10/20/2022 – Fabiano Caruana won the 2022 U.S. Championship with an undefeated +4 score after drawing Levon Aronian in the final round of the tournament in Saint Louis. Ray Robson finished in clear second place, while Leinier Dominguez and Awonder Liang shared the third spot in the standings. In the women’s event, Irina Krush and Jennifer Yu will play a tiebreaker for the title. | Photo: Bryan Adams

10/20/2022 – The U.S. Chess Championships took place on October 5-19 at the Saint Louis Chess Club. Both the open and the women’s tournaments are 14-player round robins. Fabiano Caruana and Jennifer Yu clinched the 2022 titles. | Replay all the games from both sections.

10/20/2022 – In his “Game of the Week” show #538 Merijn van Delft looks at a fine and very creative attacking game Ray Robson played at the US Championship 2022 against Wesley So. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

10/20/2022 – You've seen videos using it, and articles displaying it, and here is the tutorial on how to use it in all its glory. The Engine Correlation in Let's Check can be a wonderful tool when used properly and comes with a variety of options in both ChessBase 16 and the Fritz interface. Here is the easy-to-use definitive guide.

10/20/2022 – Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov reached the final of the Aimchess Rapid online tournament after outscoring Magnus Carlsen and Richard Rapport in Wednesday’s semis, respectively. Duda and Shakh finished first and third in the preliminary stage, and enter the deciding match of the event as much-deserving finalists.

10/19/2022 – Judit Polgar's Global Chess Festival was held in Budapest, Hungary, on the 8th of October this year. Among other things, the current edition of the annual gala hosted a study composing cum exhibition event called Chess Artistry Adventure. The artful program in memory of the late Pal Benko has received fourteen original studies from some of the best composers in the world. In an article we published last month, four of these were explained in detail. Today, as it were, we venture deeper into the forest and tackle some more from the rest of them. What follows is some high-class chess, with difficulty ranging from the guilefully complex to the tortuously analytical—nothing remotely facile, nothing for the faint-hearted!

10/16/2022 – A day after Arjun Erigaisi beat Magnus Carlsen for the first time in his career, another (even younger) Indian prodigy managed to beat the world number one at the Aimchess Rapid online event. Gukesh Dommaraju defeated Carlsen with white to become the youngest-ever player to beat the Norwegian during his reign as world champion. Meanwhile, Jan-Krzysztof Duda had a great day and climbed to the sole lead. | Photo: Niki Riga / Gibraltar Chess Festival

10/16/2022 – Leinier Dominguez won his round-7 game in the U.S. Championship after only ten moves. The opening debacle prompted Jon Speelman to locate similar examples both in a book by Yakov Neishtadt and in the database of his own games. And he also remembered to give the solution of the proof game from last week!

10/16/2022 – The one decisive result in round 10 of the U.S. Championship saw Hans Niemann beating Elshan Moradiabadi with the black pieces. Fabiano Caruana continues to be the sole leader going into the second rest day of the 13-round tournament. In the women’s section, Thalia Cervantes and Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova both scored with the black pieces. Jennifer Yu is still topping the standings. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

10/16/2022 – Herman Grooten is an International Master, a renowned trainer and the author of several highly acclaimed books about chess training and chess strategy. In the 95th instalment of his ChessBase show "Understanding before Moving", Herman discusses structures that are typical for the Queen's Gambit Declined. | Photo: Pascal Simon

10/16/2022 – Today we want to know from Lilit what is happening one day before a tournament. When should you arrive? What happens if you had a bad sleep? Once you know your first opponent, how to prepare? The Armenian IM shows us the steps on how to do so, of course. We end the episode with a full analysis of her first game against the young, talented Filipa Pipiras, and how Lilit's plan to surprise her nicely succeeded.

10/16/2022 – Arjun Erigaisi was the top scorer on day 2 of the Aimchess Rapid. The Indian prodigy collected three wins and a draw and, in round 7, achieved his first-ever victory over world champion Magnus Carlsen. Thanks to his performance on Saturday, Arjun climbed to shared fourth place, two points behind sole leader Nodirbek Abdusattorov. Carlsen and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov are sharing second place a point behind the young Uzbek. | Photo: Amruta Mokal / 2022 Chess Olympiad