Super Grandmaster Chess

The tenth round of the 2022 U.S. Championships saw several of the leaders dangle precipitously on the edge of disaster. Still, in the end, only three… Read More »

With only one decisive game in the ninth round of the 2022 U.S. Open Championship, the standings remained relatively constant despite lots of action… Read More »

The excitement continued unabated in St. Louis on Sunday as the players passed the first third of the U.S. Championships. The fight for first will… Read More »

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 —… Read More »

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… Read More »

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… Read More »