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Chess players are known creatures of habit, which is perhaps the only way to explain why, for the 85th time, 14 of the world’s top players venture to…
To reach the “Final Four” in Division I college basketball, teams only have to play four games. In chess, earning one of four coveted spots in the...
Women's Blitz Championship In an upset victory for the home team, Kazakh IM Bibisara Assaubayeva won the 2022 Women’s World Blitz Championship. Her...
The 16th annual Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE) Cup took place in St. Louis from December 18-23. 77 players, including 15...
GM Hikaru Nakamura won his fifth Chess.com Speed Chess Championship earlier this week, defeating GM Magnus Carlsen in a tense 14½ –13½ match on...
Today’s guest on "Cover Stories with Chess Life" is one of the authors of our December cover story on the 2022 FIDE Olympiad. She is our Women’s top…
The US Chess Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2021-2022 (June 1-May 31) is now available here. The report features officer reports, annual awards...
Tata Steel Chess India, now in its fourth year of rapid and blitz, shows no signs of slowing down any time soon. Indeed, the Kolkata tournament...
It started as a joke. Then, in 2020, it became an online eight-player Round Robin with only one prize. The prize was a picture of a man on a horse...
It’s not every day that the United States can be considered an underdog in an international team tournament. But for the 2022 World Team Championship…