The Little Rock Chess Club

08/04/2024

One night as we were leaving the LR Chess Club I said to someone, “Hey! Take my picture with Mike!” This is the picture. Michael K. Cornett passed away Friday afternoon from liver cancer. I last spoke with him a little over a week ago. We had a lot of fun over the last 30 years playing chess or bughouse or just talking about chess, movies, etc. One night at the chess club he said, “Joey, it’s just not chess club without you.” Mike, it won’t ever be chess club again without you. Goodbye, my friend!

01/03/2023

12/07/2022

GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Gukesh D in the 2022 Speed Chess Championship on Tuesday. Though Carlsen was off his usual form and overlooked a number of tactics, he defeated his prodigy opponent by such a wide margin that he had essentially won the match before the bullet segment even began. GMs Nih...

11/07/2022

This is a flash report. Full report coming soon. GM Wesley So clinched the inaugural Chess.com Global Championship, defeating GM Nihal Sarin in the final with two games to spare. So takes home the $200,000 grand prize―the largest prize of his career so far―while Nihal earns the sizeable $100,000...

11/04/2022

History has a way of repeating itself, as once again the chess world was abuzz with talk of Reykjavik, American world champions, and even Fischer. This time, it was GM Hikaru Nakamura winning the title, and Fischer’s contribution was to the variant of chess on display.

10/28/2022

On June 19, 1996, GM Bobby Fischer, hoping to enhance the creative potential of chess, announced his invention―a brand new version of the game―Fischer Random. Twenty-six years later on the 50th anniversary of his world championship victory in Reykjavik, the city where he captured the title, Fisc...

10/26/2022

¡Ya viene Halloween 2022! / Halloween 2022 is coming!

10/25/2022

It was drama tailor-made for television… or in this case, YouTube and Twitch.

10/25/2022

10/21/2022

WGM Jennifer Yu won the Saint Louis Chess Club U.S. Women's Chess Championship! 🎉 🇺🇸

10/20/2022

This is a flash report. The full report will be added to this page soon. GM Fabiano Caruana was crowned the winner of the 2022 U.S. Chess Championships on Wednesday after scoring an unbeaten 8.5/13 in St. Louis. GM Ray Robson did all that he could to equal Caruana's score but couldn't break through....

10/19/2022

Sam Shankland’s last game of the 2022 US Chess Championship ended in a draw after only 8 minutes of play as his opponent Leinier Dominguez decided to go for an early threefold repetition in Najdorf. Shankland was disappointed with the repetition of the moves and requested to join the event’s liv...