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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 all…
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 is...
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...
On March 25, 2020, the US Chess Executive Board passed the following motion 7-0: The Executive Board (EB) moves that all games submitted by… Read More »
The Chess Underground is literally underground, in every sense of the word, live (on tape) from the quarantined, sheltered-in-place state of Illinois…
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...
WORLD ONLINE SCHOOL CHESS TOURNAMENT The World Online School Chess Tournament is a completely free event for boys and girls born after 31 December...
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…
Host hotel cancels event booking due to COVID-19 preparations The 2020 U.S. Junior Open and the 2020 U.S. Senior Open have been canceled and will not…
Beginning on March 25, US Chess staff in Crossville, Tennessee will be telecommuting with only limited access to the office building. With the rapid…

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