Land of the Sky XXVII is set to take place on 24-26th January at the Crowne Plaza Resort Asheville, One Resort Dr, in Asheville, North Carolina 28806. The event will have four sections: Open, Asheville, Buncombe, U12. All sections will be played over five rounds of Swiss system and Open will be rated with FIDE. [...]

The Portuguese Chess Federation (FPX) is organizing the European Senior Chess Championship 2014 from March 8 until 18 March at the Axis Porto Business & Spa Hotel in Porto. The European Senior Rapid Chess Championship will be organized at the same venue on 19-20 March. The European Senior Blitz Chess Championship will be organized at [...]

I’ve just been reading a new book about how genes influence children’s academic performance. G is for Genes (Wiley Blackwell) is written by Kathryn Asbury, a lecturer in educational psychology and Robert Plomin, a behavioural geneticist, and is based on a long-running study of both identical and non-identical twins. This controversial volume provides a lot […]

Russian Grandmaster Maxim Turov emerged clear winner of the 39th Seville Open after defeating the last year champion GM Stewart Haslinger in the last round. Turov concluded the event with 8,0/9 points. Dutch IM Quinten Ducarmon and Armenian IM Tigran Simonian achieved a nice result by sharing the second place with experienced GM Carlos Matamoros. [...]

Levon Aronian keeps on rolling. He has won three games in a row and has scored 5/6, good for a full point lead over Anish Giri and Sergey Karjakin. His victim today was Wesley So, and unlike many of today's games wherein the logical result and the actual result often diverged, Aronian played very well and was by all reasonable interpretations the deserved winner. His TPR is over 3000, and his IPR...

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Magnus Carlsen took the world by storm as a child prodigy, becoming an international Grand Master at 13. At 19, he was the youngest chess player to be ranked number one in the world, and at 22, in November 2013, he defeated five-time former world champion Viswanathan Anand. Now, at age 23, Magnus holds a [...]

Live games with Houdini, Komodo, and Stockfish

Vladimir Dvorkovich Memorial, Stage of Grand Prix – Cup of Russia Rapid Chess 2014, was held on 15-16th January in Taganrog, Russia. The tournament was organized by the Russian Chess Federation and the Rostov Oblast Chess Federation. 128 players from Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Russia competed in the 11-round Swiss event. European Blitz Champion Anton Korobov, [...]

When we first start learning chess we often do so using an old hand me down chess set that’s been sitting, dusty and neglected, in the family closet for years. These sets sometimes are thematic, depicting the pawns and pieces as characters from a popular historical period, movie or television show. Other times, these sets […]

After a hiatus of sorts over the Christmas holiday, it looks like we're back up and running on the ChessUSA blog. My latest entry is here.

It will be an early and long day for me tomorrow, so I'm afraid the pattern will continue, and there won't be annotated games this time, just a quick summary of round five of the Masters' tournament at Wijk aan Zee. Levon Aronian continues to enjoy the solo lead, reaching the very impressive score of 4/5 after his win with Black against Arkadij Naiditsch. Naiditsch played a sideline against...

10-13 March 2014 1. Participation: Up to 30 participants (by priority) from all Continents. Deadline for registrations is Monday 3rd March 2014. 2. Schedule: • Monday, 10th March 17:00 to 21:00 Seminar (Part 1) Standard Time Zone: GMT/UTC + 02:00 hour • Tuesday, 11th March 17:00 to 21:00 Seminar (Part 2) Standard Time Zone: GMT/UTC [...]

New In Chess, the world’s premier chess magazine, is now available as a digital, interactive edition. The publisher will give away 50.000 free copies of issue 2013#8. In the first digital chess magazine with a gameviewer the reader can play through all games that are annotated by top GM’s. New In Chess has regular contributions [...]

Yesterday Magnus Carlsen shared on his Facebook page a photo of him “teaching Mark Zuckerberg some chess”. Facebook founder and world champion played a game of chess after the dinner for top executives in Silicon Valley. Manager Espen Agdestein and Apple Inc Chairman Arthur D. Levinson followed the match. Eilif Trondsen wrote a nice post [...]