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The Denker tournament of high school champions, the Barber tournament of K-8 champs and the National Girls Invitational will coincide with the US… Read More »
Claudia Muñoz writes about her journey to the 2015 North American Junior Championships, which runs in Kitchener, Canada from July 26 - 30.
You are driving through the desert at night. Two headlights are all you have to illuminate a small, two-lane road. On each side of you, there is only…
Justin Sarkar, Photo Cathy Rogers, Iceland 2015 At the UTB May GM norm round robin, I began by playing the lowest seed, a 2100 in a super strong… Read More »
After five rounds of the Women's World Team Championships, the team finally got some much-needed rest. We had all played 11 arduous rounds of the U.S…
If someone had told me before Philly Open, that I would clinch my 3rd IM Norm with a round to spare, I wouldn't have believed them. Going into the...
GM Sam Shankland continues his series on breaking the top 100 players in the World. Read Part I here and also see his 2014 Best of CLO award. 6. One…
Best of CLO #1 is Finegold's Chess Resolutions by GM Ben Finegold. "Extremely fluid and conversational, when Ben talks/writes about chess, it is a...
Photo: Yevgeny Surov I am American born and raised, there is no chess culture in my family, I played my first tournament at an age when most top...
Some friendly bug Spending Christmas packed into a car with 3 other dudes all with varying definitions of good music, as well as differing… Read More »