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Magnus Carlsen has won the 2019 Altibox Norway Chess Tournament with one round and three tournament points to spare. Yu Yangyi and Levon Aronian...
Megan Lee, a 22-year-old designer & inventor based in the Seattle area, won the U.S. Women's Open with 4.5/5. Megan defeated the 2018 champion in… Read More »
Life in the Internet age is both a blessing and a curse for chess fans. On the plus side, there is an utter avalanche of top-level tournaments taking…
Two rest days. Two tournament leaders. Two very different stories. Standings after Rd 6 (courtesy Mark Crowther / TWIC) Magnus Carlsen leads the 2019…
The Las Vegas International Chess Festival kicks off on Tuesday, June 11 with the U.S. Women's Open, a five round Swiss that will crown a National...
SAINT LOUIS (June 10, 2019) – This summer marks a hallmark first for Saint Louis, America’s Chess Capital, as the Saint Louis Chess Club will host...
Call it chance or call it kismet, but it is immensely useful to this writer that both the Altibox Norway Chess and Women’s Candidates Tournaments...
Aleksandra Goryachkina leads the 2019 Women’s Candidate Tournament after five rounds with a score of 4/5, a half-point ahead of Nana Dzagnidze...
CROSSVILLE, TN: US Chess has renamed a premier scholastic national championship as the Ruth Haring National Girls Tournament of Champions (RHNGTOC)...
The June 2019 issue of Chess Life includes a review of Grandmaster Boris Avrukh’s newest book with Quality Chess, Grandmaster Repertoire 2B: 1. d4...