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...
Shankland dominates Biel
The 2016 Biel Master Tournament took place from 25th July to 3rd August, as part of the 49th Biel International Chess Festival. The 9-round Swiss open gathered 112 participants rated above 2000 elo. American Grandmaster Samuel Shankland took a...
Shankland & Ganguly dominated Edmonton
http://edmonton-international.com/Standing.html Sam Shankland and Suryasekhar Ganguly tied for 1-2 at the Edmonton (round robin, 10 players). Both scored 8/9. Shankland won on tiebreak (he beat Ganguly). Top-seeded Alexei Shirov (6) was third, S P Sethuraman (5.5) fourth. Bitan Banerjee...
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...
Shabalov and Shankland lead American Continental Classical Championship after 9 rounds
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Shankland: Now that I am more mature
Q&A: Grand Master Sam Shankland ’14 to pursue professional career By Jess Linde December 6, 2013 Section: News Sam Shankland ’14 says that when he started playing chess competitively at age 10, is considered very old by today’s standard....
3-tie for 1st at ZDMI Open in Dresden
ZMDI Open 2013 was organized by the ZMDI Schachfestival Dresden e.V. from 10th to 18th August at the Ramada Hotel in Dresden, Germany. 199 players competed in three elo sections. The main event was 9-round Open A with 99...
Shankland wins Samford Fellowship
Sam Shankland ’14 wins major chess fellowshipAward provides $42,000 stipend to support chess study and coaching By Se Jun Lee March 28, 2013 Sam Shankland ’14 has been selected as the newest Frank P. Samford, Jr. Chess Fellow by...