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Jen Shahade, purple dress, chess lesson on Beautiful Moves
Jen Shahade to Teach Thursday Girls Club Class [VIDEO]
Women's Program Director Jennifer Shahade will lead our next Thursday night Girls Club class on chess and beautiful moves on August 6th at 6 PM EDT.… Read More »
Promoting to Queens Four: The Chess Queen Zooms Anywhere She Wants
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Levelling Up with US Chess
The first video in our new series, "Levelling Up with US Chess," is now available to view on YouTube. https://youtu.be/-nPESCYRa6A CLO Digital… Read More »
Improving Your Chess: Cost and Quality
Editor’s Note: I saw this outstanding video on chess improvement tools from frequent Chess Life and Chess Life Online contributor Kostya Kavutskiy,… Read More »
The Evolution of the Benko Gambit
Our November Chess Life infographic honors the legacy of Pal Benko by sketching the evolution of his most famous creation, the Benko Gambit. Here,… Read More »
Tricky Traps!
It’s hard to overstate how important Fred Waitzkin’s Searching for Bobby Fischer (the book, not the movie) was in forming my early understanding of… Read More »
Back to the US Chess School: IM Craig Hilby on #50 in Saint Louis
Coach and author GM Jacob Aagaard, Photo IM Rosen… Read More »
Back to the US Chess School: Davis Zong Jr on #49 in New York City
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Back to the US Chess School: #48 in Saint Louis
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Leela Chess: Installation and Use
In the course of writing my April 2019 review for Chess Life, devoted to the fascinating new Game Changer by Matthew Sadler and Natasha Regan, I had… Read More »
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