Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz Final: Magnus Carlsen and Wesley So Tie for first place and each earns 45,000.. WESLEY wins his last 3 games.. Nepomniachtchi – So 0-1 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. d4 exd4 4. Qxd4 Nc6 5. Qd3 Bc5 6. Bf4 O-O 7. O-O-O… Continue reading
2019 FIDE World Cup /Rd3 Three American Players advance to the Quarterfinals (Round 4) GM Leinier Perez Dominguez …GM Wesley So.. GM Jeffery Xiong Rd3/ 7 Dominguez Perez, Leinier – Wang, Hao 1-0 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. Bxc6… Continue reading
2019 FIDE World Cup /Rd2″ Five American players advance to Round 2 … “Game One ” they combine a score of 1.5/5 [YIKES] [ Sam Shankland lost in tiebreaks Rd1 ] Rd2/G1 Abasov, Nijat – Dominguez Perez, Leinier 1/2 -1/2 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6… Continue reading
2019 FIDE WORLD CUP/Rd1: 2019 FIDE World Cup Sept. 9 – Oct. 4 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Knock-out tournament, seven (7) rounds. The first six (6) rounds are played with two (2) games matches. The Final and the Match for 3 rd place consist of four (4) games. Round 1: 128… Continue reading
2018 Spring Chess Classic / A Group The 2018 Spring Chess Classic is the first of four tournaments each year featuring international chess professionals. The Spring Chess Classic is comprised of two 10-player Round Robin tournaments. Over the course of 10 days, these competitors will battle for… Continue reading
79th Tata Steel Challengers / Round 12 Going into Rd 12 Jeffery Xiong was the leader by a half point. Today he was defeated by Norwegian GM Aryan Tari . Xiong is now tied with Ilia Smirin for third place with a score of 8/12. Victories today for Markus Ragger (8.5) and Gawain Jones (8.5) can enjoy half… Continue reading
79th Tata Steel Challengers / Round 2 Austrian GM Markus Ragger leads the Challengers Group With a 2-0 start and performance rating of 3367.. Rd2 WGM Tingjie (2467) – GM Ragger (2697) 0-1 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. g3 c5 4. d5 b5 5. cxb5 a6 6. bxa6 d6… Continue reading
World Junior Chess Champion 2016: Jeffery Xiong of the USA scored a comfortable victory with the black pieces to become the World Junior Chess Champion 2016 with a round to spare. In a Sicilian Defence, Grand Prix Variation, his opponent IM Paulo Bersamina went slightly wrong in the early middlegame,… Continue reading
Fire Works in Saint Louis Last year’s Champion IM Akshat Chandra (2583) will no doubt have his hands full looking to repeat .. IM (2606) Jeffery Xiong is now a GM with a 2723 rating .. who finished this April 6th out of 12 in the strongest U.S. Championship in history. (Yikes)… Continue reading
2016 U.S. Junior Closed Championship The nation’s elite junior chess players are coming back to Saint Louis, the nation’s Chess Capital, this summer as the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (CCSCSL) hosts the U.S. Junior Closed Championship July 7-18, 2016. The event is the most prestigious chess… Continue reading
