Aronian Wins Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz
Levon Aronian won the 2019 Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz with a combined score of 22 points, a half-point ahead of Yu Yangyi, Ding Liren,…
Posts categorized “Top American Players”
2019 U.S. Women’s Champ to Conduct Chess Exhibition at U.S. Open in Orlando
ORLANDO, FLORIDA: 17-year-old Jennifer Yu of Ashburn, Virginia, the 2019 U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, will be conducting a simultaneous exhibition* against 21 opponents on Saturday,…
A Fitting End to a Fine Event
There’s a very different feel to the U.S. Juniors (and now Seniors) than is found at the U.S. Championships. It’s not that one is more…
Americans Abroad: So Advances in Riga, Dominguez Dominates in Dortmund
Wesley So advanced to the semi-finals of the FIDE Grand Prix in Riga, Latvia today, defeating Sergey Karjakin in blitz tiebreaks. Karjakin and So drew…
Americans Abroad – Riga GP and Dortmund
While the U.S. Junior, Girls, and Senior Championships are dominating America’s chess attention these days, our elite players are elsewhere, doing battle across the globe….
U.S. Junior, Girls, Senior: Youth and Experience in Rd 1
The 2019 U.S. Junior, Girls, and Inaugural Senior Championships got underway today at the Saint Louis Chess Club. The first round had everything: tactical fireworks,…
Star Studded Senior, Junior, Girls Champs Begin in Saint Louis
A star studded trio of events begin in Saint Louis on July 11 at 1 PM CT, the U.S. Senior Championship, the U.S. Junior Champs and…
Kasparov Leads Young American Stars in Saint Louis
The Kasparov Chess Foundation (KCF) and Saint Louis Chess Club have been running the very successful Young Stars program for the past six years. Team…
Round 3 is History in Zagreb
Ian Nepomniachtchi leads the 2019 Croatia Grand Chess Tour by a full point as Saturday’s Round 4 action gets underway. Wesley So and Magnus Carlsen…
All-Action First Round in Croatia GCT
Turns out the death of classical chess may have been “greatly exaggerated” after all. The Zagreb stop of the 2019 Grand Chess Tour got underway…
Search Articles
Categories
- Administration »
- Annotated Games »
- Best of US Chess »
- Bios »
- Books »
- Chess Underground »
- College »
- Cover Stories »
- History »
- instruction »
- International Events »
- International Youth Events »
- Kids »
- Ladies Knight »
- News »
- Obituary »
- One Move At A Time »
- Podcast »
- Postal »
- Problems & Puzzles »
- Seniors »
- Slideshows »
- Super Grandmaster Chess »
- Theory »
- Throwback »
- Top American Players »
- US Open »
- Video »
- Women »
- Women's Bios »
- Workout »
Archives
Announcements
US Chess Press
- US Chess Women’s Program Grant Recipients Announced »
- Mitzy Caballero Earns 2019 SPFGI Title & Webster University Scholarship »
- National Girls Tournament of Champions Renamed in Honor of Ruth Haring »
- 2019 Scholar-Chessplayer Awards Announced »
- Six Chess Legends to be Inducted into the U.S. and World Chess Halls of Fame »