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The SPICE Cup is a popular tournament for norm seekers, due to the large number of foreign IMs and GM who typically play. This year's edition was… Read More »
Tons of smiles and eager faces ready for the fun at the first Promoting to Queens event. WGM Tatev Abrahamyan, IM Annie Wang, WIM Sarah Lu, and six...
Carissa Yip 16-year-old Carissa Yip made history this week, by earning her final IM norm at the 2019 SPICE Cup/Benko Memorial. Carissa told CLO that…
Imagine stepping into an elementary school cafeteria just moments before a chess tournament begins to find the energy level high and the nervous...
In the October edition of Ladies Knight, Jennifer Shahade speaks to IM Dorsa Derakshani about her childhood in Iran, her TED talk and what surprised…
A recent segment on a Philadelphia Public TV show, "You Oughta Know" showed the efforts of this year's "Chess City of the Year" to diversify chess...
Welcome to the October 2019 edition of “One Move at a Time,” the US Chess podcast in which Dan Lucas, the Senior Director of Strategic Communication…
I recently had the chance to travel to the West Coast for two events a week apart. My first event (August 16-20) was an all-woman IM norm round robin…
US Chess is delighted to share our new video, the Magic of Chess, which premiered last week on The Atlantic's website . The video features children...
In her first tournament back after a two year layoff, Humpy Koneru won the 2019 Skolkovo Women’s Grand Prix with a score of 8/11, half a point ahead…