WALNUT CREEK — “It was a dream come true” for Sam Shankland, a 26-year-old East Bay native, who recently won the U.S. Chess Championship in St. Louis, Missouri. “I never thought it would happen,” said ...

US Grandmaster Sam Shankland, a proponent of the knockout format, expressed his belief that it can help reduce draws in chess. Shankland, who has advanced to the quarterfinals of the World Cup after ...

Number one! The U.S. team wins the gold at 42nd World Chess Olympiad. Leading on board 1 was U.S. chess champion, and current world number 3 Fabiano Caruana, followed by Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So and ...

A newspaper column that’s starting to sound like a broken record — how’s that for some old-school imagery? As it seems we have been reporting for the past two months, red-hot American GM Sam Shankland ...

Indian GM Vidit Gujrathi rues inadequate preparation that led to his third-round exit at the hands of USA’s Sam Shankland at ongoing Chess World Cup in Goa ...

The Sam Shankland secret is starting to get out. Long known as one of the best American players, the low-profile California GM is starting to make a name for himself across the pond as well. Shankland ...

American chess grandmaster and YouTube sensation Daniel Naroditsky died this week at 29 years old. His peers and his rivals remember him as an incredibly skilled and deeply humble player. NPR's Alana ...

After the carnage in the tie-breaks, it was largely a day of peace at Resort Rio.

Reigning World Champion D Gukesh had a relatively unremarkable day at the St. Louis Rapid and Blitz, as he lost one game and drew two, placing him in the middle of the standings in the 10-player ...

Mumbai: For a few seconds that may have felt like an eternity Vidit Gujrathi sat at the table, analysing the chess pieces, hoping for a way out. There was none. India’s Karthik Venkataraman during his ...