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BENKO PUZZLES Grandmaster and composer Pal Benko’s latest for US Chess is a series of 16 problems to celebrate the new year. You can easily sort previous pieces by Benko by checking out the “Problems and Puzzles” section of our new site. His recent contributions include a birthday series for Rex Sinquefield (right) and a piece on the “Waterloo” problem based on Napoleon Bonaparte.
MLK WEEKEND Follow Grand Prix events held over Martin Luther King
Day weekend, including the Liberty Bell Open in Philadelphia and the Golden State Open in northern California.
CONTRIBUTORS
FM ALISA MELEKHINA (Millionaire Chess) is one of the top female players in the U.S. She received the gold medal for her performance in the 2009 Women’s World Team Championship held in Ningbo, China. She recently placed fifth in the 2014 U.S. Women’s Championship. Alisa graduated from Penn Law at age 22 in May of 2014. She is currently practicing at a corporate law firm in New York City in the fields of intellectual property and white-collar litigation.
PAN AM CHAMPIONSHIPS Find Director of College Chess Al Lawrence’s wrap-up of the Pan-American Championships, held in Cleveland, Ohio at the end of 2015.
DR. ALEXEY ROOT, WIM (College Chess) is the author of six books, including Thinking With Chess: Teaching Children Ages 5-14 (Mongoose Press, Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, 2012). She teaches college credit courses, available worldwide via UT Dallas eLearning, about chess in education.
COLONEL DAVID HATER (Military Chess) recently retired from the U.S. Army after a 27-year career. He is a three-time Armed Forces Open champion and serves as the captain of the USA’s NATO team.
BOOK REVIEWS Look for book reviews by Vanessa West on our redesigned website, including Lessons
with a Grandmaster Part III by Boris Gulko, Chess Endgames for Kids by Karsten Müller and most recently, Karpov: Move by Move by Sam Collins.
6 January 2016 | Chess Life
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