The World Amateur has kicked off in Skokie, Illinois with 124 players, including many foreign participants such as the pictured Denitza Dragieva, Bulgaria's official representative. Check out more photos.
The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis is giving away three copies of Changing of the Guard: 2009 U.S. Championship to three lucky members of our Facebook fan page.
On March 13, 22 players competed
in a simultaneous chess exhibition against NM David
Cole, and each participant had the opportunity to use a "Lifeline to a
Grandmaster" and ask GM Kudrin for advice.
The information on the US Juniors and US Women's set for the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis from July 9-19 has been updated with invitational rating supplement information.
The 7-Day of the US Masters will merge tonight with the two Weekend. Klaus Pohl, Justus Williams and Maurice Dana are tied for the lead in the 7 day. See updated crosstables and the game Pohl-Pupols.
David Heiser, the president of the Renaissance Knights Chess Foundation, explains how in the past few years chess has blossomed in the Chicago Public School Sports Program.
Tom Braunlich reports on the Phillips 66 Chess Classic, held in Woolaroc, a wildlife preserve in Oklahoma, where elks, buffalo and ostriches watched over as Braunlich tied for first with Devin Hughes.
Chessboxing, the European breakout sport invented by a German artist,
Iepe B.T. Rubingh finally has a bastion in the USA, the LA Chessboxing
Club. Read about the match and see photos and video.
Chess Without Borders students were invited by Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots to participate in a presentation demonstrating how children can change the world. See photos and event details.