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Overview

After week 2 of the North American Corporate Chess League’s eighth season, Symetra established an early lead.  The defending champions, Symetra is led by four very strong players who represent the Washington-based insurance subsidiary: GM Andrey Stukopin, GM Vladimir Belous, IM Irakli Beradze, and IM Yannick Kambrath.  With 22 points already, Symetra will surely be the team to beat in the final four weeks.

In second place with 19 points are Jane Street, a recent powerhouse team led by FM Jacob Furfine, FM David Peng, NM Christopher Yang, and NM Matias Shundi.  As Jane Street have never won an NACCL title, with tough matchups ahead, there is plenty of hope for the strong aspirers.

Also with 19 points are previous champions Google, topped by strong performances by Ravi Khanna and Thanga Manickam.  In a tie for 4^th place with 18.5 points are three teams who are chasing their first NACCL title: Jump Trading, DRW Holdings, and Lyft.  Many other strong teams round out the top ten – see the current team standings here.

The NACCL’s format gathers the top four individual scores within a company’s team to form the team score.  Accelerated pairings are used in the early rounds to promote close game matchups.

Individual Standings

In the individual standings, just one player is off to a perfect score of 6/6 – Symetra’s Irakli Beradze, but the cadre of strong titled players with 5.5 and 5 points is no less impressive.    In addition to team prizes, there are plenty of individual prizes to play for in every season of the NACCL, including rating-based prizes which allow players of any skill level to win a plaque!

Replay your games, your teammates’ games, or any other NACCL games here.

Game Analysis

IM Kyron Griffith (Lyft) annotates 4 games every week.

If you feel as though you played an interesting game, please feel free to send Kyron a link to the game via lichess. His account is @kyrongriffith

Commentary and Lectures

FM Gauri Shankar commentated live, which you can replay here. Don’t miss GM Daniel Naroditsky’s Monday Chess Improvement lecture at 8:00pm Eastern!

Season 9 Partners

Follow the League

Keep up with updates via this blog, our LinkedIn group, and Facebook page.

Note: The NACCL does not spam its members via Linkedin messaging nor do we share personal contact information with any external companies. Should players, companies, or other entities wish to read out to us, please contact us at [email protected]

Overview

Thursday evening, the North American Corporate Chess League returned for season 9.  With 450+ players representing 34 company teams, the NACCL continues to be the largest corporate chess league in the world!

All five previous NACCL champions have returned to seek another title: Susquehanna International Group (SIG) (Season 1 Champions), Google (Seasons 2, 3, and 5), Deloitte (Season 4), Capital One (Season 7), and Symetra (Season 8).  As with every season, there are many new teams and hundreds of new players.

The league features an inclusive and easy-to-understand format.  An overwhelming number of the players in the league are casual hobbyists, but they are joined by a strong internationally titled players who have a professional job: GM Andrey Baryshpolets (PwC), GM Andrey Stukopin (Symetra), GM Vladimir Belous (Symetra), GM Andrew Tang (SIG), IM Irakli Beradze (Symetra), IM Michael Bodek (Lyft), IM Yannick Kambrath (Symetra) IM Craig Hilby (Capital One), IM Kyron Griffith (Lyft), FM Jacob Furfine (Jane Street Capital), FM David Peng (Jane Street Capital), FM Andrey Krasnov (Jump Trading), FM Igor Tsyganov (DRW Holdings) as well as many National Masters.

The top four scores from each company comprise a team’s score, so recreational players can compete without the fear that they are “bringing down” their colleagues.  There are also individual standings and prizes, plus weekly chess improvement seminars for all participants.

With a simple online check-in process and no downloads, roster submissions, memberships, or powerhouse chess teams from within the industry, the NACCL is very accessible and straightforward, meanwhile emphasizing engagement, team building, and the popularization of chess.

322 players played at least 1 game this week.  As is the nature of rapid games (10 minutes plus 2 second increment), there were a few upsets up and down the crosstable.  Many strong players did not get through 3 rounds unscathed.

Team Standings

In the team standings, just 2 teams scored the maximum 12 points – defending champions Symetra, as well as Lyft, who are yet to clinch a coveted NACCL title.  Two other yet unheralded teams scored an impressive 11 points out of 12 – Jane Street Capital and DRW Holdings, who are tied for third place.  After week 1, rounding out the top 10 teams are Ernst & Young (10 points), Accenture Federal Services (10), Jump Trading (10), Google (9.5), PwC (9.5), and Capital One (9.5).

