Sunday saw two rounds of action in the ‘Quartet’ – the Denker, Barber, Haring, and Senior Championships – and the second round of the traditional...… Read More »
IM Kostya Kavutskiy will be presenting an annotated Game of the Day each day over the course of the 120th US Open. For his first installment, he...… Read More »
The 120th US Open kicked off yesterday with a simul, some bughouse, and the first of nine days of intense chess competition. Here’s a rundown of the… Read More »
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave held off a surging Viswanathan Anand to win the 2019 Paris Grand Chess Tour. Vachier-Lagrave scored 13 points in the Rapid...… Read More »
UPDATE 8/3: For those playing in the National Senior Tournament of Champions - please note that the opening ceremony starts at 2pm in Salon 5-6. This… Read More »
Robert Rizzo ICCM Robert Rizzo of Merrick, NY has won the 2018 Absolute Championship. He had finished third in both the 1999 and 2017 event, and...… Read More »
US Chess has learned that Harry Sabine has died at age 78. Harry Sabine was a giant of scholastic chess in both his home state of Tennessee and...… Read More »
ORLANDO, FLORIDA: 17-year-old Jennifer Yu of Ashburn, Virginia, the 2019 U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, will be conducting a simultaneous exhibition… Read More »
The Continental Chess Association had a busy weekend July 19th-21st, running three events in Chicago, IL, Manhattan, NY, and Orlando, FL. Together… Read More »