There is only one week remaining in the North American Chess League's regular season, and stakes are high. Only the top eight companies in the final standings will qualify for the November 13 knockout tournament, so this upcoming week is the last ...
Last weekend, the SouthPark Hilton Garden Inn played host to the latest edition of one of the Charlotte Chess Center’s flagship events: the ALTO! ALTO stands for At Least Twenty One, meaning only adults 21 and older are eligible to play. Thi...
With only two weeks left in the North American Corporate Chess League's regular season, there's not much time remaining for teams to clinch one of the league's eight playoff spots. The playoff line currently ends at eighth-ranked AFS, with 32.5 po...
We have reached the halfway point of the North American Corporate Chess League's regular season! Competition is fierce, as the league's 38 teams compete for eight spots in the one-day knockout tournament scheduled for November 13. The North Amer...
Through two weeks of the North American Corporate Chess League's twelfth season, not much is decided, but much has happened! Two frontrunners have emerged in the form of Capital One and Databricks, each posting 20 out of a possible 24 points, but ...
Season number twelve of the North American Corporate Chess League is now underway! A total of 38 teams participated in Thursday evening's opening rounds, playing three games of rapid chess right here on chess.com. The North American Corporate Ch...
Over the past two weekends, the Charlotte Chess Center hosted the 2025 Charlotte Fall Open at the SouthPark Hilton Garden Inn. Over 200 players participated in at least one of the event's five sections, with the U1800, U1500, and U1200 held from S...
It was a chess-filled Labor Day weekend here in Charlotte, North Carolina, as the Charlotte Chess Center hosted two FIDE-rated events: the Southeastern FIDE Championship and the Labor Day Norm Invitational! Both tournaments took place at the Sou...
Last weekend, the Charlotte Chess Center's annual Charlotte Summer Open took place at the Southpark Hilton Garden Inn, welcoming over 150 players across four sections! The tournament featured five games of USCF standard-rated chess, with the top t...
The ninth annual edition of the Carolinas Classic, one of the Charlotte Chess Center's flagship events, took place last weekend at the Hilton Charlotte University Place! The Carolinas Classic wasn't just a standalone chess tournament - it was a ...
The regular season of the North American Corporate Chess League is over, and we now know all eight teams that will participate in the knockout playoff on Thursday, as well as the winners of individual and team awards! The North American Corporat...
With one week remaining in the North American Corporate Chess League regular season, the playoff race is heating up! Out of the 45 total teams in the NACCL, seventeen are within three points of the playoff line, each vying for a top eight spot and...
After taking a narrow lead last week in the North American Corporate Chess League, Symetra Financial made big strides this past Thursday and is now all but assured a spot in the knockout playoff scheduled for June 12th. The team's two GMs, Andrey ...
Through three weeks of the North American Corporate Chess League season, Symetra Financial has emerged as the clear leader with a total of 30 points. Having been tied for the lead after last week's set of games, Symetra's two Grandmasters each wen...
Through two weeks of the North American Corporate Chess League's new season, very little is decided. Out of the 45 teams participating, almost half the field is within three points of first place! Meta and Symetra are currently tied for first at 1...
Last week, the eleventh season of the North American Corporate Chess League kicked off, with the games being played right here on chess.com! A grand total of 45 teams competed in three rounds of online rapid chess on Thursday evening, representing...
Last weekend, the SouthPark Hilton Garden Inn played host to one of the Charlotte Chess Center's flagship tournaments: the Spring ALTO. ALTO stands for At Least Twenty One, meaning that all participants in the event were 21 years old or above! H...
From April 16 to 20, 2025, the Charlotte Chess Center hosted our 34th GM/IM Norm Invitational tournament, featuring a GM norm section and two IM norm groups. Some of the CCC's most notable players (including one of our coaches!) participated in th...
This past weekend, the SouthPark Hilton Garden Inn played host to one of the CCC's flagship events: the Charlotte Spring Open! This tournament, consisting of five rounds from March 28 to 30, saw a grand total of 154 participants across four sect...
The North Carolina K-12 Chess Championship took place last weekend at the Raleigh Convention Center. Although the tournament wasn't held in Charlotte this year, that didn't stop many Charlotte Chess Center students from turning in excellent perfor...
One of the Charlotte Chess Center's flagship events, the annual Charlotte Open, took place over MLK Day weekend at the UNC Charlotte Marriott Hotel and Conference Center. A grand total of 393 players participated in the weekend's festivities, whic...
With wins in both of his games on Sunday, Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana has won the strongest open tournament in the United States, the US Masters, with an 8/9 score. Caruana's loss to GM Nikolas Theodorou in round six put him half a point out of ...
In a major upset with potential FIDE Candidates circuit ramifications, GM Nikolas Theodorou (2612 FIDE) took down super-GM Fabiano Caruana with the black pieces, putting himself in sole possession of first place entering the last day of play at th...
We are now past the halfway point of the US Masters tournament, and GMs Fabiano Caruana and Nikolas Theodorou are the only two players on a perfect 5/5 heading into Saturday's rounds. The US Masters is the strongest open tournament in the United S...
Rounds two and three of the strongest open chess tournament in the United States, the US Masters, took place yesterday on Thanksgiving day. This tournament, hosted by the Charlotte Chess Center, is a nine round open event hosting 264 total players...
