This week saw the dramatic conclusion of the 2021 U.S. Chess Championship. After an eleven-round round robin, Wesley So was tied for first place with 6.5 points, along with top-rated Fabiano Caruana and the
With an extraordinary performance, eighteen-year-old IM Carissa Yip has won the U.S. Women’s World Championship with a round to spare. The U.S. Chess Championship tournaments are eleven-round round robins featuring the top twelve players
The Finals of the Champions Chess Tour ended just yesterday, but Magnus Carlsen’s dominant performance meant that he was the mathematical winner several days before the Finals ended. Wesley So’s crushing round-seven loss to
Canada has been very busy on the world stage of chess lately. From mid-August to mid-September, Team Canada participated in the FIDE Online Olympiad. Not known as a global chess powerhouse, the Canadian team
Founded in 2012, Norway Chess bills itself as the strongest chess tournament in the world, or as Garry Kasparov once said: “the Wimbledon of chess.” This year’s edition of the tournament ran for ten
When COVID-19 struck many of our favourite activities came to a stop. CIC’s founder Ted Winick, has created many chess events and initiatives over the years, including National Chess Camp, founded fourteen years ago
Maili-Jade Ouellet is a chess player from Saint-Lambert, Québec, just across the St Lawrence from Montréal. She won the Canadian Women’s Chess Championship in 2017, when she was just 15. She won the Continental
Congratulations to Ian Nepomniachtchi for winning the so-called 202x FIDE Candidates Tournament! The Candidates Tournament featured eight of the strongest grandmasters in the world in a double round robin. The winner of the Candidates
In a stunning turn of events, Magnus Carlsen announced his retirement from chess after a loss to the unknown amateur Max Deutsch. The two had played an exhibition game in Hamburg in 2017, which
When you look superficially at the world of chess, all you see are men. And, with really horrible logic, when a woman shows prowess and skill in the so-called Game of Kings, the fact
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