Grasping two hot, identically black coffees, Coach Jason Bui and I are staring in silence at the pink, 5th round pairing chart for the U18 section of…
A lost Josh Waitzkin game? IM Matthew Sadler? Shabalov with hair? (Said with love, Alex, from one bald man to another!) That’s right. It’s a Thursday…
Wesley So and Alexander Grischuk (photo World Chess) Wesley So was knocked out of the 2019 Moscow Grand Prix today, losing to Alexander Grischuk in...
WIM Dr. Carolina Blanco talks to Jennifer Shahade on Ladies Knight live from the Elementary Chess Championship about her incredible work with the...
It required a trip to the tie-break round, but both Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So are through to the second round of the 2019 Moscow Grand Prix. Both…
Founded in 1859, the Denver Chess Club is one of the oldest chess clubs in the United States. This year a few enthusiastic club members got together…
IM Kostya Kavutskiy (photo Paul Truong) IM Kostya Kavutskiy annotates three games played by some of the winners of the 2019 National Elementary...
The 2019 National Elementary Championship, held May 10-12 at the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, has been the largest rated event in American chess… Read More »
To honor the publication of CLO columnist Alex Dunne’s newest book, Fred Reinfeld: The Man Who Taught America Chess, with 282 Games, this week’s...
In this new periodic feature here at CLO, we’ll check in with top American players as they compete in important international events. This week we...