Individual Standings

In addition to team prizes, the NA Corporate Chess League offers individual prizes for the top performers.  27 players move to 3-0 on the individual standings, but with an accelerated pairing system and closer matchups coming up in week 2, the number of perfect scores will be whittled down quickly.  Players who skip an early week earn half point “byes” so as to help their team a bit even if they must miss a few weeks.

Replay your games, your teammates’ games, or any other NACCL games here.

Game Analysis

IM Kyron Griffith (Lyft) annotates 4 games every week.

If you feel as though you played an interesting game, please feel free to send Kyron a link to the game via lichess. His account is @kyrongriffith

Commentary and Lectures

FM Gauri Shankar commentated live, which you can replay here. GM Ashwin Jayaram gave the weekly improvement lecture on Monday!

Season 9 Partners

Follow the League

Keep up with updates via this blog, our LinkedIn group, and Facebook page.

Note: The NACCL does not spam its members via Linkedin messaging nor do we share personal contact information with any external companies. Should players, companies, or other entities wish to read out to us, please contact us at [email protected]

Team Standings

In championship week of the North American Corporate Chess League’s season 8, Symetra held onto their sturdy lead to secure the season 8 title.  This is Symetra’s first title – they join Capital One, Deloitte, Google, and the Susquehanna International Group as NACCL champions.

Team Standings

Symetra earned the highest team score ever achieved in 8 seasons of the NACCL, with 57.5 points.  They were bolstered by four very strong titled players: GM Andrey Stukopin, GM Vladimir Belous, IM Yannick Kambrath, and IM Irakli Beradze.

In second place was a familiar face in Google – A, with 50 points, led by Yury Volvovskiy, IM Ritvars Reimanis, Thanga Manickam, and Derek Jia.

Rounding out the top 10 were Nvidia (48 points), Capital One – A (46.5), Ernst & Young (46), Deloitte (46), PricewaterhouseCoopers (45.5), Jane Street (45.5), FINRA (45), and Google – B (44.5).

Plaques are awarded to the top 10 teams overall, as well as the top two small companies (Flume Water and Torchlight Investors).  The full team standings and awards can be seen here.

Individual Standings

Symetra also dominated the individual standings, taking the top 4 spots (GM Stukopin – 15 points, GM Belous – 14.5, IM Kambrath – 14, IM Beradze – 14).  Tied for fifth place with 13 points were GM Andrey Baryshpolets (PricewaterhouseCoopers) and Yury Volvoskiy (Google – A).

Plaques are engraved and mailed to the top 15 players overall, as well as top 3 in each rating category: Expert, Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D, Class E, Under 1000, and Unrated.  See full individual standings and awards here.

Replay your games, your teammates’ games, or any other NACCL games here.

Game Analysis

IM Kyron Griffith (Lyft) annotates 4 games every week.

If you feel as though you played an interesting game, please feel free to send Kyron a link to the game via lichess. His account is @kyrongriffith

League Puzzles

Puzzles from games played in the NACCL. These are great tactical warmups and you never know when your game will appear here!

CLICK HERE FOR THIS WEEK’S PUZZLES

If you had an interesting tactic in your game. Please feel free to send Grant Oen a link to the game via lichess. His account is @go2006

Commentary and Lectures

FM Gauri Shankar commentated live on week 4, which you can replay here.

Next Season

Congratulations to all the winners!  Those who will claim individual or team prizes will be contacted should fill out the prize forms coming soon.  Stay tuned for season 9 coming up in the first quarter of 2024.

Season 8 Partners

Follow the League

Keep up with updates via this blog, our LinkedIn group, and Facebook page.

Note: The NACCL does not spam its members via Linkedin messaging nor do we share personal contact information with any external companies. Should players, companies, or other entities wish to read out to us, please contact us at [email protected]

Team Standings

After five weeks of the North American Corporate Chess League’s eighth season, Symetra maintains a sturdy lead in an otherwise competitive league leaderboard.

With 46.5 team points, Symetra leads ahead of second place – Google – A with 42.5 points.  In 3rd-6th place with 40+ points are: Deloitte (40.5), PricewaterhouseCoopers (40.5), Capital One – A (40), and Jane Street (40).

Symetra, PwC, and Jane Street can all become brand NACCL champions, while Google, Deloitte, Capital One, and the Susquehanna International Group have all tasted victory in previous seasons.

Check out the full team standings here.  The top four scores for each company make up the team score.

