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Chess Castling
Part Three of former US Chess President John McCrary's historical series tracks the progression of the modern-day castling maneuver.Read More »
White on Right
Former US Chess President John McCrary continues his historical series by examining when and how White received the first move.Read More »
Tim Just, CLO columnist
COVID-19 has turned the face of the OTB chess universe upside down. NTD Tim Just checks in on some of the situations that will need adjustments.Read… Read More »
Tim Just, CLO columnist
It seems strange to call that row of zeros on a digital chess clock a “flag fall.” The term is left over from the days when analog clocks were the… Read More »
Tim Just, CLO columnist
The world chess organization recently published its own set of online chess rules, including new rules for Hybrid Chess competitions.Read More »
The US Chess Morning Membership Events have been running since June and are currently a weekly online blitz tournament held every Friday morning on… Read More »
Welcome to the November 2020 edition of “One Move at a Time,” the US Chess podcast in which Dan Lucas, the Senior Director of Strategic Communication… Read More »
The way we take notation and the way we set clocks are two prime examples of rulebook U-Turns: rules that have gone through a 180-degree reversal.  … Read More »
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