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This week's puzzles continue our series on the 2025 FIDE World Cadet Championships, which concluded last month in Almaty, Kazakhstan (flash report |… Read More »

The 2025 U.S. and U.S. Women’s Championships in St. Louis are unfolding with drama, tension, and upsets in every round. Both fields are fiercely… Read More »

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This week's puzzles begin our series on the 2025 FIDE World Cadet Championships, which concluded last Tuesday in Almaty, Kazakhstan (flash report |… Read More »

This week's puzzles continue our series on the 2025 FIDE World Cadet Championships, which concluded last Tuesday in Almaty, Kazakhstan (flash report… Read More »

GM Fabiano Caruana won the 2025 Grand Chess Tour (GCT) Finals in São Paulo, Brazil, taking home $150,000 for winning his matches over GMs Levon… Read More »

Six days before Checkmate: USA vs India, one of its commentators, GM Harshit Raja, predicted that India would win 3–2 against the USA… Read More »

It was a successful outing for the 24 Americans who traveled to Almaty, Kazakhstan for the 2025 FIDE World Cadet Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan… Read More »