Individual Standings

At the sole lead of the individual standings is GM Andrey Stukopin of Symetra with 12.5 points out of 15.  He suffered his first loss of the league against GM Andrew Tang of SIG in an interesting game that is annotated below.  In second place is GM Vladimir Belous of Symetra, followed by GM Andrey Baryshpolets (PwC), FM David Peng (Jane Street), and Thanga Manickam (Google – A).

With many team and individual prizes and such tight competition, there is everything to play for in the final week!

Replay your games, your teammates’ games, or any other NACCL games here.

Game Analysis

IM Kyron Griffith (Lyft) annotates 4 games every week.

If you feel as though you played an interesting game, please feel free to send Kyron a link to the game via lichess. His account is @kyrongriffith

League Puzzles

Puzzles from games played in the NACCL. These are great tactical warmups and you never know when your game will appear here!

CLICK HERE FOR THIS WEEK’S PUZZLES

If you had an interesting tactic in your game. Please feel free to send Grant Oen a link to the game via lichess. His account is @go2006

Commentary and Lectures

FM Gauri Shankar commentated live on week 4, which you can replay here.

Don’t miss our last Monday lecture with IM John Bartholomew, October 23, 8:00-9:00pm.

Fair Play

Although we only require Zoom for the top 10 boards, there is robust fair play detection at all levels of the league.  Do not risk your professional reputation by cheating in the NACCL.

Season 8 Partners

Follow the League

Keep up with updates via this blog, our LinkedIn group, and Facebook page.

Note: The NACCL does not spam its members via Linkedin messaging nor do we share personal contact information with any external companies. Should players, companies, or other entities wish to read out to us, please contact us at [email protected]

Team Standings

Week 4 of the North American Corporate Chess League’s Season 8 is in the books, with Symetra (37.5 points) maintaining a solid lead over defending champions Capital One – A (35), Deloitte (34.5), Google – A (34), IBM (34), and many other teams in the team standings.The Symetra team is off to a great four weeks in the NACCL, led by Grandmasters Andrey Stukopin and Vladimir Belous, and International Masters Irakli Beradze and Yannick Kambrath.  The top four scores are totaled to form the team score of 37.5 points, but with just a 2.5 point lead ahead of many strong teams, the lead is certainly not insurmountable.

Individual Standings

In the individual standings, GMs Stukopin (11) and Belous (10) points share the top spots with Cristhian Ortiz (10) of Deloitte.  They are followed by IM Ritvars Reimanis (Google – A) and Blaine Mitchelle (Deloitte) at 9.5 points, and a cadre of players at 9 points.

Replay your games, your teammates’ games, or any other NACCL games here.

Game Analysis

IM Kyron Griffith (Lyft) annotates 4 games every week.

If you feel as though you played an interesting game, please feel free to send Kyron a link to the game via lichess. His account is @kyrongriffith

League Puzzles

Puzzles from games played in the NACCL. These are great tactical warmups and you never know when your game will appear here!

CLICK HERE FOR THIS WEEK’S PUZZLES

If you had an interesting tactic in your game. Please feel free to send Grant Oen a link to the game via lichess. His account is @go2006

Commentary and Lectures

FM Gauri Shankar commentated live on week 4, which you can replay here.

Don’t miss Monday’s lecture with GM Daniel Naroditsky, October 16, 8:00-9:00pm.

Fair Play

Although we only require Zoom for the top 10 boards, there is robust fair play detection at all levels of the league.  Do not risk your professional reputation by cheating in the NACCL.

Season 8 Partners

Follow the League

Keep up with updates via this blog, our LinkedIn group, and Facebook page.

Note: The NACCL does not spam its members via Linkedin messaging nor do we share personal contact information with any external companies. Should players, companies, or other entities wish to read out to us, please contact us at [email protected]

Team Standings

At the halfway mark of the North American Corporate Chess League’s eighth season, Symetra stands atop the leaderboard at 30 team points.  This is an amazing score, bolstered by four very strong players on the Symetra team: GM Andrey Stukopin (8.5), IM Irakli Beradze (7.5), GM Vladimir Belous (7), and IM Yannick Kambrath (7).

Many other top companies and teams are by no means out of the race for first place.  Furthermore, there are many other titled players competing in season 8, including GM Andrew Tang (SIG), who had to miss this week due to the ongoing U.S. Championship, GM Andrey Baryshpolets (PricewaterhouseCoopers), IM Michael Bodek (Lyft), IM Craig Hilby (Capital One), IM Kyron Griffith (Lyft), IM Ritvars Reimanis (Google A), and many FIDE and National Masters.

