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Like many chess players, IM David Brodsky learned how to checkmate with just a knight and a bishop early in his chess career. But it wasn’t until the…
Chess is many things to many people, but one thing we can all agree on is that Chess is a Game for Life! Regardless of gender, race, ethnicity...
The first Femme Batale (rhymes with Femme Fatale) raised over $10,000 for women and girls in chess, including over $8000 combined for US Chess Women…
The 4th Annual New York State Girls Championship was held November 23-24, hosted by Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, located on NYC's Upper...
2019 Denker field. Photo by Ana Vivas. Each year, US Chess hosts five premier invitational events (the Rockefeller event begins in 2020): GM Arnold...
In the end, the only thing that could stop Magnus Carlsen was a tummy bug. courtesy STLCC; note that Nakamura scored 12 in the Blitz and not 11...
There are countless chess variants, some enjoying more popularity than others, but none have gotten as much recent attention as the brainchild of...
As announced at the 2019 Delegates Meetings, US Chess has been working on digitizing its archive of Chess Life and Chess Review magazines (as well as…
The Marshall Chess Club set a new course for its annual Championship this year. Instead of the traditional 9-round Swiss, the 103rd Marshall Chess...
GM Andrey Stukopin and FM Gabriel Petesch shared first place at the 28th Annual King’s Island Open with a score of 4.5-0.5. Each won $1912.50 with...