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No Claim, No Problem: The TD Calls It a Draw Anyhow We all know that the TD can’t interfere in your game without a claim being made. It is one of our…
After the Delegates Meeting at the U.S. Open, there are bound to be some rulebook changes. After all, the Delegates are in charge of our rules. The...
One True Champion* The 2024 FIDE World Blitz Championship featured an experimental departure in format from previous years, replacing the second day…
2024 FIDE Rapid & Blitz World Championship Preview Editor's note: This story first appeared in the December 2024 issue of Chess Life magazine,… Read More »
US Chess tournaments have their rules. FIDE tournaments have their separate rules. And then we have the US Chess Scholastic Regulations, via the...
By 2002, it had been a long decade since the publication of our 1993 4th edition rulebook (edited by Bill Goichberg and others). The delegates had...
For National Chess Week, at least 49 tournaments were held across the country, consisting of 2,979 players and tens of thousands of rated games. This…
Byes are given out to players for games not played. Sometimes it is a full-point bye. Sometimes it is a half-point bye. Occasionally a zero-point bye…
Editor's note: This report covers rounds seven through ten of the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad. Part two can be found here and part one here. The final...
When your tournament game ends there are typically three results: a win, a draw or a loss. It turns out there is a fourth option: split results...