Posts categorized "Super grandmaster chess"
After the upsets saturating the first three rounds of the 2022 U.S. Championships, Saturday’s fourth round seemed like a quiet return to normalcy —...
The third round of the 2022 U.S. Championship featured three decisive games. All were won by White, and White was the higher-rated player in all… Read More »
Yoo notches a historic win, while Lee, Lee, and Yu remain perfect after two rounds!
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year...” But wait — aren’t Christmas and Hanukkah more than three months away? The holidays are great, but...
Alireza Firouzja won the 2022 Sinquefield Cup in a two-game Rapids tiebreak playoff with Ian Nepomniachtchi. There were no decisive games in the… Read More »
What a first week for the 2022 Sinquefield Cup! Not only did chess once again appear in all the world’s major media, there were actually a lot of...
If you still haven’t gotten your end-of-summer fix of super-grandmaster chess with the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz this past weekend, the Saint… Read More »
There’s always something going on at the Saint Louis Chess Club, but even by their standards, the next two months are gonna be lit. The Sinquefield...
With wins by both of our teams in rounds nine and ten, the Americans had put themselves in medal contention, which is a place most teams would be...
Open After the struggles in the two previous rounds in the Open event, it was essential that the American team post a victory — preferably a...