Chicago Open, round 1: Hope Chess

The Chicago Open started yesterday! Bill Goichberg, the TD, said that this year’s tournament is one of the strongest tournaments that he has ever run (except for the World Open), with 23 grandmasters. That’s really saying something, because nobody runs...

“He took the bishop, you say?”

The U.S. Championship is now over, and the winner is Gata Kamsky. In the four-man playoff, he and Yury Shulman tied with 2-1 scores (each one had one victory — Shulman against Nakamura, and Kamsky against Onischuk). They played a regular time control playoff...