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David R. Sands

David R. Sands

dsands@washingtontimes.com

David R. Sands covered numerous beats, including international trade, banking, politics and Capitol Hill, and spent eight years on the foreign desk as senior diplomatic correspondent. He has authored The Times' weekly chess column since 1993.

Articles by David R. Sands

Handke-Naiditsch after 29...Kg7.

Baden-Baden rolls through powerful German chess league

Smells like team spirit in the chess world these days. Spring is the traditional season for team chess competition finals, with national leagues competing or just concluding play in Russia, China, England, Switzerland and Italy, among other locales.

May 9, 2017
So-Mamedyarov after 38. Rd1-d2.

For America’s busy chess stars, no rest for the weary

Time was when the world's greatest players could go for a good long spell without doing battle against their peers. Elite events, where the entire field consisted of the best of the best, tended to be held months, even years apart, taking on legendary status in shorthand like Hastings 1895, New York 1924 or Moscow 1935.

April 25, 2017
Krush-Yu after 41...h7-h5.

Red-hot Wesley So sets the pace in early rounds of U.S. chess title race

So young. So talented. So successful. That pretty much sums up the recent record of the 23-year-old Filipino-born U.S. GM Wesley So, who has been perhaps the world's most successful tournament player of the past year. He's looking to extend that run -- and an unbeaten streak that has now reached nearly 60 games -- at the 2017 U.S. championship tournament at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis.

April 4, 2017