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From a Yacht to Online: Promoting to Queens Zooms Ahead
Jay Stallings, founder of the California Youth Chess League, planned four special events to promote women and girls’ chess in the 2020-2021 school calendar year…
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Aagaard on the Candidates – Post-Postponement
With the postponement of the remainder of the 2020 Candidates until a time to be determined, GM Jacob Aagaard recorded one last video with CLO…
2020 Candidates Paused after Seven Rounds
At approximately 2:42am GMT, FIDE announced that they are freezing the 2020 Candidates Tournament and postponing the remaining seven rounds for the foreseeable future. The…
Kosteniuk Crowned Isolated Chess Queen as Krush Recovers from COVID-19
On Saturday, March 21, Botez Live and US Chess Women hosted the Isolated Queens Swiss, a blitz tournament on chess.com open to female players of…
Wednesday Workout: Homework Club
This week’s Workout comes to us from our friends at the 365 Chess Academy, an online chess learning platform founded by GM Jacob Aagaard, who…
Aagaard on the Candidates: Round 7
For the seventh installment of his “Candidates Game of the Day” series, GM Jacob Aagaard has analyzed Maxime Vachier-Lagrave’s huge victory over co-leader Ian Nepomniatchtchi…
Chess Underground #12: The Candidates
The Chess Underground is literally underground, in every sense of the word, live (on tape) from the quarantined, sheltered-in-place state of Illinois, where we check…
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Chess Boards Will Be Set Up Again
A personal message from US Chess Executive Director Carol Meyer Dear Friends in Chess: During this time, unprecedented in all of our lives, I find…
Aagaard on the Candidates: Rounds 4-6
GM Jacob Aagaard spoke to CLO Digital Editor John Hartmann on Tuesday about the current state of play at the 2020 Candidates, including discussion of…
Aagaard on the Candidates: Round 6
For the sixth installment of his “Candidates Game of the Day” series, GM Jacob Aagaard has analyzed Ian Nepomniachtchi’s Round 6 victory over Ding Liren…
Nepomniachtchi Wins Again
Ian Nepomniachtchi will certainly enjoy his rest day on Tuesday, having won Monday’s game against Ding Liren to put him in first place at the…
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