Top American Players
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While the U.S. Junior, Girls, and Senior Championships are dominating America’s chess attention these days, our elite players are elsewhere, doing… Read More »
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The 2019 U.S. Junior, Girls, and Inaugural Senior Championships got underway today at the Saint Louis Chess Club. The first round had everything:… Read More »
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The Kasparov Chess Foundation (KCF) and Saint Louis Chess Club have been running the very successful Young Stars program for the past six… Read More »
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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… Read More »
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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… Read More »
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The Las Vegas International Chess Festival kicks off on Tuesday, June 11 with the U.S. Women's Open, a five round Swiss that will crown a National… Read More »
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SAINT LOUIS (June 10, 2019) – This summer marks a hallmark first for Saint Louis, America’s Chess Capital, as the Saint Louis Chess Club will host… Read More »
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It required a trip to the tie-break round, but both Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So are through to the second round of the 2019 Moscow Grand Prix. Both… Read More »