News Briefs Index (2021)

December

• The Chess Drum’s Highlights of 2021! (31 December 2021)
• Brewington Hardaway continues to climb! (31 December 2021)
• Reflections of 2021 World Championship/EXPO 2020 (30 December 2021)
• Ncube discusses youth tourney on Kenya TV (22 December 2021)
• Chess at Expo 2020 Dubai (21 December 2021)
• Magnus Carlsen retains title, winning 7.5-3.5! (12 December 2021)
• 2021 World Chess Championship: Game #11 (11 December 2021)
• 2021 World Chess Championship: Game #10 (9 December 2021)
• 2021 World Chess Championship: Game #9 (8 December 2021)
• 2021 World Chess Championship: Game #8 (6 December 2021)
• 2021 World Chess Championship: Game #7 (5 December 2021)
• 2021 World Chess Championship: Game #6 (4 December 2021)
• 2021 World Chess Championship: Game #5 (2 December 2021)
• 2021 World Chess Championship: Game #4 (1 December 2021)

November

• 2021 World Chess Championship: Game #3 (29 November 2021)
• 2021 World Chess Championship: Game #2 (28 November 2021)
• 2021 World Chess Championship: Game #1 (27 November 2021)
• 2021 World Chess Championship (Carlsen vs. Nepomniachtchi) (25 November 2021)
• World Championship 2021 kicks off in a few days! (24 November 2021)
• Chess brought before Kenyan Parliament (10 November 2021)

October

• Chicago chess legend FM Albert Chow dies (31 October 2021)
• 2021 International Chess Championship for Prisons (21 October 2021)
• Chicago, Chess, Girl Power and McDonald’s (18 October 2021)
• The Chess Drum on South African Twitch! (11 October 2021)
• Kenya’s Sagwe walks 165kms to promote chess (3 October 2021)

September

• Justus Williams clinches IM title! (12 September 2021)
• Philadelphia loses Jerome Works (1955-2021) (8 September 2021)
• NM Rene Phillips devastated by Hurricane Ida (5 September 2021)

August

• Brewington Hardaway 4th at NAYCC, wins blitz(28 August 2021)
• Burundi’s Chess President, Wilfried Ntamatungiro(25 August 2021)
• Tani Adewumi wins North American Youth under-12 (24 August 2021)
• ChessBase India profiles The Chess Drum (16 August 2021)
• Detroit’s Joseph Gadson passes away (15 August 2021)
• Inside Look at Kenyan Chess (8 August 2021)
• 2021 FIDE World Cup: FINALS (5 August 2021)
• 2021 FIDE World Cup: SEMIFINALS (2 August 2021)

July

• Justus Williams reaches chess heights on Black Squares (30 July 2021)
• 2021 FIDE World Cup: Round #6 (23 July 2021)
• 2021 FIDE World Cup: Round #5 (23 July 2021)
• 2021 FIDE World Cup: Round #4 (23 July 2021)
• 2021 FIDE World Cup: Round #3 (19 July 2021)
• 2021 FIDE World Cup: Round #2 (16 July 2021)
• 2021 FIDE World Cup: Round #1 (13 July 2021)
• 2021 FIDE World Chess Cup (Sochi, Russia) (12 July 2021)
• Niemann wins 2021 World Open (11 July 2021)
• Abhimanyu Mishra, youngest chess GM in history! (2 July 2021)

June

• Senegal crowns national chess champion! (27 June 2021)
• Pontus Carlsson wins 2021 Prague Blitz! (24 June 2021)
• Chicago Open excites… OTB in full swing! (22 June 2021)
• Ramón Mateo… Dominican trailblazer! (17 June 2021)
• GM Román Hernández Onna dies at 71 (12 June 2021)
• 2021 African Individual Chess Championship (2 June 2021)

May

• OTB chess resumes! (15 May 2021)
• Danielle Little… Young Royalty Chess Academy (6 May 2021)
• Tani Adewumi becomes Chess Master at 10! (3 May 2021)
• KasparovChess.com is back! (1 May 2021)

April

• Richards elected as St. Lucia’s Chess President (19 April 2021)
• Vote for Executive Board Members! (18 April 2021)
• After COVID year, FIDE Candidates resumes! (17 April 2021)
• More diversity needed in chess policy decisions (12 April 2021)

March

• ‘GMCanty,’ ‘Coach Frank’ sign up with Esports (28 March 2021)
• Charles Smith’s training book reveals Matrix method (19 March 2021)
• Chicago Public Schools learns about Black Chess! (18 March 2021)
• ‘Lifechangers’ changing lives in West Philly (10 March 2021)
• Costa Rica’s Tania Hernandez renewed chess passion (2 March 2021)
• What is Somalian “Ciyaarta Shataranjiga”? (2 March 2021)

February

• Brazil’s rising star Ryan Wesley Caetano (28 February 2021)
• Jerald Times… 2021 ‘Chess Educator of the Year’ (27 February 2021)
• Levon Aronian to play for U.S. after emigrating (27 February 2021)
• GM Román Hernández… Afro-Cuban trailblazer (20 February 2021)
• 20th year for The Chess Drum! (12 February 2021)
• “Black Squares” leaps into action (8 February 2021)

January

• New in Chess (2020/8) (31 January 2021)
• Acheampong is Africa’s under-9 champ! (17 January 2021)
• Anquandah, Felix… Ghanaian chess champions! (13 January 2021)
• Gambit and Katwe… Two Queens, Two Lessons (11 January 2021)
• The RZA featured in Chess Life (3 January 2021)
• Ted Talk with Eugene Brown… Life of a King (2 January 2021)