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This week's Wednesday Workout takes a look at some highlights from the National High School (K-12) Championship, held earlier this month in Baltimore, Maryland. Catch up on all of our reporting on Chess Life Online from the scholastic season here.  

This week's puzzles all come from the 2024 National High School (K-12) Championship held earlier this month in Baltimore, Maryland. Be sure to catch up on all our coverage of our spring scholastic championships here.  

This week's Wednesday Workout concludes our series on tactics from the 2024 American Cup. Be sure to check out last week's worksheet, as well as our two Tactics Tuesday worksheets, as well.  

This week's Wednesday Workout features some highlights from the 2024 American Cup. Enjoy a number of variations, time scrambles, and brilliancies.   

Last week's Tactics Tuesday saw some highlights of recent state scholastic tournaments held across the southeastern U.S., where top boards were broadcast online. More information and results are available in that article, and here are some highlights that were too hard to make the cut and had to be brought into Wednesday Workout.   

With the conclusion of the 2024 American Cup, it is time to look back at some of the time scramble tactics that percolated throughout the event.  

This week, we are proud to share the final installment of our four-part series on Tata Steel 2024, focusing exclusively on key moments from the fiercely competitive blitz playoffs, including three great moments from the Gukesh – Giri match.   

This week's Tactics Tuesday continues our exploration of attacking themes in isolated queen's pawn (IQP) structures, focusing on the glorious rook lift. Keep an eye out for the "lateral mobility" of rooks across open third- and fourth-ranks: it's not just open files that are conducive to attacking rooks!  

This week's Wednesday Workout continues our series from Tata Steel 2024. This week focuses on a thrilling endgame between GM Max Warmerdam and GM Ding Liren. It looked like Ding was on his way to grinding out a win with a massive time advantage before Warmerdam uncorked a thrilling stalemate trick (see Puzzle 1), only to give the draw away shortly thereafter (see Puzzle 2).

This week, we continue our exploration of d4-d5 breaks with the isolated queen's pawn (IQP) as part of our work on the Chess Life Kids Opening Project.