Top American Players

US Chess wishes a merry Christmas to all our members and chess devotees, as well as luck and warmth to many of our top players on the road. Earlier… Read More »

GM Leinier Dominguez at the 2018 Champions Showdown in Saint Louis. Courtesy of the Saint Louis Chess Club, photo by Lennart Ootes
CROSSVILLE,… Read More »

Hikaru Nakamura was crowned Grand Chess Tour Champion on December 17 in London after a tight match against the #2 rated blitz player in the World,… Read More »

Results are in at the K-12 Chess Championships and our very first Main Event Champ was Katherine Zhuge of California, first to reach six points in… Read More »

Saturday is the most intense day the K12 Chess Championships, as three games differentiate the field. In round five, US Chess started streaming the… Read More »

This year’s participants: on the left Rochelle Wu (California), Abhimanyu Mishra (New Jersey), Christopher Yoo (California), Brandon Jacobson, (New… Read More »

The K-12 Chess Championships in Orlando kicked off with blitz and bughouse events, as the @USChess twitter takeover by IM Greg Shahade captured the… Read More »

GM Hikaru Nakamura, Photo Grand Chess Tour
The Grand Chess Tour finals (December 14-16) are set as American Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura will face… Read More »

The Grand Chess Tour finals, hosted at the 10th London Chess Classic will be held from December 11-17, 2018 and broadcast live on grandchesstour.org… Read More »

Raj Chennareddy
On June 18, 2016, I received a standard e-mail:
Hello GM Amanov:
We are currently looking for a coach/mentor for our 5-year-old… Read More »