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Few individuals have had as big an impact on the chess world as International Master Nikolay Minev who died on March 10, 2017, in Seattle, Washington…
Smith and Petesch met in round 4 with Smith in clear 1st at 3-0, leading the field by half point.
IM and PRO Chess League commissioner Greg Shahade contributes his annual blunt predictions on the US Chess Championships, coming up in Saint Louis...
The 2017 University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley's Spring Break IM-norm tournament is currently underway in Brownsville, Texas. Follow along on the… Read More »
Fischer v. Spassky. Kasparov v. Karpov. Caruana v. Finn. Some great rivalries are known to everyone in the chess world. Caruana-Finn is not, of… Read More »
Walter Shipman at the Mechanics’ Institute Chess Club of San Francisco in 2009. (Photo Richard Shorman) American chess has suffered a great loss with…
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Samir Alazawi, originally from Baghdad, Iraq, and now of Carmichael, California, has won the 2013 Electronic Knights Championship. Samir took a...
This year's Women's World Championship in Tehran, Iran (February 10-March 4) was a site of both fierce chess and controversy. In an Open letter to...
"Blundering your queen immediately is bad, not blundering your queen is good." Amateur player Eliot Rosenstock gives some insight and wisdom into how…

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