Percy Yip is not a parent who will lose on purpose to his child. His daughter, Carissa Yip, learned this the hard way. After learning the game in an elementary school chess club, she played with her ...

SAINT LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In what may be one of the most dramatic chess upsets of the year, International Masters (IM) Carissa Yip and Alice Lee — two of the youngest and lowest-rated players in ...

Carissa Yip ’26 captured her third U.S. National Women’s Chess Championship title in St. Louis, Missouri, last month — which she said comes full circle from her childhood days, when she awaited her ...

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Grandmaster (GM) Fabiano Caruana and International Master (IM) Carissa Yip took top honors out of a field of elite American chess players in the 2024 U.S. Chess ...

SAINT LOUIS, October 27, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Grandmaster (GM) and World No. 3 Fabiano Caruana and International Master (IM) Carissa Yip have successfully defended their titles at the 2025 U.S. and ...

Just three years after learning the game, Carissa Yip, 9, is the youngest expert registered with the U.S. Chess Federation since they began electronic record-keeping in 1991. Yip, a rising ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 2021 U.S. Chess Championship winners are Asian Americans Grandmaster Wesley So and International Master Carissa Yip. The ...

CHELMSFORD — Only three years or so since first picking up the game of chess, 9-year-old Carissa Yip can already look down at 93 percent of the more than 51,000 players registered with the U.S. Chess ...

In a stunning display of resilience and brilliance, U.S. #1 women’s player International Master Carissa Yip, triumphed at the 2025 Cairns Cup, overcoming early setbacks to claim her first title in one ...