Tied for second place are Google A and Capital One with 26.5 points, while PwC (26), Deloite (25.5), Jane Street (25.5), IBM (25.5), and Ernst & Young (25) round out the top 8 teams after week 3.  The full team standings at “half time” can be seen here.

Individual Standings

In the individual standings, GM Andrey Stukopin (Symetra) maintains a commanding score of 8.5/9, while IM Irakli Beradze (Symetra), Saurav Suman (Deloitte), and Vikram Raja (Torchlight) lead the chasing pack at 7.5 points.

Replay your games, your teammates’ games, or any other NACCL games here.

Game Analysis

IM Kyron Griffith (Lyft) annotates 4 games every week.

If you feel as though you played an interesting game, please feel free to send Kyron a link to the game via lichess. His account is @kyrongriffith

Commentary and Lectures

FM Gauri Shankar commentated live on week 3, which you can replay here.

Don’t miss Monday’s lecture with IM John Bartholomew, October 9, 8:00-9:00pm.

Fair Play

Although we only require Zoom for the top 10 boards, there is robust fair play detection at all levels of the league.  Do not risk your professional reputation by cheating in the NACCL.

Season 8 Partners

Follow the League

Keep up with updates via this blog, our LinkedIn group, and Facebook page.

Note: The NACCL does not spam its members via Linkedin messaging nor do we share personal contact information with any external companies. Should players, companies, or other entities wish to read out to us, please contact us at [email protected]

Team Standings

After week 2 of the North American Corporate Chess League’s eighth season, Symetra established an early lead.  A new team to the NACCL, Symetra is led by four very strong players who represent the Washington-based insurance subsidiary: GM Andrey Stukopin, GM Vladimir Belous, IM Yannick Kambrath, and IM Irakli Beradze.  With 21.5 points already, Symetra will surely be the team to beat in the final four weeks.

In second place with 19 points are defending NACCL champions, Capital One – A, topped by IM Craig Hilby.  Capital One – Aare closely followed by Google – A, Jane Street, and Capital One – B, while many other strong teams round out the top ten – see the current team standings here.

The NACCL’s format gathers the top four individual scores within a company’s team to form the team score.  Accelerated pairings are used in the early rounds to promote close game matchups.

Individual Standings

In the individual standings, two of Symetra’s players are out to a perfect 6/6 start – GMs Stukopin and Belous.  In clear third place is IM Craig Hilby (Capital One – A), while GM Andrey Baryshpolets (PricewaterhouseCoopers) and GM Andrew Tang (Susquehanna International Group – B) top a strong field at 5 points out of 6.  In addition to team prizes, there are plenty of individual prizes to play for in every season of the NACCL, including rating-based prizes which allow players of any skill level to win a plaque!

Replay your games, your teammates’ games, or any other NACCL games here.

Game Analysis

IM Kyron Griffith (Lyft) annotates 4 games every week.

If you feel as though you played an interesting game, please feel free to send Kyron a link to the game via lichess. His account is @kyrongriffith

Commentary and Lectures

FM Gauri Shankar commentated live on week 2, which you can replay here.

Don’t miss Monday’s lecture with GM Daniel Naroditsky, October 2, 8:00-9:00pm.

Fair Play

Although we only require Zoom for the top 10 boards, there is robust fair play detection at all levels of the league.  Do not risk your professional reputation by cheating in the NACCL.

Season 8 Partners

Follow the League

Keep up with updates via this blog, our LinkedIn group, and Facebook page.

Note: The NACCL does not spam its members via Linkedin messaging nor do we share personal contact information with any external companies. Should players, companies, or other entities wish to read out to us, please contact us at [email protected]

Thursday evening, the North American Corporate Chess League returned for season 8.  With 528 players representing 38 company teams, the NACCL continues to be the largest corporate chess league in the world!

All four previous NACCL champions have returned to seek another title: Susquehanna International Group (SIG) (Season 1 Champions), Google (Seasons 2, 3, and 5), Deloitte (Season 4), and Capital One (Season 7).  As with every season, there are many new teams and hundreds of new players.

The league features an inclusive and easy-to-understand format.  An overwhelming number of the players in the league are casual hobbyists, but they are joined by a strong internationally titled players who have a professional job: GM Andrey Baryshpolets (PricewaterhouseCoopers), GM Andrey Stukopin (Symetra), GM Vladimir Belous (Symetra), GM Andrew Tang (SIG), IM Irakli Beradze (Symetra), IM Michael Bodek (Lyft), IM Craig Hilby (Capital One), IM Kyron Griffith (Lyft), and IM Ritvars Reimanis (Google A), as well as many FIDE Masters and National Masters.

