CHESS GRANDMASTER TAKES ON 11 OPPONENTS, ALL AT THE SAME TIME IN JERSEY CITY By Lauren Glassberg Updated 1 hr 32 mins ago JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (WABC) — When you are a grandmaster in chess, you can beat...
History has been made!
On Chess: USA wins gold at Baku Chess Olympiad By JOHN DONALDSON • 4 HOURS AGO Rio was not the only city to host an Olympics in 2016. Baku, capital of the oil-rich nation of Azerbaijan, just hosted the...
Media Tabloid, False Narrative, Pattern of Ridiculousness? Defending Team USA!
Photo by Maria E. Media Tabloid, False Narrative, Pattern of Ridiculousness? By Paul Truong A few days before the US won the historic Gold medal at the 2016 Baku Chess Olympiad, Susan Polgar wrote a piece about the...
4 of 5 players on US Olympiad Gold Medal team have St Louis ties
Chess players with St. Louis ties win gold medal at international chess competition By Ashley Lisenby St. Louis Post-Dispatch ST. LOUIS • Chess players with St. Louis connections won a gold medal at the World Chess Olympiad, the first for...
Team USA at Baku Chess Olympiad
Team USA in Baku for 2016 Chess Olympiad Fabiano Caruana (started career at Polgar Chess Center) Hikaru Nakamura Wesley So (former SPICE student) Ray Robson (current SPICE student) Sam Shankland Women’s Team Irina Krush Anna Zatonskih Katerina Nemcova (current...
Caruana continues to lead Shamkir after 6 rounds
Round 6 results GM Hou, Yifan vs GM Harikrishna, P [1/2-1/2] GM Giri, Anish vs GM Eljanov, Pavel [1/2-1/2] GM Safarli, Eltaj vs GM Caruana, Fabiano [1/2-1/2] GM Mamedov, Rauf vs GM Karjakin, Sergey [1/2-1/2] GM Radjabov, Teimour vs...
Caruana and Giri win again in Shamkir
Round 4 results GM Giri, Anish vs GM Harikrishna, P [1-0] GM Radjabov, Teimour vs GM Safarli, Eltaj [1/2-1/2] GM Mamedov, Rauf vs GM Caruana, Fabiano [0-1] GM Hou, Yifan vs GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar [1/2-1/2] GM Eljanov, Pavel vs...
Caruana wins again, leads Gashimov Memorial after 3
Round 3 results GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar vs GM Eljanov, Pavel [1-0] GM Caruana, Fabiano vs GM Hou, Yifan [1-0] GM Radjabov, Teimour vs GM Giri, Anish [1/2-1/2] GM Karjakin, Sergey vs GM Harikrishna, P [1-0] GM Safarli, Eltaj vs...
Karjakin, Caruana, Giri, Eljanov, Harikrishna, Hou will take on the best of Azerbaijan in Shamkir
Date set for Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir 17 MAY 2016, 17:33 (GMT+04:00) By Amina Nazarli The date for this year’s Vugar Gashimov Memorial, also known as Shamkir Chess 2016, has been set for May 25, at 19:00 The third...
Caruana wins 2016 US Championship by a full point
Final round results Chandra, Akshat vs Caruana, Fabiano [0-1] Robson, Ray vs Nakamura, Hikaru [1/2-1/2] Lenderman, Aleksandr vs So, Wesley [1/2-1/2] Onischuk, Alexander vs Akobian, Varuzhan [1/2-1/2] Xiong, Jeffery vs Shabalov, Alexander [1/2-1/2] Kamsky, Gata vs Shankland, Samuel L...