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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sam Shankland ’14 has been selected as the newest Frank P. Samford, Jr. Chess Fellow by the Samford Fellowship Committee. This is the richest and most prestigious chess fellowship in the United States ...

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

In 1981, Elizabeth Shaughnessy, an Irish mother of three, was asked by her son’s Bay Area elementary school to help provide after-school opportunities for students. As a former Irish women’s chess ...