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On the International Day of the Girl, October 11th, 2018, we are thrilled to share with the US Chess community more good news about initiatives to...… Read More »
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 twitter… Read More »
Rusa Goletiani, Alisa Melekhina, Yuanling Yuan, Anita Wu and Alexandra Wiener Hosted at the offices of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, the first season… Read More »
Elliot Neff, member of the US Chess Scholastic Council and coach of the Uganda Women's chess team at the recent Olympiad, has just released a new… Read More »
The 38th US Chess School, which Akira Nakada covered in one of the Top Articles of 2018 The 47th United States Chess School will be held in Glendale… Read More »
US Chess will be sending one official team to the upcoming 2018 FIDE World Youth U16 Olympiad – regulations can be seen here. This event is held in… Read More »
Ruth Haring at the Chess Olympiad, watching the legendary Nona Grapindihasvilli play blitz On Saturday, Sept. 29, the FIDE Women's Commission held… Read More »
With the election of Russian Arkady Dvorkovich to the FIDE Presidency and the promise of reform within the chess world’s governing body, US Chess...… 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 »

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