Posts categorized "News"
Excitement is ramping up for National Chess Day on October 14, 2017. GM Pal Benko preps the celebrations with some mates in honor of our special day… Read More »
Walter Brown, Grant Oen, Ruth Haring and Michael Khodarkovsky The first half of the 88th FIDE Congress at the beautiful Avantgarde Hotel in Antalya… Read More »
The government of Turkey announced the suspension of visa services to U.S. citizens, effective October 8, 2017. According to the government’s...Read… Read More »
Article author Adrian Kondakov, camper Rui Yang Yan, with guest coach Kostya Kavutskiy watching My summer was filled with chess. I attended several… Read More »
Prateek Pinisetti, a recipient of the 2017 Scholar-Chess Player Awards was also featured in our Chess: A Game for Life promo series. Prateek is also… Read More »
I am honored to be the new Executive Director at the US Chess Federation. As I settle in, I want you to know that my door is always open and that I’d… Read More »
19-year-old IM and WGM Dorsa Derakashani, who was born in Iran in 1998, has switched federations and is now officially a US Chess player. Dorsa told… Read More »
A limited amount of space is now available in our tournament program book for the 2017 National Scholastic K-12 Championship. The event is being held… Read More »
"Eagle-eyed correspondence chess players take nothing for granted." -Irving ChernevRead More »
Magnus Carlsen captured clear 1st at the Chess.com Isle of Man Masters with 7.5 points out of 9 games. Surprisingly, this is Carlsen's first… Read More »