The top four scores from each company comprise a team’s score, so recreational players can compete without the fear that they are “bringing down” their colleagues.  There are also individual standings and prizes, plus weekly chess improvement seminars for all participants.

With a simple online check-in process and no downloads, roster submissions, memberships, or powerhouse chess teams from within the industry, the NACCL is very accessible and straightforward, meanwhile emphasizing engagement, team building, and the popularization of chess.

397 of the 528 players played at least 1 game this week.  As is the nature of rapid games (10 minutes plus 2 second increment), there were a few upsets up and down the crosstable.  Many strong players did not get through 3 rounds unscathed.

Team Standings

In the team standings, no team scored the maximum 12 points!  Three teams did score an impressive 11 points out of 12 – Google A, Symetra, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.  They are tied for first place after week 1, but there are strong teams just behind them, including Google B (10.5 points), Jane Street (10), Ernst & Young (10), Capital One – A (10), PWC (10), FINRA (10), DoorDash (10), Deloitte (10), Capital One B (10), and Red Ventures (10).  This is certainly the most competitive season yet!

Replay your games, your teammates’ games, or any other NACCL games here.

Individual Standings

In addition to team prizes, the NA Corporate Chess League offers individual prizes for the top performers.  32 players move to 3-0 on the individual standings, but with an accelerated pairing system and closer matchups coming up in week 2, the number of perfect scores will be whittled down quickly.  Players who skip an early week earn half point “byes” so as to help their team a bit even if they must miss a few weeks.

Game Analysis

IM Kyron Griffith (Lyft) annotates 4 games every week.

If you feel as though you played an interesting game, please feel free to send Kyron a link to the game via lichess. His account is @kyrongriffith

League Puzzles

Puzzles from games played in the NACCL. These are great tactical warmups and you never know when your game will appear here!

If you had an interesting tactic in your game. Please feel free to send Grant Oen a link to the game via lichess. His account is @go2006

Commentary and Lectures

FM Gauri Shankar commentated live on week 1’s games, which you can replay here.

Don’t miss Monday’s lecture with GM Daniel Naroditsky, September 18, 8:00-9:00pm.

Fair Play

Although we only require Zoom for the top 10 boards, there is robust fair play detection at all levels of the league.  Do not risk your professional reputation by cheating in the NACCL.

Season 8 Partners

Follow the League

Keep up with updates via this blog, our LinkedIn group, and Facebook page.

Note: The NACCL does not spam its members via Linkedin messaging nor do we share personal contact information with any external companies. Should players, companies, or other entities wish to read out to us, please contact us at [email protected]

In a nail-biting finish of championship week of the North American Corporate Chess League’s season 7, Capital One held onto their narrow lead to secure the S7 title.  This is Capital One’s first title, and they join Deloitte, Google,and the Susquehanna International Group as NACCL champions.

Team Standings

Finishing with 51.5 points, Capital One’s team was led by IM Craig Hilby (15 points), Philip Yu (13 points), and a trio of players at 11.5 points: Nishanth Rajasekaran, Ryan Keiper, and Thao Nguyen.

With the top four players from each company constituting their team score, the team from Ernst & Young was just half a point behind at 51 points.  The EY team was led by valiant efforts from NM Mike Zaloznyy, NM Sameer Mujumdar, and Joel Jaffe (13 points) as well as Chandan Kumar (12 points).

Tied for third place were Google-A, Deloitte, and Jump Trading with 47 points.  Sixth place went to DRW Holdings, seventh place went to Accenture Federal Services, and three teams tied for eighth place: FINRA, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Google-B.

Plaques are awarded to the top 10 teams overall, as well as the top two small companies (Bedoukian Research Inc and Flume Water).  The full team standings and awards can be seen here.

Individual Standings

Finishing his wire-to-wire victory atop the individual standings was IM Craig Hilby, certainly the most integral part to Capital One’s victory.  While Craig’s individual gold was relatively secure in the final week, finishing in first place with 15.5 points out of 18, a last round loss to NM Sameer Majumdar of EY almost led to team disaster:

In the end, this upset wasn’t enough for EY to overtake Capital One, as IM Kyron Griffith (Lyft) swindled an important game against EY’s Krishnan Warrier which could have shifted the balance:

In second place was season 7’s sole Grandmaster – Andrey Baryshpolets, a recent candidate for FIDE President who works for PricewaterhouseCoopers.  GM Baryshpolets scored a sturdy 15 points for his team.

