Tim Just “That rule is stupid. I’ve played chess for 50 years now and always done it that way,” exclaimed the player that was warned for touching his…
The 2019 National Junior High School Championship is off and running! The main event starts on Friday at 1pm, but there were lots of important side...
US Chess is partnering on a new video project with Jenny Schweitzer. We are casting boys and girls (ages 4-8) as part of the process. If interested...
The National Junior High School Chess Championships kick off in Grapevine, Texas with bughouse and blitz tournaments on Thursday, April 25th. The… Read More »
Eleven mates - three mate in ones, four mate in twos, three mate in threes, and one mate in four. Think you've got what it takes to solve them all...
The U.S. team of Alexander Shabalov, Joel Benjamin, Igor Novikov, Jaan Ehlvest, and Alex Yermolinsky is the clear and convincing repeat winner of the…
One round remains in the 2019 World Senior Team Championships, and after today’s 3.5-0.5 match victory over Austria, the U.S. 50+ team looks well on…
Registration for the 2019 Pan American Youth Championships, to be held in Guayaquil, Ecuador, will commence Monday, April 22nd and last until Friday…
U.S. Champions have not often visited Atlanta, Georgia. On Saturday, April 20, GM Hikaru Nakamura, only three weeks removed from winning his fifth U.… Read More »
The U.S. 50+ team kept its lead in the World Senior Team Championships on Monday, defeating Israel in the seventh round of play. This was the team’s…