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Photo: Yevgeny Surov
Sam Shankland, the 4th highest player in the U.S., won one of the strongest tournaments of his career last week, the … Read More »
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The Sinquefield Cup, the strongest chess tournament in the U.S., begins tomorrow at the St. Louis Chess Club. Let's take a look at this year's top-… Read More »
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Timur Gareyev before his blindfold simul at the Marshall Chess Club
Timur Gareyev won the Pacific Southwest Open in Irvine, CA with an… Read More »
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Jeffery Xiong playing against Nicolas Checa at the US Junior Closed. Photo: Austin Fuller
As we enter the finale of the US Junior Closed… Read More »
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International Master Aleksandr Ostrovskiy. Photo: Austin Fuller
In an exciting turn of events in round 4, International Master Aleksandr… Read More »
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The 2016 U.S. Junior Closed Championship begins on Friday, July 8th. With so many American youth chess players reaching new heights and breaking… Read More »
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Organizer Janelle Losoff, Ruifeng Li, and Daniel Fridman. Photo: Tim Hanks.
While the prestigious National Open is usually dominated by… Read More »
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The Las Vegas Chess Festival kicked off with the U.S. Women’s Open. WGM Vera Nebolsina won the tournament with an… Read More »
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Try out tactical puzzles from the debut tournaments for the 2016 Grand Chess Tour!
Paris:… Read More »
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Viktor Korchnoi on the cover of Chess Life in 1981
The world recently lost Viktor Korchnoi, a grandmaster who was a challenger for the… Read More »