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Game of the Week: Chandra vs Lenderman

1/8/2020 – For tonight's training IM Merijn van Delft turns West to Charlotte, North Carolina and a rare Alekhine's Defence between grandmasters. The live show is free to watch, and available on-demand for ChessBase Premium account holders (but FREE for a limited time!). Merijn is live this week starting at 19:00 UTC (20:00 CET / 4 PM EST).

Awonder Liang and Carissa Yip are the 2018 U.S. Junior Champions

7/23/2018 – Saint Louis hosted the 2018 editions of the U.S. Junior Chess Championship and the U.S. Girls Junior Championship last week. Awonder Liang and Carissa Yip qualified to the national main event by winning in each category. This was Liang's second consecutive win in this event, while Yip improved greatly on her eighth place from last year. | Photos: Austin Fuller / Saint Louis Chess Club

First Jamaica International Festival

10/19/2017 – The first Jamaican International Chess Festival brought four strong youngsters to promote chess on the beautiful island of Jamaica: Awonder Liang, Akshat Chandra, Akshita Gorti and Qiyu Zhou — all up-and-coming players with notable achievements. They gave speeches, played simuls, blitz and rapid chess for the purpose of inspiring youth in Jamaica. Qiyu Zhou gives a first-hand account. | Photo: Changrong Yu

Quest for a first GM norm – part two

5/9/2014 – It was an Invitational in the hallowed halls of the Marshall Chess Club in New York, with four players vying for a GM norm. One of them succeeded: fourteen-year-old Akshat Chandra scored 6½ points to achieve his goal – for which he, like other youthful players before him, receives a special prize from ChessBase. In the second part of his report Akshat has annotated two interesting games.

Quest for a first GM norm – part one

5/7/2014 – He discovered chess at the relatively late age of ten, and was immediately fascinated by its intricacies and subtleties. Akshat Chandra soon became a regular on the US chess circuit, gained an IM title and is now on a quest to make full GM. The first norm came at an Invitational in New York, which he has described in a wonderfully insightful article. Akshat is all of fourteen years old.
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