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Hello chess friends! This month’s column is dedicated to Abraham Wilson of Mililani, Hawaii, a long-time competitor in the Absolute Championships and the Golden Knights Championships. Abe has retired from competitive correspondence chess after 36 years of competition. His accomplishments are worthy of recognition, and so this month we salute Abe Wilson, Correspondence Warrior!

Editor's note: check back tomorrow for a printable bulletin version of this article and WGM Tatev Abrahamyan's annotations. In the time being, please enjoy this recap before the start of round two.  

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Day 3 of the American Cup saw four players eliminated from the tournament, as the first matches of the Elimination Bracket took place. Levon Aronian knocked out Sam Sevian, while Sam Shankland won a hotly contested playoff against Ray Robson. Meanwhile, in the women’s section, Tatev Abrahamyan took down Katerina Nemcova, while newcomer WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan sent Anna Zatonskih home with a 1½-½ victory. | Photo: Saint Louis Chess Club / Lennart Ootes

With more plot twists than a whole season's worth of "Game of Thrones," the eighth round of Norway Chess delivered more surprises, shocks, and horrors than anyone could have counted on setting up an exciting last round of the tournament. Through a miracle of some kind, World Champion Magnus Carlsen on...

Has GM Viswanathan Anand been retigered? As the events unfold this week at 2022 Norway Chess in Stavanger, the 52-year-old is certainly beginning to make it look like it. The former world champion continued to demonstrate that he is still very much a force to be reckoned with as he took down GM Wang...

Rather than having a traditional drawing of start numbers, Norway Chess has made a tradition of starting out with a blitz tournament to decide the start numbers for each player in the main event. American GM Wesley So took a decisive lead by beating GM Magnus Carlsen in their round-six encounter and...

75 years ago, on 28 May 1947, the American Grandmaster and renowned writer Andrew "Andy" Soltis was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. In an extensive interview Soltis talks about his chess and his writing career, chess in New York, the Marshall Chess Club, playing blitz against Bobby Fischer and about Fabiano Caruana and Magnus Carlsen. | Photo: Marcy Soltis

The Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, the second event of the 2022 Grand Chess Tour, concluded today with the crowning of GM Jan Krzysztof Duda, who won his final game in a nail-biting finish where any one of four contenders could have taken the top spot. His winning score of 24 points was enough to edge...