In a tie for third place with 13 points were: NM Mike Zaloznyy (EY), NM Sameer Mujumdar (EY), Philip Yu (Capital One), Joel Jaffe (EY), NM Andrew Lu (DRW Holdings), and Alan Surman (Hewlett Packard Enterprise).

Plaques are engraved and mailed to the top 15 players overall, as well as top 3 in each rating category: Expert, Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D, Class E, Under 1000, and Unrated.  See full individual standings and awards here.

Game Analysis

IM Michael Bodek (Lyft) annotates 4 games every week.

If you feel as though you played an interesting game. Please feel free to send Michael a link to the game via lichess. His account is @mbodek

Peter’s Puzzlers

FM Peter Giannatos provides puzzles from games played in the NACCL. These are great tactical warmups and you never know when your game will appear here!

If you had an interesting tactic in your game. Please feel free to send Peter a link to the game via lichess. His account is @Giannatos

Commentary and Lectures

FIDE Master Gauri Shankar had the call on week 6 commentary, which can be replayed here Monday marked our final weekly improvement seminar with GM Daniel Naroditsky.

Although we only require Zoom for the top 10 boards, there is robust fair play detection at all levels of the league.  Do not risk your professional reputation by cheating in the NACCL.

Season 7 Partners

Season 8

Stay tuned for season 8 coming up in the fall of 2023! Dates to be published soon!

Follow the League

Keep up with updates via this blog, our LinkedIn group, and Facebook page.

Note: The NACCL does not spam its members via Linkedin messaging nor do we share personal contact information with any external companies. Should players, companies, or other entities wish to read out to us, please contact us at [email protected]

Team Standings

After five weeks of the North American Corporate Chess League’s seventh season, Capital One maintains a narrow lead in a very competitive league leaderboard.

With 44 team points, Capital One is just ahead of second place Ernst & Young (42.5) and Google’s competitive squads – Google-A has 41 points, while Google-B has 40.5.  Rounding out the top 5 is Deloitte, with 39.5 points.

Capital One and EY would both be brand new NACCL champions, while Google, Deloitte, and the Susquehanna International Group have all tasted victory in previous seasons.

EY was helped in a big way when NM Mike Zaloznyy defeated GM Andrey Baryshpolets of PricewaterhouseCoopers on board 2 of round 15.

Check out the full team standings here.  The top four scores for each company make up the team score.

Individual Standings

At the sole lead of the individual standings is IM Craig Hilby of Capital One with 14 points out of 15, with 14 wins and a single loss against GM Baryshpolets, who is in second place at 12 points.  The aforementioned NM Mike Zaloznyy is in clear third place with 11.5 points, and there are many players tied for fourth place with 11 points, including titled players NM Francisco Guadalupe (Anduril Industries) and NM Andrew Lu (DRW Holdings).

With many team and individual prizes and such tight competition, there is everything to play for in the final week!

Game Analysis

IM Michael Bodek (Lyft) annotates 4 games every week.

If you feel as though you played an interesting game. Please feel free to send Michael a link to the game via lichess. His account is @mbodek

Peter’s Puzzlers

FM Peter Giannatos provides puzzles from games played in the NACCL. These are great tactical warmups and you never know when your game will appear here!

If you had an interesting tactic in your game. Please feel free to send Peter a link to the game via lichess. His account is @Giannatos

Commentary and Lectures

FIDE Master Gauri Shankar had the call on week 5 commentary, which can be replayed here.  Monday is our final weekly improvement seminar with GM Daniel Naroditsky.

Special Note – Fair Play

Unfortunately, the NACCL has already had to make a few fair play decisions with the support of lichess.  While we are a competitive league with team and individual prizes, please be reminded that any form of external assistance while playing is strictly against the spirit of this competition and will not be tolerated.

Although we only require Zoom for the top 10 boards, there is robust fair play detection at all levels of the league.  Do not risk your professional reputation by cheating in the NACCL.

Season 7 Partners

Follow the League

Keep up with updates via this blog, our LinkedIn group, and Facebook page.

Note: The NACCL does not spam its members via Linkedin messaging nor do we share personal contact information with any external companies. Should players, companies, or other entities wish to read out to us, please contact us at [email protected]