56+ min ago   (659+ words) St. Louis is proving quite the accommodating host this summer. Just days after staging the senior and junior U.S. open and women’s championships, the St. Louis Chess Club is again multitasking as the site for the Sinquefield Cup and Cairns Cup,…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (256+ words) GREENSBORO, N.C. — The PGA Tour event in Greensboro, North Carolina, is moving to the top tier Championship Series in 2028 with Raymond James as the new title sponsor at Sedgefield Country Club. The tournament started in 1938 as the Greater Greensboro Open, and…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (357+ words) It’s been a bull market for laurel leaves this summer, as the country crowned a quartet of new U.S. champions in recent days. In the women seniors’ battle, WGM Anjelina Belakovskaia reclaimed the title she won three years ago, edging…...

4+ week, 1+ hour ago   (662+ words) It’s always nice to see chess have a moment in the larger culture, especially a moment not tied to the latest cheating scandal or geopolitical standoff. Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit” provided a major boost in popularity for chess with a…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (829+ words) Early reports say the District of Columbia’s tourism sector had a banner Fourth of July to mark the nation’s 250th birthday, and the world’s chess players certainly did their part. Congrats to the Continental Chess Association for providing smooth organization and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (296+ words) BILLINGS, Mont. — The international governing body for chess on Friday suspended former world champion Vladimir Kramnik for at least a year after he leveled unproven allegations of cheating against fellow players, including Daniel Naroditsky, who died last year at age…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (877+ words) We’ve had nearly 250 years of trying, but it’s still hard to pin down an identifiable “American” style of chess. The United States on the eve of its semiquincentennial on July 4th can boast of producing a string of world-class talents in…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (604+ words) It’s said you get only one chance to make a first impression, and two promising young American chess talents badly botched their audition. The accusations sparked a massive legal and public relations battle that jumped from specialty chess blogs to…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (574+ words) Like many of you, I suspect, I learned how to play chess as a young boy from my father. Pushy chess parenting, as depicted in books such as “Searching for Bobby Fischer,” isn’t unknown, but in my experience, chess fathers…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (648+ words) Next week, we’ll explore how great the chess dads are, but we thought we’d beat the pre-Father’s Day rush with a couple of superb recent performances from the ladies. First up is a hugely impressive result from rising Kazakh star…...