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Grade Nationals, Pan-Am, and World Youth

GM Alexandra Kosteniuk; Photo: www.chesspics.comA couple dozen U.S. players and their team coaches traveled to Turkey for the World Youth Chess...

Magnus Carlsen doesn't own a chess set

GM Magnus CarlsenIn a Time magazine article dated Dec. 25, 2009, Magnus Carlsen is quoted as saying "I don't use a board when I am studying on...

All-girls U.S. Chess School, part two

My December Scholastic Chess column at ChessCafe is now online, and is the second part of a two-part series on the U.S. Chess School session in St....

2009 World Youth Chess Championships conclude

Samritha Palakollu (L), and Tanuj Vasudeva; Photo: Chess Life Online, Gene Ng.This Examiner has been out of commission for a bit, but it's time to...

Good players don't play like that

Playing on the Internet Chess Club last night, I decided to try a little Scandinavian Defense (1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5)as Black. I won one, then...

On women's chess titles - Jennifer nails it

A week ago, the Wall Street Journal published an article that discussed the relative merit of women's titles. The author suggests abolishing FIDE...

First hulachess, now cave chess

First WGM Jennifer Shahade creates hulachess, now GM Susan Polgar reports on her blog about an underground rated chess tournament. It took an hour,...