Top American Players
The Frank P. Samford Jr. Chess Fellowship is pleased to announce its thirty-third consecutive annual award. The Fellowship was created by the late… Read More »
Congrats to Wesley So, who defeated GM Vidit Gujarathi on his 25th birthday. The occasion was celebrated by plenty of photoshops and memes on… Read More »
Rusa Goletiani, Alisa Melekhina, Yuanling Yuan, Anita Wu and Alexandra Wiener
Hosted at the offices of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, the first… Read More »
In an indication of the growing popularity and power of girls in chess, two eight-year-olds cracked the 2000 threshold in chess rating within one day… Read More »
US Chess President Allen Priest and Grandmasters Fabiano Caruana, Melikset Khachiyan and Wesley So at the start of the Croatia-USA match. Photo:… Read More »
Grandmaster Maurice Ashley is live from the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia, where our Women's team is in clear first with the only perfect… Read More »
The round before the rest day is important in any event, but perhaps even more so in a team tournament. The result might change the mood and team… Read More »
World Championship challenger, Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana, Photo David Llada
Today in round four of the 43rd World Chess Olympiad in Batumi, the… Read More »
Back row: (left to right): Vyom Vidyarthi, Derek Wu, Rochelle Wu, Nastassja Matus, Adrian Kondakov, Robert Shlyakhtenko (for some reason I’m smiling… Read More »
The gold-medalist U.S. Team is returning to the Olympiad as the Defending Champions with the same line-up: Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Hikaru… Read More »