Annotated Games
![Nepo-Firouzja](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/candidates_round4_20220621_chess.com_0375.jpg.webp?itok=ui05At19)
The anticipated matchup between former world championship challenger GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and wünderkind GM Alireza Firouzja started brightly enough… Read More »
![Caruana and Firouzja arriving at the event](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/2022-candidates-rd02-fide-stev-bonhage-1.jpg.webp?itok=SzDyXrz7)
In another day of fighting chess in round two of the 2022 FIDE Candidates Tournament, GM Hikaru Nakamura showed his strength of both will and play,… Read More »
![Chess Life June 2022](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/clo_2022-06_cl_750x400.jpg.webp?itok=Y7ZMo4hO)
It’s Candidates season and GM Hikaru Nakamura is in the mix. This month, we have an exclusive interview with the grandmaster, record-breaking Twitch… Read More »
![2022 May Chess Life Cover](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/clo_may-chess-life-2022_750x400.jpg.webp?itok=m95eokj1)
GMs Abhimanyu Mishra (left) and Sam Sevian (right) took top honors at the 2022 Spring Classic. Our editor John Hartmann has on-the-scene reporting,… Read More »
![Girls Club Draws Judit Polgar](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/clo_girlsclubdraw_750x400.jpg.webp?itok=SWQKpT-D)
Two heads are better than one, but if you’re facing off against one of the greatest attacking chess players in the world, wouldn’t a few more be… Read More »
![FM Mariia Berdnyk](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/clo_berdnyk_750x400.jpg.webp?itok=xofNEbuR)
While many are writing about what is going on in Ukraine, and many are speaking out in a time when Twitter and streaming technologies give voice to… Read More »
![Mishra Spring Classic 2022](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/2022-spring_classic-mishra-austin_fuller_750x400.jpg.webp?itok=YlRkMsiB)
The phrase “time flies” has taken on new resonance over these past two years as we all been experiencing life in a pandemic. But I want to give you… Read More »
![Voices from Ukraine Olga Babiy](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/clo_ukraine_olga-babiy_750x400.jpg.webp?itok=Br9vU2C9)
US Chess, in partnership with the Kasparov Chess Foundation, continues to raise money for relief to the Ukrainian chess community through GoFundMe.… Read More »
![USATN 2022 UChicago B](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/usatn_uchicagob_zatkoff_750x400.jpg.webp?itok=TlKn02vX)
Over Presidents Day Weekend, 332 chess players formed 79 teams in Schaumburg, just north of Chicago, Illinois for the 2022 U.S. Amateur Team North (… Read More »