At 19, chess player Sam Shankland '14 has already traveled the globe, competed against the world's elite and played professionally. This week, he vied for and won a third-place finish in the 2011 U.S.

Samuel Shankland ’14 recently won the most prestigious chess fellowship in the United States – a $42,000 yearly award he can use to hire coaches and trainers and to buy study materials and other ...

ORINDA — The most important thing 21-year old Grandmaster Sam Shankland knows about the game of chess is the importance of losing. Nothing else — not his father, who taught him the basics, or the mere ...

US Grandmaster Sam Shankland, a proponent of the knockout format, expressed his belief that it can help reduce draws in chess. Shankland, who has advanced to the quarterfinals of the World Cup after ...

Number one! The U.S. team wins the gold at 42nd World Chess Olympiad. Leading on board 1 was U.S. chess champion, and current world number 3 Fabiano Caruana, followed by Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So and ...

Sam Shankland ’14 has been selected as the newest Frank P. Samford, Jr. Chess Fellow by the Samford Fellowship Committee. This is the richest and most prestigious chess fellowship in the United States ...

WALNUT CREEK — “It was a dream come true” for Sam Shankland, a 26-year-old East Bay native, who recently won the U.S. Chess Championship in St. Louis, Missouri. “I never thought it would happen,” said ...

A newspaper column that’s starting to sound like a broken record — how’s that for some old-school imagery? As it seems we have been reporting for the past two months, red-hot American GM Sam Shankland ...

In 1981, Elizabeth Shaughnessy, an Irish mother of three, was asked by her son’s Bay Area elementary school to help provide after-school opportunities for students. As a former Irish women’s chess ...