US Championship Legends

Learn about America’s Greatest Chess Heroes

Morphy, Fischer, Nakamura - America’s been home to some of the greatest chess players who ever lived. And as the 2021 US Championship gets under way, we thought there would be no better time to highlight the amazing careers of some of America’s favorite chess sons!

With this free course, you’ll blitz your way through American chess history, seeing some of the most beautiful tactical combinations these heroes have ever played, and also learning about the masters themselves. Starting with the amazingly gifted Paul Morphy, you’ll get to know a new American champion every two days, including:

♚ Frank Marshall
♚ Samuel Reshevsky
♚ Bobby Fischer
♚ Yasser Seirawan
♚ Hikaru Nakamura
♚ Wesley So

American chess players are no doubt some of the sharpest, most creative, and most aggressive tacticians in the world, and who better to present such chess than Grandmaster Simon Williams?

We hope you enjoy learning about these brilliant minds and also hope it encourages you to tune into the US Chess Championship - one of the most prestigious chess events in the US and the world. You may very well see chess history in the making!