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At 1:00pm on May 12, 2017 at the Opryland Resort in Nashville, TN the first round of SuperNationals VI will officially begin. To the casual observer… Read More »
Sabina Foisor, 2017 US Women's Chess Champion , Photo Austin Fuller for the Saint Louis Chess Club Two more “big names” have been added to the All...… Read More »
After winning the exceptionally strong Gibraltar Open for the third consecutive time in February, Hikaru Nakamura has now also managed to win the...… Read More »
In round 7, Sevian faced second seed GM Vladmir Belous on board 1. Sevian had the black pieces and trailed Belous, who led the tournament by half a… Read More »
Photo Lennart Ootes Wesley So, our new US Champion and current World #2 ranked player, dazzled with his queen sacrifice against Jeffery Xiong, one of… Read More »
This year marked the 50th Anniversary of the New York State Scholastic Championship, and, as befits such a milestone, this year’s attendance… Read More »
Wesley So and Sabina Foisor, Photo Lennart Ootes Just like last year, I list the ten biggest takeaways from the 2017 U.S. Championships. It’s great… Read More »
GM Pal Benko recently contributed Apri Fools problems to the April edition of Chess Life Magazine, in which you are challenged to construct… Read More »
When I first started playing chess, I spent a lot of time studying the opening. Inspired by the World Champion at the time, Garry Kasparov, I spent… Read More »
The 62-player Open section was quite strong, which should be no surprise given the St Louis location. Many Webster students played as well as… Read More »