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Wednesday Workout: FIDE World Cadets & Youth Rapid & Blitz

This week's puzzles come from the recently concluded FIDE World Cadets & Youth…

Americans Abroad: Riga, Dortmund, Biel, Copenhagen, Paris

American players have been rather busy in international play these past few weeks, and a key event kicks off tomorrow with our current U.S. Champion…

FIDE Market Research Survey Ends This Weekend

A FIDE survey that began on July 13 closes this weekend. It may be filled out by anyone interested in chess: Click here for the survey. US Chess did…

Lauser Repeats as 2019 U.S. Blind Champion

At 10 players, the 2019 U.S. Blind Championship was larger than it has been since 2007. It was also relatively strong, in that any of the top five...

Chess for a Cause: The 3rd Charity Chess Championship

The Third Annual Charity Chess Championship was held at Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School on June 2nd. This year’s fundraising event featured… Read More »

Chess Underground 4: Jason Juett [PODCAST]

Juett Topalov blindfold match (courtesy subject) Rook polynomials, mathematicians in burning hotel rooms, chess problem formulas, and the age old...

Ilia Lipilin Retains World Junior Title for Chessplayers with Disabilities

It’s been one week since the World Junior Championship for Players with Disabilities wrapped up in Cherry Hill, NJ and the typical PR with results, a…

A Fitting End to a Fine Event

There’s a very different feel to the U.S. Juniors (and now Seniors) than is found at the U.S. Championships. It’s not that one is more serious than...

Liang wins Junior in Playoff; Yip takes Girls, Shabalov wins Senior

Final Update: (note updates are in reverse order) Awonder Liang has won the 2019 U.S. Junior Championship, earning a $6000 first place purse and a $… Read More »

Once More, for all the Marbles

It all comes down to the final day. Awonder Liang and Nicolas Checa are tied for first place in the 2019 U.S. Junior Championship entering tomorrow’s…