Throwback
![2005 World Youth Championship U.S. Delegation](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/2005worldyouthdelegation.png.webp?itok=A5lmjbkW)
The 2005 sixth-place Team USA featured a lineup of players poised to become tomorrow's national championship contenders.Read More »
![December 1956 Chess Review Cover - Game of the Century](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/media/images/gamecenturychessreviewcover.png.webp?itok=IEQ_Nizy)
A young Bobby Fischer's legendary game made a slow spread through Chess Life and the world in 1956.Read More »
![Benko 1967.04 banner](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/wp-thumbnails/Benko-1967.04-banner.png.webp?itok=8bL4sMpz)
With the death last week of GM Pal Benko at age 91, it seems appropriate on this Thursday to take a look back his 46 years writing for Chess Life.… Read More »
![65th Square](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/wp-thumbnails/65th-Square.jpg.webp?itok=aCahFbaN)
Having read Alexander Baburin’s outstanding (and sadly out of print) Winning Pawn Structues, and believing that the IQP is fundamental for chess… Read More »
![April 1994 CL cover cropped](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/wp-thumbnails/April-1994-CL-cover-cropped.jpg.webp?itok=pEpvNJ1c)
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… Read More »
![Kashdan](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/wp-thumbnails/Kashdan.png.webp?itok=tWx-F1vP)
This year marks the 80th anniversary of US Chess. Born of a merger between the American Chess Federation and the National Chess Federation on… Read More »
![1969.05 Cover](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/wp-thumbnails/1969.05-Cover.png.webp?itok=ofM3b-7_)
This weekend marks the 51th edition of the National High School Championship. This year’s tournament promises to be one of the largest in its history… Read More »
![January 1998 CL cover crop](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/wp-thumbnails/January-1998-CL-cover-crop.jpg.webp?itok=cFYEF7_e)
The first World Team Chess Championship was held in Lucerne, Switzerland in November 1985. The U.S. team qualified to play in the Open section but… Read More »
![Wren 1947 Halifax HELEN GRUBER-WREN](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/wp-thumbnails/Wren-1947-Halifax-HELEN-GRUBER-WREN.jpg.webp?itok=8Q2HEWwF)
"Fred [Wren] first started to master chess in 1926. When asked what date he mastered it - he replied, "Leave that space blank, son."" (American Chess… Read More »
![CR June July 1942 p137 header](/sites/default/files/styles/350x200_scale_and_smart_crop/public/wp-thumbnails/CR-June-July-1942-p137-header.jpg.webp?itok=Jtm-ciBj)
Today we inaugurate our new Throwback Thursday series. With so much outstanding material in the US Chess and Chess Life archives – photos, stories,… Read More »