After four rounds the 2019 U.S. championship has four leaders, all on plus one: Jeffery Xiong, Wesley So, Hikaru Nakamura and Leinier Dominguez. Jennifer Yu leads the women's tournament after winning all four games.
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Xiong went from shared first to sole leader back to back to sharing that first place again. In round three he took down the reigning champion in a remarkable game that started with a sideline in the Scotch.
"I was very nervous at first; it looks like a...
The first week of the 2019 PRO Chess League Playoffs saw eight teams progress to the quarterfinals, where they will each vie for a coveted spot in the live PRO Chess League Final in San Francisco this May.
Their progression means that the PRO Chess League season came to an end for teams like the New York Marshalls, Dallas Destiny, and the Amsterdam Mosquitoes.
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The PRO Chess League is an international online rapid chess league featuring 32 teams from around the world competing for $50,000 in prize money and the title of 2019 PRO Chess League champion. This season features stars like Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Ding Liren, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Wesley So, Anish Giri and many more!
The 2019 regular season is 10 weeks long, running from January 8 through March 14. During the regular season, teams will play one match against...
What good are mistakes if you can't identify them and learn from them? Find out how to spot the mistakes in your chess game so you can improve from the lessons they inspire.
Searching in the Soviet chess magazines of the 1960s for my previous blog, I've bumped into these interesting photos of the head picture, where, as you can see, a chesstable for four players is presented. The host article had the title Great Friend of Chess [= Великий друг шахмат in Шахматы (Рига) 8/1965], and its main topic was Lenin and chess. After some storytelling around Lenin's avocation with chess, especially on a game-scene in London 1902 and during the years of prison and exile, the article...
Maxim Rodshtein (Israel), Ferenc Berkes (Hungary), Kirill Alekseenko (Russia) and Kacper Piorun (Poland) are the only players on 4.5/5 at the European Individual Chess Championship in Skopje, North Macedonia. Saturday is the one and only rest day.
The European Individual Championship is held for the 20th time this year. As always, it's an 11-round Swiss where 23 players will qualify for the upcoming World Cup in September in Khanty-Mansiysk. Another 23 players already qualified last year.
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As we gear up for Chess.com's first ever Junior Speed Chess Championship (JSCC), many on our staff have had conversations about who the youngest and strongest players are in today's game... which naturally led to a review of who the youngest, and fastest players were to obtain the highest title in chess.
Indeed it seems the game just keeps getting younger and younger! Grandmaster titles are now being achieved at twelve, thirteen, and fourteen years of age. Young talents are able to take advantage...
As winners in the second round, Sam Sevian and Wesley So joined Jeffery Xiong in the lead at the 2019 U.S. championship. Carissa Yip and Jennifer Yu are tied for first place in the women's tournament.
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"First of all it was a very tough game. I played very badly today; didn't get much chances," said Wesley So, who managed to score the full point against Timur Gareyev from a position that everyone expected to end in a draw.
"I didn't want to accept the draw right away although...
In his famous comedy routine, Richard Pryor tells a story about being caught cheating with another woman by his wife. Since the wife entered the room at the worst possible moment, it was pointless to deny the fact of cheating and yet, he tried his best.
As his last argument, he asks: "Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?"
Richard Pryor. Photo by Alan Light / Wikipedia.
While that was just a comedy performance, I've seen many chess players who trust anything but their own eyes!
Some...
