Today’s guest on "Cover Stories with Chess Life" is one of the authors of our January cover story on the 2022 U.S. Championships, and she is also — breaking news here — starting up a regular column for Chess Life. She is the woman with the purple hair, WGM Tatev Abrahamyan.
Tatev began her chess journey at age eight in Armenia. After winning medals in European youth championships, she moved to America in 2001, and her success continued. She has played in every — or nearly every — U.S. Championship since 2004, with no small amount of success, despite not yet taking home the first place hardware.
Tatev has also been a stalwart member of our international Olympiad teams, including our 2022 team in Chennai, India, which her teammate WGM Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova reported on in our December issue. Tatev scored 7/9 to help Team USA finish in fourth place, just off the medal podium.
Tatev is currently a brand Ambassador for Chessup, a chess smartboard startup from Bryght Labs in Kansas. Long a mainstay of West Coast chess, she is now a Midwesterner, “enjoying” our winters as she makes a move from Kansas City to St. Louis. We’ll ask what it’s like to be thousands of miles from the ocean, and to have to keep her chess level while being a working stiff like the rest of us.
This month’s issue of Chess Life also sees Tatev’s first column on “Getting to Work,” where, at least at first, she will offer a number of “how-tos” for chess improvers looking to work on their game. I’m very excited to see how this all turns out, and to use some of her tips in my own chess practice!
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Cover Stories with Chess Life #47: FM Alex King
Cover Stories with Chess Life #46.5: The Candidates with GM Jacob Aagaard
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Cover Stories with Chess Life #45: John Hartmann
Cover Stories with Chess Life #44: GM Elshan Moradiabadi
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Cover Stories with Chess Life #41: GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Cover Stories with Chess Life #40: GM Alex Lenderman
Cover Stories with Chess Life #39: GM Sam Shankland
Cover Stories with Chess Life #38: IM John Donaldson
Cover Stories with Chess Life #37: Jacob Aagaard
Cover Stories with Chess Life #36: Taylor Kingston
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