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Players with disabilities need special care, so there are special rules to make it fair.
A limited amount of space is now available in our tournament program book for the 2018 National K-12 Grade Championship. The event is being held from…
Batumi 2018 will be remembered for the great performances by both USA teams at the 43rd Chess Olympiad, where the Open team earned silver medals, and…
US Chess President Allen Priest and Grandmasters Fabiano Caruana, Melikset Khachiyan and Wesley So at the start of the Croatia-USA match. Photo:… Read More »
Back row: (left to right): Vyom Vidyarthi, Derek Wu, Rochelle Wu, Nastassja Matus, Adrian Kondakov, Robert Shlyakhtenko (for some reason I’m smiling… Read More »
FLAG! That is the word that moved your opponent’s brain right out of the time scramble zone. He had 90 minutes to make 40 moves (40/90,d5) in the… Read More »
At US Chess, the ratio of boys to girls in tournaments is 6 to 1. This means that more often than not, I can be the only girl (or one of the only...
With so many strong players in attendance, who would emerge as the player(s) best able to concentrate, or most adept at taking calculated risks at… Read More »
Be sure to say "check" in Ultimate Moves, Photo IM Eric Rosen You don’t need to say check in the game, but say it all the same. You grab your bishop…
Blindfold phenom Timur Gareyev (Kansas) kept his eyes very wide open to opportunities as he rebounded from a 5 th-Round loss to GM Jorge Cori...