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While chess can be played and enjoyed at any age, it’s clear that there’s a youth movement in American chess under way. Hikaru Nakamura said as much… Read More »
Round 1 of the U.S. Championship and Women’s Championship kicked off with both a bang and a whimper. The women were out for blood, and every game in… Read More »
This year marks the 80th anniversary of US Chess. Born of a merger between the American Chess Federation and the National Chess Federation on...Read… Read More »
Today we feature six positions from the 2019 National High School Championship, contested this weekend in Schaumburg, IL. We’ll warm up with an easy… Read More »
The U.S. Championship and U.S. Women's Championship opened on Monday, March 18th at the Saint Louis Zoo, coinciding with the US Hall of Fame and… Read More »
The 52nd Annual New York State Scholastic Championships were held in Saratoga Springs, New York on March 9-10. This year’s tournament again broke...… Read More »
The 2019 American Continental Championship will take place July 5 – 13 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Please see full information here. It is an 11 round… Read More »
In our March edition of Ladies Knight, Jennifer Shahade, two-time U.S. Women's Champion and US Chess Women's Program Director talks to WIM Natasha...… Read More »
The 2019 National High School Championship was a record-breaker, both officially and unofficially. This 51st edition of the High School Championship… Read More »
SCHAUMBURG, ILLINOIS: The 501(c)3 US Chess Federation announced the five recipients of the 2019 Scholar-Chessplayer Awards at the 2019 National High… Read More »

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