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Back to the US Chess School: Akira Nakada on USCS 51 in San Francisco

In early August 2019, a group of the strongest juniors in the country were invited to the 51st US Chess School at the Mechanics…

One Move at a Time: November Guest Jim Egerton

Welcome to the November 2019 edition of “One Move at a Time,” the US Chess podcast in which Dan Lucas, the Senior Director of Strategic…

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I am IM: Carissa Yip on Earning Her Final Norm at SPICE

The SPICE Cup is a popular tournament for norm seekers, due to the large number of foreign IMs and GM who typically play. This year’s…

Aronian Wins GCT Superbet Rapid & Blitz on Tiebreaks

Levon Aronian is the winner of the 2019 Grand Chess Tour Superbet Rapid and Blitz (Bucharest, Romania; November 6-10), taking the title after a playoff…

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[NEWSFLASH] Abhi Mishra Earns IM Norm #3, “GM Karjakin: I’m Coming.”

Rising superstar Abhimanyu Mishra earned his third IM norm at the GM Maxim Academy Closed event in New York City. Mishra has now, pending processing…

Six Super Games

Information overload. That’s how I feel right now, with two major international events – the FIDE Grand Prix and Grand Chess Tour – going on,…

Nakamura Knocked Out in Hamburg

The 2019 FIDE Grand Prix continues this week with a stop in Hamburg, Germany. From November 5th through 17th, 16 of the world’s elite will…

Wesley So Wins Inaugural FIDE Fischer Random Championship

It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. Wesley So lost in the online quarterfinals at chess.com, only to fight through the “losers bracket” to earn…

GM Joel Benjamin. Photo by Austin Fuller, courtesy of the Saint Louis Chess Campus

Cover Stories with Chess Life: November Guest GM Joel Benjamin

The November 2019 edition of “Cover Stories with Chess Life” is now live! This monthly podcast, hosted by Senior Director of Strategic Communication Daniel Lucas,…

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80 Female Players Attend “Promoting to Queens” in L.A.

WGM Tatev Abrahamyan, IM Annie Wang, WIM Sarah Lu, and six other female coaches came together at Occidental College near Pasadena on Saturday, October 26th…

Carissa Yip Earns Final IM Norm at SPICE Cup

16-year-old Carissa Yip made history this week, by earning her final IM norm at the 2019 SPICE Cup/Benko Memorial. Carissa told CLO that it has…

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