Annotated Games
The excitement continued unabated in St. Louis on Sunday as the players passed the first third of the U.S. Championships. The fight for first will… Read More »
After the upsets saturating the first three rounds of the 2022 U.S. Championships, Saturday’s fourth round seemed like a quiet return to normalcy —… Read More »
The third round of the 2022 U.S. Championship featured three decisive games. All were won by White, and White was the higher-rated player in all… Read More »
Yoo notches a historic win, while Lee, Lee, and Yu remain perfect after two rounds!
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year...”
But wait — aren’t Christmas and Hanukkah more than three months away?
The holidays are great, but… Read More »
One of the best things about the U.S. Open is that it is one section. No masters and above section, and no U1600 group — instead, it’s all-play-all,… Read More »
After a six-hour flight from New York City to San Francisco, I made it to the 54th U.S. Chess School hosted at the Hamilton Chess Club in Novato, CA… Read More »
Alireza Firouzja won the 2022 Sinquefield Cup in a two-game Rapids tiebreak playoff with Ian Nepomniachtchi. There were no decisive games in the… Read More »
What a first week for the 2022 Sinquefield Cup! Not only did chess once again appear in all the world’s major media, there were actually a lot of… Read More »