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Just weeks after becoming the newly crowned US Champion, Sam Shankland won the 2018 Capablanca Memorial by a convincing 1.5 point margin.
[pgn] [Event "Altibox Norway"] [Site "0:34:33-0:42:33"] [Date "2018.06.03"] [Round "6"] [White "Wesley So"] [Black "Magnus Carlsen"] [Result "1-0"]...
After a dramatic playoff, 24-year-old Nazi Paikidze became our new US Women's Chess Champion. After 11 rounds of Classical chess, Paikidze was tied...
Congratulations to 26-year-old Grandmaster Sam Shankland, our new US Chess Champion! Sam finished ahead of three GMs in the top ten players in the...
American Hikaru Nakamura, one of the world’s top chess Grandmasters, has shown his generosity by honoring a pledge he made earlier this year to… Read More »
Relive the key moments on Caruana's journey to become Carlsen's Challenger.
Fabiano Caruana at the final round of the Candidates Tournament in Berlin. Photo Brian C. Glover Fabiano Caruana will represent the United States as…
Sam Shankland after winning the 2018 US Championship. Photo: Lennart Ootes Sam Shankland 2018 U.S. Champion and Super-Grandmaster US Chess Rating… Read More »
Sabina Foisor has been a top contender in the U.S. Women's chess sphere for many years. In 2017, Foisor entered the U.S. Women's Championship as an...
Tatev Abrahamyan is the 4th highest ranked woman in the U.S. and a veteran of the Women's Olympiad Team.