Top American Players

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 »
The Kasparov Chess Foundation (KCF) and Saint Louis Chess Club have been running the very successful Young Stars program for the past six years.… Read More »
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 »
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 »
The Losoffs with our new National Open Champ! Photo… Read More »
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 »
SAINT LOUIS (June 10, 2019) –  This summer marks a hallmark first for Saint Louis, America’s Chess Capital, as the Saint Louis Chess Club… Read More »
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 »
In this new periodic feature here at CLO, we’ll check in with top American players as they compete in important international events. This week we… Read More »
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