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Professor Barry Hymer’s new blog post examines the art of resilience. How can we bounce back after a chess defeat? It doesn’t have to be the Knightmare we often think it is. Bouncebackability – Nurturing the Gift of Resilience There is an old Afrikaans saying which has equivalents in many other

With Svitlana Demchenko and Arne Kaehler Svitlana Demchenko is a 18-year-old, Canadian WIM, and chess coach. Here and now, she will teach us plenty of smart moves on the board, ranging from tactics, strategies, openings, and anything else chess related. In the process, I’m happy to be available as

The 2021 US Championships start in Saint Louis today as world no. 2 Fabiano Caruana and reigning Champion Wesley So top the 12-player field competing for a $50,000 top prize. Leinier Dominguez, Sam Shankland and Jeffery Xiong are the other 2700 stars in action, with only Hikaru Nakamura absent. The

GM Nihal Sarin comfortably reached the final of the Junior Speed Chess Championship presented by ChessKid, after a 20.5-9.5 win over GM Haik Martirosyan on Monday. Sarin will be defending his 2020 title against the winner of GM Raunak Sadhwani vs. Parham Maghsoodloo, the other semifinal that will

TL;DR on how to become a Grandmaster: 3 Grandmaster norms and a FIDE rating of 2500+ qualifies you for a Grandmaster (with some exceptions). A GM norm is achieved with a 2600-rated performance in a tournament with at least 9 rounds, where 50 percent are titled players and the rest are