Problems & Puzzles

In his May 2020 "Chess to Enjoy" column in Chess Life, GM Andy Soltis offered readers a number of "Turing Test" positions, where the idea was to try… Read More »

The Kasparov Chess Foundation (KCF) and Saint Louis Chess Club have been running the very successful Young Stars program for the past six years.… Read More »

Some chess variants and sub-genres are well-known to American audiences. Go to any big scholastic tournament and you will see dozens of “buggers”… Read More »

Shawnak Shivakumar and Robert with U.S. Champion… Read More »

Hikaru Nakamura was crowned Grand Chess Tour Champion on December 17 in London after a tight match against the #2 rated blitz player in the World,… Read More »

This year’s participants: on the left Rochelle Wu (California), Abhimanyu Mishra (New Jersey), Christopher Yoo (California), Brandon Jacobson, (New… Read More »

To give us some perspective on how incredible Xiong's performance has been so far, let's compare his results to many of the world's best in the… Read More »