The ETHS Chess Team defeated Whitney Young, the current state champion, for the second time this season on the way to a second-place finish at the Niles West Sectional on […]
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Keith Holzmueller has been the head coach of the Evanston Township High School Chess Club and Team since 2017. He became a serious chess player during his high school years. As an adult player, he obtained a USCF Expert rating for over-the-board play and was awarded the Senior International Master title by the International Correspondence Chess Federation. Keith now puts most of his chess energy into helping young chess players in Evanston learn to enjoy chess and improve their play.
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Rank and File | ETHS chess shows depth at conference championship
The ETHS chess team continues to post consistent results in its high school tournament play. At last weekend’s North Suburban Chess League Conference Championship, the eight-board varsity team tied for […]
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Find the winning chess moves
The Evanston Township High School chess team won many games and matches in 2021. For each of the positions shown below, see if you can find the decisive moves that […]
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Rank and File | World Chess Championship: Carlsen breaks down Nepomniachtchi
The championship match started off slowly, with a series of draws, and Ian Nepomniachtchi came closer to winning, in Game 2, than Magnus Carlsen did in any of the early […]
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Rank and File | World Chess Championship: A drawn-out contest?
The first five games of the match between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi have ended in draws, extending the streak of draws in World Chess Championship classical (long) games to […]
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Rank and File | World Chess Championship preview: Could Carlsen lose?
Magnus Carlsen’s fourth defense of his World Chess Champion title will begin November 26. Can his challenger, Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia, be more successful than the prior challengers, Viswanathan Anand, […]
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ETHS chess team upends state champions
The Evanston Township High School chess team continued their run of success Saturday, finishing in second place in their home tournament. The 16-team field featured many of the top teams […]
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ETHS chess team takes second in season opener
The Evanston Township High School varsity chess team successfully began its 2021-22 season by taking second place at Saturday’s Hinsdale Central Red Devil Challenge. The team won its matches against […]
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Rank and File | Nakamura finishes second in Champions Chess Tour Finals
The Champions Chess Tour, sponsored by Meltwater (a media monitoring and social listening company) came into being during the COVID-19 pandemic as a series of online competitions among the world’s […]
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Rank and File | World champ Carlsen wins Norway Chess tournament
Magnus Carlsen’s second over-the-board tournament of 2021 was much more successful than his first. While Carlsen was upset in in early August in the semifinals of the World Cup, in […]