Posts categorized "Problems-&-puzzles"
What stuck with me the most was the incredible energy that Tal brought to the chessboard. He saw opportunities for activity and the initiative in...
With the new school year starting, chess clubs and scholastics resume. Some countries, such as Armenia, have made chess a mandatory part of the...
Jeffery Xiong at the 2016 U.S. Championships. Photo: Austin Fuller Days ago, Jeffery Xiong, the current U.S. Junior Champion, added World Junior...
There were three recent Continental Chess Association tournaments held on three consecutive weekends in three different states and three enterprising…
Vishy Anand, Ding Liren, Hikaru Nakamura, Anish Giri, Fabiano Caruana, Rex Sinquefield, and Wesley So at the Sinquefield Cup Opening Ceremony. Photo…
Photo: Yevgeny Surov Sam Shankland, the 4th highest player in the U.S., won one of the strongest tournaments of his career last week, the Master...
Grandmaster and composer Pal Benko celebrated his 88th birthday earlier this month and passes on some birthday gift problems to US chess readers. In…
GM Illia Nyzhnyk, Photo Jim Doyle The main event of the World Open concluded July 4 th , but there was still much chess to be played. Normally the...
It is not often that you see three 2700+ GMs and a 7 time U.S. Women’s Champion tie for first in a weekend Swiss that offers less than $15,000 in...
Happy Independence Day! Solve the following problems from Grandmaster Pal Benko, which are inspired by the American Revolutionary War. Start off with…