The US Chess Center is an American non-profit organization that teaches at-risk youth in the Washington, D.C., area how to play chess. The center runs...
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The 2016 US Chess Championship was played between April 13 and 30, 2016 in the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis in Saint Louis, Missouri...
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to improve U.S. chess and turn St. Louis into an international chess center. The club's building sits across the street from the World Chess Hall of Fame...
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Charlotte Chess Center's Spring 2018 IM Norm Invitational held in Charlotte, North Carolina with a score of 6.0/9. Yoo also won the 2020 US Cadet (under-16)...
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Bobby Fischer (redirect from Bobby Fischer (chess career))
2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the...
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a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of...
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organizations such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation. Most of the...
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Hikaru Nakamura (redirect from Hikaru (chess))
American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy,...
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promotes chess at the scholastic level in Canada. Chess for Success is a program for at-risk schools in Oregon. Since 1991, the U.S. Chess Center in Washington...
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The U.S. Masters Championship is an official national chess championship sanctioned by US Chess that has been held 27 times since 1982. The event is a...
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Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi...
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notation to describe chess moves. Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 ('chess nine-sixty'), is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former...
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The opening is the initial stage of a chess game. It usually consists of established theory. The other phases are the middlegame and the endgame. Many...
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A chess club is a club formed for the purpose of playing the board game of chess. Chess clubs often provide for both informal and tournament games and...
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The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated his opponent Ian...
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Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website. One of the largest chess platforms in the world, the site has a freemium model in...
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Chess is a musical with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of the pop group ABBA, lyrics by Ulvaeus and Tim Rice, and book by Rice. The story...
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Castling (redirect from Castling (chess))
Castling is a move in chess. It consists of moving the king two squares toward a rook on the same rank and then moving the rook to the square that the...
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2002) is an American chess woman grandmaster. She was awarded the title Woman Grandmaster by FIDE in 2018. Yu is a two-time U.S. women's champion, winning...
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Fabiano Caruana (redirect from CaruanaChess)
federation affiliation back to the United States in 2015, and in 2016, won the US Chess Championship. By winning the FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15, Caruana qualified...
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Hans Niemann (redirect from Chess speaks for itself)
US Chess Federation All-America Chess Team Announced". US Chess.org. Retrieved January 23, 2021. "2021 US Chess All-America Chess Team Selected". US Chess...
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A chess set consists of a chessboard and white and black chess pieces for playing chess. There are sixteen pieces of each color: one king, one queen,...
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United States Armed Forces Chess Championship is a chess tournament held annually since 1960. The first U.S. Armed Forces Chess Championship (USAFCC) was...
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A chess title is a title regulated by a chess governing body and bestowed upon players based on their performance and rank. Such titles are usually granted...
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history of chess prodigies." Donald Byrne (1930–1976) was one of the leading American chess masters at the time of this game. He won the 1953 U.S. Open Championship...
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invisible"". Chess News. 2018-12-09. Retrieved 2019-09-28. "2023 US Masters ~ Charlotte Chess Center". "Saint Louis University Partners With Chess Club For...
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The 45th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Budapest, Hungary, from 10 to...
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Carissa Yip (category American female chess players)
(born September 10, 2003) is an American chess player and the winner of the 2021, 2023, and 2024 U.S. Women's Chess Championship. In September 2019, she was...
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This is a list of chess variants. Many thousands of variants exist. The 2007 catalogue The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants estimates that there are well...
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Susan Polgar (redirect from Susan Polgar Institute of Chess Excellence)
often known as Zsuzsa Polgár) is a Hungarian-American chess grandmaster. Polgár was Women's World Chess Champion from 1996 to 1999. On FIDE's Elo rating system...
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