IM and PRO Chess League commissioner Greg Shahade contributes his annual blunt predictions on the US Chess Championships, coming up in Saint Louis...
The 2017 University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley's Spring Break IM-norm tournament is currently underway in Brownsville, Texas. Follow along on the… Read More »
Fischer v. Spassky. Kasparov v. Karpov. Caruana v. Finn. Some great rivalries are known to everyone in the chess world. Caruana-Finn is not, of… Read More »
Walter Shipman at the Mechanics’ Institute Chess Club of San Francisco in 2009. (Photo Richard Shorman) American chess has suffered a great loss with…
For more information, please contact: Kiley Herndon Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (314) 283-7068 k herndon@saintlouischessclub.org…
Samir Alazawi, originally from Baghdad, Iraq, and now of Carmichael, California, has won the 2013 Electronic Knights Championship. Samir took a...
This year's Women's World Championship in Tehran, Iran (February 10-March 4) was a site of both fierce chess and controversy. In an Open letter to...
"Blundering your queen immediately is bad, not blundering your queen is good." Amateur player Eliot Rosenstock gives some insight and wisdom into how…
For months, the chess world has awaited Magnus Carlsen's cameo on the Simpsons.
Viktor Korchnoi on the cover of April 1981 Chess Life Magazine Induction Ceremony Will Kick Off the 2017 U.S. Championship and U.S. Women’s...