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The 2019 NJH Championship In June 2019, the Scholastic Council formed a subcommittee of the Scholastic Committee to examine the current structure of…
Fritz is the granddaddy of commercial chess engines, the first to defeat a world champion in an “official” blitz game (Kasparov, 1992) and in a head…
In early August 2019, a group of the strongest juniors in the country were invited to the 51st US Chess School at the Mechanics Chess Club in San...
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 Communication…
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 edition was… Read More »
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...
Abhi at the Bay Area International Photo David Llada Rising superstar Abhimanyu Mishra earned his third IM norm at the GM Maxim Academy Closed event…
Information overload. That’s how I feel right now, with two major international events – the FIDE Grand Prix and Grand Chess Tour – going on, and… Read More »
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 compete in…
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 a…

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