players are known creatures of habit, which is perhaps the only way to explain why, for the 85th time, 14 of the world’s top players venture to… Read More »
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Growing up as a teenager in North Carolina in the 2000s, it never occurred to me that I could play FIDE rated chess. Sure, I occasionally received… Read More »
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Women's Blitz Championship
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Vincent Keymer (L… Read More »
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Championship Sunday lived up to the hype in National Harbor, with every section coming down to the final game. Several of the nine individual winners… Read More »
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The first two rounds of the 2022 K-12 Grade Championships are in the books, and Saturday’s third round of action is underway. While most of the top… Read More »