GM Michael Rohde
GM Michael Rohde picks out some special games from the first national event of the season.
GM Alex Fishbein wins the 2020 Senior. Evan Park and Jason Liang share first in the Barber. Alex Zhang takes top honors in the Rockefeller.
The 54th Annual Greater New York Scholastic Chess Championships were held February 1-2 at the Marriott in downtown Brooklyn. The New York State… Read More »
In this supplement to David Hater's excellent article on the National Junior High Championship, I present two games from that event.
I was at the… Read More »
For several months before the 13th Annual Open at Foxwoods, held April 17-21 at Foxwoods Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, chatter had been… Read More »
When Winston Wang and Frank Prestia, Sr. bumped into each other at the Parkway Hotel in St. Louis, they were both startled, but they both realized… Read More »
Eighteen-year-old Lev Paciorkowski, whose formative chess years were spent playing at the Rochester Chess Center and in the Rochester Interscholastic… Read More »
With so many strong players in attendance, who would emerge as the player(s) best able to concentrate, or most adept at taking calculated risks at… Read More »
John Burke (left) at the 2017 Match of the Millennials. Photo: Lennart Ootes
Now in its 7th year in Greensboro, North Carolina, the US Masters, a… Read More »
The inaugural National Senior Tournament of Champions kicked off on July 28 in Madison, Wisconsin at the U.S. Open, along with the Denker High School… Read More »