The 2020 U.S. Women's Championship is an online national championship event, featuring 12 of the strongest female chess players in America. Over the course of a rapid round robin, these competitors will battle for $100,000 in prize money and the title of 2020 U.S. Women's Chess Champion. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan, Maurice Ashley, and WGM Jen Shahade for the move-by-move.
2020.10.22
USChessChamps.com
Grandmaster Pepe Cuenca looks at two sacrificial games from the great world chess champion Mikhail Tal. Tal is Black against Botvinnik and he is White against Larsen.
Grandmaster Pepe Cuenca reviews Jan-Krzysztof Duda's notable victory over Magnus Carlsen at Norway Chess 2020. The world champion's classical time control loss was his first in 125 games.
2020.10.22
Jan-Krzysztof Duda vs Magnus Carlsen, Norway Chess (2020): B15 Caro-Kann, Tartakower (Nimzovich) variation
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2010697
The 2020 U.S. Women's Championship is an online national championship event, featuring 12 of the strongest female chess players in America. Over the course of a rapid round robin, these competitors will battle for $100,000 in prize money and the title of 2020 U.S. Women's Chess Champion. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan, Maurice Ashley, and WGM Jen Shahade for the move-by-move.
2020.10.23 USChessChamps.com
Grandmaster Pepe Cuenca teaches a chess class on a topic of his choice.
2020.10.22
Grandmaster Pepe Cuenca looks at the best games from this week in world class chess.
2020.10.22
National Master Caleb Denby looks at opposite color bishop endgames. Start with the "bare bones" of the situation and then work up with more pawns being added to the board.
2020.10.21
Hikaru Nakamura vs Magnus Carlsen, Tal Memorial (2011): E15 Queen's Indian, Nimzovich variation (exaggerated fianchetto)
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1649049
National Master Caleb Denby looks at two great games from Day 1 of the first-ever rapid and online U.S. Women's Championship. The first three rounds of eleven were contested on this initial day.
National Master Caleb Denby equips you with the tools to get on the road to a 2000 chess rating.
2020.10.21
Emily Nguyen vs. Annie Wang, 2020: D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin variation
https://lichess.org/study/MyflWvJ2/NW3w4poE
Jennifer Yu vs. Martha Samadashvili, 2020: B47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) variation
https://lichess.org/study/MyflWvJ2/NW3w4poE
National Master Caleb Denby teaches a chess endgame class.
2020.10.21
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